Songs Of Leonard Cohen (studio album)
by Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen bestography
Songs Of Leonard Cohen is ranked as the best album by Leonard Cohen.
(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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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 85 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 12/10/2025 06:07 | Exist-en-ciel | 4,186 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/07/2025 20:26 | JoshN125 | 158 | 67/100 |
| ! | 11/30/2025 14:58 | colabunga | 586 | 80/100 |
| ! | 11/30/2025 06:27 |  II | 288 | 72/100 |
| ! | 10/28/2025 21:42 | mrmcrook | 995 | 77/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 84.4/100, a mean average of 83.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.0.
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Fantastic wordsmith and storyteller. I prefer this over any Dylan. Melancholic bliss. Great right through with no weak points
Of course, Suzanne is a perfect 10. But the rest of the album also inspires!
It's pretty much a perfect album.
Leonard Cohen is an excellent song writer with this album being a strong testament for that. The fact that this is his debut and he is creating classics such as Suzanne and So Long, Marianne is extremely impressive. The music is just full of potential and it would have been a joy to watch his career unfold. His words are intelligent and mature and they stand out as some of the best at the time. I love the delivery of his words as well and I think his vocal is extremely strong. However, where this album struggles is in the musicianship. It can sound a little empty and simple at times but I think that is due to how early of a release this is. I think this album is more of a display of what he was going to become and that is why it is so loved as this is where it all began and there is so much potential on here that it makes it such an exciting release to listen to. Overall, this is a very strong start to a career but there is a lot that can be built upon this which makes me very excited to explore more from his discography.
Very good, enjoyable singer-songwriter album. I really like his deep, sad voice.
It's nice to see this album moving up the charts! I think Cohen's best will come later, but he deserves the respect for being one of the most clever songwriters of a generation.
AlvaroIesus 10/04/2021 08:30 | #274655
suzanne...
VictorVale 03/01/2021 18:00 | #266829
Talvez seu maior clássico, belíssimo.
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A really good album. Mostly acoustic but with some lovely touches added to lift the songs. Strongest section is Sisters of Mercy - So Long, Marianne - Het, That's No Way to Say Goodbye. Suzanne also good. I have Bonus tracks of which Store Room is a bit repetitive but the fuller instrumentation including drums on Blessed Is The Memory is super but can see why it was left off the original album which is more sparse.
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