> 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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