Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
| Label: | Columbia – 88985365071, Sony Music – 88985365071 |
|---|---|
| Format: | Vinyl, LP, Album |
| Country: | Europe |
| Released: | |
| Genre: | Rock, Pop, Folk, World, & Country |
| Style: | Folk Rock, Pop Rock, Ballad |
Tracklist
| A1 | You Want It Darker | |
| A2 | Treaty | |
| A3 | On The Level | |
| A4 | Leaving The Table | |
| A5 | If I Didn't Have Your Love | |
| B6 | Traveling Light | |
| B7 | It Seemed The Better Way | |
| B8 | Steer Your Way | |
| B9 | String Reprise / Treaty |
Companies, etc.
- Distributed By – Sony Music Entertainment
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Sony Music Entertainment
- Copyright © – Sony Music Entertainment
- Copyright © – Old Ideas, LLC
- Mastered At – Marcussen Mastering
- Mastered At – Record Technology Incorporated – 26790
- Mastered At – Record Technology Incorporated – 26765
- Manufactured By – Sony Music Entertainment International Services GmbH
- Published By – Old Ideas, LLC
- Published By – Two Word Music
- Published By – Like A Man Music, LLC
- Published By – Sharon Robinson Songs
Credits
- Design [Album And Booklet] – Sammy Slabbinck
- Illustration [Hummingbird Image] – Dianne V. Lawrence*
- Lacquer Cut By – Bernie Grundman, BG*
- Management – Kory & Rice, LLP
- Mastered By – Stephen Marcussen
- Mixed By – Michael "Don Miguel" Chaves*
- Photography By [Cover], Producer – Adam Cohen
- Product Manager [Executive Assistant] – Kezban Özcan
Notes
Containes printed inner sleeve with lyrics and credits
Sticker on the cover "9 Haunting New Songs"
Includes free download code.
Tracks are listed sequentially, regardless of sides.
Mastered at Marcussen Mastering, Los Angeles
Management: Kory & Rice, LLP
Treaty, Leaving The Table, Steer Your Way, String Reprise / Treaty copyright 2016 Old Ideas, LLC (SOCAN)
You Want It Darker, If I Didn’t Have Your Love, It Seemed The Better Way, copyright 2016 Old Ideas, LLC and Two Word Music (BMI)
Traveling Light, copyright 2016 Old Ideas, LLC, Two Word Music, and Like A Man Music, LLC (ASCAP)
On The Level, Copyright 2016 Old Ideas, LLC and Sharon Robinson Songs (ASCAP)
All text, images and photographs
© 2016 by Old Ideas, LLC. All rights reserved.
All rights administered by Sony / ATV Music Publishing LLC, 8 Music Square West, Nashville, TN 37203
All rights reserved. Used by permission
Sticker on the cover "9 Haunting New Songs"
Includes free download code.
Tracks are listed sequentially, regardless of sides.
Mastered at Marcussen Mastering, Los Angeles
Management: Kory & Rice, LLP
Treaty, Leaving The Table, Steer Your Way, String Reprise / Treaty copyright 2016 Old Ideas, LLC (SOCAN)
You Want It Darker, If I Didn’t Have Your Love, It Seemed The Better Way, copyright 2016 Old Ideas, LLC and Two Word Music (BMI)
Traveling Light, copyright 2016 Old Ideas, LLC, Two Word Music, and Like A Man Music, LLC (ASCAP)
On The Level, Copyright 2016 Old Ideas, LLC and Sharon Robinson Songs (ASCAP)
All text, images and photographs
© 2016 by Old Ideas, LLC. All rights reserved.
