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Pale Blue Dot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:43 PM
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Exhibit #2,439 why the British have better taste in music than us (Hint: Hallelujah):
There are not one, not two, but three versions of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" in the British top 40 this week. Cohen's original is at #36 (he has never made the charts in the U.S.)(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJTiXoMCppw),

Jeff Buckley's classic version is at #2(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AratTMGrHaQ),

and new artist Alexandra Burke's version is at #1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsuXbkrA_AQ).

The song has never made the charts in the U.S., because we suck.
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charlie and algernon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:46 PM
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1. let's not forget that Handel's Hallelujah chorus was written in England
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:55 PM
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2. I dunno. Boyzone was on Graham Norton last night.
They really suck.
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stuntcat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 06:18 PM
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3. my favorite of all songs, live EVER
It almost always makes me cry, especially k.d. lang singing it.. it's like it pulls my heart out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_NpxTWbovE

and k.d.'s Amurican!!! :patriot:
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 06:38 PM
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5. Actually, she's Canadian.
:P
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 06:45 PM
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7. Oh snap!
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 07:27 PM
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8. Don't get too cocky now.
You still gave us Celine Dion. :P
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 07:42 PM
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10. Pfffftttt.
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stuntcat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 08:59 PM
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11. ooo SNAP
I am the forgetter :blush:

The one time I saw her in concert was in Virginia when she opened for Lyle Lovette. I felt so Amurican at that concert.. except when I lost it crying at Hallelujah.. then I was like a French or something. This is NOT an excuse, I just forgot.. and I like to brag about seeing her :blush:
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Schema Thing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 06:34 PM
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4. Check out this version, by a DU'er
ok, I don't think she is actually a DU'er, but a relative is? Someone posted her myspace page here on DU asking us to take a listen, 6 months or so ago.


I was very impressed by this young woman's cover of Hallelujah.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8HGswf584E
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Esra Star Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 09:35 PM
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13. Check the link......Willie....nt
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Schema Thing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 10:06 PM
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17. lol...don't know how that happened


Here's the link I meant to leave: http://www.myspace.com/hanatunes
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stuntcat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 08:45 AM
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22. it sounds good
I like her list of influences, she and I are in agreement there :D only she has a singing career.
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 06:45 PM
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6. It's all because of the show X-Factor (which Alexandra Burke won, I believe)
A friend of mine from the UK was talking about that a few days ago.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 07:36 PM
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9. One word - Radiohead
In all of this mess that has become the Corporate Music Industry, with all the Britneys, Jessicas and Christinas - one band stands out as innovators.

Radiohead.
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brentspeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 09:15 PM
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12. The English, as a whole, don't have better taste in music that us
They do things like vote the Stone Roses debut album as "Best British Album of all time". And then, for good measure, elect a Massive Attack album (who??) as No. 9:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3823983.stm
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astral Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 09:50 PM
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14. I think more Americans would appreciate Leonard Cohen
if they were exposed to him. On the airwaves, that is.
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stuntcat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 10:04 PM
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15. a friend I made online told me about him
Edited on Sun Dec-21-08 10:05 PM by stuntcat
I grew up in radio stations, listened to music from the day I was born, and I never heard Leonard Cohen until a Yahoo Chat friend from Canada told me about him in 1999. I'd even been listening to lots of "alternative" and import music, there was just a lot of grown-up stuff I missed. I didn't start listening to Nina Simone until 1999 either.. now I have a couple versions of her singing beautiful Leonard Cohen songs :loveya: they're two of my favorite singers ever.. I just had to mature to find them I think.
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astral Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 10:19 PM
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18. He's one of my favorites ever!
And I love it when an artist I love sings a song by another artist I love! Are you familiar with (I don't have them so not very) the two Leonard Cohen songs by other artists album? One of them has a movie to go along with it. Heck, maybe they both do, for all I know.

I also love Randy Newman and Harry Nillsson (however the heck he spelled it!) but I have trouble listening to Nillsson because he depresses me (still love his music, go figure!)

Anyway I just now found out Nillsson has done an album exclusively of Randy Newman songs. I always knew that man had some class~!

I only was vaguely familiar with Cohen's name because Neil Diamond's album, Stones, from the 70's featured some songs of other artists, and he did "Suzanne." (I still sorta like Diamond's version of Suzanne better than Cohen's, although Neil Diamond messed up the words a bit.)

And to tell you the truth, I'm having trouble right now remembering exactly how I actually got turned on to Leonard Cohen and got into his music. I am one of those freaks that love both Neil Diamond and Leonard Cohen. I saw some blog somewhere about Neil Diamond being the "happy version" of Leonard Cohen. Hah, I think that's perfect.

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stuntcat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 08:57 AM
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23. my dad loved Neil Diamond, now I'll always listen to him.
I'm Your Man is the Cohen tribute with the video, it's great. My favorite part is Antony Hagerty singing 'If It Be Your Will'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MDlMdu2gjw

I love Neil Diamond's Suzanne! That's the song Nina Simone does a great version of too. Cohen wrote some beautifully perfect songs, if I was a singer I'd have to sing a few of them in tribute.

I didn't know Nillsson at all but I'll sample some. I'm always finding out things I never heard before, thanks to the internet lol!
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 10:05 PM
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16. John Rutter is one example
Edited on Sun Dec-21-08 10:06 PM by tigereye

Joe Strummer... the Mekons, Billy Bragg, The Pogues, the late Kirstie MacColl...


3 versions of Hallelujah! Wow! That's really cool!
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 10:30 PM
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19. Well, but that only happens every 2, 3 centuries or so. n/t
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 10:30 PM
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20. Well, but that only happens every 2, 3 centuries or so. n/t
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 10:33 PM
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21. Hallelujah was playing in a store in Redding two night ago
:P
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 11:20 AM
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24. Someone recorded a version that they used on "Crossing Jordan" -
I don't know who that was, though. That was my introduction to it.

k.d. lang does a version that makes it seem the song was written for her voice to sing it.
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