More Best of Leonard Cohen
More Best of Leonard Cohen | ||||
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Greatest hits album by Leonard Cohen | ||||
Released | October 7, 1997 | |||
Genre | Folk rock, contemporary folk | |||
Length | 71:08 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
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More Best of Leonard Cohen is a collection of Leonard Cohen songs released in 1997.
Background
It is a sequel to the 1975 album The Best of Leonard Cohen and was released during a period of inactivity for the singer, who had retreated to the Mt. Baldy Zen Center near Los Angeles in 1994. Tracks are drawn from albums I'm Your Man (1988) and The Future (1992), as well as the live album Cohen Live (1994). The collection features two unique tracks: "Never Any Good" (recorded 1995 in Los Angeles) and "The Great Event". During an interview with Paul Zollo that appears in the book Songwriters on Songwriting, Cohen speaks about composing "Never Any Good" and a verse not included in the final recording:
- I was just working on a line this morning for a song called "I Was Never Any Good at Loving You." And the line was - I don’t think I’ve nailed it yet - "I was running from the law, I thought you knew, forgiveness was the way it felt with you" or "forgiven was the way I felt with you." Then I got a metaphysical line, about the old law and the new law, the Old Testament and the New Testament: "I was running from the law, the old and the new, forgiven was the way I felt with you." No, I thought, it’s too intellectual. Then I thought I got it: "I was running from the cops and the robbers too, forgiven was the way I felt with you." You got cops and robbers, it dignifies the line by making it available, making it commonplace.
Track listing
All songs written by Leonard Cohen except as noted.
- "Everybody Knows" (Cohen, Sharon Robinson)
- "I'm Your Man"
- "Take This Waltz" (Cohen, Federico Garcia Lorca)
- "Tower of Song"
- "Anthem"
- "Democracy"
- "The Future"
- "Closing Time"
- "Dance Me to the End of Love" (live)
- "Suzanne" (live)
- "Hallelujah" (live)
- "Never Any Good"
- "The Great Event"
Charts
Weekly charts
Chart (1997–98) | Peak position |
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Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[1] | 41 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[2] | 19 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[3] | 24 |
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[4] | 5 |
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[5] | 69 |
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[6] | 19 |
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[7] | 7 |
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[8] | 22 |
Chart (2016) | Peak position |
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French Albums (SNEP)[9] | 153 |
Italian Albums (FIMI)[10] | 78 |
Polish Albums (ZPAV)[11] | 4 |
Year-end charts
Chart (2002) | Position |
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Canadian Alternative Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)[12] | 135 |
Chart (2016) | Position |
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Polish Albums (ZPAV)[13] | 75 |
Certifications
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA)[14] | Gold | 35,000^ |
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[15] | Platinum | 20,000‡ |
Poland (ZPAV)[16] | Platinum | 70,000* |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
References
- ^ "Austriancharts.at – Leonard Cohen – More Best Of" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
- ^ "Ultratop.be – Leonard Cohen – More Best Of" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
- ^ "Ultratop.be – Leonard Cohen – More Best Of" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
- ^ "Listen - Danmarks Officielle Hitliste - Udarbejdet af AIM Nielsen for IFPI Danmark - Uge 4". Ekstra Bladet (in Danish). Copenhagen. 1998-01-25.
- ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Leonard Cohen – More Best Of" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
- ^ Pennanen, Timo (2021). "Leonard Cohen". Sisältää hitin - 2. laitos Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla 1.1.1960–30.6.2021 (PDF) (in Finnish). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. p. 50.
- ^ "Norwegiancharts.com – Leonard Cohen – More Best Of". Hung Medien. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
- ^ "Swedishcharts.com – Leonard Cohen – More Best Of". Hung Medien. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
- ^ "Lescharts.com – Leonard Cohen – More Best Of". Hung Medien. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
- ^ "Italiancharts.com – Leonard Cohen – More Best Of". Hung Medien. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
- ^ "Oficjalna lista sprzedaży :: OLiS - Official Retail Sales Chart". OLiS. Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. Retrieved November 24, 2016.
- ^ "Canada's Top 200 Alternative albums of 2002". Jam!. Archived from the original on September 2, 2004. Retrieved March 28, 2022.
- ^ "W 2016 roku najlepiej sprzedającym się albumem było "Życie po śmierci" O.S.T.R." 2016. Retrieved January 14, 2016.
- ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2017 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association.
- ^ "Danish album certifications – Leonard Cohen – More Best Of". IFPI Danmark. Scroll through the page-list below until year 2017 to obtain certification.
- ^ "Wyróżnienia – Platynowe płyty CD - Archiwum - Przyznane w 2002 roku" (in Polish). Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry.
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