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I'm Your Fan
by Various Artists
from Atlantic / Wea

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Soulless, pointless
  "Chelsea hotel" by Lloyd Cole may very well be the worst cover in history. What madness would provoke someone to turn this great song into an upbeat softrock abortion? I love the drumming especially, wow, it makes me want to drive screwdrivers into my ears. And how it falls off after the chorus, So dramatic! -- like the buildup of a cheap soap opera before a commercial for douches. Total garbage. There are few greater crimes than taking something great and pointlessly remaking it into something awful. Stop... more info

• A classic album in its own right, a must have in your collection!
  Forget about who wrote the songs, forget about trying to make comparisons, forget about whether or not the performances were worthy of a tribute. Simply take it as music. Leonard Cohen wrote great songs that here shows they were also great POP songs. So if you're into great music, especially pop songs, and can listen to music without biases or prejudices then you must pick up this disc. The first track "First We Take Manhattan" clearly exemplifies this. While a R.E.M. fan, this song is one of my favorites... more info

• A middling tribute album
  After spending the last few years wandering other musical landscapes, I rediscovered Leonard Cohen this year (years after being a mega LC geek in school) and especially wanted to seek this album out again.

  Compared to Famous Blue Raincoat (much shorter but much, much more luminous), I'm Your Fan is middling. What's up with the two covers of Tower of Song? Why is the cover of Suzanne so freaking boring? But then there are the beautiful plusses -- A Singer Must Die, the funky cover of Don't Go Home With... more info

• A must have
  I bought this CD when it first came out in the 90's, as part of my R.E.M comprehensive collection. Since that time, this has stayed constantly near or in my CD player. Each interpretation of his songs highlights the beauty of the lyric he composed.

  I would be hard pressed to find a favorite track. I am a die hard R.E.M fan, but I don't think theirs is the best (near the top, maybe). But I would have to agree with most about The Pixies rendition of "I Can't Forget".

Tracks:

1. Who by Fire
2. Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye
3. I Can't Forget - Pixies
4. Stories of the Street
5. Bird on a Wire
6. Suzanne
7. So Long, Marianne
8. Avalanche IV
9. Don't Go Home With Your Hard-On
10. First We Take Manhattan
11. Chelsea Hotel
12. Tower of Song
13. Take This Longing
14. True Love Leaves No Traces
15. I'm Your Man
16. A Singer Must Die

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