Leonard Cohen Hallelujah Covers | Spotify Playlist
I hadn’t noticed until now because of a head cold that’s taken me out of commission this weekend, but because of the passing of Leonard Cohen at the end of last week and possibly the cold open of Saturday Night Live, a growing number of people are following/using a Spotify Playlist I had made earlier this year in January.
If you need almost five hours of all the extant Hallelujah covers on Spotify to soothe your soul (for any reason), please feel free to save yourself the time of building it and enjoy my playlist. If you’re aware of any missing covers (that exist on Spotify), please let me know and I’m happy to add them to the collection.
Keep your chin up!
Now I’ve heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don’t really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
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Wow! I don’t have Spotify or know how to use it, but that’s impressive! Actually that song has been in my head for days anyway…
Soni Nageswaran, spotify.com is a great free music streaming service with apps for phone and desktop. There’s a premium level you can purchase if you like, but the free version is ad supported and doesn’t have very many limitations with regard to the pro version.
Not too much, though I think Spotify has a broader selection of music. Once I started using Spotify about two years ago, I’ve only been back to Pandora once or twice and don’t miss it. Spotify has a lot more discovery and social built in compared to Pandora as well.
And here I thought I knew a lot about the story of Hallelujah. I haven’t read any of the books on its history, nor written any myself, but this short story does have a good bit I’ve not heard before in the past. I did read quite a bit when Cohen passed away, and even spent some time making a Spotify playlist with over five hours of covers.
The bigger idea here of immediate genius versus “slow cooked” genius is the fun one to contemplate. I’ve previously heard stories about Mozart’s composing involved his working things out in his head and then later putting them on paper much the same way that a “cow pees” (i.e. all in one quick go or a fast flood.)
Another interesting thing I find here is the insanely small probability that the chain of events that makes the song popular actually happens. It seems worthwhile to look at the statistical mechanics of the production of genius. Perhaps applying Ridley’s concepts of “Ideas having sex” and Dawkin’s “meme theory” (aka selfish gene) could be interestingly useful. What does the state space of genius look like?
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Wow! I don’t have Spotify or know how to use it, but that’s impressive! Actually that song has been in my head for days anyway…
❤️
Soni Nageswaran, spotify.com is a great free music streaming service with apps for phone and desktop. There’s a premium level you can purchase if you like, but the free version is ad supported and doesn’t have very many limitations with regard to the pro version.
What’s the difference between this and Pandora?
Not too much, though I think Spotify has a broader selection of music. Once I started using Spotify about two years ago, I’ve only been back to Pandora once or twice and don’t miss it. Spotify has a lot more discovery and social built in compared to Pandora as well.
❤️
I…I feel faint.
Listened to Episode 07 Hallelujah by Malcolm Gladwell from Revisionist History
And here I thought I knew a lot about the story of Hallelujah. I haven’t read any of the books on its history, nor written any myself, but this short story does have a good bit I’ve not heard before in the past. I did read quite a bit when Cohen passed away, and even spent some time making a Spotify playlist with over five hours of covers.
The bigger idea here of immediate genius versus “slow cooked” genius is the fun one to contemplate. I’ve previously heard stories about Mozart’s composing involved his working things out in his head and then later putting them on paper much the same way that a “cow pees” (i.e. all in one quick go or a fast flood.)
Another interesting thing I find here is the insanely small probability that the chain of events that makes the song popular actually happens. It seems worthwhile to look at the statistical mechanics of the production of genius. Perhaps applying Ridley’s concepts of “Ideas having sex” and Dawkin’s “meme theory” (aka selfish gene) could be interestingly useful. What does the state space of genius look like?
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