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Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah. Buckley`s Version so full of Passion and love indeed EVERYTHING that the insipid contrived X-Factor version is lacking

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The Living End : LVL 55: VP 5: said:

The Living End

8 votes NegativePositive

323 days 23 hours ago...

Great version. I`ve always preferred his version(s) over any others. One can find a certain honesty when hearing him do it.

arkaman : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

arkaman

6 votes NegativePositive

322 days 19 hours ago...

No idea what this has to do with X-factor? nevertheless, great song. Usually get sick of hearing it, as it`s sang by so many people so frequently - though I always have time for Jeff Buckley`s rendition. 5/5.

Asuka : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

Asuka

0 votes NegativePositive

320 days 22 hours ago...

This is not the best version but its not as good as the shrek version.

Shrek version http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=B3vehSgdhQU&feature=channel_page

arkaman : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

arkaman

4 votes NegativePositive

320 days 21 hours ago...

^ all comes down to personal taste. Rufus Wainwright indeed has a nice voice, but comparing him to Jeff Buckley is a far stretch for many.

cherokeexp : LVL 19: VP 2.8: said:

cherokeexp

4 votes NegativePositive

315 days 16 hours ago...

Arkaman:

The winner of Xfactor UK 2008 (Alexandra Burke) released a cover of this song and it has become the Christmas #1 in the UK charts.

In an interview she said she didn`t even know who did the original song.
It just goes to show how manufactured these popstars are these days. I wouldn`t be surprised to find out she doesn`t even know what the song is about.

Anyway, I too prefer the Rufus Wainwright version of this song.
I think it`s a rare case where I find a Leanord Cohen cover to be better than the original. But hey.

arkaman : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

arkaman

2 votes NegativePositive

315 days 15 hours ago...

^ Well that`s painful to know. I guess if we were all to take one plus away from this - it`s that it may open a few peoples musical world to Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and evidently Rufus Wainwright.

Thanks for filling me in.

SteveBull : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

SteveBull

1 votes NegativePositive

315 days 13 hours ago...

I do wish people would stop moaning about the X-factor version of this.I agree that the X-factor is shit but she did`nt choose the song.
And where did this version get when it was released in 1994 , nowhere.
Only after he died did all the pretentious people start coming out the closet saying what a great song it was, so why did`nt they all fucking buy it back then.

ParticleMan420 : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

ParticleMan420

2 votes NegativePositive

315 days 13 hours ago...

i dont care who sings it, this song is annoying and cheesy.

DoctorRandomercam : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

DoctorRandomercam

4 votes NegativePositive

315 days 13 hours ago...

Don`t buy EITHER version of it. Why? Because Simon Cowell fucking bought the song. No matter which version you buy, it all ends up in Cowell`s pocket. Normally, I just let Cowell get on with his racket, I just think "fine, trudge around in a pile of redundant eighties pop zombie songs, make all the recycled capital you can, good on you." But not Hallelujah. That`s way, way over the line. Everyone`s going "Isn`t Alexandra great?" No the SONG is great. Her version is an embarrassing, overblown piece of shit. WE HAD A DEAL, COWELL!! Keep your filthy closet gay hands away from songs that are actually decent. Surely you haven`t run out of redundant eighties pop zombie songs. I thought you could drink from that well for another generation, and then the songs from the original x-factor would be redundant enough to re-recycle and you`d have you perpetual motion machine. If you really are out of ideas, then just GO. Fuck the fuck off. You`ve got more money than God, all the island boys you can rape, what more do you want? Dicking about with classics was not part of the deal!!! In a year`s time, everyone will be like "Oh I remember Hallelujah, that song from a year ago." and that will be your doing, Cowell. You fucking monkey stump, you jizz wizard, you sawn off end of a dog`s cock. I really hope some "muslim" doesn`t blow up the next elevator you happen to be in.

SteveBull : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

SteveBull

2 votes NegativePositive

315 days 12 hours ago...

Simon Cowell dos NOT own the rights to the song, only the X-Factor version.Sony own the rights to the Cohen and buckley versions.
This was just another case of Bullshit British media coverage by the redtop papers

shrebro : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

shrebro

-2 votes NegativePositive

315 days 11 hours ago...

god that was fkn horrendous!

PsYcHoKiLLa : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

PsYcHoKiLLa

-3 votes NegativePositive

315 days 4 hours ago...

That was absolutely awful, he sounded like he got bored in the middle...then so did I and turned it off. Too full of drugs to feel the music.

I agree Cowell is a pimple on the ass of music but then he`s not in the business for his love of music, he`s in it to make money, it`s just a business to him and all the other "bosses".

If you ask many of the artists in the charts you`ll find their love of music dies as they go on because they have to try to create it while in the strait jacket of the label`s guidelines as to what is "popular music".

I wouldn`t go looking for a lot of good music too because the world is in a recession, labels will be putting out music, that as many 13 yr old amorous girls will buy, as possible. That means crap.

Gimli000 : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

Gimli000

0 votes NegativePositive

314 days 21 hours ago...

^You`ve got to be on drugs yourself if you didn`t feel how Buckley felt about that song.

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