Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Leonard Cohen: New Skin for the Old Ceremony (1974)


Once again, I was forced to buy an import from Holland when I bought a CD copy of this record, as no domestic releases were available. The CD copy has the much better uncensored cover. It looks like the Canadian record label felt that the 16th century drawing was too risque for the masses. So, they just replaced it with a photo of Mr. Cohen. For further details, I suggest this posting on the various covers.

New Skin for the Old Ceremony is fabulous. It's difficult to choose a favourite song, but if I had to, it would probably be either Take this Longing on Chelsea Hotel No. 2.

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