Hallelujah hits UK top ten, twice! One good, one terrible...

Ugh, some winner of a shitty UK reality "talent" contest has absolutely murdered Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, and naturally it's going to shoot straight to number one. I have honestly never heard anyone destroy such a beautiful piece of music so completely. Warbling up and down scales like a Mariah Carey clone, completely missing the heart and soul of the piece, shallow empty crap.

The good news is that it has sparked a buying frenzy at i-tunes for Jeff Buckley's infinitely superior version, and right now it looks set to go in at number 3. Very strange.

Amazingly enough, Leonard Cohen's original sits at number 34, which means the same track is in the UK top 40 3 times by 3 different artists.

Couldn't have happened to a more deserving song IMO, just a shame about the horrible version.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7786171.stm

 

and people say adding downloads to the chart was a good thing, it can throw up oddity's like this

im blaming facebook for this

 

What you're missing (and Auntie is avoiding telling you) is the song at Number 2. See, if you had to choose a Christmas number 1 from the X factor winner and Terry Wogan with Aled Jones... well?

Sort of a Hallelujah Sandwich.

 

I gotta say that when Jason Castro did Hallelujah on American Idol I was incredibly impressed. It's one of those songs that people tend to screw up because the one we all know so well is amazing, but his was flawless and absolutely beautiful. Y'all should check it out on youtube.

 

Terry Wogan no question (im listening to him on iPlayer right now)

 

I haven't heard the Wogan track actually, I dread to think

I think i'd still go for the Wogan track even without hearing it though, as the alternative is nothing short of an abomination.

 

well here is the Terry Wogan video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=731rTEW_0Cc

my second choice being Geraldine McQueen - Once upon a christmas song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kmPz5IbU90


but I would be happy if pretty much anyone who wasnt her from the X-Factor was No1 this christmas

 

Haha, I love it. Yes, I think I prefer Terry and Aled by a long shot

 

My favorite is the teen show montage friendly Jeff Buckley version.

 

^^ Same. Buckley's version is my favourite.

 

which is odd given that Terry Wogan is Irish & Aled Jones is Welsh.

Never underestimate the TOGS

 

Hey I like X factor. I think Alexandra did a better job than JLS. thank god she won.

 

I am not saying she was not the best of the 3 acts who were on the show, but that does not make her song "good"

 

Well, one of them is still British.

TOGS?

 

TOGs = Terrys Old Geezers.

They are to Terry what Trekkies are to StarTrek or Whovains are to Doctor Who.

However they dont spend their time bitching about canon, they spend it raising money for Children in Need, or going on a cruise with the TOG Master Terry himself.

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Ditto. Jeff Buckley is one of my all time favorites. I never go anywhere without his CD.

And after checking out this thread, I popped over to youtube to get a taste of this new Mariah-clone-screechy version... bleh. I think my ears are bleeding.

 

Buckley's cover of Hallelujah is one of my all-time favourites. He was an absolutely astonishing musician.

 

I watched the Live in Chicago DVD the other night, that is a great show.

Half the gig is people shouting "do Hallelujah!" though