― Lovelace (Lovelace), Friday, 2 September 2005 09:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― zappi (joni), Friday, 2 September 2005 10:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lovelace (Lovelace), Friday, 2 September 2005 10:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― zappi (joni), Friday, 2 September 2005 10:08 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/covlist.html
― Lovelace (Lovelace), Friday, 2 September 2005 10:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 2 September 2005 10:18 (eighteen years ago) link
When Rufus Wainwright was touring the UK this year, he gave the third verse to one of his backing singers: Joan Wasser (who also performed a support set, under the name of Joan As Policewoman). Joan Wasser was Jeff Buckley's girlfriend at the time of his death.
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 2 September 2005 10:20 (eighteen years ago) link
It's lovely, of course, but bears a rather noticeable resemblance to Cales.
― Guilty Boksen (Bro_Danielson), Friday, 2 September 2005 10:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 2 September 2005 10:41 (eighteen years ago) link
"You were in love but you needed proofYou climbed up a ladder to the roofYou fell off and a full bucket landed onto yer..."
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 2 September 2005 10:50 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, Nigel Blackwell sung it before Vatican Broadside when HMHB played Exeter the other onth.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 2 September 2005 12:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 2 September 2005 12:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lloyd Bonecutter (Lloyd Bonecutter), Friday, 2 September 2005 12:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― js (honestengine), Friday, 2 September 2005 12:42 (eighteen years ago) link
Bono, "Hallelujah" >>>>>>>>> Jeff Buckley, "Hallelujah"
Bono's works precisely because it's so magnificently understated. Though it does take multiple listens to begin working.
Do I dare track down the Anthony Michael Hall take?
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Friday, 2 September 2005 23:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lovelace (Lovelace), Saturday, 3 September 2005 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link
[ducks]
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 3 September 2005 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link
To be fair though, I think HE's a complete dud.
k.d. lang's is passable, though she doesn't really add anything to the song that buckley didn't. Plus my mom likes it, so that tends to annoy me (boy....i sound like an awful person...)
― PB, Saturday, 3 September 2005 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link
My absolute fave is by the Canadian artist Allison Crowe: http://www.allisoncrowe.com/music/hallelujah.mp3
It's just a great song and it's clear why so many different interpretations move different people.
― Atz, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 02:01 (eighteen years ago) link
PS: Bob Dylan played this song a few times live in the late 80s. It's not as good as you'd want it to be, though. He kinda rocks it up.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 02:22 (eighteen years ago) link
I never need to hear this song again. By anyone. Yes, Buckley's cover was genius, but every sappy samey version makes me hate it more and more.
― Sam Weller, Thursday, 15 April 2010 12:25 (thirteen years ago) link
buckley's cover is pish.
― 404s & Heartbreak (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 15 April 2010 12:31 (thirteen years ago) link
yep, maybe time for another round of Perfect Day covers
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Thursday, 15 April 2010 12:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Peter Glaze's on Crackerjack, back in the day?"You were in love but you needed proofYou climbed up a ladder to the roofYou fell off and a full bucket landed onto yer..."― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 2 September 2005 10:50 (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban PermalinkPlease tell me the footage of that still exists. Also, Nigel Blackwell sung it before Vatican Broadside when HMHB played Exeter the other onth.― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 2 September 2005 12:08 (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 2 September 2005 10:50 (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban PermalinkPlease tell me the footage of that still exists. Also, Nigel Blackwell sung it before Vatican Broadside when HMHB played Exeter the other onth.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 2 September 2005 12:08 (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Ah, sorry, I made that one up...
― Mark G, Thursday, 15 April 2010 12:39 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ji533gybzU
― Lamp, Thursday, 15 March 2012 07:07 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBgksa0cm9Y
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Saturday, 4 January 2014 21:18 (ten years ago) link
"# of covers of Hallelujah" = x = "x too many covers of Hallelujah"
― wk, Sunday, 5 January 2014 01:11 (ten years ago) link
Any other Cohen covers we need?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 4 January 2020 12:12 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP1b2zbYMp4
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 January 2020 12:16 (four years ago) link
Lee Hazlewood, "Come Spend the Morning"Cass Elliot, "You Know Who I Am"Pearls Before Swine, "Suzanne"
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 January 2020 12:25 (four years ago) link
Warnes’s “ballad of the absent mare” with rob wasserman is gorgeous
― Baby yoda laid an egg (wins), Saturday, 4 January 2020 12:27 (four years ago) link
Love this
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WlTsET0UU4Y
― Mule, Saturday, 4 January 2020 12:35 (four years ago) link
Always been partial to Teddy Thompson's reading of Tonight Will Be Fine. He plays it straight with minimal fuss but idk there's something quite moving about his vocals in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFWug6KlvMI
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Saturday, 4 January 2020 14:05 (four years ago) link
this rando does a great cover of "The Smokey Life"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxFGx7tyyik
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Saturday, 4 January 2020 14:44 (four years ago) link
Spotify just played me Noel Harrison’s pip-pip-cheerio take on “Suzanne”, which I was enjoying for its incongruity to start with and straight up loving by the end
― Baby yoda laid an egg (wins), Saturday, 18 January 2020 10:52 (four years ago) link
new to me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbdNRxinK7U
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 14:16 (three years ago) link