I appear to be hallucinating again

[serinde]

Dragged audiovile into watching Scrubs. Got to fourth episode w/John Cale cover of "Hallelujah". Explained it was a Leonard Cohen song and though this version was quite fine I liked the original better. Naturally, being us, we repaired to the compu-cave for taste testing... Intarwub only divulges one version by the divine L.C., and it's this thing with echo on his vocals and a fucking backing choral and just a little bit too slow, but that seems to be the original; and where the hell is the version that I have heard, which is almost nothing but his own voice with a little bit of simple instrumental? Which I'm sure I heard on Radio Paradise, but their song search wotcha only shows up the same version the rest of teh intarnets admits to? And why am I banging my head into this when I should be getting a good night's sleep?

(And anyone who points up versions by Buckley, Bono, or Wainwright will get the stark fist of death in their genitalia, because not a one of their voices sounds the least like Leonard Cohen's, and a pox on you for suggesting I'd mistake them.)

Comments

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

There are two Official Cohen Releases - the one on Various Positions, and the one on Cohen Live. They're both a bit synthy, and they both do have backing singers - the live one is more synthy than the studio one, by quite a bit. But neither of them is man-anna-acoustic, exactly. I prefer the studio one, but the live one has my current favourite (quite filthy) line.

I have both on this here computer (one as an .ogg, though), if you want to compare them. (I have another five-odd bootlegged live versions, but they've of varying quality and very unlikely to be what you're thinking of, being as how they're really only of interest to very sad geeks like me.

(And because I am very sad, I have a lots and lots of covers of the song, too.)

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

Thanks, but we snarfed downloads of both of those in my initial hysterical search.

I am full of woe. And I wish my brain would stop creating things out of whole cloth. Obviously I am remembering the ur-Version that only exists in the perfect reality, or something.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Maybe you remember the lovely Cohen voice more than all the other bits, and that's why you think there's a different version.