Comments on: Hallelujah http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/06/21/hallelujah/ Same old blog, brand new place Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:14:31 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Russell Nelson http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/06/21/hallelujah/comment-page-1/#comment-63537 Russell Nelson Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:02:38 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/06/21/hallelujah/#comment-63537 Nothing to do with Leonard Cohen or Hallelujah, but I'm still loving Acoustic Motorbike. Whether he meant to do it or not, the song is written at the speed at which you should be pedalling your bike. So I sing it while I pedal. Good for the breath control. Nothing to do with Leonard Cohen or Hallelujah, but I’m still loving Acoustic Motorbike. Whether he meant to do it or not, the song is written at the speed at which you should be pedalling your bike. So I sing it while I pedal. Good for the breath control.

]]> By: Brian Benz http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/06/21/hallelujah/comment-page-1/#comment-63371 Brian Benz Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:28:24 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/06/21/hallelujah/#comment-63371 Glad you like it. His poetry is pretty good too - first picked it up as a kid in rural Canadian high school. There is a pretty good recent movie called "I'm your man" that you may want to see.... A new one to hum - Anthem. Methinks you'll like it. About as inspirational - and political - as Leonard gets... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjtE2-dLjSs "Ring the bells that still can ring" Glad you like it. His poetry is pretty good too – first picked it up as a kid in rural Canadian high school.

There is a pretty good recent movie called “I’m your man” that you may want to see….

A new one to hum – Anthem. Methinks you’ll like it. About as inspirational – and political – as Leonard gets…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjtE2-dLjSs
“Ring the bells that still can ring”

]]> By: Doc Searls http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/06/21/hallelujah/comment-page-1/#comment-63356 Doc Searls Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:00:21 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/06/21/hallelujah/#comment-63356 Hey, Brian! Thanks for all of those, especially that Bono version, listed first. The lyrics, spoken there as poetry, are the same -- right up to the "And even though it all went wrong..." stanza -- as Cohen sang in that '88 German TV version. The rest of it also makes sense of the other stanzas that all the other singers, near as I can tell, prefer to those opening ones. Interesting stuff. I gotta get past my obsession with that song. My kid is tired of hearing me hum it and play various versions of it on the laptop. Hey, Brian!

Thanks for all of those, especially that Bono version, listed first. The lyrics, spoken there as poetry, are the same — right up to the “And even though it all went wrong…” stanza — as Cohen sang in that ‘88 German TV version. The rest of it also makes sense of the other stanzas that all the other singers, near as I can tell, prefer to those opening ones. Interesting stuff.

I gotta get past my obsession with that song. My kid is tired of hearing me hum it and play various versions of it on the laptop.

]]> By: Brian Benz http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/06/21/hallelujah/comment-page-1/#comment-63336 Brian Benz Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:28:32 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/06/21/hallelujah/#comment-63336 One of my favorites is Bono's version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA048pcITlA You gotta appreciate Tower of Song right now too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtMFdBsWICs&feature=related Closing time is great too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrPEM2qc-j8&feature=related Trivia - Leonard was inducted into the Rock and Roll hall of fame this year - his acceptance is out there on Youtube somewhere too.... One of my favorites is Bono’s version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA048pcITlA

You gotta appreciate Tower of Song right now too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtMFdBsWICs&feature=related

Closing time is great too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrPEM2qc-j8&feature=related

Trivia – Leonard was inducted into the Rock and Roll hall of fame this year – his acceptance is out there on Youtube somewhere too….

]]> By: Doc Searls http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/06/21/hallelujah/comment-page-1/#comment-63028 Doc Searls Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:42:48 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/06/21/hallelujah/#comment-63028 <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBfvMJ4Thaw" rel="nofollow">Here's Leonard Cohen performing Hallelujah this very month in Dublin</a>. Home now, at my own desk, istening to it for the first time. Wow. Strong stuff. Notice the difference in lyrics and wording choices in this one. No matter how one does it, the man has given us a perfect song. Here’s Leonard Cohen performing Hallelujah this very month in Dublin. Home now, at my own desk, istening to it for the first time.

Wow. Strong stuff.

Notice the difference in lyrics and wording choices in this one.

No matter how one does it, the man has given us a perfect song.

]]> By: Hil http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/06/21/hallelujah/comment-page-1/#comment-62990 Hil Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:16:58 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/06/21/hallelujah/#comment-62990 Hi Doc, you have been in my thoughts over the last week or so, and I am really happy to read you are leaving hostpital today I just wanted to backtrack to one of your music posts to recommend to you the lovely long live rambly Van Morrison version of 'Caravan' on his 'Too Late to Stop Now' album. And his song 'In the days before rock n roll', a kind of enigmatic homage to the part wireless and pirate radio stations played in his childhood, and in delivering the music of the early rockers to that generation. Hi Doc, you have been in my thoughts over the last week or so, and I am really happy to read you are leaving hostpital today

I just wanted to backtrack to one of your music posts to recommend to you the lovely long live rambly Van Morrison version of ‘Caravan’ on his ‘Too Late to Stop Now’ album. And his song ‘In the days before rock n roll’, a kind of enigmatic homage to the part wireless and pirate radio stations played in his childhood, and in delivering the music of the early rockers to that generation.

