no one will stone you for having your own opinion!
(unless you mean stoned a la 'Rainy Day Women #12 and 32' - and want to be
)
we all know taste in music is highly personal and subjective!
some folks prefer female, even male, vocalists to be softer or pretty-ier in their approach, whereas Allison is powerful and intense; as with any artist of worth, she won't be to everyone's liking ~ thankfully, and deservedly, she's loved by many
to each their own, though, as ever ( :
p.s. this may well have been mentioned over the years on this board, so, please excuse me if this is redundant, but I've just discovered, thanks to the Leonard Cohen Nights website, that on Canada Day, July 1, 2002, six editors/writers for The Globe and Mail (one of Canada's two national newspapers), created a list of what they deemed the Top 25 Canadian Pop Songs of All Time, and, Hallelujah is #1 on that list - here's what they said:
1. Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen, 1984
Cohen's mid-career masterpiece -- as he grew from poetic scoundrel into wisecracking monk -- has it all: eloquence, humour, sex and God. Covered by John Cale, Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright and (in concert) Bob Dylan, it outranks even Tower of Song as a hymn to hymn-making, as the singer endures a dozen trials only to "stand before the Lord of Song/ with nothing on my tongue but 'Hallelujah.' " Meanwhile, he gets away with rhyming the title with "what's it to ya?" and singing about the song's own harmonic structure: "It goes like this/ the fourth, the fifth/ the major fall, the minor lift/ the baffled king composing Hallelujah." Untouchable.
~ I'm so glad to see you here, girl 
!
. Thanks for helping me along 
