Deal alert / Leonard Cohen: The Complete Studio Albums Collection
A fantastic price for a fantastic collection of music. Leonard Cohen‘s The Complete Studio Albums Collection was issued in 2011 and is an 11 CD set that takes listeners from 1967’s Songs of Leonard Cohen all the way to 2004’s Dear Heather.
At the time of writing you can get this set for an almost embarrassingly low £18 from Amazon UK. Of course, the title is rather inaccurate now, given Cohen’s recent work rate, but nonetheless a great deal!
Track listing
Disc: 1 / Songs of Leonard Cohen
1. Suzanne
2. Master Song
3. Winter Lady
4. The Stranger Song
5. Sisters Of Mercy
6. So Long, Marianne
7. Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye
8. Stories Of The Street
9. Teachers
10. One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong
Disc: 2 / Songs From A Room
1. Bird On The Wire
2. Story Of Isaac
3. A Bunch Of Lonesome Heroes
4. The Partisan
5. Seems So Long Ago, Nancy
6. The Old Revolution
7. The Butcher
8. You Know Who I Am
9. Lady Midnight
10. Tonight Will Be Fine
Disc: 3 / Songs of Love and Hate
1. Avalanche
2. Last Year’s Man
3. Dress Rehearsal Rag
4. Diamonds In The Mine
5. Love Calls You By Your Name
6. Famous Blue Raincoat
7. Sing Another Song, Boys
8. Joan Of Arc
Disc: 4 / New Skin For The Old Ceremony
1. Is This What You Wanted
2. Chelsea Hotel #2
3. Lover Lover Lover
4. Field Commander Cohen
5. Why Don’t You Try
6. There Is A War
7. A Singer Must Die
8. I Tried To Leave You
9. Who By Fire
10. Take This Longing
11. Leaving Green Sleeves
Disc: 5 / Death of a Ladies Man
1. True Loves Leaves No Traces
2. Iodine
3. Paper Thin Hotel
4. Memories
5. I Left A Woman Waiting
6. Don’t Go Home With Your Hard – On
7. Fingerprints
8. Death Of A Ladies’ Man
Disc: 6 / Recent Songs
1. The Guests
2. Humbled In Love
3. The Window
4. Came So Far For Beauty
5. The Lost Canadian (Un Canadien Errant)
6. The Traitor
7. Our Lady Of Solitude
8. The Gypsy’s Wife
9. The Smokey Life
10. Ballad Of The Absent Mare
Disc: 7 / Various Positions
1. Dance Me To The End Of Love
2. Coming Back To You
3. The Law
4. Night Comes On
5. Hallelujah
6. The Captain
7. Hunter’s Lullaby
8. Heart With No Companion
9. If It Be Your Will
Disc: 8 / I’m Your Man
1. First We Take Manhattan
2. Ain’t No Cure For Love
3. Everybody Knows
4. I’m Your Man
5. Take This Waltz
6. Jazz Police
7. I Can’t Forget
8. Tower of Song
Disc: 9 / The Future
1. The Future
2. Waiting For The Miracle
3. Be For Real
4. Closing Time
5. Anthem
6. Democracy
7. Light As The Breeze
8. Always
9. Tacoma Trailer
Disc: 10 / Ten New Songs
1. In My Secret Life
2. A Thousand Kisses Deep
3. That Don’t Make It Junk
4. Here It Is
5. Love Itself
6. By The Rivers Dark
7. Alexandra Leaving
8. You Have Loved Enough
9. Boogie Street
10. The Land Of Plenty
Disc: 11 / Dear Heather
1. Go No More A – Roving
2. Because Of
3. The Letters
4. Undertow
5. Morning Glory
6. On That Day
7. Villanelle For Our Time
8. There For You
9. Dear Heather
10. Nightingale
11. To A Teacher
12. The Faith
13. Tennessee Waltz
A good spot…thanks for heads up. You also get an unexpected 12th album (Old Ideas) with Amazon’s auto-rip making it even better value !!
Kept thinking of buying this last month and finally went for it last week.
In itself I was thinking all of Cohen’s studio albums for around £18 is a bargain but I wasn’t expecting the clarity that the remastering has brought out.
If you like Leonard Cohen this is a no- brainer!
Ordered. Great alert again.
Many thanks Paul.
Joep
The masterings are uniformly solid on this box set. You do lose a handful of bonus songs that found their way on the first three albums’ reissues.
There is a larger box set that includes all of his live output as well, though that has been out of print for a while.
The box with the 6 live albums goes for over $300 with some sellers, which is just ridiculous…and it’s not even complete, missing his final trio of albums as well as Live in London which is a triple with a DVD/BluRay…is it going to be updated?? One live album included, Songs From The Road or Isle Of Wight…isn’t there a DVD part of it thats missing from the box?? Which might be why…am I better off getting the studio box only and get the live stuff separately or wait for an updated set??
I picked this up for around $15 USD last year I believe. Wanted to hear more of his music and the content and sound quality are great!
I have this set, and it’s excellent in most regards.
My only issue is with the music itself. Cohen’s early works are truly marvelous, deep, sensual, touching. However mid-career he hit a bare patch, and it’s nowhere near as good. I’d say half this set is essential, the other half not so much.
Just my opinion of course. It’s good to have them all, who knows, I may get into the ones I don’t like eventually.
Oops, = must be +
Amazon : “AutoRip is available only to customers with billing addresses in the United Kingdom who have a United Kingdom bank-issued credit card associated with their Amazon.co.uk account.”
That’s a shame! And the price went up to £19,81 = postage to the Netherlands…. Still cheap but not what expected.
Not really a fan of the artist, but what a cheap price to discover such an iconic artist’s complete discography!
According to many feedbacks on Amazon, the remastering sounds stunning!
Thanks for the alert!! :)
Bought it for £18 the other day and the Autorip also includes 2012’s ‘Old Ideas’. Even better value!
Haha that’s amazing that you get Old Ideas in the autorip. Excellent.
Picked this up a couple of days ago for about £21.00 which I thiught was a steal. Amazon Autorip included so straight to my iPad. Haven’t stopped listening since. Great collection.
Clarification on pricing–this is actually £18 TOTAL shipped to your door in the US (unit cost is £15 and change). Currently just over $29 all in.
A great deal! I got this a few months ago for about $20 and change. Listening to it now, actually. Highly recommended!