All rights administered by Sony / ATV Music Publishing LLC, 8 Music Square West, Nashville, TN 37203
All rights reserved. Used by permission
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Text): 8 89853 65071 2
- Barcode (Scanned): 889853650712
- Label Code: LC 00162
- Rights Society: BIEM/GEMA
- Rights Society (Tracks A3, B6): ASCAP
- Rights Society (Tracks A1, A5, B7): BMI
- Rights Society (Tracks A2, A4, B8, B9): SOCAN
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A etched - variant 1): AL88985365071 26790.1(3) 120540 BG
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B etched - variant 1): BL88985365071 26765.2(3). .120540 BG
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A etched - variant 2): AL88985365071 26790.1(3)... 120540 BG
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B etched - variant 2): BL88985365071 26765.2(3)... 120540 BG
Other Versions (5 of 21)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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Recently Edited | You Want It Darker (CD, Album, Digipak) | Columbia | 88985365072 | US | 2016 | ||
| You Want It Darker (CD, Album, Digipak) | Columbia, Sony Music | 88985365072 | Europe | 2016 | |||
Recently Edited | You Want It Darker (CD, Album, Digipak) | Columbia, Sony Music | 88985365072 | Canada | 2016 | ||
New Submission | You Want It Darker (9×File, AAC, Album, 256 kbps) | Columbia | 88985365072 | 2016 | |||
New Submission | You Want It Darker (CD, Album, Digipak) | Sony Records Int'l | SICP-5076 | Japan | 2016 |
Recommendations
Reviews
Show All 24 Reviews- Good lord this sounds good. Silent wax. Leonard's voice cuts through like gravel (in a good way). Sounds like he's playing right in front of you! You can't really argue with anything really. Bernie Grundman mastering, RTI press. It's a win
Edited 10 months agobad pressing - distorted layers in the intro, later tics and imperfections. I say this w bleeding heart: get the CD.
When I bought it, just after it came out, I could hardly listen to this album, because of its dark mood. Now, with some distance, I can concentrate on the quality of the songs. And there are quite a few strong compositions. Tasteful arrangements, too.
The sound quality is very good, very transparent, Cohen's voice is close, as several others observed. I was lucky with my pressing, it is quiet and except very few of tiniest little crackles (only audible at higher volume on good equipment), nearly perfect. I don't worry about dirt: after two rounds in my Gläss ultrasonic cleaner any possible dirt is gone.
Edited one year agoMy copy is perfect in every way. Perhaps I was lucky...It has good sound with no noise.The dynamics are good.The voice is very deep and all the instruments sound like playing front of you.
I rate a release, not the music. Nice print, but the quality of pressing is very bad. Hissing in right channel during whole album. Lots of micro-pops. Very noisy mass. Very disappointed with this pressing of an excellent album.- Don't like the sound quality and also there's noise on the one channel. I'm hearing it, especially with the first two tracks. It can be heard with mostly MC cartridges.
I think this version is pretty ok… except for the last song, Treaty (Reprise), which came with a horrible mark, looks like somebody dropped tons of dust on it. Tried to clean a thousand times, but to very little effect. And it's also the calmest song on the record. Bummer.
Pressing Quality of this edition is lot to be desired. Especially Side B of my copy suffers from non-fills on various points.
But the Sound Quality is out of this world. Cohen's voice goes deeper down as much as it could. it feels like he's singing right in front of me. His voice is so real and has a soul on this recordings. This vinyl edition delivers what it has without fails. Overall soundstage is big enough and all the instruments have their own presence.
BG has done a great job on this. Other than the great swan songs he left, this is the album I frequently revisit and play whenever I needed to check my system setup, especially for the low end.
I don't understand how other people complain on the sound quality. probably confused sound quality with pressing quality?
Definitely not a pressing that does not live up to his last few albums which were spot on with mastering , this one just doesn’t have any impact. 5/10 I’d avoid .- I love this extraordinarily subtle and characteristically soulful album, but have just returned my second copy because of the issues mentioned in other reviews: i.e. dirt, B-side hiss, warping, etc. I will give it another try soon, as it seems at least some others have managed to score perfect copies, but I do wish I didn't need to go to so much trouble in order to purchase a relatively recent LP. :-(
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