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Pale Blue Dot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-19-04 09:47 PM Original message |
Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah": The greatest song ever? |
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-19-04 09:49 PM Response to Original message |
1. Even Mike Meyers (in Shrek) covered it. It is one of the best songs indeed |
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kohodog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-19-04 09:51 PM Response to Original message |
2. Cohen is one of my favorites |
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gmoney (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-19-04 09:53 PM Response to Original message |
3. The John Cale version is magnificent |
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Pale Blue Dot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-19-04 10:00 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Thank you! |
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Minstrel Boy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-19-04 09:54 PM Response to Original message |
4. Quite possibly. |
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Philostopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-19-04 09:55 PM Response to Original message |
5. I've only heard Cohen's version once or twice. |
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Kire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-19-04 09:56 PM Response to Original message |
6. I just bought it on iTunes |
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Dookus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-19-04 10:01 PM Response to Original message |
8. yup |
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The empressof all (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-19-04 10:36 PM Response to Original message |
9. L Cohen is one of our most over-looked song writers. |
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Flaxbee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-19-04 11:27 PM Response to Original message |
10. can you recommend a good Cohen recording? |
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greendog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-19-04 11:49 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. "The Essential Leonard Cohen" and "The Future" |
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tjdee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-19-04 11:27 PM Response to Original message |
11. Greatest. Song. Ever. |
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greendog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-19-04 11:31 PM Response to Original message |
12. Hallelujah might be the second best song........ |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-19-04 11:51 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. LOL |
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Zero Division (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-04 12:00 AM Response to Reply #12 |
17. Yep, my favorite Cohen song. Great pick. |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-19-04 11:33 PM Response to Original message |
13. I always liked this one: |
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Zero Division (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-19-04 11:58 PM Response to Original message |
16. Jeff Buckley's version absolutely blows me away |
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tjdee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-04 12:00 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Jeff Buckley sang like an angel. |
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Zero Division (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-04 12:05 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. He did. I can't think of any better male rock vocalist. |
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tjdee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-04 12:07 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. I didn't know he had already died when I first heard him. |
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Zero Division (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-04 12:34 AM Response to Reply #21 |
24. I just listened to his live version of Hallelujah from the live CD... |
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tjdee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-04 01:04 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. He also does a beautiful version of "Boy With the Thorn in His Side" |
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whalerider55 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-04 12:02 AM Response to Original message |
19. it may be, but... |
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greendog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-04 12:09 AM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Great song..... |
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miss_kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-04 12:19 AM Response to Original message |
23. you know, I don't like this song at all |
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