September 11th Twin Towers - Falling Man

this about 9/11 not this shitty song

Jeff Buckley and K.D. Lang's versions are my top two favorites. They are both superb and both on my iPod.

The best version is by Rufus Wainwright ! This version is pretty bad ... His voice S**ks

The Best version of this song is by Kurt Nilsen and those other Norwegian guys i forget their names but they sing like angels.

Without wishing to offend the maestro (LC )I have to say that the best version of this is unquestionably KD Lang. Check out the Juno awards 2005 in winnebago ( I think ) Just superb.

Buckley's version is hands down the best. He puts everyone else who sings this to shame. Even the creator...

He looks vaguely like Jeff Goldblum but is so much better looking and sexy as hell. Roll on friday night in Dublin !

He sure can talk, that is not singing.

lind nilsen fuentes holm do it better.and try harvey,s place and sail away with alejandro fuentes

He wrote a blinder of a song, but personally, I don't think he can sing. Jeff Buckley FTW!

thanks for sharing Cale version

It is Kafkaesque that he included the Marble Arch verse as such whereas for Cohen it was still in his head BUT he included it in the props, ie the Marble Arch behind him with the nasty feminist nasties singing his doom

Cale is the only ver I have heard that KEEPS to Cohen's theme of the whole disaster [ie Buttercup in Bath usurps Beethoven/Schiller Ode to Joy Holy Hallelujah for femmo Flag Waving on Marble Arch]

agreed, it is a great song. but... cale didn't add that lyric or change that lyric. that is how cohen wrote it
"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 it's a broken Hallelujah" are all cohen's words. i think he has many versions of the lyrics. finally - imop - I don't interpret cale's version as dower but reverent.

wow....i can do a better job than this.

Not going anywhere. Cale used the words to create a dour version, it's a cold and broken Hallelujah. From what I think is the 1st performance in 1984, by the songwriter, and from what I know, and what I've read, Hallelujah is used in good times, and bad. Cale's version is only despair, and dour. that's all I'm saying. There's much out there from Cohen about the song, and how it has morphed.
I just like the song, Allison Crowe's video is wonderful.Enjoy...or don't. It just a song. : )

john cale did the best version.

HAHAHAAHA THIS IS HORRIBLE!
LMAO

Yeah I heard a few of his songs and yes its like he is reciting a poem. I get his style. :]
It was just weird hearing other peoples versions of it then his you know?
Much respect KJ.

Does anyone know the history of the different lyrics to this song? More recent versions of this song have the same first two verses but the next two verses are different.

what the hell are you talking about? HE WROTE THIS SONG YOU IDIOT! How can you say there is no feeling in his music of this piece?? sheesh.

yes that is his style ,
A good Way too describe it
Better is image,
he is a poet
and he uses music
to present the Poems...
KJ

This guy is who wrote the song...
So the real question is Who the F**k is Jeff Buckley.... LOL
(don't reply to that i know who jeff is)
KJ

Jeff Buckley is the best at this.


But this guy? wtf is this? No feeling!

wirklich gut

c&&ool

Love K.D. Langs version....but THIS version has the BEST lyrics...and sometimes it is not the singing that moves you, but the words!! Just as beauty is in the eyes of the beholder....sometimes glory is heard through different ears!!

hey smood, i agree he isn't the greatest singer, but i wouldn't use the superlatives you do. don't you think that voices suit certain songs? for example, cohen sings "First We Take Manhattan" and i think his voice is brilliant. i do prefer other versions of this song but he is definitely not the worst singer ever :) cheers.

It's a shame that Buckley left the best verse out of his version. Each of the versions are great in their own unique way.