I'm Your Man

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For the song by Wham!, see I'm Your Man (song). For the 2006 film, see Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man

I'm Your Man
Studio album by Leonard Cohen
Released	February 1988 (LP) 1990 (CD)
Recorded	August–November 1987
Genre	Folk-rock
Length	40:41
Label	Columbia Records
Producer(s)	Leonard Cohen, Roscoe Beck, Jean-Michel Reusser, Michel Robidoux
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Leonard Cohen chronology
Various Positions (1984)	I'm Your Man (1988)	The Future (1992)

I'm Your Man is a 1988 album by Leonard Cohen.

It was widely considered Cohen's "comeback" album, after the poorly promoted Various Positions in 1984. The album also marked Cohen's further move into modern musical textures, with many songs having a synthpop-style production. I'm Your Man reached #1 in Norway.

[edit] Songs

• Aaron Neville, who had earlier recorded Cohen's "Bird on a Wire", contributed a cover of "Ain't No Cure for Love" for a later tribute album Tower of Song.

• The song "Everybody Knows" was one of Cohen's first writing collaborations with Sharon Robinson, who would become a frequent collaborator in the future. Most notably, Robinson co-wrote every song on Cohen's 2001 outing Ten New Songs. "Everybody Knows" was also covered by Concrete Blonde on the soundtrack to the 1990 film Pump Up the Volume, and by ex-Eagle Don Henley on Tower of Song.

• The 1991 indie rock tribute album I'm Your Fan takes its name from the pathos-filled love song title track "I'm Your Man". Bill Pritchard performed the song for the tribute.

• Already in 1986 an early mix of "Take This Waltz" reached #1 in the Spanish charts (as a single off the Federico García Lorca tribute album Poets in New York). The words were translated by Cohen from García Lorca's poem "Pequeño vals vienés".

• The alternative rock band the Pixies covered "I Can't Forget" for I'm Your Fan.

• "Tower of Song", in which Cohen discusses songwriting and acknowledges the influence of Hank Williams ("a hundred floors above me"), gave its name to a 1995 pop music tribute album. It was recorded twice on I'm Your Fan, by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and by Robert Forster. Marianne Faithfull, Tom Russell and Jesus and Mary Chain also did covers.

• The album's title track appears on the soundtrack of the 2002 film "Secretary."

• A 2006 tribute film and album to Cohen were titled Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Cohen, except where noted. All tracks faded out.

1. "First We Take Manhattan"
2. "Ain't No Cure for Love"
3. "Everybody Knows" (Cohen/Sharon Robinson)
4. "I'm Your Man"
5. "Take This Waltz" (Federico García Lorca/Cohen)
6. "Jazz Police" (Cohen/Jeff Fisher)
7. "I Can't Forget"
8. "Tower of Song"