Dok (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} cyberinsekt) wrote,@ 2007-01-20 10:49:00 |
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k.d. lang - Hallelujah
And so we're down to this, the final piece of the puzzle. If you know me, and you've given the matter any thought whatsover, you might have been expecting a spectacularly unusual version of the song to round off Hallelujah Week. "Who is he," you might be asking, "to deny us our Finnish speed metal polka versions of popular songs?" Who I am is a man who has found himself transfixed by just how good k.d. lang's cover of Hallelujah really is. She takes the musicality and sensitivity of Jeff Buckley, the careworn dignity of John Cale, and adds to them the intimacy and erotic charge that this song really requires. Taken from her recent album Hymns of the 49th Parallel, this is an exceptional performance.
And so we're down to this, the final piece of the puzzle. If you know me, and you've given the matter any thought whatsover, you might have been expecting a spectacularly unusual version of the song to round off Hallelujah Week. "Who is he," you might be asking, "to deny us our Finnish speed metal polka versions of popular songs?" Who I am is a man who has found himself transfixed by just how good k.d. lang's cover of Hallelujah really is. She takes the musicality and sensitivity of Jeff Buckley, the careworn dignity of John Cale, and adds to them the intimacy and erotic charge that this song really requires. Taken from her recent album Hymns of the 49th Parallel, this is an exceptional performance.
