Leonard Cohen, the ranking of his best albums according to Far Out Magazine

The void left by Leonard Cohen, who died in Los Angeles on November 7, 2016, is immeasurable. Far Out magazine decided to pay him tribute by publishing a ranking of his albums, from worst to best. “Music is the emotional life of most people,” Leonard Cohen once said. Few artists have embodied this conviction with the same intensity as the Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist – Far Out notes – one of the most important figures in music of the 20th century and the early decades of the new millennium. His artistic legacy remains inextricably tied to writing of extraordinary depth, capable of exploring love, spirituality, desire, loneliness and death with an unmistakable sensibility. Before turning to music – the magazine goes on to recall – Cohen had already built a literary career as a poet and novelist. His recording debut came only in 1967, when he was 33, launching a creative journey that would continue until the very last days of his life. Even after his passing in 2016, a posthumous album would follow, further proof of a compositional vein that was never truly exhausted.

But where to start in order to find your way through a discography of 15 studio albums? Far Out set out to answer that question by ranking all of Cohen's work, from the folk atmospheres of his debut “Songs Of Leonard Cohen” to the electronic experiments of the Eighties, all the way to the meditations on mortality of his final works.

Here is the ranking of Leonard Cohen's best albums according to Far Out Magazine (full feature here).

15. Popular Problems
14. Recent Songs
13. Old Ideas
12. Ten New Songs
11. Dear Heather
10. Various Positions
9. The Future
8. Death Of A Ladies’ Man
7. Songs From A Room
6. Thanks For The Dance
5. New Skin For The Old Ceremony
4. I’m Your Man
3. You Want It Darker
2. Songs Of Leonard Cohen
1. Songs Of Love And Hate

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