there's a blaze of light in every word/doesn't matter which you heard/the holy or broken hallelujah

[godream]

So those of you who are familiar with mostly my favorite choices in Music To Study To (loud and punk and upbeat and repetitive and catchy and deemed obnoxious by many self-respecting adults) may be surprised to learn that my very favorite song ever is Hallelujah (and I totally cried during that scene in Shrek entirely because of the song).

So of course this post in audiography made me explode with joy. I haven't listened to them all yet, but I'm slowly working through the list -- so far I really like the instrumental Chris Botti cover, and the Late Tuesday version is also lovely with all sorts of pretty vocal harmonies, and the Kathryn Williams one has really beautiful strings mixed in too.

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[shaktool.livejournal.com]

Aww man, stop reading my friend's list for a week and then realize that, if I had been reading it, I'd have 19 new versions of Hallelujah on my computer. Instead, all the yousendits expired. >:(

Umm... do you think you could email or IM them to me or something? 'Cus, like, Hallelujah is one of my 33 highest rated songs on iTunes, out of precisely four-thousand-three songs, and the only non-Leonard-Cohen version of it that I have is the one by Gavin DeGraw, which that post in audiography claims is the worst one out of all of them (I don't think it's too bad, but I can definitely imagine better versions... um... want it?).

I am totally not writing this at 4:09 AM. I am totally not getting up at 7:00 AM tomorrow to drive my sister to school. Nope.

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[godream.livejournal.com]

Sure -- let me know what e-mail address to send them to and I'll do it sometime tonight (probably)... because I, for my part, am totally not reading Livejournal when I have to be at work in ten minutes and am totally not ready yet. :P