I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen - I’m Your Man (1988)

Wikipedia informations:
I’m Your Man is a 1988 album by Leonard Cohen.
It was widely considered Cohen’s “comeback” album, after the poorly promoted Various Positions in 1984. The album also marked Cohen’s further move into modern musical textures, with many songs having a synthpop production.
The song “Everybody Knows” was one of Cohen’s first writing collaborations with Sharon Robinson, who would become a frequent collaborator in the future. Most notably, Robinson co-wrote every song on Cohen’s 2001 outing Ten New Songs.

In “Tower of Song”, Cohen discusses songwriting and acknowledges the influence of Hank Williams (“a hundred floors above me”).
“I’m Your Man” was number 1 in Norway for 16 weeks. The album is silver in the UK and gold in Canada.
It was ranked 51 on Pitchfork Media’s list of the 100 best albums of the 1980s.

“allmusic” informations:
Review by Jason Ankeny
A stunningly sophisticated leap into modern musical textures, I’m Your Man re-establishes Leonard Cohen’s mastery. Against a backdrop of keyboards and propulsive rhythms, Cohen surveys the global landscape with a precise, unflinching eye: the opening “First We Take Manhattan” is an ominous fantasy of commercial success bundled in crypto-fascist imagery, while the remarkable “Everybody Knows” is a cynical catalog of the land mines littering the surface of love in the age of AIDS.

Track listing:
All songs were written by Cohen, except where noted.

1. “First We Take Manhattan” – 6:01
2. “Ain’t No Cure for Love” – 4:50
3. “Everybody Knows” (Cohen, Sharon Robinson) – 5:36