Hallelujah

[Fawkes]

Here's where I shamelessly self-promote:
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That's a recording (using my computer's built-in mic) of me singing/playing Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. This was my first time touching a guitar after a two month carpal tunnel induced sabbatical, so fuck you. I did this for my friend who committed suicide a few weeks ago. Nothing immensely different from any of the other innumerable renditions of this song around, but it's a great song so I wanted to play it. To any of you a-holes that listen to the first 10 seconds of something and decide then whether or not you like, it doesn't get good til the second verse. This isn't in any way indicative of the style I normally write or play in, but I wanted to do it and I felt like I may as well put it on here too.

[Quail]

I do like this song a lot, and you did a good job:thumbup1:

[Fawkes]

why thank you :)

[Jazzratt]

I like this song but I couldn't listen to this rendition. I think it's because your in-built mic's crap but the fact the guitar was so much louder than the vocals really bothered me. That said when I heard the singing it was good, you certainly weren't murdering the song or anything.

[Fawkes]

The first verse is sung much quieter than the rest, so that may have been the volume problem. But yeah, the "mixing" is pretty shitty.

[scarletghoul]

One of my fav songs ever ! Cohen is the man.

This is a nice version in its own way. I'm sick of all the jeff buckley wannabes on youtube, not to mention those who sing it without understanding a single word.. but this is really good. It's very uhh 'real' i guess is the closest word :)

I love the bits when your voice goes like conner oberst doing a tom waits impression haha.

[Fawkes]

Haha, thanks a lot. I've never heard his impressions, but I can see the Tom Waits connection. My mentality behind it was kind of like, alright, Leonard Cohen sings it like a dirge, Jeff Buckley sings it so softly, albeit powerfully, I wanted to make the emotion roar out rather than coat it on heavily like Cohen or whisper it, almost sexualize it, like Buckley. That's not to say I don't like either of those versions though, they're both totally amazing.