Much as I love this song, the original just doesn't do it for me and the Rufus one seems a bit too sterile.
I don't like the Buckley one either, not to be controversial mind.
So, any thoughts on others?
Much as I love this song, the original just doesn't do it for me and the Rufus one seems a bit too sterile.
I don't like the Buckley one either, not to be controversial mind.
So, any thoughts on others?
Caaallle.
John Cale totally wins at this.
Yeah
I knew he had done a version, but i couldn't find it anywhere. Do you happen to know what LP it's on?
It's on one of his live albums
As well as a Cohen tribute record.
gotta be buckley
It leaves me cold
colder than cold.
Hang on, what's colder than cold?
Buckley's version of Hallelujah.
Sub Zero?
HEllelujah???????
good god, what have i done?
That'd be the Pantera version
Hell-YEAH-ujah
please don't even mention the rufus wainwright one
it's utter shit.
I wouldn't go that far
It is very "i'd do anything" though. Competent and all, but dead inside.
Like Michael Ballack I imagine.
you are correct
i dont like buckley full stop and when i heard the original i was taken aback by how fail it was compared to the covers.
definately john cale
buckley easily.
all the others are shit. especially the rufus wainwright one.
i'm sick of the buckley one
he just loves the sound of his own voice too much
rufus one is too smug
not heard the cale, so probably the original
the john cale version
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ckbdLVX736U
easily the best version
Thank you
stupidly i never even considered you tube :(
that is pretty good
and
i get to read comments like
"
My girlfriend Jan lived with this guy in the mid 1970s and he threw a glass at her when he was angry and knocked out her front tooth. We were living in Paris at the same time and one morning we were walking in the street and she sneezed and her fake front tooth came out and we couldn't find it. She had been trying to get him to pay for her dental work and he wouldn't do it. Nice guy. "
^ incredible
the synthy stuff
just annoys me in the orginal.
The other two both sound uber-smug
John Cale, has to be.
But Buckley's version is good as well.
btw
hellelujah was the slayer cover right?
happy mondays
wasn't it?
errr
http://youtube.com/watch?v=v8jpNiUuwcw
^ i change my vote to this
^ i second this
i especially like the pointing segments
^
3:49 is my favourite bit
It was funny for about 2 minutes
Then I started wanting to be sick
Best version
I heard someone play this at an open mic night and they changed all the lyrics to completely take the piss out of the actual song. Was genius.
i bet
Jeff buckley
I mean come on, i don't know how you couldn't be stirred by it.
I feel
it's more an exercise in
"goodness, how good am i?"
as opposed to
"how good is this song?"
Yeah, and he IS really good.
and the prodcution is amazing and everything. It's brilliant.
nah
i don't think that at all. don't really get all the 'smug'/'self satisifed' remarks about buckley...He was just really rather good at playing music.
This one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gVxRvNfFLg
that's SO bad
i hate that cover. awful.
You prefer the manc whiny version?
no. they both suck.
Point taken.
I agree actually.
Kathryn Williams
does a lovely version
Indeed she does
But not as good as Susanna + The Magical Orchestra.
When she sang it at The Luminaire a few months back the room was collectively in awe.
Couldn't find a link to the audio, details of the quite brilliant CD it's on are here:
http://www.runegrammofon.com/artists/susannaandthemagicalorchestra/rcd-2057---susanna-and-the-mag
aye
quite the fan of Susanna's version - i'd say my fav after cohen (i always give credit to original more)
buckley
or Cohen... execpt i havent heard Cale's version
thisGIRL's
^ this happened?
^ yeah, really?
this happened?
Jeff Buckley's
for me.
I agree
It's Buckley. Cale's is alright.
Buckley made that song his bitch
Leonard should hand over the copy rights to Jeff's survivors. If anyone saw the Leonard Cohen tribute (shamless asskissfest) movie where during the "Hellelujah" segment doesn't even give a nod to Jeff and then has Rufus Wainwright do his version (which was OK, not as good as Cohen's)- that's the moment I decided there is NO other version of "Hellelujah" other than Jeff Bukley's. Buckley's solitary clanging telecaster alone gives the song more than anyone else has- come on, give a dog a bone.
Buckley 100% perfected that song
Proof:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nppm-hKQxw
Cohen
i dont care what you think its what i like.
^ agree
for all the weak points of Cohen's he doesn't fall in to the trap of all the cover versions I've heard where the song is overdone and sounds overwrought. Cale's version doesn't sound that different to Bon Jovi's to me.
Cohens version sounds like he woke up with the song in his head, gathered some random musicians and a producer and laid it down right there - perfect.
It's the same reason I prefer Porter Wagner's Satisfied Mind to Buckley's.
Has to be Buckley.
Surely?
I don't get all the smug stuff either.
Sad Kermit
lolzord
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rf36v0epfmI&feature=related
I've decided
I'm not wildly keen on any version. This might be because it seems to be a very standard/popular song for people to cover, and very few people add anything to it.
Its
a toss between buckley and beirut...too close to call
!
Beirut!
When did that happen?
The Pigeon Detectives' version
is awesome
FOA bones_howe
"Much as I love this song, the original just doesn't do it for me and the Rufus one seems a bit too sterile.
I don't like the Buckley one either, not to be controversial mind.
So, any thoughts on others?"
Whose version of the song did you like then? I'm not being facetious, just wondering if there's an amazing version out there that turned you onto it that I've not heard...
well, no-one's, so far.
I do love this song - the words, the tune - I just don't like the production on the orginal and the others bore me.
was it absentee
who covered it on the dream brother compilatiion? whoever it was, i remember it being quite pretty - tho not as much as She Is which was stunning.
what about
that kid that sung it on American Idol.
;-)
buckley every time
though I am quite sick of it having listened to grace probably about 100 times more than any other album I own
Bloody hell
not much support for the writers version - how shocking. Buckley's version feels too young and sexy to me - it needs someone to growl it from the tombs of experience!
OK - people who should cover it:
Tom Waits
Scott Walker
P J Harvey
Nick Cave
any others?
TV on the radio
JAMC