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12-20-2008, 03:41 PM
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Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah for No. 1
http://en-gb.facebook.com/group.php?gid=44614726605
It's 79p on iTunes, less than a can of soda, but enough to give the corporate bastards behind the X Factor a well deserved slap in the face. His is definetely the best cover version, and far superior to Alexandra Burke's. If you haven't heard them, here's;
Leonard Cohen's original
Jeff Buckley's version
Alexandra Burke's version
BUCKLEY FOR PRESIDENT.
I mean, er, CHRISTMAS NUMBER ONE.
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12-21-2008, 02:31 AM
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John Cale's version pwns them all. Personally, I think it even surpasses the original.
I'm not overly fond of the Buckley cover, but it's not bad, just not my thing. However that last one was painful.
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12-21-2008, 01:41 PM
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How is this a slap in the face to "corporate bastards?"
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12-21-2008, 01:49 PM
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Buckley's is my favourite version of this song, I think. I like his voice. Though I couldn't give a flying fuck whether it gets Number 1 or not.
I hate Alexandra Burke's version, though. But hopefully it'll be her only hit and she will fade into oblivion. She's just another Leona Lewis, who is just another Mariah Carey except with an inferior vocal range.
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12-21-2008, 01:55 PM
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Imogen Heaps' version was quite good. I still like the original best.
Cales version is too dull for me, not enough expression really. The Burke version is awful. They made the song sound plastic and awful.
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12-21-2008, 02:11 PM
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I feel like if singing this song isn't painful for you, you're not doing it right.
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12-21-2008, 02:13 PM
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I feel as if Jeff Buckley's cover is the most 'corporate', given that it's accompanied a montage in virtually every primetime tv drama.
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12-21-2008, 02:23 PM
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I hate Cohen's original. I like Buckley's cover. I've successfully avoided the Burke one until now, I'll listen to it.
Okay, I've listened to it. It's not a great musical departure, it's just got Alexandra Burke singing undeniably very well, so it's mediocre leaning towards decent. But still, you all sound very alternative. Really.
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12-21-2008, 02:36 PM
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C'mon, JCC, singing something technically very well doesn't matter when it comes to a song of raw emotion like Hallelujah.
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12-22-2008, 01:57 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
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I like the Buckley version but am sick of hearing it because a close friend is nuts about hallelujah and also lilac wine and other songs. ...I am just bored of hearing it now.
Unfortunately people close to me tend to be music nazis. I will never get to play what I want. ever.
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12-22-2008, 02:11 AM
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Cohen's version's the best.
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12-22-2008, 02:15 AM
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...thats a bit too soppy for me. It makes me imagine an old guy singing this to his wife he married 30 years ago whilst playing the piano.
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12-27-2008, 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by girasol
It makes me imagine an old guy singing this to his wife he married 30 years ago whilst playing the piano.
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What's wrong with that?
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12-27-2008, 10:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Albert Mond
Cohen's version's the best.
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Yes, without a doubt.
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12-27-2008, 01:42 PM
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Cohen's version is garbage, Buckley's is almost too perfect to listen to.
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12-27-2008, 01:51 PM
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Cohen's version does suck. I remember seeing a live version he did with a chorus of middle-aged hipsters... painful.
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12-27-2008, 02:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Underwater Ophelia
How is this a slap in the face to "corporate bastards?"
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That reminds me of
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Originally Posted by Grimm
Believe me, nothing sends out a bigger FUCK YOU! to the mainstream like a studded leather jacket.
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Take THAT, society!
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12-27-2008, 06:01 PM
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Originally Posted by JCC
Cohen's version does suck. I remember seeing a live version he did with a chorus of middle-aged hipsters... painful.
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If you don't like his version, you probably don't get the song.
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12-27-2008, 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Albert Mond
If you don't like his version, you probably don't get the song.
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That's not true at all...
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12-27-2008, 07:45 PM
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Originally Posted by PortraitOfSanity
That's not true at all...
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Anyone who disses Cohen for sounding like an old man is a moron. End of.
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12-27-2008, 08:14 PM
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I didn't diss Cohen for sounding like an old man. I dissed Cohen because his song sucks.
I listen to plenty of old singers.
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12-27-2008, 08:38 PM
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Originally Posted by PortraitOfSanity
I didn't diss Cohen for sounding like an old man
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And someone did. Are you the forum, or are you a user?
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12-27-2008, 08:56 PM
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I AM gnet! 
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