how many covers of leonard cohen's hallelujah are there?

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besides rufus wainwright, jeff buckley and kathryn williams?

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Friday, 2 September 2005 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

john cale, susanna & the magical orchestra...

― zappi (joni), Friday, 2 September 2005 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

if you or anyone else can upload a cover(not the ones i mentioned though) I'd appreciate it.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Friday, 2 September 2005 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

look here

― zappi (joni), Friday, 2 September 2005 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

um, here then :

http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/covlist.html

― zappi (joni), Friday, 2 September 2005 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

whoa, thats alot of covers of the song. thanks for the link!

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Friday, 2 September 2005 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

... and how comes Lenny's still skint?

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 2 September 2005 10:18 (nineteen years ago)

The k.d. lang version is lovely.

When Rufus Wainwright was touring the UK this year, he gave the third verse to one of his backing singers: Joan Wasser (who also performed a support set, under the name of Joan As Policewoman). Joan Wasser was Jeff Buckley's girlfriend at the time of his death.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 2 September 2005 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

Pendantic-arguing-type-of-point: Isn't Jeff Buckely's version really a cover version of John Cales's cover version?

It's lovely, of course, but bears a rather noticeable resemblance to Cales.

― Guilty Boksen (Bro_Danielson), Friday, 2 September 2005 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

I was just about to mention the fact that Cale did it first (and best)

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 2 September 2005 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

Peter Glaze's on Crackerjack, back in the day?

"You were in love but you needed proof
You climbed up a ladder to the roof
You fell off and a full bucket landed onto yer..."

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 2 September 2005 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

Please tell me the footage of that still exists.

Also, Nigel Blackwell sung it before Vatican Broadside when HMHB played Exeter the other onth.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 2 September 2005 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

"The minor fall (WHOOPS!), the major lift (WA-HEY!)..."

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 2 September 2005 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

Bob Dylan also does a version of it. He sticks to the Cohen version.

― Lloyd Bonecutter (Lloyd Bonecutter), Friday, 2 September 2005 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

Man, the Buckley version typifies exactly why he's overrated, all histrionics and warbling. Cale's version is what more Cale songs should be like (if only he was a better songwriter... Totally hit and miss).

― js (honestengine), Friday, 2 September 2005 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

I won't speak ill of the fans of the dead, but (and I've said this elsewhere)

Bono, "Hallelujah" >>>>>>>>> Jeff Buckley, "Hallelujah"

Bono's works precisely because it's so magnificently understated. Though it does take multiple listens to begin working.

Do I dare track down the Anthony Michael Hall take?

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

k.d. lang's is the best.

― derrick (derrick), Friday, 2 September 2005 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

kd lang: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=01AJQQJ5

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Saturday, 3 September 2005 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

the happy mondays version is the best.

[ducks]

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 3 September 2005 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Rufus Wainwright's version = complete dud.

To be fair though, I think HE's a complete dud.

k.d. lang's is passable, though she doesn't really add anything to the song that buckley didn't. Plus my mom likes it, so that tends to annoy me (boy....i sound like an awful person...)

― PB, Saturday, 3 September 2005 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

According to http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com there's about 50 different versions.

My absolute fave is by the Canadian artist Allison Crowe: http://www.allisoncrowe.com/music/hallelujah.mp3

It's just a great song and it's clear why so many different interpretations move different people.

― Atz, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 02:01 (nineteen years ago)

Cale's version is pretty phenomenal--makes me wish he'd do a whole album's worth of Cohen covers. Or that Cohen would hire him to produce his next record.

PS: Bob Dylan played this song a few times live in the late 80s. It's not as good as you'd want it to be, though. He kinda rocks it up.

― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 02:22 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

I never need to hear this song again. By anyone. Yes, Buckley's cover was genius, but every sappy samey version makes me hate it more and more.

― Sam Weller, Thursday, 15 April 2010 12:25 (fifteen years ago)

buckley's cover is pish.

― 404s & Heartbreak (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 15 April 2010 12:31 (fifteen years ago)

yep, maybe time for another round of Perfect Day covers

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Thursday, 15 April 2010 12:33 (fifteen years ago)

Peter Glaze's on Crackerjack, back in the day?
"You were in love but you needed proof
You climbed up a ladder to the roof
You fell off and a full bucket landed onto yer..."
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 2 September 2005 10:50 (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Please tell me the footage of that still exists.
Also, Nigel Blackwell sung it before Vatican Broadside when HMHB played Exeter the other onth.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 2 September 2005 12:08 (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Ah, sorry, I made that one up...

― Mark G, Thursday, 15 April 2010 12:39 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ji533gybzU

― Lamp, Thursday, 15 March 2012 07:07 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBgksa0cm9Y

― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Saturday, 4 January 2014 21:18 (eleven years ago)

"# of covers of Hallelujah" = x = "x too many covers of Hallelujah"

― wk, Sunday, 5 January 2014 01:11 (eleven years ago)

five years pass...

Any other Cohen covers we need?

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 4 January 2020 12:12 (five years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP1b2zbYMp4

― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 January 2020 12:16 (five years ago)

Lee Hazlewood, "Come Spend the Morning"
Cass Elliot, "You Know Who I Am"
Pearls Before Swine, "Suzanne"

― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 January 2020 12:25 (five years ago)

Warnes’s “ballad of the absent mare” with rob wasserman is gorgeous

― Baby yoda laid an egg (wins), Saturday, 4 January 2020 12:27 (five years ago)

Love this

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WlTsET0UU4Y

― Mule, Saturday, 4 January 2020 12:35 (five years ago)

Always been partial to Teddy Thompson's reading of Tonight Will Be Fine. He plays it straight with minimal fuss but idk there's something quite moving about his vocals in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFWug6KlvMI

― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Saturday, 4 January 2020 14:05 (five years ago)

this rando does a great cover of "The Smokey Life"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxFGx7tyyik

― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Saturday, 4 January 2020 14:44 (five years ago)

Spotify just played me Noel Harrison’s pip-pip-cheerio take on “Suzanne”, which I was enjoying for its incongruity to start with and straight up loving by the end

― Baby yoda laid an egg (wins), Saturday, 18 January 2020 10:52 (five years ago)

four months pass...

new to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbdNRxinK7U

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 14:16 (five years ago)

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