This song may not be able to repair a broken heart.... but it can show you where every damn piece is...

@keonda5569

6 жыл бұрын

+Frankie Diaz thats a copied comment from a guy that posted it 3 years from now u bitch

@michaelshutters4083

5 жыл бұрын

there is a crack in everything - that's how the light gets in

@mohsinanawal2387

5 жыл бұрын

That's a lovely description.

@deniselee5729

4 жыл бұрын

This song is beautiful and definitely touches your heart ❤️

@maximusdecimusmeridius5500

3 жыл бұрын

I think one should look into the etymology of the word hallelujah and its meaning.HalleluYAH as in the praise you the lord YAHushua Ha'mashiach AKA Jesus Christ.🙏🏼

I cry every time I hear this song. I remember it was playing when one of my closest cousin killed himself. I can't help but remember his cold hands when I saw him in the hospital. This song was playing in his room. . . To this day I can't bring myself to go to his grave without breaking down. Screaming for God to give him back to me. R.I.P Jesse Guyden III, Nov. 13, 1972 - March 14, 2007. "Good night my sweet cousin. May your tears be shed no more."

@colincampbell437

Жыл бұрын

God bless

@veronicam5383

6 ай бұрын

I see your pain ❤ bless you and your s cousin. Loss by suicide is a different kind of grief. Sending love.

@markboller4313

3 ай бұрын

May God comfort u. ❤❤❤

@miask

2 ай бұрын

I’m sorry. May God comfort you. Your cousin is resting in His arms now.

@etherfelix4932

Ай бұрын

love you buddy. smile today!

Shrek introduced to this. I felt in love with Cohen and Cale their genius Resonates a perfect rendition. I haven’t been the same

@desertbill01

4 ай бұрын

You were a little late to the party if the first time you heard this was on Shrek. It absolutely doesn't matter though. The important thing is that you've heard it. I can't tell you how much wonderful music I missed in my youth and didn't "discover" until my late 60's. Keep on discovering.

@cleighsrygley6653

4 ай бұрын

Yep

This gets to the heart of the song. Thank you John Cale.

Many have tried, but few succeed. John's is the definitive version of Leonard's crowning achievement.

@stopgeorge

7 жыл бұрын

Leonard Cohen would disagree. He crowned k.d. Lang as the owner of the song now.

@michaeldine9157

7 жыл бұрын

This will always be my favorite version of this song, the timing, the placement of the notes, the passion in his voice, are all things that put this song far above the other versions...however the meal worms and crickets creep me out a bit

@Ace1King1

6 жыл бұрын

stopgeorge KD Lang is the owner of weirdness.

@michaelpdrock1

5 жыл бұрын

I dunno., Jeff Buckley has so much emotion, and the effect on the guitar...so moving

@johnnypastrana6727

5 жыл бұрын

I prefer Leonard's performance...love it when composers sing their own damn songs...

It's a unending glory that evangelicals sing this in their church sunday rock concerts, wearing their casual daily wear. Leonard surely got a kick out this, a King among subversive poets.

@gregmann5687

4 ай бұрын

Lol. It's a pop song. This song never gets sung in churches. What would make you even think that?

@Rigbiyiy

8 күн бұрын

​@@gregmann5687 here in brazil it got a portuguese version.. and it's a gospel song.. a lot of people play it in churches... I feel a lot of people don't get the song lol Take me to church from Hozier also plays in a lot of religious videos.. I think it's funny

@Red_Rover

8 күн бұрын

I never heard that in a church before. Where's you get that idea?

What a strong and pure voice.

@johndaviescale

9 ай бұрын

Hello Ana ! Thanks you so much 😊 How are you doing?

@beliviatrue

3 ай бұрын

😅🤣

This version is, in my opinion, the best one. The way he sings it feels 'weak', and not in a bad way. The weak, tired, and broken sound that perfectly suits the song. Love it.

@lamestudiosinc418

4 жыл бұрын

That's a really interesting way to say that he's a mediocre singer.

