Album Rating: 3.0

filler doesn't mean bad, just good if unremarkable. musically this plays it about as blandly and safely as it's possible to do, except (surprise surprise) on the title track, which actually evokes something outside of the lyrics

Album Rating: 4.0

maybe not (those are my highlights as well), but i think it's pretty consistently good



title track is unbeatable though

Album Rating: 3.5

I know what filler means.

Album Rating: 3.0

i wasn't trying to be patronising - a lot of people have a different definition and see it as more negative

Album Rating: 3.5

I know, just saying I stand by my comment regardless of that or anyone else's definition of filler.

Album Rating: 4.0

The title track is Jesus

Album Rating: 4.0

something like that

Album Rating: 3.0

fair enough - i suppose it feeds into a wider issue i have with cohen's catalogue where i wish he cared as much about his instrumentals as he did about his lyrics. the only LP in the cohen canon that is successful outside of the stripped-down folk idiom is new skin for the old ceremony imo

Album Rating: 3.5

Cohen was always a poet/writer first, musician second.

Album Rating: 3.0

true. it's not like he's not capable of great, interesting music as well though when he wants to, which frustrates me

Album Rating: 3.7

But with lyrics as consistently excellent as these can anything rly be said to be filler???

Album Rating: 3.0

by cohen's standards? yes

Album Rating: 3.7

Okay sure but Cohen released two of the greatest albums of all time so almost anything could be said to be filler if you hold it up to those standards. Taken on its own terms as an album this is pretty consistent

Album Rating: 3.0

it's certainly consistent (no 'jazz police' here) - maybe it's just that to me there's such a bit drop off between my favorites and the rest of the album that i find it hard to listen past track 2

Album Rating: 4.0

My only problem with this album is that he puts some of the "samey" tracks together in the first half, and the rest is weirder. I wish he spread those ballads out more

Album Rating: 4.0

yeah i kind of agree with that. the second half is killer

Album Rating: 3.5

The lyrics printed on the insert of the vinyl release (which came out after his death) have the line "I'm ready, my lord" changed to "I'm with you, my lord".



:'(

Album Rating: 4.0

Second half is really solid.

The feels bruh

Album Rating: 3.0

That opening track is... very strange

Album Rating: 3.0

This is reminding me a lot of Skeleton Tree