I'm Your Fan

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I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen By... is a tribute album to Leonard Cohen, released in 1991, produced by the French music magazine Les Inrockuptibles.^[1]

The album features Cohen's songs interpreted by some of the most respected rock acts of the time.^[2] A later Cohen tribute album, Tower of Song, featured a more mainstream popular lineup of performers.

The name refers to Cohen's album I'm Your Man.

The album is also unusual for a tribute album, in that one song, "Tower of Song", is included in two different versions, by Robert Forster and by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. The latter version is markedly "deconstructive" and actually cut up from a jam the band had around the song lasting over an hour.

For the album's American release, R.E.M.'s rendition of "First We Take Manhattan" and House of Love's "Who By Fire" (the lead tracks on each side of the vinyl and cassette versions) were swapped so that R.E.M., one of the most popular American rock bands of the era, led the album. In all other countries where the album was released, however, the R.E.M. track appears on Side Two.

In the United Kingdom, the album was distributed by record label EastWest Records, in France by Sony Music.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Who by Fire" – The House of Love
2. "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye" – Ian McCulloch
3. "I Can't Forget" – Pixies
4. "Stories of the Street" – That Petrol Emotion
5. "Bird on the Wire" – The Lilac Time
6. "Suzanne" – Geoffrey Oryema
7. "So Long, Marianne" – James
8. "Avalanche IV" – Jean-Louis Murat
9. "Don't Go Home With Your Hard-On" – David McComb & Adam Peters
10. "First We Take Manhattan" – R.E.M.
11. "Chelsea Hotel" – Lloyd Cole
12. "Tower of Song" – Robert Forster
13. "Take This Longing" – Peter Astor
14. "True Love Leaves No Traces" – Dead Famous People
15. "I'm Your Man" – Bill Pritchard
16. "A Singer Must Die" – Fatima Mansions
17. "Tower of Song" – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
18. "Hallelujah" – John Cale

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