@jpcpm1340

4 жыл бұрын

@@lamestudiosinc418 Fail

@Tasonir

4 жыл бұрын

100% Agree. The Pentatonix cover that youtube keeps recommending utterly fails on this. They're all great singers, but they had to make the song sound "powerful" which is just not the way to do this song.

@slc308

2 жыл бұрын

Not weak. Broken, cold, tired, like a man who has lived it and regrets it but cherishes it. Like the johnny cash hurt cover. It's something only age and experience can portray correctly.

@j.c7719

2 жыл бұрын

John Cale is literally one of the most genius songwiters, musicians, lyricists and producers to ever walk the earth, this was merely a cover, a great cover but he was written even greater songs.

Hay muchas voces de esta canción, pero pienso que está es la mejor interpretación. Aleluya.

I've heard so many versions of this song but everytime I do, I always have to come back to this one cause it's hands down the best there is!

@suzannepage4654

7 ай бұрын

John's son Shane does it even better.

@copykatninja

7 ай бұрын

@@suzannepage4654 channel name?!? I'll definitely check it out, thank you 😊

@jamesheath7601

7 ай бұрын

I guess you’ve never heard of Jeff Buckley

@shaananwalsh7513

4 ай бұрын

@@jamesheath7601this doesn’t touch Buckley

@jaspersmitt0

3 ай бұрын

Check the original, by Leonard Cohen.

Damn!!! Is no one going to mention how great they did on Waiting for My Man??? Even Chrisie does Lous "Watch Me NOw" John Cale is an absolute league of his own. Humble and happy enough enough to be playing with much lesser schooled performers. He's always been able to master any instrument he touches. Obviously you all know Nick Was just learning the piano a year before this. Kind of butchered the timing of his own Ship Song. But these 3 together??? Chemistry Clicks Fluid. Thanks for this post. Made my day for sure. Love all 3 of them.

Lou's listening from the Heavens. I hope he loves it :)

No one, definitely NO ONE can sing hallelujah better than John Cale. HE IS THE BEST, HE WAS BORN FOR THIS BEATIFUL SONG ❤❤❤❤

@richardfife1601

Жыл бұрын

The Buckley version is incredibly pretty, but the beauty of the performance works against the song. Cale's version is a more complete package.

@lindamvernon

Жыл бұрын

​@@richardfife1601Thought I was the only person in the world who didn't think Jeff Buckley's version was the the best. "Too pretty" is a good description. To me it feels like a dirge rather than an anthem to surviving life, love and loss. (Beautiful guitar playing though). If you would like to hear an a capella version try Pentatonix.

@johndaviescale

9 ай бұрын

Hello anminh ! Thank you so much ☺️ How are you doing?

@icantbebotheredwithnames

8 ай бұрын

No, lenard Cohen sang it best. It WAS HIS SONG. D😊ON'T EVER FORGET THAT

@spinarunnerberto8424

4 ай бұрын

Jeff Buckley can do It!

Cale re-arranged Cohen's song to the form that is universally beloved. Cale's performance is both elegant and powerful.

@davidzof

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, he added 3 extra verses to the original taken from the 80 Cohen allegedly wrote.

@nicholasmockridge9085

3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@bassesatta9235

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidzof it also happened to be the same 3 verses leonard used in his 1988 tour

Best cover of this song IMHO because he stayed true to the original composition and has a great tenor voice, while LC had some shortcomings vocally. The 1st verse, when he lyrically announces the chord changes on piano as he sings them, is just pure genius.

@jasonwyman1873

Жыл бұрын

I like this'n too: kzread.info/dash/bejne/m4VtmNOihs_ImZs.html&ab_channel=JanileighCohen

@kristiswa

Жыл бұрын

Leonard Cohen never thought he had the voice to sing even his own songs and saw himself as more of a poet and lyricist than a singer. His favorite version was kd lang's.

@richardfife1601

Жыл бұрын

Neither "Minor Fall" nor "Major Lift" are actual musical terms.

