Song · Leonard Cohen
“Closing Time” by Leonard Cohen
From the album The Future (1992)
“Closing Time” by Leonard Cohen appears on 3 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2009 and 2020. It was first released in 1992 on the album The Future. Its best result is #719 on the WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #4,512 indie & aaa song of all time.
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Leonard Cohen's "Closing Time" comes from The Future, his ninth studio album, released in 1992. He arranged it with Yoav Goren and produced it with Leanne Ungar, who also engineered and mixed, and he sings lead with Perla Batalla and Julie Christensen behind him, while a trio of Bobs fills out the band: Bob Furgo on violin, Bob Metzger on guitar and Bob Glaub on bass.
The album around it was a big, restless undertaking, made in several studios while the Berlin Wall fell and Los Angeles erupted in the 1992 riots, and it carried Cohen's sense of a world in turmoil. Following on from I'm Your Man, it drew glowing reviews, went double platinum in Canada and won over an American audience that had long been lukewarm about his records.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 859 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Essential Songs | 913 |
| 2009 | 719 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009) | 885 |
| 2020 | 959 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
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