Live in Dublin (Leonard Cohen album)

Live in Dublin is a (triple) live album by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. It is the audio recording of his three-hour concert on September 12, 2013 at The O₂ Arena, Dublin, Ireland.

Live in Dublin
Live album by Leonard Cohen
Released	December 2, 2014
Recorded	September 12, 2013
Venue	The O2 Arena, Dublin, Ireland
Genre	Folk rock
Length	179:16
Label	Columbia
Leonard Cohen chronology
Popular Problems (2014) Live in Dublin (2014) Can't Forget: A Souvenir of the Grand Tour (2015)

Background

The album was released on 2 December 2014 and was recorded in September 2013 at Dublin's The O₂ Arena.[1] After only releasing two live albums in the first 24 years of his recording career, Live in Dublin was Cohen's fourth live LP since 2009. The album is very similar to the album Live in London (2009) but contains renditions of several songs from his more recent albums, such as "Amen", "The Darkness", "Alexandra Leaving", and "Come Healing." The album received uniformly positive reviews upon its release, with aggregator Metacritic calculating a score of 83 out of 100 based on six reviews, indicating "Universal acclaim".[2] While acknowledging that much of the material overlapped with the 2009 release Live in London, Rolling Stone called the new album "well worth the price".[3] In another positive review for Exclaim!, Mackenzie Herd wrote that Cohen "still manages to mesmerize audiences around the world with perpetually relevant and insightful work, leaving packed and satisfied stadiums in his wake like he does here."[4]

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	83/100[2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[5]
Exclaim!	8/10[4]
Pitchfork	8/10[6]
Rolling Stone	[3]

Track listing

Disc 1

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Dance Me to the End of Love"	5:56
2.	"The Future"	6:46
3.	"Bird on the Wire"	7:09
4.	"Everybody Knows"	5:35
5.	"Who By Fire"	8:44
6.	"The Gypsy's Wife"	6:12
7.	"The Darkness"	5:51
8.	"Amen"	8:02
9.	"Come Healing"	3:58
10.	"Lover Lover Lover"	6:49
11.	"Anthem"	8:07
Total length:		73:09

Disc 2

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Tower of Song"	6:30
2.	"Suzanne"	4:25
3.	"Chelsea Hotel No. 2"	3:23
4.	"Waiting for the Miracle"	8:01
5.	"The Partisan"	5:26
6.	"In My Secret Life"	5:04
7.	"Alexandra Leaving"	7:57
8.	"I'm Your Man"	5:58
9.	"Recitation"	3:20
10.	"Hallelujah"	7:25
11.	"Take This Waltz"	5:59
Total length:		62:54

Disc 3

No.	Title	Length
1.	"So Long, Marianne"	5:33
2.	"Going Home"	4:06
3.	"First We Take Manhattan"	6:40
4.	"Famous Blue Raincoat"	4:34
5.	"If It Be Your Will"	4:53
6.	"Closing Time"	5:34
7.	"I Tried to Leave You"	7:44
8.	"Save the Last Dance for Me"	4:09
Total length:		43:13

DVD bonus features

Disc 4: DVD Bonus

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Show Me The Place" (04/13/13, Scotiabank Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia)
2.	"Anyhow" (04/20/13, Mile One Centre, St. John's, Newfoundland)
3.	"Different Sides" (04/15/13, Harbour Station, Saint John, New Brunswick)

Charts

Chart (2014–16)	Peak position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[7]	33
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[8]	41
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[9]	78
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[10]	44
French Albums (SNEP)[11]	118
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[12]	53
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[13]	33
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[14]	79
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[15]	48

References

1. Minsker, Evan (14 October 2014). "Leonard Cohen Announces Live in Dublin Album/Film". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
2. http://www.metacritic.com/music/live-in-dublin/leonard-cohen
3. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/leonard-cohen-live-in-dublin-20141230
4. Herd, Mackenzie (December 2, 2014). "Leonard Cohen – Live in Dublin". Exclaim!. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
5. http://www.allmusic.com/album/live-in-dublin-mw0002768185
6. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20051-live-in-dublin/
7. "Austriancharts.at – Leonard Cohen – Live In Dublin" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
8. "Ultratop.be – Leonard Cohen – Live In Dublin" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
9. "Ultratop.be – Leonard Cohen – Live In Dublin" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
10. "Dutchcharts.nl – Leonard Cohen – Live In Dublin" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
11. "Lescharts.com – Leonard Cohen – Live In Dublin". Hung Medien. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
12. "Longplay-Chartverfolgung at Musicline" (in German). Musicline.de. Phononet GmbH. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
13. "Album Top 40 slágerlista – 2016. 37. hét" (in Hungarian). MAHASZ. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
14. "Spanishcharts.com – Leonard Cohen – Live In Dublin". Hung Medien. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
15. "Swisscharts.com – Leonard Cohen – Live In Dublin". Hung Medien. Retrieved 16 December 2014.

External links

• LeonardCohen.com – Official Leonard Cohen Website