hello, this is my first post."Oahu" by The 6ths. The entire album is beautiful, awesome and well worth releasing under a different side project name. But this little bugger of a song is just not that cool, I always skip it.

Clyde wrote:Hallelujah by Leonard CohenI'd put this in the "incredible songs killed by covers and licensing" thread if there was one.Jeff Buckley is largely to blame for this problem, although I think it probably felt fresh when he decided to reverse the formula from understated to melodrama. I hope Cohen's family has profited well by the abuse this song has taken from teary eyed coffeehouse performers.

losthighway wrote:Clyde wrote:Hallelujah by Leonard CohenI'd put this in the "incredible songs killed by covers and licensing" thread if there was one.Jeff Buckley is largely to blame for this problem, although I think it probably felt fresh when he decided to reverse the formula from understated to melodrama. I hope Cohen's family has profited well by the abuse this song has taken from teary eyed coffeehouse performers.Yes, but also no. It's a great song, but the Cohen recording ain't all that. Not as annoying as Buckley, but I still find it hard to enjoy. I always thought the Cale version felt the best - it's so simple. He approaches it like a hymn, he hammers it out, and he's got a great voice for it. It's like he's "playing the song", rather than "trying to make it his own", which is usually code for "narcissistically wanking all over it"

Dudley wrote:losthighway wrote:Clyde wrote:Hallelujah by Leonard CohenI'd put this in the "incredible songs killed by covers and licensing" thread if there was one.Jeff Buckley is largely to blame for this problem, although I think it probably felt fresh when he decided to reverse the formula from understated to melodrama. I hope Cohen's family has profited well by the abuse this song has taken from teary eyed coffeehouse performers.Yes, but also no. It's a great song, but the Cohen recording ain't all that. Not as annoying as Buckley, but I still find it hard to enjoy. I always thought the Cale version felt the best - it's so simple. He approaches it like a hymn, he hammers it out, and he's got a great voice for it. It's like he's "playing the song", rather than "trying to make it his own", which is usually code for "narcissistically wanking all over it"This insight is helpful if you think of the history. Cohen wrote an incredible song and recorded it in a campy way. Cale heard what it could be and used an earlier version of the lyrics to try and unpack what a deceptively great song it is. Few people noticed. Buckley studied both and was like, gosh people need to know what Cale knows, I'm gonna slam dunk his version.