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Shadow Leader said:
one of the best songs ever in Hallelujah and Alexandra performed it so well I even think she may have done what I didn't think was possible and maybe even performed it better than Jeff Buckley's version
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But surely Hallelujah was a Leonard Cohen song?:D

Oh Dominique, having never been a student yourself, and vented your anger upon them from time to time, you can't ever have experienced both the romance of red wine, a candle, a bedsit and the meloncholy of the singer songwriters with the one bar fire for heat. Deep exploratory lyrics of protest or contemplation, and you the put the world to right.

And if you want to, dig out his dads album "goodbye and hello" Nam time, and probably more evocative for it in terms of plugging into a generations consciousness
 
Thanks for that folks .... urm.... that's better than Cohens

But I'm claiming Nick Drake as my spot. Well strictly speaking I always had a good ear (if poor ability) and a guy called Dave Wilkinson gave me a cassette in 1983 called Heaven in a Wild Flower (I believe it relates to Oscar Wilde? - a life in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower?) and asked me to listen to it.

I met him a week later and he said "what did you make of it?"

I told him it was some of the most beautiful poetry ever put to music I'd heard, and proceeded to promote Nick Drakes legacy since. When I eventually went to uni (early 90's) i produced Nick Drake as my hidden singer song writer (and most fell for it). He's now pretty well exposed (to use racing parlance) but in terms of petry of the classic nature, and guitar playing with the picking on the upward stoke of a down strum the best I've heard.

I've enjoyed the odd night of fun with the under grads here who are just going through the same experience.
 
After watching it on Youtube have to say I thought the whole thing was a bit overdone, particularly towards the end.

Good version (and a fantastic singer) but nowhere near Buckley's version for me.

Cheryl Tweedy looked like she needed comforting, the poor thing. I would've...
 
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