Comment by gmac
It’s funny, I quite viscerally hate Cohen’s original Hallelujah, but I first encountered it as sung by Jeff Buckley, and that version I absolutely love.
Otherwise I like his first album (Songs of Leonard Cohen) when I’m in the mood for something depressing, but everything else of his I’ve heard just sounds to me like a drunk on a street corner with a Casio keyboard.
> everything else of his I’ve heard just sounds to me like a drunk on a street corner with a Casio keyboard
Though I disagree with the characterization, there's a beauty in it, too