Dear Heather
by Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen bestography
Dear Heather is ranked 16th 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 140 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 9,469.
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Dear Heather track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Dear Heather rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 1 hour ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 2004 | 100/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 58 Music Albums of 2004 | 39/58 | 2 |
| 2026 |  jeremy9 | Top 90 Music Albums of 2004 | 87/90 | 0 |
| 2025 | MaxStorm98 | Top 56 Music Albums of 2004 | 54/56 | 0 |
| 2025 | arnellarsen | Top 74 Music Albums of 2004 | 46/74 | 2 |
| 2023 | TheSmiths82-87 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 62/100 | 8 |
| 2022 |  Cardboardfolder | Top 33 Music Albums of 2004 | 33/33 | 0 |
| 2022 | arnellarsen | Top 88 Music Albums of the 2000s | 34/88 | 13 |
| 2021 |  mrblond | Top 25 Music Albums of 2004 | 22/25 | 1 |
| 2020 |  jnfbn | Top 100 Music Albums of 2004 | 18/100 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 26 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 63 | |||
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Dear Heather ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/18/2026 07:02 | jeremy9 | 3,827 | 70/100 |
| ! | 08/14/2026 13:40 | Jakor | 5,550 | 70/100 |
| ! | 05/02/2026 02:01 | PapaShiz86 | 11,827 | 79/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 67.5/100, a mean average of 66.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 66.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.2.
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An extremely laid back album. Leonard Cohen's voice is now completely shot, basically he can't sing a note anymore so Anjani Thomas helps out on that score. As for the album itself, dear Heather, is a bit dull. There are no great songs here, but a few are okay. The sexy sounds of opener, go no more a-roving, is nice enough, on that day, deals with the events of 9/11, and, nightingale, is beauty-fill, but there's certainly nothing essential here. It's really a late night lights out record, but it's a bit forgetful.
For me this is Leonard's least interesting album in his entire discography, it still has a few moments worth checking out but overall it feels like more of a stop gap instead of a studio album.
One of the problems here is it doesn't have anything that immediately grabs me although quite a few tracks are reasonably pleasant.
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