I'm Your Fan

I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen
Compilation album by John Cale
Released	1991
Genre	Folk rock
Length	1:15:41
Label	Atlantic (U.S.), EastWest (Europe)
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I'm Your Fan (1991) Tower of Song: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (1995)

I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen is a tribute album to Leonard Cohen, released in 1991, produced by the French music magazine Les Inrockuptibles. The album features Cohen's songs interpreted by some of the most respected rock acts of the time. Its name is a play on the title of Cohen's album I'm Your Man.

For the album's American release on Atlantic Records, R.E.M.'s rendition of "First We Take Manhattan" and House of Love's "Who by Fire" (the lead tracks on each side of the vinyl and cassette versions) were swapped so that R.E.M., one of the most popular American rock bands of the era, led the album. In all other countries where the album was released, however, the R.E.M. track appears on Side Two. In the United Kingdom, the album was distributed by record label EastWest Records, in France by Sony Music.

The album includes two different covers of "Tower of Song", one by Robert Forster and another by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. The latter version is markedly deconstructive, comprised from cuts from an hour-long jam session held by the band.

Track listing

All songs written by Leonard Cohen. "Don't Go Home with Your Hard-On" and "True Love Leaves No Traces" co-written by Phil Spector. "So Long, Marianne" contains some jumbled and (apparently improvised) new lyrics.

1. "Who by Fire" – The House of Love
2. "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye" – Ian McCulloch
3. "I Can't Forget" – Pixies
4. "Stories of the Street" – That Petrol Emotion
5. "Bird on the Wire" – The Lilac Time
6. "Suzanne" – Geoffrey Oryema
7. "So Long, Marianne" – James
8. "Avalanche IV" – Jean-Louis Murat
9. "Don't Go Home with Your Hard-On" – David McComb & Adam Peters
10. "First We Take Manhattan" – R.E.M.
11. "Chelsea Hotel" – Lloyd Cole
12. "Tower of Song" – Robert Forster
13. "Take This Longing" – Peter Astor
14. "True Love Leaves No Traces" – Dead Famous People
15. "I'm Your Man" – Bill Pritchard
16. "A Singer Must Die" – The Fatima Mansions
17. "Tower of Song" – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
18. "Hallelujah" – John Cale