Comments on: Hallelujah My Fucking Arse!

By: Ken Guest

Ken Guest — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:39:07 +0000

Personally I prefer the Jack L version – but that's just me :D

By: Kae Verens

Kae Verens — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:05:46 +0000

looks like Simon Cowell has a good reason for having the song sung in the final... whoever wins makes him a lot of money.

By: mapstew

mapstew — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:57:59 +0000

Just watched our Lenny do his song in Dublin 2008 on youtube, just "da bomb", (is that what the yoof say?).

Also watched KD Lang do the same at the Elton benefit…. knocks all the pretenders into the water!!

By: roosta

roosta — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:43:52 +0000

Dont worry..there's a movement to get Buckley's version to number one ahead of that X-Factor yoke..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/dec/17/leonard-cohen-hallelujah-alexandra-burke

Will help Cohen's retirement fund….

By: Hoof

Hoof — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:13:20 +0000

…"written for a film called Shrek"…, Mule Taker, surely a law somewhere exists that entitles you to take whoever said that into a field, have them tied to a cows arse and shit to death.

The X-factor generation summed up in a nutshell.

btw, in a pub on Sat. night after the match, full of Munster and Clermont fans drinking our skulls off while watching the tape of the game when this young wan nearly lost it when informed – in no uncertain manner – that the chances of showing this cretinfest instead was as about as likely to happen as the possibility of Brian O'Driscoll raising the European Cup over his head next May.

So fucking brainwashed that they regard Karaoke as entertainment rather than something that obviously has its origins in Japanese POW camps.

By: Mule Taker

Mule Taker — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:38:36 +0000

HaHa.As I write a good man on the radio is playing Lenny's song by the man himself. Trying to explain to the muppetry that i work with that Leonard Cohen exists and never once appeared on X factor sent them into a frenzy.I was then informed that this beautiful song was written for a film called Shrek. Laugh or cry?I dont know any more.

By: Bock

Bock — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:21:42 +0000

Norma — I suppose if there are fucking idiots out there and if they're willing to be idiots in public, at least we get a laugh out of the whole horror show.

Slom75 — That's what's already happened.

Dr Orgasm — It's part of a dumbing-down process. If you were of a more suspicious mind, you might even think it's deliberate.

Esso Dee — Yes. I thought of putting Mariah Carey in there as well, but I reckon Whitney started the trend. Maybe I'm wrong.

Russ — Lenny probably winces and tries to be gracious, but I'm glad he'll get a few shillings out of the freak show. I don't know what the X-Factor is. It defeats me. Bread and circuses, maybe.

By: Saint Russ

Saint Russ — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:14:11 +0000

I reckon Lenny is going to have a great big smile from ear to ear when that royalty cheque rolls up.

In any case, he probably didn't like the Jeff Buckley version (like you Bock) so thought it wouldn't matter if it went into the realms of "lighter-appreciation"…

What the fuck is the X-Factor anyway ? Is it a disease ? I'm glad I've not got it.

By: EssoDee

EssoDee — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:47:18 +0000

I think your real enemy is Mariah Carey Bock. All the x-factor kids do that ohhhohhhwoohh thing a la Carey, often murdering a perfectly decent song.
I heard the missus on the phone on sunday, telling her sis that the x factor song was the theme from Shrek. You know there really isnt much you can do about this.

By: Doctor Orgsam

Doctor Orgsam — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:49:21 +0000

Its the stalwart march of the inevitable, people. Pop culture is doing to music what photography has done to fine art. Now anyone can pick up a microphone and give it a go in the name of a quick buck in the pocket of some promoter somewhere, leaving the people who push the boundries of the possible in the gutter with the thinkers, scribes and idealistic few who dare to call it for what it is. Art has become content. Packaged in a boy band and sold to pre teen girls who will be embarrassed about it untill the reunion tour and to adults who should really know better.

Under the same logic that we employed when we stopped sending children up chimneys, and down coal mines, we shouldnt expose them to this sort of banal moronism. We are now blind piglets, sucking at the teats of the Loius Walshes of the world after becoming dependant on the dear, sweet sustinance of doing the done thing.

Down with this sort of thing. And I'm not even a fan of Leonard Coen. But I know shite when I smell it.