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  • This bloody version makes me cry !!!! Thankss a lot Jeff Buckley haha , you are so special . Rest In Eternal Peace ! <3

  • being a metalhead myself i was suprised to find a tear in my eye due to the sheer beaty that is this song, true musician if i never known one.

  • wonderful !!!!

  • beautiful song !!!!!!! one of my favourite song

  • I don't like Leonard Cohen's version. As much as I respect him for writing this song.

    And I think I may cry if I ever hear Alexandra Burke's version ever again, because it saturated and ruined this song.

    Jeff Buckley's emotion cannot be beaten.

  • Just amazing... simple as

  • this is the best version!!!!!

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  • IS THI THE ORIGINAL???

  • @comeondown12345 no, it was originally by a guy called Leonard Cohen

  • @RumbleRedUK Thanks!

  • Amazing

  • Magnifique j'adore

  • Masterpiece. Crystal clear voice, Pure guitar, Deep lyrics.

  • love this song so much! this man is such a legend!!

  • beautiful song

  • why isnt he st. jeff

  • Juste magique... Une pensée à mon ange...

  • simply amazing

  • shut up everyone about justin bieber please

    just fuck him period!

  • @KKOPPI Fuck him this is way better :P

  • Cette chanson est d'une beauté pure, merci d'avoir accompagné mon grand père lors de son dernier voyage. Ça a beau faire deux ans, nous ne nous en remettons pas. Le deuil est bien dur cette fois ci, il était comme un père pour moi. Merci encore.

  • 125 ppl are Justin Beiber fans 9382 ppl are True ppl that know about music :)

  • Fucking amazing, brings tears to my eyes!

  • No matter who wrote it, (and I've never said this before about any other), but, this truly is, Jeff Buckley's song.

  • Bloddy magical. I cant describe how this mans work makes me feel.

    The best cover ive ever heard.

    Rest in peace jeff, your music lives on.

  • this song still gives me goosebumps after 5 years.

  • Jeff buckley has been a great musican... this is one of the best songs ever... the world lost a lot when he died... Rest in Peace Jeff

  • the best...version ever. There's an intensity Buckley that can't be beaten even by someone as good as k.d

  • R.I.P

  • the guy's voice at the end said it all....

  • no comment.... <3

  • r.i.p

  • still rather have this than Alexandra Burke , Leonard Cohen aint bad either at least it was about their voices and the song . Burke nearly kills the song with all her candles x

  • Psalm 37:9 For the wicked will be cut off: but those who have faith in the Lord will have the land for their heritage.

    37:10 For in a short time the wicked will be gone: you will go searching for his place, and it will not be there.

  • magic man. nothing will ever compare with him xxx

  • Who the F*#K disliked this?

  • Redneck could sing.

  • Best version I've heard of this song... pff...

  • הללויה :)

  • @97maynir  הללויה גם לך (:

  • well I have to say this guy Is like Steve McQueen but to music too cool for words.

  • So amazing, subtle, moving and divine...

  • @AshtonCurtis

    Guess there is no arguing over taste: any version that is in the charts now is better than Buckleys boring performance

  • @schoorl200 please tell me your joking.

  • @wagwanmanx

    i could tell you that, but then I would be lying. In my taste, Jeff Buckleys version is utterly boring. In your taste it is probably not. Fortunately we (still) live in a world where everybody is allowed his/her own taste ;-)

  • @schoorl200 i respect your opinion, but i honestly do not know how you can find this boring, this is an incredibly beautiful adaptation to the original

  • @wagwanmanx

    I don't know why i find it boring. I just do. You may find it incredibly beautiful, but I can hardly bring myself to listening to it in full (which I did b4 I gave my opinion on it). Some people like blondes, others don't. It is a fact of life

  • INCREDIBBBILE !

  • this is true art

  • its sad hat when you type this into youtube alexandra burke is the first video

  • Hallelujah, Аллилуйя, הללויה

    Aleluya,हलिलुय,Aleluia, هللويا الشكر لله

    تسبیح,Алілуя,Алелуя,Aleluia,Ha­lleluja,Alleluja,Haleliwia

    Hallelujah!

  • speechless!!! just beautiful! beautiful voice!

  • this song is sung to perfection, Thank u Jeff for inspiring us. This is just beautiful.

  • Goosebumps. Just... goosebumps.

  • I love this more than the version from Rufus Wainwright.

  • i never comment on you tube but this is truly astounding

  • Jeroen, I still love you... come home...

  • seeing a lot of astounded reactions that the video is underrated, or watched to little, but i think we need to remember our first history lesson: The masses can't think. If something is less known, I think that increases the likelihood that it is truly beautiful, just keeping this in mind hearing and seeing the mainstream #### that passes by silently.

  • seeing a lot of astounded reactions that the video is underrated, or watched to little, but i think we need to remember our first history lesson: The masses can't think. If something is less known, I think that increases the likelihood that it is truly beautiful, just keeping this in mind hearing and seeing the mainstream shit that passes by silently.