@utinga8590

Жыл бұрын

And that's what's so nice about writer's, of all types, they're not technically uptight and are able to color our lives with more than just black and white whenever speaking of "matters of the Heart", as the poet L. C. did with passion. Oh, and Matters of the Heart aren't really medical terms.

@utinga8590

Жыл бұрын

Janis was said to have "shortcomings". But what's so fabulous about music and the various colors of the lyrics, musical instruments, expertise of the musicians, and the singers themselves, is the prue enjoyment we consumers can keep on having from the likes of these "shortcoming" technically non-perfect" singers due to the facts of their souls in belting out those words. Sadly, many people just don't know how to enjoy their gifts and miss the whole point of music. 😢

Best rendition of this song ever!!!

Forever my favorite version of this song. Sigh, I'm going to listen to Paris 1919 now.

Whoever sings this song, it flowers a different colour of beauty. It awakens deepest love of the singer and the listener. So it's always beautiful and can't be distorted.

I heard this in 1992, on the Leonard Cohen tribute, I'm Your Fan. The simplicity was what won me over: a man with a weathered voice, accompanied by piano. It was beautiful, poignant, and inimitable. Yes, I have heard several covers, but this is one that I always return to. This video has added more to the song:The tension between creation and destruction; beauty and decay; love and death. A true memento mori, disguised as a hymn for agnostics and heretics. I'm shattered.

@markboller4313

3 ай бұрын

Well said. ❤❤❤

@stevendefeo8424

2 ай бұрын

You can say the same for the song “The Sound of Silence” by Disturbed. They covered that song better than Simon and Garfunkel

@py_a_thon

2 ай бұрын

In some ways, Leonard Cohen basically told the story of Sampson and Delilah in the form of an Al Green song lol. Obligatory Faith+1 joke? (My bad...South Park has either ruined me or improved me. I am still unsure as to which wave function collapse will occur.) If you think about the song a bit deeper, I suppose it has this structure of mythos and perfection. The notes are perfect, yet the words are human. Also, if you ask some rabbis they will legit say that the origin story in the garden of eden is basically one of the world's first recorded and preserved dirty jokes lol.

@antoinetteherrera9026

2 ай бұрын

@@py_a_thon He also, through Cohen's lyrics, hinted at the young David playing the lure for King Saul, then combined the story of King David and Bathsheba with that of Samson and Delilah. If I recall, Leonard Cohen wrote many different verses for "Hallelujah " Depending on who sings l, it becomes a different song.

@py_a_thon

2 ай бұрын

@@antoinetteherrera9026 The song is definitely fire. The words are linked to many memes over many thousands of years....and the song is even clever enough to explain 12 tone harmonic theory in a psychoacoustics form (4th 5th, minor fall, major lift).

nobody can sing this song like John Cale!!!

Best version of the one of the best song. Thanks so much.

John Cale's version was the first version I came across. I think the first version you come across is the version that means the most to you.

The inimitable JOHN CALE! Love from Canada

I have been searching for this version for so long.... It has a very powerful and profound emotional pull. That piano cries beautifully along with his voice; it delivers a level of heartbreak few experience.

I think the deep voice makes the song better, it fits more.

You would think me a fool if I say how long it took to find this amazing song with a sweet melodic voice ❤

Best versipn to date. Captures the soul of the lyrics, a poem

This is my favorite version of this incredible song. R.I.P. Classy Man, Leonard Cohen

@gloriatorres3146

7 жыл бұрын

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@sharonrogers898

6 жыл бұрын

Patrice Catanio mine too. Such a beautiful song.

@James-hd6ez

10 ай бұрын

​@sharonrogers898 And mine but iam biased being a big John Cale fan.

my favorite HALLELUJAH

His voice is somehow stronger now than it was in the 70s.

The first time I heard this recording, I cried.......I had never heard the song before, and his voice was meant to cover this song for sure.

This is the definitive version of the song.

