Suzanne (track)
by Leonard Cohen
Year: 1967
From the album Songs Of Leonard Cohen (track #1)
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Suzanne appears on the following album(s) by Leonard Cohen:
- Songs Of Leonard Cohen (track #1) (this album) (1967)
- Live In London (track #12) (2009)
- The Best Of Leonard Cohen (track #1) (compilation) (1975)
- The Complete Studio Albums Collection (track #1) (compilation) (2011)
- More Best Of Leonard Cohen (track #10) (compilation) (1997)
- The Essential Leonard Cohen (track #1) (compilation) (2002)
- Songs From The Road (track #8) (2010)
- Cohen Live (track #13) (1994)
- Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970 (track #15) (2009)
- Live In Dublin (track #13) (2014)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| 02/13/2026 02:29 | stareaterogni0n | 3,625 | 72/100 | |
| 01/09/2026 21:07 | wizardalien | 9,016 | 65/100 | |
| 12/11/2025 17:56 | Exist-en-ciel | 79,832 | 70/100 | |
| 11/20/2025 07:22 | plasmicmist | 7,586 | 91/100 | |
| 11/07/2025 21:21 |  Norshammar | 1,422 | 87/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 91.2/100, a mean average of 90.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 91.7/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.9.
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I like this song - the production is good and I like it's sparseness. I particularly like the Oooohing backing vocals. I agree some of the poetic lyrics are a bit mmmmh. Just read that he was a bit unhappy with the orchestration which he felt was overblown - not on my version - it's good and subtle
Liedzeit 08/11/2020 19:36 | #256925
A nice tune, no doubt, but the lyrics are pseudo art.
For you've touched her perfect body with your mind. Really?
And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water. – To my simple mind, he was no sailor at all. Just an on-water-walker.
When I first heard this I had to turn off my media player because any other song would sound horrible after listening to this.
Flay 03/04/2017 15:08 | #186806
One of Cohen's best tracks, showcasing some of the finest songwriting of all time. It's made more powerful by the sparseness of the music behind it.
Beautiful
GandalfORiley345 12/26/2014 17:15 | #130158
most like a beautiful song, really good
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