This isn’t my first Cohen album don’t worry but, this was the one I wanted to talk about. I see very divided opinions on this album all over the place. People on rym all say it’s messy and horny and just plain bad while I hear people like Will Toledo and Jarvis Cocker praise it. So, what’s up with this album? Is it actually any good? Well, I’m going to hopefully try to answer that question for you here.

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homotom

100

Debauched, horny, lush, romantic, weird. Death of a Ladies Man is all these things. That weird twitchy nervy energy from Diamond in the Mines (off of Songs of Love and Hate) extended thru a whole album and backed by some stellar production. A deeply weird directional pivot that wasn't appreciated on release, now we find Cohen at his most, sonically, playful. Thank god for it. No track misses.
Perhaps not the classic deserves to be heralded as, but a classic in my book.
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rikemobertson

This album rules and anyone who disagrees is foolhardy.

Foolhardy I say!

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i kinda have a crush on leonard cohen

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fav : true love, iodine, memories, death of a labies man

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maybe the most overlooked cohen record. ( Phil spector can go to hell btw)

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Track List

1	True Love Leaves No Traces 4:23	96
2	Iodine 5:02	95
3	Paper-Thin Hotel 5:40	89
4	Memories 5:57	98
5	I Left a Woman Waiting 3:24	84
6	Don't Go Home With Your Hard-On 5:34	83
7	Fingerprints 2:58	78
8	Death of a Ladies' Man 9:20	84