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

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.