New Skin For The Old Ceremony (studio album) by Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen bestography

New Skin For The Old Ceremony is ranked 8th best out of 27 albums by Leonard Cohen on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Leonard Cohen is Songs Of Leonard Cohen which is ranked number 149 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 10,269.

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  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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79/100 (from 183 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.7/100, a mean average of 78.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.5.

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90/100
From 12/02/2016 16:21
Compared to the preceding three albums, this one is relatively patchy, it does have two or three songs that are up there with his very best in Chelsea Hotel #2, Who By Fire and Take This Longing, but overall as an album it is certainly not as consistent as Songs Of Leonard Cohen, Songs From A Room or Songs Of Love And Hate.
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From 05/24/2016 16:09
An underrated album. New skin for the old ceremony, isn't quite in the same class as his first three albums but it's still a very good record. It features some fantastic songs such as opener, is this what you wanted, the excellent, Chelsea hotel, and, lover, lover, lover, and that's just the first three tracks. Elsewhere, there's other strong cuts in, there is a war, who by fire, and, field commander Cohen. An overlooked classic.
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From 09/02/2012 20:32
Not as lyrically spectacular as some of his other records, but the orchestration is far more experimental and unconventional, and the record holds two of Cohen's greatest songs, Lover Lover Lover and Is This What You Wanted, especially the last of the two is spectacular built up, almost paused but then lived up again, with a Cohen off beat. Amazing.
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From 08/01/2012 17:07
Not quite up to Cohen's usual ceiling of lyrical perfection, but close. This is an overlooked and understated album. Not brilliant, but still great.
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