Hallelujah

[creekster]

I like that one too (the Rufus Wainright one on the soundtrack, not the one actually in the movie), though I know some really hate it.

I like Rufus Wainwright, but only in small doses. Just like on his cover of Across the Universe, he can be just so meaningfully earnest that it gets a bit tedious.

[pellegrino]

Leonard Cohen is awesome, I prefer his version as well. Waiting for the Miracle is another great song of his as well.

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can't stand his voice, it just sucks.

[creekster]

Interesting read about the menaing of the song and the events leading to its recording and eventual popularity.

http://music.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-book-excerpt-leonard-cohen-writes-hallelujah-holy-214025772-rolling-stone.html

[UtahDan]

Interesting read about the menaing of the song and the events leading to its recording and eventual popularity.

http://music.yahoo.com/news/exclusiv...ing-stone.html

Very cool read!

[wuapinmon]

This is a link to Spotify for Marcy Playground's version of this song. It's the one I like best. The emotion in his voice is there and it doesn't sound forced.

http://t.co/e3UnJ5FC

I've actually paid attention to the lyrics of the verses, and that is one helluva sexy song.

'There was a time, when you let me know
What's really goin on below
But now you never show it to me, do ya?
Remember when I moved in you
And the Holy Dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah?'

That's very good.

[Harry Tic]

This is a link to Spotify for Marcy Playground's version of this song. It's the one I like best. The emotion in his voice is there and it doesn't sound forced.

http://t.co/e3UnJ5FC

I've actually paid attention to the lyrics of the verses, and that is one helluva sexy song.



That's very good.

It does what the best erotic songs do, which is to blur the line between unbridled carnality and religious devotion. For the mystic/lover, the line can get pretty fine. That is, I think, the point (which Cohen understood very well).

That said, I think it's either ballsy or foolhardy to cover this song anymore. It's like trying to recite the "To Be or Not to Be" soliloquy in Hamlet and make it your own when everybody already knows it, or thinks they do. You have to be either a genius or a fool.

[Indy Coug]