This was my great grandpa’s favorite song. ❤️

@johndaviescale

9 ай бұрын

Hello alex! Thank you so much ☺️ How are you doing?

when I first heard and was blown away by this I immediately searched out all other versions. And there are many. But this could not be touched. This guy owns the song.

@Ace1King1

6 жыл бұрын

hitty9 Usually we stick with the first version we hear, unless it's godawful. Ever see a remake of a movie that you thought was better than the original?

@farrellmcnulty909

4 жыл бұрын

He owns ANY song he sets his sights on.

@hitty9

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ace1King1 Maybe not, but I've heard updated remakes of songs that were clearly better.

@suegriessel5639

4 жыл бұрын

Sadly now out performed by the Pentotonix version...

@TheNickness

3 жыл бұрын

Nah Leonard Cohen's version's still better. You can't outperform those choir hallelujas and Cohen's singing.

My ignorance. I never knew this version. Cale is not an artist with whom I would associate such a powerful ballad. I'm a changed man

@ForARide

Жыл бұрын

Cale has written some powerfull ballads himself. Check out Dying On The Vine, I Keep A Close Watch (Music For A New Society version), Chinese Envoy, Amsterdam or Antartica Starts Here amongst many other great ballads he's written. Both,studio recorded or live renditions of these songs reveal a true master in John Cale.

Just heard this at today's memorial. No one sings it like you. Awesome.❤❤🙏🙏

@hopelove6658

2 жыл бұрын

Jeff Buckley

Best version in my opinion.

Thanks John, my name is Cale you truly inspire me.

I have not heard a version with half the argument as this. This is hallelujah. 🙌🏻

Beautiful voice. Unlike most his has improved with age. Others have covered this classic however THIS is this the BEST version to date.

@andreffandreff884

8 ай бұрын

With out a Doubt

This song always gives me the chills. Between Cale’s version and Jeff Buckley’s, it literally takes my breath away every time.

Ich liebe John Cales Stimme und seine Interpretation dieses Liedes. Und dieses Video ist - wenn auch in Teilen verstörend - ein Kunstwerk für sich.

Simplicity, emotional resonance and a beautiful atmosphere. There's no need for any vocal gymnastics or choirs etc. I love the stripped down approach 😊

So beautiful and authentic. He's telling this story

The very best version ❤

The best version.

The Best version of this song ❤

JOHN CALE - PURE GENIUS

Happy 80th Birthday John Cale

JOHN CALE -- A TRUELY GREAT ARTIST.......

@alexberg5380

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/X6GisLShfNineaQ.html

My all time favorite song. Great song. Great performance. Great composer.

Love you John Cale, always, respect too! Your visual image...has always been beautiful...then, more so now, and your spirit, where our goodness comes from, shines like the sun. You are a wave of pure passion. Heartfelt love and thanks.

Really strange video, but... unbeating cover of Cohen's song. Thank you Mr. Cale, you made this song immortal.

@97kos

Күн бұрын

Exactly!

I saw him do this live several times Always beautiful

Jhon cale is wonderful, only 3 person can sing this peace!

Best version.

Esta version del maestro John Cale es magistral respetando la musica y la letra del eterno Leonard Cohen..para disfrutarse millones de veces.

Leonard Cohen will be missed. "Well maybe there's a God above/But all I ever knew of love/Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you...." Fits where we are now.

Einfach wundervoll! Für mich die bisher ausdrucksstärkste Version dieses traumhaft schönen Songs !

this guy's voice is a magic cast💜

Fear is such a great album. Him and Brian eno are two of my favorite artists

I agree completly when somenone says this is The Best Song all the times!!!!

