Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (Comparison Challenge)

*Who do you think is the best?!*
-Leonard Cohen (the Original)?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkJxI2M2C28
-Jeff Buckley?
-Rufus Wainwright?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw8VEdbkUMU
-Kate Voegele?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU7IFj3CbPQ
-Alexandra Burke?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3MvYtZQvUc
-Espen Lind, Askil Holm, Alejandro Fuentes, Kurt Nilsen?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1maJxNdUH4
*Rate the videos and we'll see!!!*
1st - Kate Voegele
2nd - Leonard Cohen (has a slightly lower rating than Buckley but has a ton more views)
3rd - Jeff Buckley
4th - Espen Lind, Askil Holm, Alejandro Fuentes, Kurt Nilsen
5th - Rufus Wainwright
6th - Alexandra Burke

Lyrics:

Well I heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do ya?
Well it goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall and the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Well Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
she tied you to her kitchen chair
And she broke your throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Well baby I've been here before
I've seen this room and I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew ya
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Well there was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show that to me do you?
And remember when I moved in you?
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Well maybe there's a God above
But all I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who'd OUT DREW YA
And it's not a cry that you hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

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[SueCillian]

no one is better than jeff

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[kvan2002]

I have to disagree listen to Cale's version Buckley I have to say is much more moving, and the voice is awesome. Too bad about his passing he could have been a legend is if he weren't now

[DemonDillz]

not caring who is the best all that is true is that the song beautiful

[satexguy1]

Only one man wrote it, so....

1. Cohen

2. Buckley

3. Wainwright, Lang, Swedish quartet (tie)

I have a playlist of 20-30 versions I've saved from other YouTube posts, for any serial-Hallelujah-ists, for convenience.

[satexguy1]

Cohen's meant a lot to me when it first came out, Cale's cover put it back on "the map" with an angrier version, which led to Buckley's amazing guitar solo full of a mix of the anger from Cale and sexual healing from Cohen's. Burke's is a close second to Lang's as a power ballad. Both the Swedish quartet's and Rufus' (especially duet with sister, Martha) are moving, and Timberlake/Morris version at the Haiti benefit, are true to the original, but stripped back down from Cohen's orchestral arran

[liagarden]

Stop it! Leonard Cohen is the one and only, THE, the best, it's his song. This kid is sweet (and cute) but I feel and understand the pain and angst of Leonard, from the first moment I heard this song, when it first came out. That's when my baby boy heard it, too (and now he is 29, and loves this song, plays the guitar and sings it, and he's Jewish too.) (Look up definition of "The")

[liagarden]

Stop it! Leonard Cohen is the one and only, THE, the best, it's his song. (Look up definition of "The")

[finnchick59]

All are great but K.D Lang, the BEST!

[wonttorit]

Sorry, I think Rufus Wainwright's version tops both. After hearing LC, I can't understand how he is even considered a singer. Amazing.

[Lukamusic81]

the best cover right here

[dopeillusion]

Tough one...

I'dd say Buckley...

But only with Wainwright on the piano, tossing in a line or two!!

[1971mgb]

Cohen liked Jeff's. Jeff liked Cohen's. Case rested ! A duet would have been Earth Shaking.