The Future (Leonard Cohen album)

The Future (Leonard Cohen album)
The Future
Studio album by Leonard Cohen
Released November 24, 1992
Recorded January – June 1992
Genre Folk-rock
Length 59:37
Label Columbia
Producer Leonard Cohen, Steve Lindsey, Bill Ginn, Leanne Ungar, Rebecca De Mornay, Yoav Goren
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Leonard Cohen chronology
I'm Your Man
(1988)
The Future
(1992)
Cohen Live
(1994)

The Future is a studio album from 1992 by Leonard Cohen. It has come to be recognized as his "film-score" album as nearly every one of the songs on the album has appeared in some notable form in a Hollywood film.

Widely recognized as one of Cohen's more accessible albums, The Future contains everything from gospel-choir choruses (title track) to synthesizer ballads ("Waiting for the Miracle"), to pop-country ("Closing Time"), to marching band, staccato-like rhythms ("Democracy").

While not his most commercially successful album internationally, The Future is definitely one of his most musically diverse outings. The album was, however, one of Cohen's biggest chart successes in his native Canada, where "Closing Time" and "The Future" were both significant Top 40 hits[citation needed]. Cohen, whose singing voice is famously an acquired taste, won the 1992 Juno Award for Best Male Vocalist. In his acceptance speech, he quipped that "Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win Vocalist of the Year".[1]

The Future was the last Cohen album to be recorded and produced entirely in analog and then digitised after mixdown. Its working titles were Busted (after the line from "Closing Time") and Be for Real.[citation needed]

Cohen's then-girlfriend, actress Rebecca De Mornay, co-produced the song "Anthem".[citation needed]

"Tacoma Trailer" is one of two instrumentals in the Cohen catalogue. The other is "Improvisation" from Live Songs.

The album is silver in the UK and double-platinum in Canada.[citation needed]

The Future was Cohen's longest album to date, at nearly sixty minutes.

Film soundtracks

Most recognizable is the use of three songs ("Waiting for the Miracle", "Anthem", and the title track) in Oliver Stone's 1994 film Natural Born Killers. Songs from this album have also appeared in the films Wonder Boys starring Michael Douglas and The Life of David Gale starring Kevin Spacey.

Track listing

All tracks written by Leonard Cohen, except where noted.[2][3]

  1. "The Future" – 6:41
    Arranged by [Strings, Backing Vocals], Conductor [Strings, Backing Vocals] - David Campbell
    Drums - Steve Meador
    Engineer, Mixed by - Leanne Ungar
    Guitar - Bob Metzger
    Producer, Arranged by - Leonard Cohen
    Programmed by, Performer - Leonard Cohen, Yoav Goren
    Tambourine - Lenny Castro
  2. "Waiting for the Miracle" (Cohen, Sharon Robinson) – 7:42
    Arranged by - Leonard Cohen, Rebecca De Mornay, Yoav Goren
    Arranged by [Additional Strings Arrangements] - David Campbell
    Backing Vocals - Anjani Thomas
    Engineer, Mixed by - Leanne Ungar
    Mandolin - Dean Parks
    Percussion - Lenny Castro
    Producer [Additional] - Steve Lindsey
    Producer, Programmed by, Performer - Leonard Cohen, Yoav Goren
    Violin - Bob Furgo
  3. "Be for Real" (Frederick Knight) – 4:32
    Arranged by [Strings] - David Campbell
    Backing Vocals - Jacquelyn Gouche-Farris, Tony Warren, Valerie Pinkston-Mayo
    Drums - James Gadson
    Engineer [Additional] - Eric Anest
    Engineer, Mixed by - Leanne Ungar
    Guitar [Pedal Steel] - Bob Metzger
    Organ, Keyboards [Wurlitzer, Mellotron] - Steve Lindsey
    Percussion - Lenny Castro
    Piano - Greg Phillinganes
    Producer, Arranged by - Steve Lindsey
  4. "Closing Time"– 6:00
    Arranged by, Programmed by, Performer - Leonard Cohen, Yoav Goren
    Backing Vocals - Julie Christensen, Perla Batalla
    Bass [Intro] - Bob Glaub
    Engineer, Mixed by - Leanne Ungar
    Guitar - Bob Metzger
    Producer - Leanne Ungar, Leonard Cohen
    Violin - Bob Furgo
  5. "Anthem" – 6:09
    Arranged by - Leonard Cohen, Rebecca De Mornay, Yoav Goren
    Arranged by [Strings, Backing Vocals], Conductor [Strings, Backing Vocals] - David Campbell
    Bass, Guitar [Electric] - Bob Metzger
    Choir - LA Mass Choir
    Conductor [Choir] - Donald Taylor
    Drums - Steve Meador
    Engineer - Leanne Ungar, Richard Cottrell
    Mixed by - Leanne Ungar
    Percussion - Lenny Castro
    Producer - Leonard Cohen, Rebecca De Mornay
  6. "Democracy" – 7:13
    Arranged by, Programmed by, Performer, Keyboards - Jeff Fisher
    Backing Vocals - David Morgan, Jennifer Warnes, Julie Christensen
    Drums - Vinnie Colaiuta
    Engineer - David Shober, Ian Terry, Leanne Ungar, Richard Cottrell
    Guitar, Mandolin - Dean Parks
    Keyboards [Additional] - Randy Kerber, Steve Lindsey
    Mixed by - Leanne Ungar
    Producer [Additional], Arranged by [Additional] - Steve Lindsey
    Producer, Arranged by [Additional] - Leonard Cohen
    Synthesizer [Bass] - John Barnes
  7. "Light as the Breeze" – 7:17
    Acoustic Guitar, Guitar [Electric] - Bob Metzger
    Arranged by [Backing Vocals], Backing Vocals - Jennifer Warnes
    Engineer, Mixed by - Leanne Ungar
    Producer - Bill Ginn, Leonard Cohen
    Programmed by [Synclavier] - Bill Ginn, Steve Croes
    Programmed by, Performer - Bill Ginn
    Violin, Saxophone - Bob Furgo, Leonard Cohen
  8. "Always" (Irving Berlin) – 8:04
    Acoustic Guitar, Guitar [Weissenborn] - Dean Parks
    Arranged by [Horns], Trumpet, Trombone - Lee R. Thornburg
    Backing Vocals - Edna Wright, Jean Johnson, Peggy Blue
    Bass - Lee Sklar
    Drums - Ed Greene
    Engineer, Mixed by - Leanne Ungar
    Guitar [Electric] - Dennis Herring
    Organ [Ice Rink] - Steve Lindsey
    Organ [Pad] - Michael Finnigan
    Piano - Jim Cox
    Producer - Steve Lindsey
    Saxophone [Baritone] - Greg Smith
    Saxophone [Tenor] - Brandon Fields, Lon Price
    Tambourine - Lenny Castro
  9. "Tacoma Trailer" – 5:57
    Arranged by - Leonard Cohen
    Engineer, Mixed by - Leanne Ungar
    Producer, Programmed by, Performer - Bill Ginn
    Synthesizer [Synclavier] - Steve Croes

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