Hallelujah - all the versions in one

[ibilly99]

Evening peeps

I love this song in fact I love it so much I?ve just got greedy and combined 10 versions into a single take. I hope all your favourites are there including the very latest X-factor winner Alexandra Burke. If you like it please leave a comment and give me stars! Another ibilly99 mashup for Christmas.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdw4oTMRAkw

[Brendan]

I?m normally one of those dickhead music snobs who always has something to say about songs just to prove he?s too cool for school. Like:

?You had to have heard so-n-so?s version that only 5 people ever heard because it?s the best purely for its obscurity...?

Or

?wassisname did it best in ?68 when she used the thingymabob through the magafter and so-n-so produced it.?

And

?you can?t possibly like that coz it was on some television programme...?

etc. etc. I inhabit a sad little world.

But Hallelujah is a song that was truly inspired. In a way it?s an ode to music itself. It sounds amazing even on reality TV. Fuck, Barney the Dinosaur could do a version of it and I would like it.

[Sue]

WHERE'S RUFUS WAINWRIGHT'S VERSION????!!!!????!!!!

Best by far in my opinion, and I don't even like Rufus Wainwright much apart from Hallelujah!

[SCSB79]

Best version ever:

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

[Sue]

Yeh OK, that definitely wins hands down, I'll have that at my funeral instead of the Rufus Wainwright one - or maybe both, they could probably do with a laugh by that point :))

[ibilly99]

Good I'll check out RF - how could I have missed it - Brendan so agree !

[Keef]

Good job, couple of versions in there I'd not heard before. I am still a Jeff Buckley man though, probably because it was the version that I heard first, so to me it is kind of the original, even though it clearly isn't.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Which remindes me, I have a video of Keef playing Hallelujah knocking around somewhere - and very fine it is too. Keef's version... not the shaky video

[Keef]

Oh dear, I've not seen that!

[SeanMacGabhann]

copyright remains with you - I'll not post it until/if approval is forthcoming

[Keef]

Where was it from? I don't mind you posting it, I just hope the sound is okay, often with mobile phone clips, the singing sounds a lot louder than it should do.

[mockney piers]

Hallelujah, Christams No1 circa 1742 by the boy George.

[Keef]

That brings back memories, the amount of times I've sang the bloody hallelujah chorus!

Interesting fact, the first performance of the Messiah was in Dublin.

[Brendan]

Here is some profound insight into the cryptic imagery in the song: http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-%26-entertainment/song-everyone-pretends-to-understand-is-christmas-number-one-200812221474/

[Moos]

Keef Wrote:

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> That brings back memories, the amount of times

> I've sang the bloody hallelujah chorus!

Me too, but I still love it. Best saved for the end of a performance so you can really belt it out and not worry about singing well afterwards...

...AND LORD OF LORDS!! Cue lots of red faces and squawking.