Hallelujah (track)
by Leonard Cohen
Year: 1984
From the album Various Positions (track #5)
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Hallelujah appears on the following album(s) by Leonard Cohen:
- Various Positions (track #5) (this album) (1984)
- Live In London (track #15) (2009)
- The Complete Studio Albums Collection (track #62) (compilation) (2011)
- More Best Of Leonard Cohen (track #11) (compilation) (1997)
- The Essential Leonard Cohen (track #13) (compilation) (2002)
- Songs From The Road (track #11) (2010)
- Cohen Live (track #7) (1994)
- Live In Dublin (track #21) (2014)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| 03/15/2026 04:32 | Exist-en-ciel | 100,078 | 71/100 | |
| 01/19/2026 12:05 | platus | 32,497 | 76/100 | |
| 10/23/2025 04:20 |  AAL2014 | 36,711 | 76/100 | |
| 05/22/2025 14:19 |  NowhereMan | 14,410 | 85/100 | |
| 05/02/2025 11:15 |  flamingyesdept | 16,001 | 84/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 90.9/100, a mean average of 91.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 91.9/100. The standard deviation for this track is 8.0.
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Cargusbralem 12/09/2018 00:13 | #226532
"Leonard Cohen may have had the worst version of his own song." Probably the saddest thing I've ever read in a music forum. But it's sad because it's true lol
I'll give it a perfect score for the fact that the lyrics are beautiful and the framework that would pave the way for future renditions but if I'm being totally honest, Leonard Cohen may have had the worst version of his own song. Just my opinion.
Flay 03/04/2017 15:13 | #186808
A fantastic song with amazing songwriting, but I feel like the production lets it down a bit, it sounds quite dated. I prefer Jeff Buckley's cover to this, but I think I might prefer Cohen's version from Live in London to either.
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