Various Positions

Various Positions
Studio album by
ReleasedDecember 11, 1984 (Canada)
February 1985 (US, Europe)
RecordedJune 1983
StudioQuadrasonic Sound, New York
GenreSoft rock, contemporary folk
Length35:29
LabelColumbia, Passport
ProducerJohn Lissauer
Leonard Cohen chronology
Recent Songs
(1979)
Various Positions
(1984)
I'm Your Man
(1988)

Various Positions is the seventh studio album by Leonard Cohen, released in December 1984 (and February 1985). It marked not only his turn to a modern sound and use of synthesizers (particularly on the opening track), but also, after the harmonies and backing vocals from Jennifer Warnes on the previous Recent Songs (1979), an even greater contribution from Warnes, who is credited with Cohen as vocalist on all of the tracks.