  • some people just don't get it

    it's such a beautifull song to beautifull to be unlistend

    just hear it and you will now the bull shit they call music these days get the respect that you have to give to this kinda music

  • i.. its... just... perfect

  • 124 dislikes???????

    why?

  • He was with great respect, the Buddy Holly of the Nineties. Thanks Jeff for existing.

  • speechless......

  • 124 People are retarded!

  • i first heard this in college and struggled not to cry at the sheer beauty and emotion of the last 45 seconds of the song, then i found out that Jeff had being suffing serious depression which made me feel sad all day. i listened to it again today in my house and started crying halfway through till the end. this time i knew he was depressed whilst singing and you can hear the pain in his voice as he blows Burke's version out of the water, especialy at the end.

    Truly beautiful, beautiful song...

  • c'est la seule chanson que j'ai écoutée qui est jouée et chantée avec les tripes , meme les fautes sont belles , :) j'aime

  • Amazing, Beautiful, Epic, Astonishing, Incredible, Sensational, Wonderful and Inspiring.

  • wonderful

    

  • wonderful

    

  • This is really a truly beautiful song. I dont know why people have to use the comment box to say things unrelated to the song. How can you fight with eachother when you have just heard this song? I cant understand it. If you love the song say so. If you dont, dont. You dont have to say anything else. I love this song

  • a secren cord belle parole naner + 124 mone

  • Get the chords right jeff 2:30! lol

  • @throbasonic1982 that was the right chord....awkward for you.

  • @Tobybbrown Ah then awkward for Jeff, he doesn't play it like that on other versions. Anyway, a brilliant brilliant song.

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  • @throbasonic1982 do you notice you said other versions? that means you know that theres other ways of playing this song, either way, however you play it its still an amazing song.

  • @throbasonic1982 It's called arpeggio.

  • Metalhead > God

    That oft told tale....

  • God exists...here's a proof.

  • 124 motherfuckers

    

  • LEGEND!!

  • Welcome to the 21st century. A world where Justin Bieber gets almost 500 million views for his autotuned tripe, while this masterpiece gets little under 2 million...what a sad sad world

  • @SimulationGuy121

    yes it is:'(

  • @SimulationGuy121

    Gravy, gravy, gravy ooohhhhh

    Just dont like my meat to be dry, dryyyyyyyyyyyyyy

    (He might aswell be saying that, his fans would still love him)

    -_-

  • @SimulationGuy121 sadness is: calling the world sad based upon a couple of numbers

  • @SimulationGuy121 It deeply saddens me to know that your comment is 100% true, it's pretty sickening to think that a great song like this will get thrown to the side. where as something like "Baby" by Justin Bieber will get millions of attention.

  • @SimulationGuy121

    What do you care what someone else gets? I get so annoyed by this, dude. It doesn`t matter who got what a million hits doesn`t make a better song, as long as you love it what do you care. Diamonds in the rough my friend, pay no mind to the things you hate, just love the things you love and let everyone else get on with it. Its a sad/happy world, it just depends on where you look. Peace out, mate. x

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  • @SimulationGuy121 "Who the fuck is Justin Bieber?"

    ^^

  • @SimulationGuy121 sur cette chanson est magnifique j en ais la chair de poule chaque fois que je l ecoute

  • the one song i can fall asleep to...... :)

  • So much better than alexandra burke. she ruined it man

  • ThIs is good now. Can barely remember what this sounded like in 1998, when I first heard it.

  • Unreal :) Love it

  • this is just so beautiful.

    rip jeff buckley

    

  • is he christian?>

  • @jenforyou Makes no difference

  • Man, the 124 people are crazy, I'd guess

  • @E1lusionist lol sorry

  • @LordCasperKelvin so wait we weren't even talking about my comment in the first place??

  • I really get confused when I see performances like this and watch braindead, clueless, unskilled/talented people comment nasty shit about it. Whats bad exactly, superb musicianship, raw emotion and feeling. Its good and just cause its not modern or from a genre or certain style of music doesn't fucking mean its bad you utter spackers, really. I can't stand the music "arguments" or "debates" anymore cause I know im right - its just an intelligence thing mostly.

  • @TheRedBullCrysis Well said.

  • @TheNiaFelix or they just don't like the song, now THAT wasn't even witty

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  • 124 people don't really care for music, do they?

  • A great singer, R.I.P...

  • R.I.P Jeff

  • =)

  • this is crap

  • @sazzy1211 This isn't crap, its music which you don't like. I find it awesome. Please don't listen to it if you don't like it. It annoys the other youtubers.

  • @sazzy1211 you like gaga... nuff said

  • It is real beauty to hear those magnificent chords come out of my guitar :) and out of jeff's amazing voice that has passion behind it i fail to find a more heart felt amazning song

  • If this is NOT the best version...then i simply fail to understand what is!

    Jeff buckley *BOWS*

  • If this is NOT the best version...then i simply fail to understand what is!

