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Wednesday, January 29, 2003
"Hallelujah"
My outed friend Remy posted some lyrics from "Hallelujah." As I wrote to Remy in an email (since he doesn't have a comment system yet) - only to realize that this is the stuff blogs were made of - I first heard "Hallelujah" in Shrek, and I was dumbstruck. What a beautiful song. Then I learned it was a Leonard Cohen original. I love Cohen, so I went out and bought Cohen Live because it included "Hallelujah."
I'd like to get either an earlier recording by Cohen (who did his live album when his voice was rather worn from hard living), or Wainwright's cover, or John Cale's cover, or - come to think of it - I was recently told that Jeff Buckley also did an incredible cover (which I haven't heard). I'm sure any of these would be fresher than Cohen's live version.
More interesting stuff on the recent generations of this song - namely, that the Shrek soundtrack has Wainwright's cover, but the song was actually sung by John Cale in the movie - can be found here and here.
On a tangential note, it's too bad Rufus Wainwright is gay. But I'm reminded of Rick's "Sexual sin" post from Friday, Jan 24.
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