You Want It Darker (studio album) by Leonard Cohen

You Want It Darker by Leonard Cohen
Year: 2016
Release date: 2016-10-21
Overall rank: 1,083rd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 332 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 2016 (18th)
Award Top albums of the 2010s (157th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,083rd)

Leonard Cohen bestography

You Want It Darker is ranked 5th 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 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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79/100 (from 332 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 79.2/100, a mean average of 78.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.6.

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90/100
From 05/06/2023 23:02
Absolutely incredible. Only wished I'd got on board earlier. More emotional than the brilliant Blackstar that it's obviously compared to. What a way to go out. I bought this and played it 3x straight.
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From 01/27/2022 15:59
I want it darker. A moody album.
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From 04/22/2021 16:33
Grande despedida!
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From 07/15/2019 17:23
And so begins the sad part of the list. I can’t fathom what it’s like to know you’re dying, let alone muster up all your energy to make an album about it. Thankfully, Leonard Cohen is a million times the man I am, and so eloquent is his way that you can imagine hospices using this to prepare people to join the choir invisible.

Best track: You Want It Darker. His voice was just a thin smoke at this point, but you can feel so much soul in his words.
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From 03/29/2018 22:09
A masterpiece of our time!!!
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From 02/24/2018 12:56
"You want it darker" è un disco intenso, che non si perde in lungaggini inutili, con un'ottima produzione ( curata dal figlio… ) e con linee melodiche così efficaci come non si sentivano in un suo disco da non so quanti anni.
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From 11/02/2017 19:07
Such a deep album from an artist who gave his last effort in delivering a masterpiece. We still miss you LC.
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70/100
From 07/06/2017 08:45
For now, I think it's his best. Might change through the years though
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From 04/13/2017 03:27
Hayden's right. You can hear throughout this album that he knew what was next. Powerful. HIs best since I'm Your Man, and a great way to let the curtain down on a brilliant life.
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From 01/26/2017 15:16
Cohen pulled a Bowie here with a great album released closely before his death. A very good album with some of his best work in years, but to be honest I thought he returned to form even before this one, since 2014's Popular Problems isn't far behind this one in terms of quality.
A lovely way to say goodbye, much more life affirming than Blackstar.
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