Saturday 20 December 2008

Hallelujah...

As I always went to sleep in Leonard Cohen's songs when they first came out, this is a particularly honest post for me!

A chum spent at least a large-glass-time yesterday, explaining how the thin, squeaky Alexandra Burke version was going to make Sony several squillion splonders, because it was on a silly programme called 'The X Files', or 'Max Factor' (is that why Elizabeth Ardened...?), and forced me to download Jeff Buckley's version at bottle point.

So I had to check the 'Factory Grate' version out first, and indeed, it is truly awful! But the version below (link), is much better than both of them, I can assure you!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CLA4Oda1TZc

I'm sure you'll agree...

5 comments:

Daisy said...

never been fond of frogs singing...okay i will admit it i am the only person in the world who truly hates kermit...

fuchsia groan said...

Hi Scroblene hope all is well with your world.


I must admit, I just love, love love the Jeff Buckley version. I used to play his album, Grace, in the car and sing along. Very loudly, and very badly. I only did this when I was on my own.

Sen. C.R.O'Blene said...

Daisers, he's not real you know...

Why the pathological hatred of such a small and loveable creature?

BTW, did you know that Jim Henson once bought a flat in Frogmore Gardens, London?

True!

Sen. C.R.O'Blene said...

Morning Fusciers - nice to see you here again!

My chum said it reduced him to tears, but after several glasses of Rhone, I think that might have happened anyway...

I'll just have to listen again I suppose!

lilith said...

Alexandra Burke's version makes my ears bleeds and the key change makes the contents of my stomach rise up. Unbloodybelievable. Should be illegal. I have concluded that Leonard's version is the best, after listening to too many. I do like Mr Buckley jr. but he makes it too sad.