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This great album contains some beautiful songs. As far as the complaints about Phil Spector's production goes, the sound is not that far removed from certain tracks on Cohen's early album "New Skin For The Old Ceremony," e.g. Is This What You Wanted which has the same raw delivery with rock instrumentation as opposed to the acoustic simplicity usually associated with his music. On tracks like Iodine, Memories & Don't Go Home his voice strains a bit against Spector's production (quite appropriately echoing the bitter sentiment of the songs), but True Love Leaves No Traces is soft and sensitive (more…one of his best songs), while the bouncy singalong Fingerprints works perfectly with its country fiddle. The lyrics are sheer poetry, as in "True loves leaves no traces/If you and I are one/It's lost in our embraces/Like stars against the sun" and in the acerbic Iodine: "It's written on the walls of this hotel/You go to heaven once you've been to hell/A heavy burden lifted from my soul/I heard that love was out of my control." Proof of the quality of these compositions can be found on the excellent tribute album I'm Your Fan where True Love Leaves No Traces is given a 70's pop treatment by Dead Famous People while Don't Go Home With Your Hard-On is covered well enough by David McComb & Adam Peters. I loved Death Of A Ladies' Man when it was released in 1978 and I love it even more now. Like everybody else, Cohen is allowed to shout sometimes.

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Leonard Cohen - Death of a Ladies Man Retail CD

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