Comments on: Zimmerlujah

Zimmerlujah

cortex — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:47:30 -0800

An attempt to anger both Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan.

There's acres of study to be done if I want my Dylan to be more credible than it is—this is hacky stuff. But hopefully it's at least not overtly cartoonish. Aiming for (my vague conception of) the late-sixties Dylan-with-The-Band territory with this. Would have loved to add some real straight kick-snare-kick-snare drums to it, but the tempo is a little to mushy to lay fake drums on top on. I didn't like my big-stop ending so I decided to go with the reliable Too-Abrupt Fade. And chococat's brilliant use of free crowd sounds on his Cash cover both made me want to do the same thing here and made me feel like I'd be totally ripping that off. Heh.

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:52:27 -0800

Also, this version uses all the verses that I don't prefer, because (a) I'm getting kind of tired of singing the verses I like at this point and (b) these verses seem to fit better into the Upbeat Talky Bob Dylan lyrical mold.

By: kingbenny

kingbenny — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:01:53 -0800

This is one of my favorite of the 'Lujah's so far, which is saying quite a bit.

By: grobstein

grobstein — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:10:57 -0800

I buy the vocal arrangement completely.

By: French Fry

French Fry — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:54:35 -0800

What the Cock

By: MajorDundee

MajorDundee — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:18:47 -0800

Best I've heard so far - you've really got the Dylan vocal nailed. 'triffic!

By: Kimothy

Kimothy — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:25:31 -0800

I dunno... I understood way too many of your lyrics. Shouldn't Dylan be more mumbly? Another good rendition anyway, this challenge rocks.

By: The World Famous

The World Famous — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:24:57 -0800

This is even better than the actual Bob Dylan cover of Hallelujah.

By: wendell

wendell — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:23:55 -0800

I appreciated the understandable vocals and the arrangement/instrumentation was on the button. I thought of it as "Dylan in a More Perfect World".

By: Karlos the Jackal

Karlos the Jackal — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:19:46 -0800

I really like that organ playing, especially.

By: freya_lamb

freya_lamb — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:15:43 -0800

Oh, glory, Glory! Excellent. Especially the fade out harmonica.

By: annathea

annathea — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:54:57 -0800

Yeah, this wins for my favourite Hallelujah mix - and to think, I almost missed it!