Songs Of Love And Hate
by Leonard Cohen

Album
Songs Of Love And Hate by Leonard Cohen
Year: 1971
Release date: 1971-03-19
Overall rank: 527th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
83/100 (from 629 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1971 (22nd)
Award Top albums of of the 1970s (116th)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (527th)

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Songs Of Love And Hate is ranked 2nd 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 9,574.

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Songs Of Love And Hate track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Avalanche
Average Rating: 88 (152 votes)Comments: View 2
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Last Year's Man
Average Rating: 84 (132 votes)Comments: View 0
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Dress Rehearsal Rag
Average Rating: 84 (127 votes)Comments: View 0
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Diamonds In The Mine
Average Rating: 81 (121 votes)Comments: View 2
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Love Calls You By Your Name
Average Rating: 81 (121 votes)Comments: View 0
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Famous Blue Raincoat
Average Rating: 89 (189 votes)Comments: View 2
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Sing Another Song, Boys
Average Rating: 81 (114 votes)Comments: View 0
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Joan Of Arc
Average Rating: 84 (133 votes)Comments: View 0

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Songs Of Love And Hate rankings

Songs Of Love And Hate rankings summary
Overall rank: 527th | 1970s rank: 116th | 1971 rank: 22nd  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
83/100 (from 629 votes)
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 !		08/21/2026 21:07 RemainInLight  Ratings distribution  3,76035/100
 
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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 82.6/100, a mean average of 81.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.5.


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85/100
From 09/06/2022 17:12 | #289378
Great record with amazing lyrics
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80/100
From 07/03/2022 22:49 | #287074
Cohen has really unique style on this record and I like it.
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90/100
From 06/27/2021 23:18 | #271105
Dude is vindictive in this one, even his voice carries a level of brooding anger not heard before. This is the most "produced" of his classic trio, yet it keeps being rather subdued when compared to his later work.
Whenever I get the sense that Cohen is too Stoic I listen to this too remember he is also capable of real human f*%k you all atittude
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25/100
From 06/18/2021 12:00 | #270786
he can really rhyme other than that not much here for me
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From 01/03/2021 17:30 | #263768
Bem sombrio e melancólico, mas sem perder a beleza.
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