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Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah (6:53)

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“Hallelujah” is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen originally released on his 1984 studio album Various Positions. “Hallelujah” has been covered more than 120 times (counting only recorded, not live, versions) and featured in the soundtracks of numerous movies and television shows.

American singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley recorded one of the best-known covers of “Hallelujah” for his 1994 studio album, Grace. Buckley, not wholly satisfied with any one take, recorded the song more than twenty times. Grammy Award-winning music studio engineer Andy Wallace took three of these recordings to create a single track. The result is a sparse-sounding production of vocals and electric guitar, influenced by John Cale’s version.

In 2004, Jeff Buckley’s version was ranked #259 on Rolling Stone’s “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time”. In September 2007, a poll of fifty songwriters conducted by Q Magazine listed “Hallelujah” among the all-time “Top 10 Greatest Tracks” with John Legend calling Buckley’s version “as near perfect as you can get”. Buckley’s first #1 came posthumously in March 2008 when “Hallelujah” topped Billboard’s Hot Digital Songs following a performance of the song by Jason Castro on American Idol.
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  • Grace
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  • So Real: Songs From Jeff Buckley
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  • Grace (Legacy Edition)
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  • Live at L'Olympia
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  • StraznikSadu

    Leonard Cohen is a god, Jeff Buckley was his ultimate apostle... [2]

    yesterday morning

  • Sadavian

    Leonard Cohen is a god, Jeff Buckley was his ultimate apostle...

    Saturday evening

  • bethzim3

    Uma prece, um canto, um encanto

    Tuesday evening

  • Merowinger110

    Wow.

    10 days ago

  • kewlbanana

    hot as hell and so talanted hell wold spit him back out! Why oh why did he have to die?

    11 days ago

  • ackers07

    why didn't I have this song in my collection sooner... lyrics are masterful.

    12 days ago

  • MackSpane

    Might as well add my protest to Last.fm not having the actual album recording of the song, even though it's listed as that track. I don't mind the occasional different version of a song, as long as they play the original version more often than the different version, which obviously isn't the case here.

    22 days ago

  • placeboboi72

    anybody gotta puncture repair kit for the whole in my heart?

    25 days ago

  • NeilForde

    I agree with TomDusty. Get a better version last.fm

    last month

  • PatriciiaAmorim

    amazing.

    last month

  • Eklectic1

    Wow.

    last month

  • TomDusty

    great song, great guitar, great vocals, awful recording of vocals- how did anything that muffled ever get recorded by anyone in the music industry?

    last month

  • BlueRaja237

    Cohen and Buckley gave life to a masterpiece.

    last month

  • Katie_LovesFM

    Favorite song. Love * 1500 to the 9th dimensional power. ♥

    last month

  • EmanonGirl

    RIP, beautiful soul. And this isn't even the best version!

    last month

  • str8_ryder

    Perfection!

    last month

  • Stecka

    This is pure. This is so beautiful. And it breaks my heart every time I hear it. [2]

    March 2012

  • Tallyra

    Ooh, shivers.

    March 2012

  • olestoner1

    He is good your very much wrong i make a point to listen to this once a week...i wish you would never have went out in that bay jeff..your missed

    March 2012

  • Sockmonkey15

    If this song doesn't strike you emotionally, you don't have a heart.

    March 2012
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