Songs of Love and Hate
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{{Infobox Album | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
| Name = Songs of Love and Hate
| Type = [[Album]]
| Artist = [[Leonard Cohen]]
| Cover = Songs of love and hate.jpg
| Background =
| Released = March 1971
| Recorded = September 22-26, 1970, Columbia Studio A, Nashville (1st mix); August 30, 1970 Isle of Wight; Trident Studios, London (2nd mix)
| Genre = [[Folk-rock]]
| Length = 44:21
| Label = [[Columbia Records]]
| Producer = [[Bob Johnston]]
| Reviews =
*[[Allmusic]] {{rating-5|4.5}} [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:k8ngtq2zbu48 link]
*Music Box {{rating-5|4}} [http://www.musicbox-online.com/reviews-2007/cohen-love-and-hate-06062007.html link]
*[[Pitchfork Media]] (8.2/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/42630-songs-of-leonard-cohen-songs-from-a-room-songs-of-love-and-hate link]
*''[[Rolling Stone]]'' (mixed) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/leonardcohen/albums/album/210284/review/5945917/songs_of_love_and_hate link]
| Last album = ''[[Songs from a Room]]''<br/>(1969)
| This album = '''''Songs of Love and Hate'''''<br/>(1971)
| Next album = ''[[Live Songs]]''<br/>(1973)
}}
'''''Songs of Love and Hate''''' is [[Canada|Canadian]] singer/songwriter [[Leonard Cohen]]'s third album. It was mainly recorded in Columbia Studio A, Nashville, from September 22 to 26, 1970. "Sing Another Song, Boys" was recorded at the Isle of Wight Festival on August 30, 1970. Further recording took place at [[Trident Studios]] in [[London]]. The album reached #145 on the [[Billboard 200|Billboard]] list, but was his most commercially successful album in many other parts of the world, reaching #4 in the [[UK Albums Chart|UK]] and #8 in [[Australia]]<ref>Kent, David; ''The Australian Chart Book, 1970-1992''. ISBN 0646119176</ref>.
The album title is descriptive, outlining its main themes. The songs contain emotive language and are frankly personal; "[[Famous Blue Raincoat]]" ends with the line "Sincerely, L. Cohen". The back cover of the album bears the lines:
''They locked up a man<br>
''Who wanted to rule the world<br>
''The fools<br>
''They locked up the wrong man''
A [[remaster|remastered]] [[Compact disc|CD]] was released in 1995. [[Simply Vinyl]] issued a short-lived remastered edition on [[Gramophone record#Common formats|vinyl]] in 2002, making it the last Cohen album (aside from ''[[Ten New Songs]]'', which was pressed in limited quantities) to go out of print on vinyl.
In 2007 [[Columbia Records|Columbia]]/[[Legacy Recordings|Legacy]] released a newly remastered CD with a new book style packaging and a bonus track: a 1968 recording of ''Dress Rehearsal Rag''.
It was ranked 74 on Pitchfork Media's list of the 100 best albums of the 1970s.
==Track listing==
All songs written by Leonard Cohen.
===Side one===
#"[[Avalanche (song)|Avalanche]]" – 5:07
#"Last Year's Man" – 6:02
#"[[Dress Rehearsal Rag]]" – 6:12
#"Diamonds in the Mine" – 3:52
===Side two===
#"Love Calls You by Your Name" – 5:44
#"[[Famous Blue Raincoat]]" – 5:15
#"Sing Another Song, Boys" ([[Concert|live]] at the [[Isle of Wight Festival 1970|Isle of Wight Festival]] [[30 August]] [[1970]]) – 6:17
#"[[Joan of Arc]]" – 6:29
===Interconnected Sides===
The listener may notice that the title of the album will tell you the nature of each side of the album. As it was originally designed to be listened to on vinyl record, there is a "hate" side and a "love" side, rather than necessarily being just sides 1 and 2 (though on the records themselves, they are still listed as 1 as hate and 2 as love). In addition, each song seems to have a corresponding counterpart. For example, "Avalanche" and "Love Calls You by Your Name" are stylistically very similar, with familiar structures to each other. The same holds true for all the other songs ("Joan of Arc" to "Last Year's Man", "Diamonds in the Mine" to "Sing Another Song, Boys", and "Dress Rehearsal Rag" to "Famous Blue Raincoat").
===Bonus tracks on 2007 remastered edition===
#"Dress Rehearsal Rag" (bonus track, early version, an [[outtake]] recorded during the ''[[Songs From a Room]]'' sessions in 1968) – 5:37
==Songs==
With the exception of "Last Year's Man", Cohen has performed every song live. Because of its depressing content, Cohen has played "Dress Rehearsal Rag" in concert only on two occasions, two years before ''Songs of Love and Hate''.
[[Judy Collins]] recorded "Dress Rehearsal Rag" in 1966 on the album ''In My Life'', years before it would appear on ''Songs of Love and Hate''.
[[Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds]] recorded a version of "Avalanche" for their 1984 album ''[[From Her to Eternity]]''.
"[[Famous Blue Raincoat]]" has been covered numerous times, notably by [[Jennifer Warnes]], who once toured as a back-up singer for Cohen, on her 1987 tribute album to Cohen, ''[[Famous Blue Raincoat (album)|Famous Blue Raincoat]]''. It has also been covered by [[Tori Amos]] on the Leonard Cohen [[tribute album]] ''[[Tower of Song]]''. Warnes also covered "Joan of Arc" on ''[[Famous Blue Raincoat (album)|Famous Blue Raincoat]]'' as a duet with Cohen.
==Personnel==
*Leonard Cohen – acoustic guitar, vocals
*Ron Cornelius – acoustic and electric guitars
*[[Charlie Daniels]] – acoustic guitar, bass, fiddle
*Elkin "Bubba" Fowler – acoustic guitar, banjo, bass
*[[Bob Johnston]] – piano, production
*Corlynn Hanney – vocals
*Susan Mussmano – vocals
*The Corona Academy, London – children's voices
*Michael Sahl – strings on 3rd verse of "Last Year's Man"
*[[Paul Buckmaster]] – string and horn arrangements, conductor
== References ==
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==External links==
*[http://leonardcohenfiles.com/album3.html Album lyrics], from The Leonard Cohen Files
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