The Future 1020646 224612103 2008-07-09T17:30:46Z J Milburn Bot 7423137 All Music Guide has now been rebranded to Allmusic {{for|the band called The Future|The Human League}} :''See also: [[Future]].'' {{Infobox Album <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums --> | Name = The Future | Type = studio | Artist = [[Leonard Cohen]] | Cover = LeonardCohenTheFuture.gif | Released = [[November 24]] 1992 | Recorded = January–June 1992 | Genre = [[Folk-rock]] | Length = 59:37 | Label = [[Columbia Records|Columbia]] | Producer = Leonard Cohen, Steve Lindsey, Bill Ginn, Leanne Ungar, [[Rebecca De Mornay]], Yoav Goren | Reviews = *[[Allmusic]] {{rating-5|3.5}} [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:rktvadskt8wj link] *''[[Rolling Stone]]'' {{Rating-5|4}} [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/leonardcohen/albums/album/231842/review/5941455/the_future link] | Last album = ''[[I'm Your Man (Leonard Cohen album)|I'm Your Man]]''<br />(1988) | This album = '''''The Future'''''<br />(1992) | Next album = ''[[Cohen Live]]''<br />(1994) }} '''''The Future''''' is one of the most popular [[Leonard Cohen]] albums, and has come to be recognized as his essential "film-score" album. Nearly every one of the songs on the album has appeared in some notable form in a Hollywood film. Widely recognized as one of Cohen's more accessible albums, ''The Future'' contains everything from gospel-choir choruses (title track) to synthesizer ballads ("Waiting for the Miracle"), to pop-country ("[[Closing Time (Leonard Cohen song)|Closing Time]]"), to marching band, staccato-like rhythms ("Democracy"). "Democracy" admittedly influenced the opening track of HBO's ''[[The Sopranos]]'', "Woke up This Morning", written and performed by [[Alabama 3|A3]]. <!-- Despite the rumors (and the thousands of websites that say he was), Cohen was not directly involved in "Woke Up This Morning" as a writer or performer. -- richfife --> While not his most commercially successful album internationally, ''The Future'' is definitely one of his most musically diverse outings. The album was, however, one of Cohen's biggest chart successes in his native [[Canada]], where "[[Closing Time (Leonard Cohen song)|Closing Time]]" and "The Future" were both significant Top 40 hits. Cohen, whose singing voice is famously an acquired taste, won the 1992 [[Juno Award]] for ''Best Male Vocalist''. In his acceptance speech, he quipped that "only in Canada could I win a Best Vocalist award". ''The Future'' was the last Cohen album to be recorded and produced entirely in [[analog recording|analog]] and then digitised after mixdown. Its working titles were ''Busted'' (after the line from "Closing Time") and ''Be for Real''. Cohen's then-girlfriend, [[actress]] [[Rebecca De Mornay]], co-produced the song "Anthem". "Tacoma Trailer" is one of two instrumentals in the Cohen catalogue. The other is "Improvisation" from ''[[Live Songs]]''. The album is silver in the [[UK]] and double-platinum in [[Canada]]. ===Film Soundtracks=== Most recognizable is the use of three songs ("Waiting for the Miracle", "Anthem", and the title track) in [[Oliver Stone|Oliver Stone's]] graphic 1994 film ''[[Natural Born Killers]]''. Songs from this album have also appeared in the films ''[[Wonder Boys (film)|Wonder Boys]]'' starring [[Michael Douglas]] and ''[[The Life of David Gale]]'' starring [[Kevin Spacey]]. ==Track listing== All tracks written by Cohen, except where noted. #"The Future" – 6:41 #"Waiting for the Miracle" (Cohen, [[Sharon Robinson (songwriter)|Sharon Robinson]]) – 7:42 #"Be for Real" ([[Frederick Knight (musician)|Frederick Knight]]) – 4:32 #"[[Closing Time (Leonard Cohen song)|Closing Time]]" – 6:00 #"Anthem" – 6:09 #"Democracy" – 7:13 #"Light as the Breeze" – 7:17 #"Always" ([[Irving Berlin]]) – 8:04 #"Tacoma Trailer" – 5:57 {{Leonard Cohen}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Future, The}} [[Category:1992 albums]] [[Category:Leonard Cohen albums]] [[ca:The Future]] [[fr:The Future]] [[fy:The Future]] [[it:The Future]] [[pl:The Future]] [[pt:The Future]] [[sv:The Future]]