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Title: Leonard Cohen - Various Positions
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1984, Singer-Songwriter, Folk Rock and Folk Pop, Montreal, Canada 9/26
Matrix #: MOVLP 504
Condition: VG+, sounds great (TC) | Members: Leonard C (34' - 16') | Producer: John Lissauer
Cultural Facts:

1. Label Rejection: Columbia Records famously declined to release Various Positions in the United States, even though it contained “Hallelujah,” a song that would eventually become one of Cohen’s most celebrated compositions.
2. Songwriting Lore: Cohen worked obsessively on “Hallelujah,” reportedly filling notebooks with dozens of discarded verses before arriving at the version recorded for the album.
3. Dark Inspiration: “Dance Me to the End of Love” was partly inspired by accounts of string musicians forced to perform beside crematoria in Nazi concentration camps, turning what sounds like a romantic song into something far darker about love in the presence of death.