Live in Dublin (Leonard Cohen album)
| Live in Dublin | ||||
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| Live album by Leonard Cohen | ||||
| Released | December 2, 2014 | |||
| Recorded |
On September 12, 2013 at The O2 Arena, Dublin, Ireland | |||
| Genre | Folk rock | |||
| Length | 179:16 | |||
| Label | Columbia Records | |||
| Leonard Cohen chronology | ||||
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Live in Dublin is a live album by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. It was released on 2 December 2014. The album was recorded in September 2013 at Dublin's The O2 Arena.[1]
Description
Live In Dublin is the first and only release of a complete Leonard Cohen concert to be shot in high definition. Lensed and recorded at Dublin's 02 Arena on September 12th 2013, Leonard Cohen - Live In Dublin documents a peak performance from the musician's monumental sold-out 2012-2013 world tour, introducing Cohen's then-latest release (2012's Old Ideas) within a major canonical on-stage retrospective.
This state-of-the-art audio-visual HD presentation of a full-length concert from the Old Ideas world tour delivers this artist's repertoire (backed by a band recognized by critics as his best ever) with the intimacy, poetic beauty and intensity that have become hallmarks of a Leonard Cohen concert. Live In Dublin recreates the deep emotional connection that audiences felt so powerfully and critics praised universally with five star reviews during Cohen's most recent tour.
An immersive sonic and viewing experience, Leonard Cohen - Live In Dublin's three hours of music and magic includes an 11-song first set, a 10-song second set and an 8-song encore. Also features bonus live tracks recorded in Canada in 2013.[2]
Critical reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 83/100[3] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [4] |
| Exclaim! | 8/10[5] |
| Pitchfork | 8/10[6] |
| Rolling Stone |  [7] |
The album received uniformly positive reviews upon its release, with aggregator Metacritic calculating a score of 83 out of 100 based on six reviews, indicating "Universal acclaim".[3] While acknowledging that much of the material overlapped with the 2009 release Live in London, Rolling Stone called the new album "well worth the price".[7] In another positive review for Exclaim!, Mackenzie Herd wrote that Cohen "still manages to mesmerize audiences around the world with perpetually relevant and insightful work, leaving packed and satisfied stadiums in his wake like he does here."[5]
Track listing
CD track listing
| Disc 1 | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 1. | "Dance Me to the End of Love" | 5:56 | ||||||||
| 2. | "The Future" | 6:46 | ||||||||
| 3. | "Bird on the Wire" | 7:09 | ||||||||
| 4. | "Everybody Knows" | 5:35 | ||||||||
| 5. | "Who By Fire" | 8:44 | ||||||||
| 6. | "The Gypsy's Wife" | 6:12 | ||||||||
| 7. | "The Darkness" | 5:51 | ||||||||
| 8. | "Amen" | 8:02 | ||||||||
| 9. | "Come Healing" | 3:58 | ||||||||
| 10. | "Lover Lover Lover" | 6:49 | ||||||||
| 11. | "Anthem" | 8:07 | ||||||||
Total length: |
73:09 | |||||||||
| Disc 2 | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 1. | "Tower of Song" | 6:30 | ||||||||
| 2. | "Suzanne" | 4:25 | ||||||||
| 3. | "Chelsea Hotel No. 2" | 3:23 | ||||||||
| 4. | "Waiting for the Miracle" | 8:01 | ||||||||
| 5. | "The Partisan" | 5:26 | ||||||||
| 6. | "In My Secret Life" | 5:04 | ||||||||
| 7. | "Alexandra Leaving" | 7:57 | ||||||||
| 8. | "I'm Your Man" | 5:58 | ||||||||
| 9. | "Recitation" | 3:20 | ||||||||
| 10. | "Hallelujah" | 7:25 | ||||||||
| 11. | "Take This Waltz" | 5:59 | ||||||||
Total length: |
62:54 | |||||||||
| Disc 3 | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 1. | "So Long, Marianne" | 5:33 | ||||||||
| 2. | "Going Home" | 4:06 | ||||||||
| 3. | "First We Take Manhattan" | 6:40 | ||||||||
| 4. | "Famous Blue Raincoat" | 4:34 | ||||||||
| 5. | "If It Be Your Will" | 4:53 | ||||||||
| 6. | "Closing Time" | 5:34 | ||||||||
| 7. | "I Tried to Leave You" | 7:44 | ||||||||
| 8. | "Save the Last Dance for Me" | 4:09 | ||||||||
Total length: |
43:13 | |||||||||
DVD Bonus features
| Disc 4: DVD Bonus | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 1. | "Show Me The Place" (04/13/13, Scotiabank Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia) | |||||||||
| 2. | "Anyhow" (04/20/13, Mile One Centre, St. John's, Newfoundland) | |||||||||
| 3. | "Different Sides" (04/15/13, Harbour Station, Saint John, New Brunswick) | |||||||||
Charts
| Chart (20141–15) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| scope="row" | Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[8] | 33 |
| scope="row" | Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[8] | 41 |
| scope="row" | Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[8] | 78 |
| scope="row" | Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[8] | 44 |
| scope="row" | French Albums (SNEP)[8] | 119 |
| scope="row" | German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[8] | 53 |
| scope="row" | Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[8] | 79 |
| scope="row" | Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[8] | 48 |
References
- ↑ Minsker, Evan (14 October 2014). "Leonard Cohen Announces Live in Dublin Album/Film". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
- ↑ "Live In Dublin". Amazon. Retrieved November 17, 2014.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://www.metacritic.com/music/live-in-dublin/leonard-cohen
- ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/live-in-dublin-mw0002768185
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Herd, Mackenzie (December 2, 2014). "Leonard Cohen - Live in Dublin". Exclaim!. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
- ↑ http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20051-live-in-dublin/
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/leonard-cohen-live-in-dublin-20141230
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 "Leonard Cohen – Live In Dublin" (in German). Austriancharts.at. Hung Medien. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
External links
- LeonardCohen.com – Official Leonard Cohen Website
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