I'm Your Fan

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I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen
EastWest
(Europe)
Professional ratings
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AllMusic [3]
Chicago Tribune[4]
Entertainment Weekly (C+)[5]
Los Angeles Times[6]

I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen is a

tribute album to Leonard Cohen, released in 1991, produced by the French music magazine Les Inrockuptibles.[7] The album features Cohen's songs interpreted by some of the most respected rock acts of the time.[8] Its name is a play on the title of Cohen's album I'm Your Man
.

For the album's American release on

EastWest Records, in France by Sony Music
.

The album includes two different covers of "Tower of Song", one by Robert Forster and another by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. The latter version is a radical deconstruction of the song, edited from an hour-long jam session held by the band.

Track listing

Main release

  1. "First We Take Manhattan" – R.E.M.
  2. "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye" – Ian McCulloch
  3. "
    I Can't Forget" – Pixies
  4. "Stories of the Street" – That Petrol Emotion
  5. "Bird on the Wire" – The Lilac Time
  6. "Suzanne" – Geoffrey Oryema
  7. "So Long, Marianne" – James
  8. "Avalanche IV" – Jean-Louis Murat
  9. "Don't Go Home with Your Hard-On" – David McComb & Adam Peters
  10. "
    Who by Fire" – The House of Love
  11. "Chelsea Hotel" – Lloyd Cole
  12. "Tower of Song" – Robert Forster
  13. "
    Peter Astor
  14. "True Love Leaves No Traces" – Dead Famous People
  15. "I'm Your Man" – Bill Pritchard
  16. "A Singer Must Die" – The Fatima Mansions
  17. "Tower of Song" – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
  18. "Hallelujah" – John Cale

More Fans

  1. "The Queen and Me" – John Cale
  2. "There is a War" – Ian McCulloch
  3. "Suzanne" (instrumental) – Geoffrey Oryema
  4. "Paperthin Hotel" – The Fatima Mansions

Notes

All songs written by Leonard Cohen with the exceptions of "Don't Go Home with Your Hard-On" and "True Love Leaves No Traces", both co-written with Phil Spector. More Fans, a free promotional bonus CD, was released in France by Fnac along with the main album.[9] On More Fans, the John Cale track "The Queen and Me" covers the Cohen track "Queen Victoria" found on Cohen's album Live Songs.

References

  1. ^ Discogs - I'm Your Fan • The Songs Of Leonard Cohen By... Images, 1-CD 1991 - Atlantic 7 82349-2 US
  2. ^ Discogs - I'm Your Fan • The Songs Of Leonard Cohen By... Images, 2-vinyl 1991-September-30th - EastWest WX444 Europe
  3. AllMusic
    . Retrieved 2011-06-29.
  4. ^ Dretzka, Gary (1992-01-02). "Various artists I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (Atlantic)". chicagotribune.com. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2012-05-21.
  5. ^ Browne, David (1991-12-13). "I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen Review". ew.com. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2012-05-12.
  6. ^ Willman, Chris (1992-03-01). "Record Rack: In Brief". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-05-18.
  7. ^ I'm Your Fan at The leonard Cohen Files
  8. ^ Rock and Roll hall of Fame - Inductee - Leonard Cohen
  9. ^ "More Fans".
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