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This was great -- if you like music or think about the meaning behind words or lyrics or why the song Hallelujah took on the life it has, this is a must-read. Prepare to spend hours on YouTube watching different renditions and dissecting the performances.
There's a particularly great one of Cohen performing his original and the expressions when he sings make it clear he's written some FUNNY STUFF into the song (though I love how Buckley bleeds his heart out into his version of it). And I'm firmly now in the camp that Wainwright's version isn't that great, that it's too fast, and that the piano versions, in general, take something away from the song.
I guess this made me have some opinions I never otherwise would have thought to have. That's what a good piece of long-form journalism (which is really what this is) does.
There's a particularly great one of Cohen performing his original and the expressions when he sings make it clear he's written some FUNNY STUFF into the song (though I love how Buckley bleeds his heart out into his version of it). And I'm firmly now in the camp that Wainwright's version isn't that great, that it's too fast, and that the piano versions, in general, take something away from the song.
I guess this made me have some opinions I never otherwise would have thought to have. That's what a good piece of long-form journalism (which is really what this is) does.