You Want It Darker
by Leonard Cohen
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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 136 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 9,669.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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You Want It Darker track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 07/13/2026 13:43 | liquidbottle | 775 | 82/100 |
| ! | 07/08/2026 04:07 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,324 | 70/100 |
| ! | 04/25/2026 21:42 |  Robert Anton Wil | 1,149 | 84/100 |
| ! | 04/02/2026 15:54 | daCritic | 4,583 | 73/100 |
| ! | 02/08/2026 18:48 | dukeboxkool | 2,225 | 72/100 |
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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 79.5/100, a mean average of 78.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.4.
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Graeme2 05/06/2023 23:02 | #296704
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.
Jboy56 01/27/2022 15:59 | #280190
I want it darker. A moody album.
VictorVale 04/22/2021 16:33 | #268857
Grande despedida!
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.
A masterpiece of our time!!!
Sandrof1969 02/24/2018 12:56 | #209468
"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.
Such a deep album from an artist who gave his last effort in delivering a masterpiece. We still miss you LC.
For now, I think it's his best. Might change through the years though
junodog4 04/13/2017 03:27 | #189189
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.
Daydreamer 01/26/2017 15:16 | #184328 | TOP COMMENT
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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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