HELP! Wtf is Hallejuah?
 

Why don't I know about this track? Am I missing something!!!

Somebody inform me, please.

Read the thread (it's a few pages but lots of explanation):

http://drycounty.com/jovitalk/showthread.php?t=41205

It's a Leonard Cohen cover.

Kathleen

apparently, Jon still thinks it's a Jeff Buckley cover

In Unplugged he said that he used to think so but that in 90 or 91 he learned it was Leonard Cohen.

I think he mentioned Buckley because he first heard it sung by him - and he mentioned his untimely death.

Sometimes the first version of a song that you hear - especially if you fall in love with it - is the standard that everything else has to meet.

In my case this was Cohen - but nobody ever accused him of having a great voice. The lyrics though - oh yeah. I actually fell in love with Suzanne in 1966 at the age of 18, and have been following him ever since.

Kathleen

:shock: Am I living in a bubble or something? Cohen got an amazing voice!!!
Everybody knows ;) He even says that himself:
"I was born like this, I had no choice
I was born with the gift of a golden voice" - Tower Of Song

He's one of the three big C's Cohen, Cash, Cave.
Can't believe people don't think he has a great voice, maybe not technical perfect, but he equalize that in other ways :)

thanks! thought my copy of LH was somehow missing a song or something

ktf

Andi

What bollocks is that? Jeff Buckley wasn't even around in 1990 so he couldn't have thought it's Jeff Buckley. The earliest gig Jon could have seen was the Tim Buckley Tribute concert that Jeff played 1991 but I doubt he had played Hallelujah there.

He specifically said that he saw Jeff Buckley at a club in Asbury Park in 90 or 91. Obviously he could have had the dates ****ed up. He claims that he heard Hallelujah then and thought it was Buckley's song and that a friend he was with told him that it was a Leonard Cohen song.

Kathleen

I've seen it as well now.Ah, who knows. Jeff Buckley was out in New York a lot in the early 90s so he might have been playing some clubs as well, although I remember reading he was a lot into Hindu music at that time. Didn't Jon, during the Kenneth Cole gig, say that "this" was a Jeff Buckley song?

I've always connected Elvis to this song, which is strange as the song isn't old enough for him to ever have sung it. But I guess there are elements in it that reminds of other gospel songs sung by Elvis.