I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord. But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this: The fourth, the fifth. The minor fall, the major lift. The baffled king composing Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bathing on the roof. Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you. She tied you to a kitchen chair. She broke your throne, she cut your hair. And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Maybe I've been here before. I know this room, I've walked this floor. I used to live alone before I knew you. I've seen your flag on the marble arch. Love is not a victory march, It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah. There was a time you'd let me know What's real and going on below. But now you never show it to me, do you? Remember when I moved in you? The Holy Dove was moving too. And every breath we drew was hallelujah. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Maybe there's a God above. And all I ever learned from love Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you. It's not a cry you can hear at night. It's not somebody who's seen the light. It's a cold and its a broken hallelujah. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelu... Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

@_W-H-O_

5 жыл бұрын

こたにさとし hello to you too

I have heard a number of versions. Cohen himself, Buckley, Jon Bon Jovi, and countless others. I love them all, including this version!

I love this version. I stop and listen no matter where i am even if its playing during Shrek. Bless you sir and merry christmas to all.

I just cant explain but when i was hearing this music i felt my heart squish, i'm going through such a bad fase of my life right now, i just wish that everything was alright, just that.

@kmj5316

2 жыл бұрын

Hang in there Luiz. It will get better!

@michaellyons2654

Жыл бұрын

I understand. I feel like I’m going through it now. A year after your comment, I truly hope that you are in a better phase of life.

@ashleygraham1011

Жыл бұрын

I hope everything is better now!

Incredible, eerie, fragile, haunting...and still and always the greatest reinterpretation of another artist's song ever.

@ForARide

6 жыл бұрын

Becky81 Yes...and no. This is by far the best reinterpretation of this song, but then you have surely listened to Cale´s fantastic versions of Heartbreak Hotel or Pablo Picasso. Always rearranging the songs and coming up with new versions. Pure genius. And then there are other artists with great covers that sometimes outclass the original versions. On my channel I have a playlist with several covers from various artits doing great versions of other peoples songs. Maybe you want to check it out. kzread.info/head/PLNINWcxxj9hHhXhw5IaBHnwXtEx02zNRU&disable_polymer=true By the way, I suppose we share the same city. If so, then greetings from Icke to Icke.

@marktwan4237

2 жыл бұрын

AGREED.

@johndaviescale

9 ай бұрын

Hello Becky! Thanks for compliment 😊 How are you doing?

Magnificent john cales a genius, nobody can touch this , period .

Vere best Cover Version! ❤️🎸❤️

He and Lou were always two of my fav's! The dynamic duo! Still has his chops! Chillingly haunting is the only way John would do it!

It is honest. One great musician for other great musician. R.I.P Leonard...Thank you

Fragments of a rainy season is propably my favourite John Cale Album and this is one of the best tracks of it.

This is the BEST rendition of this song!!

@mitchparel18

2 жыл бұрын

Agree 👍 with everyone 🎯

Thank you sir for your work, and thank you Mr. Cohen for making it possible. Both of you, amazing.

Also the best version. And there are. So. Many versions.

This version is truly magnificent. Am sure Leonard thought so too

@johndaviescale

9 ай бұрын

Hello Patricia! Thanks so much 😊 How are you doing?

The Best Version

this made me randomly burst out crying. good grief

@lexifirst

3 жыл бұрын

Same

Simple beauty and the best version I’ve ever heard 🎶🎶🎶

@johndaviescale

9 ай бұрын

Hello sara! Thanks so much 😊 How are you doing?

@JacksonWalter-hg2kb

5 ай бұрын

Hi pretty 😍😍 lady how are you 💋💋💋 and how is the weather ☁️🇺🇸☘️☘️☘️🍀💐💐 condition like over there

The best version ever.

Of the hundreds, (yes, actually HUNDREDS) of different covers of this song, this is the only one that can even come close to being in the same league as Leonard Cohen's original version.

@kittycat6195

5 жыл бұрын

King Naga nope. Jeff Buckley did

@Human1league

4 жыл бұрын

Cohen’s original sounds too jazzy for me. I’d say Cale’s arrangements turn it into a more powerful song.

@hernanbusso1609

4 жыл бұрын

@@kittycat6195 Buckley's is fantastic, but Cale's is the best one.

@MsMorgasm79

4 жыл бұрын

300 covers have been done. And probably still counting, though Mr. Cohen has said enough already! There's too many people singing it.

