MrRedwood
(San Francisco) | | Posted: Dec 06, 2012 - 15:00 | |
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calypsus_1
| | Posted: May 01, 2010 - 20:00 | |
 Rufus Wainwright B'ham 8 by ~melons |
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Stefen
(West Hollywood, CA) | | Posted: Jun 15, 2009 - 15:09 | |
There are several versions of this song on RP. Amazingly, they don't have the same lyrics.
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rez
| | Posted: Jun 15, 2009 - 15:07 | |
Heard this enough for one lifetime. It's an OK song but it's not up to the number of times it gets played (in however many versions there are of it)
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scraig
(Santa Barbara, CA) | | Posted: Jun 15, 2009 - 15:04 | |
that's funny because yesterday my 11-year old nephew heard me playing the Jeff Buckley version and I couldn't understand how he knew it...Shrek!
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Geecheeboy
(under a crescent moon and palmetto tree) | | Posted: Jun 15, 2009 - 15:03 | |
I just can't stand Ethel doing this one. He needs to stick to showtunes where he is appreciated.
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htowncoog
(Texas) | | Posted: Jun 15, 2009 - 15:02 | |
Sonomacathouse wrote: Pieter wrote:
Who?
K.D. Lang, Jeff Buckley, Leonard Cohen Let's hear Buckley's version, please. |
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Sonomacathouse
(Sonoma, CA) | | Posted: Jun 15, 2009 - 15:01 | |
Pieter wrote:
Who?
K.D. Lang, Jeff Buckley, Leonard Cohen |
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F1
(Pacific NW...gotta get back to Chicago) | | Posted: Jun 15, 2009 - 15:00 | |
Annnnnnnnnd...volume goes down.
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Papernapkin
(Mountain View, CA) | | Posted: May 14, 2009 - 20:49 | |
jmsmy wrote:What a great song - and I like how Bob plays different versions of it. Bob and Roberta. Ya gotta love 'em. |
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Pieter
(Sydney Australia) | | Posted: May 14, 2009 - 20:43 | |
jmsmy wrote:What a great song - and I like how Bob plays different versions of it. Who? |
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Papernapkin
(Mountain View, CA) | | Posted: May 14, 2009 - 20:43 | |
Please stop playing this song until the year 2050. After that, I don't mind. Thanks.
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arandomvandal
| | Posted: Apr 13, 2009 - 06:15 | |
pinklife wrote:1. Leonard Cohen 2. kd lang 3. Jeff Buckley After which, I don't particularly care. I think my order might differ slightly, but I have to agree, I think the Rufus Wainwright version is probably my least favorite version. Excellent song, nonetheless. |
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tdola2
| | Posted: Apr 13, 2009 - 06:15 | |
hallelujah, blah, blah, blah. I've heard so many covers of this thing, it's bordering on the insipid...
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jmsmy
(Music Town, Klein, Texas) | | Posted: Mar 12, 2009 - 17:51 | |
What a great song - and I like how Bob plays different versions of it.
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pinklife
(St. Augustine, FL) | | Posted: Mar 12, 2009 - 17:50 | |
1. Leonard Cohen 2. kd lang 3. Jeff Buckley After which, I don't particularly care. |
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nimesay
(los angeles) | | Posted: Mar 12, 2009 - 17:50 | |
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RadioDoc
(Chicagoland) | | Posted: Mar 12, 2009 - 17:49 | |
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jlind
(Chicago, IL) | | Posted: Feb 18, 2009 - 15:10 | |
phillips wrote:
who sang the original?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallelujah_(by_Leonard_Cohen) |
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stkman
(Texas) | | Posted: Feb 09, 2009 - 04:17 | |
lyn wrote:Not to beat a dead horse ... but in my mind the definitive version of this song by a MILE (or 1.6 kilometres as i'm canadian) is k.d. lang's live perormance at the 2006 Juno Awards. it is literally hair-raising and luminescent. Puts this version to SHAME.
I have a hard time comparing k.d. to anybody she stands so far above most vocalist I like to hear her sing songs I don't like, she's just that good |
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ScopArch
(Berlin, Baby) | | Posted: Feb 09, 2009 - 04:15 | |
Nice.
This version is in a 3-way tie for 2nd place for this cover, shared by John Cale, and the man himself, Leonard Cohen.
Number one is Jeff Buckley's version.
Way down the list id K.D's version
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bobcat1963
(the netherlands) | | Posted: Feb 09, 2009 - 04:14 | |
love Buckley's version, I think it's not because the song but because of Buckley....
(it's the singer, not the song, that's what i mean)
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hugoallen
| | Posted: Feb 09, 2009 - 04:14 | |
kaybee wrote:Ten versions from 9 different artists on RP! This song is threatening to be to the early 2000's what "Feelings" was to the 70's.!  Just thank your lucky stars that we're not getting the Alexandra Burke version (winner of UK's "X Factor" in December '08). The truck driver's gear change* half-way through (with added gospel choir) still disturbs me. * http://www.gearchange.org/ |
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Limpopoking
(The Parish of St. Alfonzo) | | Posted: Feb 09, 2009 - 04:12 | |
Loved Shrek, but gimme Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah anyday!
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kaybee
(Lost in the Wilds of Toronto) | | Posted: Jan 08, 2009 - 18:16 | |
Ten versions from 9 different artists on RP! This song is threatening to be to the early 2000's what "Feelings" was to the 70's.! |
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rmh3
| | Posted: Jan 08, 2009 - 12:43 | |
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teadye
(St. Petersburg, FL) | | Posted: Jan 08, 2009 - 12:35 | |
Well, it doesn't always have to be the best version to deserve a listen. I enjoy the plethora of covers and sort of keep a casual collection of them. As long as the weaker covers don't supplant the great ones or the original, I have no problem. Now, if keeping Buckley's cover in circulation meant no possibility of hearing any of Cohen's original versions again, I would break out in hives. That would be a horrible choice to have to make.
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SaschaKH
| | Posted: Jan 08, 2009 - 12:34 | |
Well a rather good cover but looks like almost everyone covers that and I heard better versions, so better play the original.
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linden
(Santa Cruz, CA) | | Posted: Jan 08, 2009 - 12:33 | |
fredriley wrote:This is on the soundtrack of a kiddy's film? I'm sure I picked up references to S&M sex in the early part of the song, and more than a few sex references later on. Or perhaps they only play 'safe' extracts in the film...
Have you seen the movie? It's not shy about penis jokes and other wink-wink, nudge-nudge adult humor that supposedly goes over the kiddies' heads. Man, I hated that movie. I'll take my children's entertainment without a side order of wanna-be hipster snark, thanks. |
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Randomax
(Wimberley, TX) | | Posted: Jan 08, 2009 - 12:30 | |
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