{"id":1982,"date":"2007-09-14T17:00:54","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T17:00:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:59:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:59:03","slug":"listening-to-k-d-lang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=1982","title":{"rendered":"Listening to K.D Lang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have been listening to K.D Lang &#8220;Hymns of the 49th Parallel&#8221; today. It is a cd in Elins collection, I guess I would never had bought it, but now I would, but don&#8217;t need. She sings very beautiful covers of well known songs of among others Neil Young and Leonard Cohen. The Cohen cover is Hallelujah, a version sung much, much better than the Norwegian &#8220;Gitarkameratene&#8221;. Unlike them she does not try to imitate Cohen, but make her own version of the song. Just like Johnny Cash doing a cover of Hurt by Nine Inch Nails, it still Hurts&#8230;but it ain&#8217;t NIN&#8217;s version&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.kdlang.com\/discography\/2005.htm<\/p>\n<p>Gitarkameratene sucks, or sucked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have been listening to K.D Lang &#8220;Hymns of the 49th Parallel&#8221; today. It is a cd in Elins collection, I guess I would never had bought it, but now I would, but don&#8217;t need. She sings very beautiful covers of well known songs of among others Neil Young and Leonard Cohen. The Cohen cover is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15608,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions\/15608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}