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25 May 2008 10:56 pm
The Strange Journey Of Cohen's "Hallelujah"
I've been posting covers and the original, and now a reader sent me this marvelous, long essay describing the song's remarkable journey through the music world. Money quote:
Jeff Buckley had to reach back to an artist of the 60s to touch the
kind of consensus that "Hallelujah" has generated and maintained;
nothing escaped the 90s similarly unscathed except Sleater-Kinney and
Biggie. When we demand purity of our art, all art is inevitably impure,
and possibilities are closed off; when we recognize the beauty of
ambiguity, as in "Hallelujah," a universe opens up.
And the amazing thing about music criticism online is that you can listen to linked MP3s as you go along.
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