I'm Your Fan

"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". [ [http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/cover5.html "I'm Your Fan" at The leonard Cohen Files] ]

The album features Cohen's songs interpreted by some of the most respected rock acts of the time. [ [http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/leonard-cohen Rock and Roll hall of Fame - Inductee - Leonard Cohen] ] 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.

Track listing

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

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