]]> By: Doc Searls http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/06/21/hallelujah/comment-page-1/#comment-62965 Doc Searls Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:37:25 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/06/21/hallelujah/#comment-62965 Danny and Dave, thanks for <a href="http://www.clapclap.org/2007/04/hallelujah.html" rel="nofollow">“It Doesn’t Matter Which You Heard”: the Curious Cultural Journey of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”</a>. It answers the question of lyrical differences (while covering vast grounds), although the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallelujah_(Leonard_Cohen_song)" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia entry</a> on the song says that Cohen wrote more than 80 verses and sent fifteen to John Cale, so I still don't know for sure why so far the lines that strike me most (quoted in my post) I've heard only in the German TV version, which I guess was from 1988. I invite folks to listen to that one again. Note especially the deep bass line, the orchestration, and Cohen's hand-off of the chorus to these kids standing in arches behind him. The look is kitchy, but the music is very well-done. I love "Hallelujah" as a chorus sung by a big choir. For singing artistry, it's hard to beat k.d. lang, who makes it all look so easy. She did two versions that I've found. She also remains among the best live performers I've ever seen. Just amazing. What's especially remarkable for me also is how out-of-it I was for not knowing how overplayed, and not merely covered, the song has been. I barely remember the Cale version from the Shrek soundtrack. (Only saw the movie once, way back when.) And since about all I watch on TV are sports and occasional movies, I totally missed how much the song has been abused by the likes of (American and others) Idol. Thanks too, Dave, for all the leads on other music and sources for it. You'll keep me busy the next few days. And thanks to everybody for a great thread that's not just about tech or health jive. Danny and Dave, thanks for “It Doesn’t Matter Which You Heard”: the Curious Cultural Journey of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”. It answers the question of lyrical differences (while covering vast grounds), although the Wikipedia entry on the song says that Cohen wrote more than 80 verses and sent fifteen to John Cale, so I still don’t know for sure why so far the lines that strike me most (quoted in my post) I’ve heard only in the German TV version, which I guess was from 1988. I invite folks to listen to that one again. Note especially the deep bass line, the orchestration, and Cohen’s hand-off of the chorus to these kids standing in arches behind him. The look is kitchy, but the music is very well-done. I love “Hallelujah” as a chorus sung by a big choir.

For singing artistry, it’s hard to beat k.d. lang, who makes it all look so easy. She did two versions that I’ve found. She also remains among the best live performers I’ve ever seen. Just amazing.

What’s especially remarkable for me also is how out-of-it I was for not knowing how overplayed, and not merely covered, the song has been. I barely remember the Cale version from the Shrek soundtrack. (Only saw the movie once, way back when.) And since about all I watch on TV are sports and occasional movies, I totally missed how much the song has been abused by the likes of (American and others) Idol.

Thanks too, Dave, for all the leads on other music and sources for it. You’ll keep me busy the next few days.

And thanks to everybody for a great thread that’s not just about tech or health jive.

]]> By: links for 2008-06-22 « that dismal science http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/06/21/hallelujah/comment-page-1/#comment-62890 links for 2008-06-22 « that dismal science Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:30:22 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/06/21/hallelujah/#comment-62890 [...] Hallelujah Doc Searls documents the ‘light at the end of the digestive tunnel’ and adds music to it all. (tags: toread hallelujah) [...] [...] Hallelujah Doc Searls documents the ‘light at the end of the digestive tunnel’ and adds music to it all. (tags: toread hallelujah) [...]

]]> By: B.L Ochman http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/06/21/hallelujah/comment-page-1/#comment-62887 B.L Ochman Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:28:28 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/06/21/hallelujah/#comment-62887 Funny how music gets us through. satisfied & tickled too that you're feeling better. whew! Funny how music gets us through. satisfied & tickled too that you’re feeling better. whew!

]]> By: Buzz http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/06/21/hallelujah/comment-page-1/#comment-62880 Buzz Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:01:42 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/06/21/hallelujah/#comment-62880 Remarkable thread..and favorite is from the CD "Lifted..Songs of the Spirit" http://rufus.jt.org/album.php?i=LiftedSongsoftheSpirit The Wainwright version is sensational, and there are a number of other cuts, including one Alison Krauss that is equally memorable. Just glad that you are feeling better, Hallelujah... Remarkable thread..and favorite is from the CD “Lifted..Songs of the Spirit” http://rufus.jt.org/album.php?i=LiftedSongsoftheSpirit

The Wainwright version is sensational, and there are a number of other cuts, including one Alison Krauss that is equally memorable.

Just glad that you are feeling better, Hallelujah…

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