@memzpf

2 жыл бұрын

Rufus Wainright's version is amazing

I am a huge Leonard fan and love finding different covers of his songs... this is superior to every single one of them.

@robertlloydsite

3 жыл бұрын

Jamie Smith You are absolutely correct sir. and I'm a composer and singer.

The closest version of this legendary song to my heart ❤

Definitive version hallelujah John

@JacksonWalter-hg2kb

5 ай бұрын

Hi 👋 pretty lady ❤️😘 how are you doing today 💕😘🌹 and how is the weather condition going 🏵️💖 over there

Love John with that axe chopping up those baby pianos. Reminiscence to the Croyden gig back in 1977 where John Cale beheaded a chicken live on stage and threw the carcass into the audience while performing Elvis Presley´s Heartbreak Hotel. Pogo dancing stopped instantly, and his band who were all vegetarians walked right off the stage ending the tour. Cale later said that it was the most effective show-stopper he ever came up with.

The visuals are both creepy and effective in raising the emotional effects of this brilliant piece of music.

As good as several people sound, it will always be Leonard's song. He wrote it, he owns it. I want it sung at my memorial by Leonard.

@ForARide

2 жыл бұрын

The original version by Cohen sounds very wooden. It was Cale's rearrangement that propelled this song into higher stratospheres, that even Cohen himself adapted. John Cale definitely made this song his own, pure genius.

Best cover of this song. No one before or since matched it.

@PsychoKupcake

3 күн бұрын

Jeff Buckley

Things you may not have noticed about this song: - It describes the chord progression in the lyrics, "the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift" - Leonard Cohen is describing himself as the baffled king, as he is composing the song - It compares the feeling of love to the practice of prayer - "Love is not a victory march" points out that love is not an end game experience, but a feeling - "All I've ever learned from love Is how to shoot somebody who outdrew you" describes how people get trapped into viewing love as a competition and win con This song predates me, but I first heard it at the end of the movie Basquiat and it just stuck with me. I keep coming back to it.

The first time I heard it was in "Scrubs" I can say thank you "Scrubs" for this

@bernardsherry5642

3 жыл бұрын

Scrubs also used the song "Book of Love"

@mellowfire420

3 жыл бұрын

Hell of a soundtrack

Brilliant. I love this song. ❤❤❤

Every time i hear the song my eyes get full with water

My absolute favorite version of this song

absolutly the best sung version of this song is this one hands down

John is responsible for the stream-lined version of Cohen's masterpiece that has been covered by hundreds of artists... and to me, his rendition is still the best. I first heard it in the movie Shrek and was immediately moved by the song. I can only remember one other time that I had a similar feeling -- when Peter Gabriel's version of "The Book of Love" was played on the Scrubs finale. Great song, great performance.

@robertlloydsite

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you. Also try Peter Gabriel singing 'Heroes' live in Verona'.

@funwillfunwill

Жыл бұрын

The Magnetic Fields version of The Book of Love will always be superior

Best ever version. Since hearing it on Scrubs, I can’t get through the first four notes without crying.

@HerrFrutex

3 ай бұрын

Exactly. Sitting in the bus can become quite uncomfortable when the playlist does....this one.

Thank you Snyder for introducing me to this masterpiece

Objectively best version of this song. Fight me on that

@jongellert6971

4 жыл бұрын

I won't

@kosmori9898

4 жыл бұрын

Let's consider Jeff Buckley.

@mariana-fe2nt

4 жыл бұрын

Pentatonix? They’re breathtaking

@dirtymike3329

3 жыл бұрын

>>>>Objectively

@ricardocorreia2542

3 жыл бұрын

@@mariana-fe2nt Pentatonix's version is horrible, they completely overblowed it, it would be harder to miss the point as badly as they did

Quite surely, most in the comments don’t have an idea that John’s the man behind the droning sound of Venus in Furs and other gems from VU. Just wanna bring that up. Legendary talent.

The best cover of this song...so much emotion...it always causes me to tear up. This cover is beautiful