Hallelujah

Leonard Cohen | Format: MP3 Download
From the Album The Essential Leonard Cohen

Product Details

• Original Release Date: October 22, 2002
• Label: Columbia
• Copyright: (P) SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT/(P) SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
• Duration: 4:40 minutes
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• ASIN: B00136NIPO
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,871 Paid in MP3 Songs (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Songs)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most gorgeous song ever written; this is one for the ages., April 14, 2010

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Dawn Owens "signalfire" (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
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This is the most evocative, lovely and spiritual song ever written. I've listened to it so many times I hear it in my sleep. Reportedly, Mr. Cohen wrote 80 verses to this, but only a dozen or so are ever performed. I wish the others were available for study; he combines biblical allusions with modern sensibility better than any poet that I know of.

As he himself once said in an interview, it's about saying hallelujah to life, even when everything is going wrong.

His deep velvet and whiskey voice is the only one that does it justice (although I'll agree there has been some marvelous covers, especially K.D. Laing's version).

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you don't listen to Leonard Cohen..., June 26, 2009

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or if you think "Hallelujah" is a song you usually hear at Christmas, sung by the local high school choir, give this one a try. Cohen will make you smile and break your heart at the same time. Beautiful, soaring, gravelly, and lovely.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It is all in the voice, March 25, 2008

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Peter Dykhuis (Grandville, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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Although I believe I might prefer the Jeff Buckley version of this song for melody and tenor who can fault the rich vibrancy of Leonard Cohen. The sound of his voice echoing through the speakers is ethereal. The better the sound system the more this song version turns into a classic.