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The Future is one of the most popular Leonard Cohen albums, and has come to be recognized as his essential "film-score" album. Nearly every one of the songs on the album has appeared in some notable form in a Hollywood film.
Most recognizable is the use of three songs ("Waiting for a Miracle", "Anthem" and the title track) in Oliver Stone's graphic 1994 classic 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.
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 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. 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 I win a Best Vocalist award".
Track listing
Songs written by Leonard Cohen, unless otherwise noted.
- "The Future"
- "Waiting for the Miracle"
- "Be For Real" (Frederick Knight)
- "Closing Time"
- "Anthem"
- "Democracy"
- "Light as the Breeze"
- "Always" (Irving Berlin)
- "Tacoma Trailer"
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