More Google Benzien Filter Mishaps Elicits a Buckley Conundrum
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Despite this image, this is not a political post. Well, it is sort of. In a music snob sort of way...
So I saw this Google Headline "HUD Secretary Expected to Resign." But As you can see the picture next to it is a thumb of the Jeff Buckley album "Grace". Being ever inquisitive about such strange pairings I clicked on the picture which led me to this article from The Dallas Morning Star:This might have been more appropriate a week ago, on Easter Sunday -- you know, Alleluia and all.Jeff Buckley's hauntingly beautiful rendition of the Leonard Cohen song "Hallelujah" became a digital sensation a couple of weeks ago -- 14 years after its release and 11 years after the artist's death -- when a contestant performed the song on American Idol. Judges Randy Jackson and Simon Cowell praised Buckley's version on the air, and it shot to the top of Billboard's Digital Downloads chart. It's sold more than 500,000 downloaded copies.Q, the British music magazine, once called Buckley's "Hallelujah" "the most perfect song ever." (They're wrong, of course. The most perfect song ever is "A Case of You" by Joni Mitchell, but I digress...)You can listen to Buckley's masterpiece here.And here's a short story about its recent surge, from About.com.Buckley, the son of singer and songwriter Tim Buckley, died in a drowning accident in 1997.Among the many, many artists who've covered "Hallelujah" are John Cale, Allison Crowe, kd lang, Rufus Wainwright and Willie Nelson.
I mean I am glad that Buckley gets his props, if only in death, but I can't help but be somewhat pissed in the "I heard it first" kind of way that all these people who downloaded the song, had to hear it through that dead air space known as American Idol. Am I wrong to feel this way, or is this just sour grapes:
BTW here is the author of the article idea of the most perfect song ever recorded, Joni Mitchel's "A Case of You":
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