Hallelujah: Bonus Features  Categories: Music  In researching
the history of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" for this week's
Gimme Noise column, I came across quite a few interesting
articles and videos. Some of the videos were quite terrible, and
I will spare you those, but if you are ever looking for a way to
waste an entire day of work on the internet, simply go to
YouTube and search "Hallelujah." You will be amazed at the
results.  First and foremost, the money shot. Here's a video
shot by Tony Nelson at the Molotov Lounge in Austin, Tex.,
featuring Romantica's "Hallelujah" cover. The intro is cut off
and the camerawork is a bit shaky, but it gives you an idea of
the power of Romantica's rendition. I still get chills every
time I hear it:  When I went to research the song, the first
article that I read was one I had stumbled on a while ago,
written by Syracuse University media studies grad student
Michael Barthel, about the history of "Hallelujah" in a pop
culture context. Barthel specifically studies the in