These are a few of my favourite things!

Well, they're not, but they are a few of my favourite songs, as promised.

First, just the top 3 favourites:




There are a lot of covers of this song. Wikipedia tells me it's been covered by almost two hundred artists. Even Leonard Cohen has more than one version!

The only one that comes close to the original is Jeff Buckley's, which is quite possibly the most famous cover. I still much prefer Cohen's. 'Hallelujah' has 15 verses - most, if not all, versions only use some of them. My favourite, Cohen's original version from 1984, uses four and seems more reverential than later versions, which are more clearly love songs.

I feel a bit sorry for Leonard Cohen when it comes to this song. Most people associate it with Jeff Buckley - Cohen's version only really got much attention last December, when it charted, after the winner of X Factor, Alexandra Burke, recorded a version of it, as well. When she released her version, there was a push to get Jeff Buckley's version to number 1 in time for Christmas. It didn't happen - Alexandra Burke's reached number 1, Jeff Buckley's reached number 2. Leonard Cohen's reached number 36. 36! Come on! Why was there not a push to get his version to number 1? It's his song, people! It's his song, and he's still alive to appreciate it!

Anyway, moving on...



This is one of my absolute favourites and is tied with 'Hallelujah' for my favourite song of all time. I don't have much to say about it. I just love it.



Art Garfunkel gets a bit overshadowed by Paul Simon, doesn't he? I've heard Art's a bit of a dick, but that doesn't matter - this song is beautiful, and it's got nothing to do with Paul Simon. It's a bit creepy, this song. I don't know if that's related to the fact that it's impossible to entirely separate it from Watership Down, which is a very creepy film, or if it'd be creepy even without the link to the film. This is one of very few songs that I can listen to over and over again without getting sick of it. Again, I don't really have much to say about it. I just like it.

So, those are my top three.

And now, the runners up.

My two runners up are here because when I'm miserable and need something that makes me think 'it'll be okay', it's these songs I listen to. So, runners up are:





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In other news, I spent this weekend with my best friend, which was good. She's taken loads of my stuff home for me, the papers are signed and everything and I'll be leaving at the end of the month. We entertained ourselves by dressing like it was 1984 (see my profile picture), wearing a lot of glowsticks and dancing in my kitchen window. It's really easy to see in these windows from the houses across the...path, so we thought we'd entertain people while they did their washing up.