Favorite version of "Hallelujah?"

[eyesroll]

Poll question: Favorite version of "Hallelujah?"

This song has been in my head since last night, as I heard it coming down from the upstairs neighbors' apartment.... (it was the Rufus Wainwright version off the Shrek soundtrack, in case you were wondering).

[Magrittes Pipe]

1. People were screwing to the "Shrek" soundtrack?

That's fucking messed up.

[eyesroll]

5. "Paradise City" was next, so I think it was a mix

I'm thinking of getting some other version (do you have the Cohen one on CD, by chance?) and playing it back to them the next time I hear it coming from above...

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. I like Cohen's...

Bono did a reasonably decent cover, too. Buckley's was so overdone post-9/11 I don't care if I never hear it again.

[sniffa]

3. what about dar wiLLiams?

[asthmaticeog]

4. Happy Mondays

OK, not the same song, I just wanted to put that out there.

(BTW, eyesroll -- LOL!)

[SarahB]

6. The chorus from Handel's Messiah

Hand's down. :thumbsup:
If one has every been in a chorus and learned the piece (especially the shear exercise it takes to effectively accomplish the notes of the soprano section), one appreciates the beauty of it when it comes together.

[tjwmason]

8. Sang it when I was a little treble

Couldn't quite get up there any longer though.

I give a slight preference to the Hallelujah in the epinicion at the beginning of Saul (also Handel).

[spinbaby]

7. Spooky

I had just started listening to the Rufus Wainwright version when I came upon this thread.

[Beware the Beast Man]

9. Be thankful it wasn't "In A Gadda Da Vida"

[Aristus]

10. Jeff Buckley. Although I like the choral work on Leonard Cohen's original

version.

[progmom]

11. I love Jeff Buckley and Rufus, but...

...there are few things that cause me greater happiness than singing the alto part to Handel's Hallelujah chorus. It's just beautiful. Beautiful.

[velvet]

12. cold and broken

the ineffable Cohen.

[Hollowkatt]

13. stickler for tradition

I don't know what it is, but when it comes to classical music, im a stickler for the traditional arraingments

[bif]

14. The Movie "The Hallelujah Trail"