<![CDATA[ - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[ - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:41:25 EST Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:41:25 EST http://idolator.com/364175/ <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/364175/#c4568587 @summeroflove: [imgs.xkcd.com]

NeverEnough

]]> 33:364175:c4568587 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:41:25 EST <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/364175/#c4557547 @NeverEnough, KurticusMaximus, Paul D, and summeroflove: No. Thank you all for playing, but the original is still the best, and Cale is second.

@Your GPA: I hate myself for saying this given ^, but I thought the breaking at the end was kind of sweet and added to his vulnerable take on the song. Did I mention that hate myself for saying that.

92BuickLeSabre

]]> 33:364175:c4557547 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:44:39 EST <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/364175/#c4556601 The Clemson Takenote college a cappella group does an awesome version of this song

Fawn Liebowitz

]]> 33:364175:c4556601 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:43:36 EST <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/364175/#c4556194 @NeverEnough: @summeroflove: @KurticusMaximus:

Oooo, sorry. That is INcorrect. Thanks for playing.

Buckley's is the ONLY version worth listening to.

Wainright makes me throw up in my mouth. It was in fucking SHREK for jebus sake!

Paul D

]]> 33:364175:c4556194 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:23:35 EST <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/364175/#c4551958 @summeroflove: Doh, or Jeff Buckley.

summeroflove

]]> 33:364175:c4551958 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:44:04 EST <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/364175/#c4551810 @NeverEnough: True. And Allison Crowe's version is 100 times better than Rufus'.

Jeff Buckley's version really isn't all that great.

KurticusMaximus

]]> 33:364175:c4551810 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:37:00 EST <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/364175/#c4551674 @NeverEnough: I sooo wish people would stop covering that song. I don't think anyone's going to do it better than Rufus anyways.

summeroflove

]]> 33:364175:c4551674 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:32:16 EST <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/364175/#c4551612 @slowburn: We just listened to it in the office, so no.

Lucas Jensen

]]> 33:364175:c4551612 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:30:25 EST <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/364175/#c4550533 Anything that gets more people to listen to Jeff Buckley is all right by me. And Maura, I think -- I hope -- that the Phil Collins song ran out of steam in the early 90s.

slowburn

]]> 33:364175:c4550533 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:54:18 EST <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/364175/#c4550273 Rufus Wainwright's version is 100 times better than Jeff Buckley's.

NeverEnough

]]> 33:364175:c4550273 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:46:23 EST <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/364175/#c4549091 No, Maura, you're not a bad person. As much as I like David, that song was incredibly sucky.

I'm just glad that no one performed "The Living Years" - that would be so many levels of awful and tragic.

scarletvirtue

]]> 33:364175:c4549091 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:08:11 EST <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/364175/#c4547991 Am I the only one who thought his breathy, can't reach high notes delivery was horrible? You can't sing that song if you can't hit those notes! Why was everybody happy with that performance?

Your GPA

]]> 33:364175:c4547991 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:30:14 EST <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/364175/#c4546700 It will be interesting to see how well these iTunes/Amazon downloads are at predicting the winners.

DialIdol still has Archuleta in first place. But I'm right there with you... he's way too stagemommed for me. (If stagemommed is not a word, it should be.)

extracrispy

]]> 33:364175:c4546700 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:48:09 EST <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/364175/#c4546181 I hate to be that guy, but damn, never underestimate the power of American Idol. I say shit goddamn! We may not all be able to rally behind a presidential candidate when the time calls for it, but we'll dial a number or send a text in a heartbeat just to further someone else's American Dream. I guess I kind get what they were getting at in that Mandy Moore/Hugh Grant movie with. That still doesn't make it an entertaining, thought provoking farce though.

Tauwan

]]> 33:364175:c4546181 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:32:19 EST <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/364175/#c4546075 No, Archuleta is legitimately precocious and awful.

Nicolars

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