I'm Your Man
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For the song by Wham!, see I'm Your Man (song). For the 2006 film, see Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
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| Studio album by Leonard Cohen | ||
| Released | February 1988 (LP) 1990 (CD) |
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| Recorded | August–November 1987 | |
| Genre | Folk-rock | |
| Length | 40:41 | |
| Label | Columbia Records | |
| Producer(s) | Leonard Cohen, Roscoe Beck, Jean-Michel Reusser, Michel Robidoux | |
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| Leonard Cohen chronology | ||
| Various Positions (1984) |
I'm Your Man (1988) |
The Future (1992) |
I'm Your Man is a 1988 album by Leonard Cohen.
It was widely considered Cohen's "comeback" album, after the poorly promoted Various Positions in 1984. The album also marked Cohen's further move into modern musical textures, with many songs having a synthpop-style production. I'm Your Man reached #1 in Norway.
The song "Everybody Knows" was one of Cohen's first writing collaborations with Sharon Robinson, who would become a frequent collaborator in the future. Most notably, Robinson co-wrote every song on Cohen's 2001 outing Ten New Songs.
"In Tower of Song", Cohen discusses songwriting and acknowledges the influence of Hank Williams ("a hundred floors above me").
[edit] Track listing
All songs written by Cohen, except where noted. All tracks faded out.
- "First We Take Manhattan"
- "Ain't No Cure for Love"
- "Everybody Knows" (Cohen/Sharon Robinson)
- "I'm Your Man"
- "Take This Waltz" (Federico García Lorca/Cohen)
- "Jazz Police" (Cohen/Jeff Fisher)
- "I Can't Forget" (Cohen/Roscoe Beck)
- "Tower of Song"
[edit] Song covers
- Aaron Neville, who had earlier recorded Cohen's "Bird on a Wire", contributed a cover of "Ain't No Cure for Love" for the tribute album Tower of Song.
- "Everybody Knows" was covered by Concrete Blonde on the soundtrack to the 1990 film Pump Up the Volume, and by ex-Eagle Don Henley on Tower of Song.
- The 1991 indie rock tribute album I'm Your Fan takes its name from the pathos-filled love song title track "I'm Your Man".
- R.E.M. covered First We Take Manhattan as an extra for their single Drive as well as for I'm Your Fan
- Bill Pritchard performed the song for the tribute.
- The Pixies covered "I Can't Forget" for I'm Your Fan.
- In 1986 an early mix of "Take This Waltz" reached #1 in the Spanish charts (as a single off the Federico García Lorca tribute album Poets in New York). The words were translated by Cohen from García Lorca's poem "Pequeño vals vienés".
- "Tower of Song" was recorded by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on I'm your fan.
- "Tower of Song" was also covered by Robert Forster.
- Marianne Faithfull, Tom Russell and The Jesus and Mary Chain also did covers.
[edit] Movie
- The album's title track appears on the soundtrack of the 2002 film "Secretary."
- A 2006 tribute film and album to Cohen were titled Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man.