    Jeff buckley *BOWS*

  • if u can hear them, but the guy at the end f the song just got it right, WOW!

  • 122 people and counting clearly have no heart or soul and are musically retarded.

  • (L) (L)

  • *___*

  • check mine out with you by carl

  • Please Youtube, there is a problem.

    Why there is a "dislike" button ?

  • song is crap after 6:33 :(

  • You'll be hard pressed to find a song sung with as much emotion and feeling as this. True art!

  • ONE OF THE BETTER COVERS OF ALL-TIME

  • 6:30: "Wow!"...yeah, that's the right word

  • the best songs are the ones with the most emotions

    R.I.P. Jeff Buckley

  • You guys below fighting on a song like this discusting?

    this is beautiful who ever dislikes this doesnt have a heart

  • cohen a lengend for writing this full stop

  • 122 people are clearly bieber fans!!

  • @adampr123 no there not, they just dont like the music stop tryin 2 get likes!!

  • @MrBaggies4lyf ooooooo dont you like pissing on peoples parade. what a douche!

  • @adampr123 im not the one sad enough to put comments just so i'll get thumbs up, get a life dick head!

  • lord of war

  • How does Alexandra Burke's version have more hits than this????????

  • @nicketeen1 cos people are made to listen to whatever TV tells them, unless most of us over 25 that were allowed to make up our own minds as to what music we liked.

  • @JapaneseSniper1983 couldnt have said it better myself

  • I don't care whom you pray to or even if you pray at all...

    I'm not a Christian...nor remotely religious...this still gives me chills.

    Great music is just that....great!

  • it doesn't matter what kind of music you're into. this is one of those songs which you have to be soulless not to fall in love with

  • @caitlins143 calm down dorris, bit bitchy im not gunna lie, sorry for hurtin you feelings so badly

  • he really should have been around

  • 121 satanists

  • 120 people have no taste in music

  • Looks like 120 people will be getting surprise visits from me tonight >:D

  • My first time singing in public was with this song :)

  • This version is sung in a so humble way. I dare anyone just to try to be as humble as him when he sings... We lack artists this way these days. We miss you buddy...

  • @oasisiisgood we don't lack artist like this today, there are lots of brilliants singers out there, most people are just to lazy to go find them, everyone was just lucky that Jeff Buckley was delivered to us on a plater cause if he was this good and not signed to a major then half these people wouldn't even know where to start looking for him. Don't dismiss todays artist for nostalgia, it cheapens how awesome he really was.

  • @shagg21 I totally agree with you. You know I meant that we don't get to hear artists like that anymore, as you said major labels are just to lazy, and sadly only interested in making money.

  • people are entitled to their own views, i mean inst that what the song is about, how hate can destroy people? just beautiful lyrics and a smashing voice, he's like a male eva cassidy :)

  • Geez... I've heard this a million time and AGAIN i got chills.

    Damn, this guy is good. Sorry but all others versions are pieces of shit comparating to this.

    This is the best song, i mean, you can't do better than that.

    You're challenged.

  • Bellissima.... <3 <3 <3 <3

  • i don't get it why people r complaining that jeff buckley's hallelujah doesnt have a as many views as alexandra burke's version... the good stuff is only for the few with good taste of music let the other retards listen to the other crap this song was made for the people with good taste of music

  • @penetrate1990 Amen brother.

  • @penetrate1990 one of the best youtube comments I've ever read. Well played, friend.

  • @penetrate1990, perhaps it is because jeff buckley's version sounds too sad.

  • beautifull song ,beautifully sung

  • Only be Jeff Buckley, I love him!

    Thanks! (L...

  • you will live forever in the hearts of many jeff. we all love you.

  • Veramente molto bella. Complimenti davvero, spettacolare!!!!!WONDERFOUL!!!­

  • to my little girl who came and went , Jeff Thank you ....

  • i love this song :)

  • Jeroen, come home!

  • i,really,care,for,music,i,do,c­all,it,a,real,poemsong,beautyf­ull,

  • Is it possible to start a Youtube/Facebook/Twitter campaign to try and get this song above Alexandra Burkes? All we need are a couple of million views.

  • This should have 15 million views, and the stupid Alexandra Burke cover should have the measley 2 Million. I'd have thought this would have got more views :(

  • Beautiful

  • My favourite song of all time.

  • Jeff Buckley died because God wanted singing lessons.

  • ....This voice eminated from the very heart of heaven....a god given gift.....it now resides there again......Taken from us far too soon.....so much so it was almost criminal......God Bless Jeff Buckley ....x

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  • damm this is good, and the Alexandra Burke version has 15 million views! what the fuck, i hate people giving into brain washing mainstream r and b charts, the artists cant even sing, thats why they dont play live that much, becasue with out studio prossesing they sound shit.

  • This is just a mixture of amazing and beautiful. When it passes my ears I pretty much feel my whole body light up and work together like a magical elf city at night.

  • 118 people are justin biber fans

  • The first time i heard it, it left a chill in my skin.

    Just like it did now, after so many years.