Screw Jeff Buckley. His is nice and all, but the best version is Leonard Cohen's.
It's just like Bob Dylan. Interpreters of his songs always take a very "expected" route with the arrangement (at loggerheads with the idiosyncratic path taken with the originals), which can for a short while feel as if its the way the song is meant to be, but it never lasts. I find pretty much all Hallelujah renditions to be a bit twee, WAY cliche and they don't stand up over long term listenings. Leonard Cohen's recording is the difinitive and the best for me, you can always go back to it and it stands like a pillar long after the other 'versions' have gone.
"And even tho it aaallll went baaadddd". Fuck I love that bit. It's such a great song.
> Can anyone point me to the BEST verison of this song? My
> first exposure to it was the movie "Shrek," which version
> I love. I investigated and ended up buying a Leonard
> Cohen album with the song, thinking it was the "Shrek"
> version, but I was sadly mistaken. Turns out, Cohen's
> version of his own song does little for me. Anyway, I
> hear this song has actually been covered to death.
>
> So anyone with any insight, please advise.
>
> Thanks.
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