I'm Looking For These Rare CD Compilations

tomsakic · Post by **tomsakic** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 4:11 pm

Does someone has or knows where I can find some of these CD compilations? I hope someone from Poland or Australia will help...?

US: Leonard Cohen Takes Manhattan, Sony Music Special Products, USA 1992, A22633.

Australia: Highlights - two different sleeves
Pickwick Music, Australia 1990, PKD 3082, Dolby System stereo

Select The Best For Less series of Sony Music, Australia 1982, 462747-2

Poland: Leonard Cohen, in the series Golden Rock Classics Club Eve, Poland 1998. CECD 14-2

I'm ready to buy it or trade with the copies of freely circulating shows (my list here).

Post by **jarkko** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 1:35 am

Some of these albums have been seen recently at http://www.gemm.com
(make a search for Leonard Cohen). All these are authorized compilations, sold out long ago.

tomsakic · Post by **tomsakic** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:44 am

OK.
I tried gemm yesterday for other reasons (singles - but they were far too expensive, 25-30 US$ or more for 90s CD singles!). But I found Yugoslav (Croatian; released by Suzy but pressed by Jugoton Zagreb) Suzanne / Take This Longing single pressing from 1976 which I can't find here for years. And it's cheap, very cheap. But I didn't decide yet. I just got my first Visa credit card, so I'm going to try it now

I decided to buy these because I purchases So Long Marianne two days ago in local store. With another picture that it was on it when I saw it first time five years ago or so

Now it's German Sony Pop Shop sleeve, and before it was Holland Memory Pop Shop sleeve on it.

I particularly like First We Take Manhattan sleeve, so I'll like to get that. For Australian or Polish relese maybe it would be easier to get it, because I'm gonna write our friends there.

tomsakic · Post by **tomsakic** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:23 pm

I know that you don't have these CDs at home, friends, but I hope you can take this post as suggestion to look around in your local used-CDs store when you will be shopping at Saturday morning in downtown

If there's any LP freak, I can find Yugoslav pressings of albums very easily and cheaply. They were released by discontinued Columbia dealer in former Yugoslavia "Suzy" but pressed by "Jugoton" (current "Croatia Records"), the leading music company in former country and excellent manufacturer of vinyl. I'll trade those only for another LPs (7" singles).

Sophistikitten · Post by **Sophistikitten** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:20 pm

I have a cd that I honestly don't want to part with but was wondering where it came from.

Years ago, I received a birthday card in the mail from a friend from Poland. It was a Leonard Cohen card that came with a cd of his ballads. It doesn't really have a title on the cd itself but I have always wondered exactly where it came from and who released it.

Needless to say, it was a surprise receiving a Cohen birthday card and CD in the mail on my birthday!

Does anyone know about these Polish cd birthday cards?

tomsakic · Post by **tomsakic** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:54 pm

That seems like kind of birthday card I'd like to get

Anyway, it doesn't seem familiar. I mean, did CD came genuinely with the card, or it was additional gift? Maybe you can see if that's the one I'm looking for if you compare the track listing. Which ballads are on CD you got?

The Polish CD Compilation is here
Some Polish postcard singles are listed here but I understanded that these are postcards with only one song that plays when you open it, not with the CD.

Sophistikitten · Post by **Sophistikitten** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:44 am

Oh gosh...when I moved to Montreal, I left all the jewel cases and CD booklets behind (just put the cds in a big binder type holder)...so I cannot tell you off hand every song off there. I will get around to it...when I have time to play the cd. I'm pretty sure most of the songs on that link you posted are on the cd, but more. Yeah, I know I am no help!

It really did come in a card! The card itself wasn't the prettiest and it didn't have Leonard on the front - just some sort of picture of a sunset(or sunrise) and said "Ballady ___ Leonard Cohena" or something to that effect. I have a poor memory. I will find it for you when I go home for Easter and perhaps take a photo of it!

Post by **jarkko** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 7:27 pm

Some Polish postcard singles are listed here but I understanded that these are postcards with only one song that plays when you open it, not with the CD.

No, those are postcards that you can put into your old vinyl record player
and play them just like a single record! The track is on the surface of the card.

tomsakic · Post by **tomsakic** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 11:53 am

Post cards that plays like vinyl... My G-d? I never used LPs or had a gramophone, that was before my time as I'm the child of the 1990s and the CD era... I thought it was like that of course because of Christmas card which play Silent Night or Jingle Bells when you open it. I don't see those anymore; when I was child, they used come only from abroad. We thought, Jee, "the West"... Prehistoric times.

Paula · Post by **Paula** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 3:56 pm

I was a member of the Beatles fan club and every year they would send you a christmas record and one was a cardboard record with the vinyl imprinted on the cardboard.