Whose version of Hallelujah do you like best?
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girasol
Addicted to handstands!
I used the 'search' function
Nah, nowt wrong with you bumping it
just pointing out to jeff that most of the votes would have been cast 2 years ago 
but yeh, he wasn't here then, so how would he know?
I've never got into Rufus Wainwright at all - or Martha, for that matter. Neither of them is a patch on their father's talent IMO.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Cale
Did he do that version when he was in The Doors
Lazy Llama
Suburban robots that monitor reality
girasol
Addicted to handstands!
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
Mine.
You lot probably haven't heard of me cos you're so mainstream.
You lot probably haven't heard of me cos you're so mainstream.
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
that bitch who tied you to that motherfucking chair and cut your hair yo
madzone
Physically unfavourable
All gay men love Martha
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
Rufus gives me a boner.
I love him so much.
I love him so much.
kalidarkone
Bringing YOU round.....
Actually i'm not sure ive heard Leonards version- downloading it now...
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
rufus is seriously sexy. I have no idea what he sounds like though
Isn't he? It's his hair. His hair is so sexual.
I think you'd really like him Tanky.
Look at this song where he is dressed as the Wicked Witch from Wizard of oz.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=riJJbPdCxBY
When he says 'i'm a fabulous dancer' I love love love.
kalidarkone
Bringing YOU round.....
I love Leonard's voice -very sexy-its so ruff but I still prefer Jeff's version and actually he sounds sexier
but I still prefer Jeff's version and actually he sounds sexier lontok2005
New Member
KD Lang's:
camouflage
gaslit at scale.
Woah, how many versions of this song are there exactly? :- o
lontok2005
New Member
This quartet is jolly nice, too:
girasol
Addicted to handstands!
It's the song that keeps on giving!
Just listening Sheryl Crow singing it - not bad at all
She sings it softly, which is how I think it should be sang...lots and lots here: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nWDfH51gvc0&feature=related
Geri
wasn't born to follow
I love Leonard's voice -very sexy-its so ruff
I listened to it earlier and thought he was very drippy.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Can't you tell I'm avoiding going out into the cold tonight? I'm hungry, the cupboards are bare, I need to go to the supermarket, but it's bloody cold out, so of course I just *had* to listen to seven different versions and review them and decide which I liked best. Just because, yeah! 
(1) Jeff Buckley - somehow he managed to impose and to impart more meaning in the words than even the songwriter Cohen, weirdly as if he really believed it and it had happened to him and he'd been the one who'd written it. And again, maybe less melancholic than Cohen's delivery, but beautifully done.
(2) Leonard Cohen - gravelly, beautifully melancholic, soulful, lovely languid tempo (I've actually seen two Cohen versions on YouTube now), Cohen seems to be performing it, Buckley seems to be meaning it.
(3) Alexandra Burke - warmer, less melancholy, more powerful and 'bigger' version of it, can't really compare the styles and say one is better than the other, they're very different.
(4) Kate Voegele - bit of a folky/country and western twang, very simplistic acoustic version.
(5) Rufus Wainwright - preferred this to the John Cale version, but it sometimes sounded like he was singing through his teeth and needed to open his mouth and articulate the words a bit more instead of eating them, I probably would have preferred it to the Kate Voegele version if he'd not mumbled so much.
(6) John Cale - too folky/folksy and, erm, too 'forced' don't know how to describe it.
(7) kd lang - liked this least, or at least the version I heard.
(1) Jeff Buckley - somehow he managed to impose and to impart more meaning in the words than even the songwriter Cohen, weirdly as if he really believed it and it had happened to him and he'd been the one who'd written it. And again, maybe less melancholic than Cohen's delivery, but beautifully done.
(2) Leonard Cohen - gravelly, beautifully melancholic, soulful, lovely languid tempo (I've actually seen two Cohen versions on YouTube now), Cohen seems to be performing it, Buckley seems to be meaning it.
(3) Alexandra Burke - warmer, less melancholy, more powerful and 'bigger' version of it, can't really compare the styles and say one is better than the other, they're very different.
(4) Kate Voegele - bit of a folky/country and western twang, very simplistic acoustic version.
(5) Rufus Wainwright - preferred this to the John Cale version, but it sometimes sounded like he was singing through his teeth and needed to open his mouth and articulate the words a bit more instead of eating them, I probably would have preferred it to the Kate Voegele version if he'd not mumbled so much.
(6) John Cale - too folky/folksy and, erm, too 'forced' don't know how to describe it.
(7) kd lang - liked this least, or at least the version I heard.
