The Coverville Town Center

[Civisi]

Brian said, Over 200 episodes and I still haven't played all the Hallelujah covers out there.

Let's start a list of good Hallelujah covers and not-so-good ones. List the artist and album, and any comments you might have. Obviously, what is good to one person might not be to another.

Here are a few that I know of.

Good:
Popa Chubby, from Big Man Big Guitar Popa Chubby Live
- an excellent blues-like version; my current favorite

Blue Juipiter, from Ear Candy
- an a capella version; very well done


Not-so-good
Kathryn Williams, from Relations
- too slow for me, but peaceful nonetheless
_________________
Jerad from Indiana

[sfb]

From Shrek 1

Great version!

Hallelujah - Rufus Wainwright
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005CF9Y/ref=pd_bxgy_img_b/104-0915865-9878303?%5Fencoding=UTF8

Scott

[Guest]

[crisgo4]

k.d. Lang covered this on her Hymns of the 49th Parallel album.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000267J10/qid=1147054295/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/103-2767414-1840615?s=music&v=glance&n=5174

She has a great voice. It's certainly worth a listen.

C-

[misanthrope]

Brandi Carlile does an excellent acoustic version that I think is only available on ITunes.

I'd provide a link but I'm here at work. It's listed as "KCRW.com Presents" under the album.

It was a live thing she did at a radio station, I believe, just her and a guitar, and her voice is just wonderful, raw and gorgeous.

[Adrian]

http://www.allisoncrowe.com/music/hallelujah.mp3 - audio (as heard on Brian's podcast; though, I'm guessing this version is slightly hi-er fi; someday, I'll post a 256 or so version - as some audio breaks up on the web)

http://www.allisoncrowe.com/Hallelujahvideos.html - video - yes, indeed video versions

all of these are captured live, in a single, first, take (as is pretty much everything Allison records)

just a brilliant song - a real work of Leonard Cohen's genius, and, understandably, one which millions of people love as expressed by many different artists
_________________
"Why music?" "Why breathing?"

[smithy]

Elisa does a version on her Lotus album, I dunno, there's nothing glaringly bad about it, but somehow falls flat and doesn't really do anything for me, especially compared to her original work..

Elisa - Lotus

Damien Rice will quite often segue into Hallelujah, I think usually from Cold Water, during his live sets

[BSquared]

Clare Bowditch does a good job of it on Like a Version It's the last track on the album .http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009JOPSU/qid=1147172548/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-9299059-6260652?s=music&v=glance&n=5174

And I've even heard one by Deep Purple (to be honest that'd go in the not so good category"

But my favourite is a toss up between Jeff Buckley's (It still brings a tear to my eye) and Bono doing it live - yeah he can be a dork but the man can sing when he wants to

[Tea-Bone]

[Guest]

[Coomby]

Imogen Heap had a version played in the final episode of the season (I think) in the OC.

You can hear it on the mainpage of www.fox.com/oc (only a 1 min clip)

Quicktime:
Click this link http://streamos.wbr.com/qtime/wbr/imogenheap/audio/imogenheap_hallelujah_128.mov
for a 3 minute version.

Windows Media Player
The link http://streamos.wbr.com/qtime/wbr/imogenheap/audio/imogenheap_hallelujah_128.wax is meant to work but hasn't been for me.

The last two links were from an email on May 20, so the WMP link may have been removed (who knows).

[crommo]

John Cale has another great version on a live album
Fragments of a Rainy Season
Just him an a piano.

[AdamKidabra]

The Brown Derbies (a cappella) have a beautiful quartet cover of Hallelujah. It'll be out on their next album, due out in December. Check 'em out at www.myspace.com/thebrownderbies or www.brownderbies.com

... okay, I may be just a little bit bias because I'm the bass in the recording . But it really is great. We were featured way back on Coverville 53.

-Adam

[Ian]

Worst cover might be Bono's on the Tower of Song tribute album.

My favourite cover is Jeff Buckley's live version. Not the studio version on Grace, but the one from Complete Live at Sin-E.
Sometimes I think of this cut as "Hallelujah (This gig is over)".

[Wayne from the UK]

Allison Crowe for me; knocks the pants off Buckley IMO.

http://www.allisoncrowe.com/music/hallelujah.mp3

Check this out for all things Halleluja. For evaluation purposes only

http://myoldkyhome.blogspot.com/2006/05/hallelujah.html

Enjoy!
_________________
Official Coverville UK Correspondent

"Knee deep in the hoopla"