I just heard Hallelujah and I absolutely can't get enough of it
Kind of in the same boat as you were 4 years ago. A friend's father played that at our wedding shower and I was hooked.
Check out Grace for sure....but Lover, You Should've Come Over and Last Goodbye were instant favorites.
Also, check out the original of Hallelujah...Jeff's is better, but it's nice to have a frame of reference.
PBM
"We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"
Get his album Grace then..... and Live at Sin-E.. Unfortunately he didn't record very much.. died to early... He has another live album or two and also Sketches for My Sweetheart which was put together after his death...
Yep, Grace is pretty much the best place to start. Mystery White Boy is a pretty cool live album, some great renditions of tunes on there, as well as some tracks that Buckley never recorded in studio.
all the songs people mentioned above are great. i'll add my playlist:
forget her
grace
lilac wine
lover, you should've come over
i woke up in a strange place
dream brother
lost highway
everybody here wants you
last goodbye
hallelujah
You pretty much started off with his best song which is also a cover of an old Leonard Cohen song. Jeff had an amazing voice, however his original material is nothing special. Had he lived he might have gone on to great things or he might have just faded away due to lacklustre songwriting.
I saw him live, and he was on the top of his game in 1995. However - and yes, I'll own up to making father/son comparisons - you all should check out Tim Buckley. He spanned folk, rock, blues, jazz, soul, and funk with effortless skill, over nine albums between 1966 and 1975. Start with Dream Letter: Live in London 1968, and then get Happy Sad. Tim was incredible.
yes yes yes get grace. but make sure if you can to get the legacy edition. it has a bonus disc of other songs including forget her and alligator wine at the end of which you get to hear jeff laugh. which is kinda happy sad. plus you get a DVD of videos and the making of...
hear my name
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Everybody here wants you is the sexiest song ever. and I'm a guy. A straight one...
"I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
You pretty much started off with his best song which is also a cover of an old Leonard Cohen song. Jeff had an amazing voice, however his original material is nothing special. Had he lived he might have gone on to great things or he might have just faded away due to lacklustre songwriting.
I'm not one to jump onto people's opinions and say WTF, but seriously, WTF? Lacklustre songwriting? Crap, go on then, point me in the right direction of a good songwriter.
And don't say RHCP.
'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'
I'm not one to jump onto people's opinions and say WTF, but seriously, WTF? Lacklustre songwriting? Crap, go on then, point me in the right direction of a good songwriter.
And don't say RHCP.
Maybe start with the guy who wrote Jeff Buckley's best song, Leonard Cohen. Jeff had a fantastic voice but his original songs were nothing special. Sorry if that pisses you off, but I'm not going to pretend that I think Jeff was some musical genious just because he's been overly glorified in death.
You pretty much started off with his best song which is also a cover of an old Leonard Cohen song. Jeff had an amazing voice, however his original material is nothing special. Had he lived he might have gone on to great things or he might have just faded away due to lacklustre songwriting.
I wouldn't consider Halleluja his best song.. I think for lots it's his best KNOWN song. As for a cover... yes, but he completely rewrote the second half of the song.... His songwriting was far from lacklustre...
I saw him live, and he was on the top of his game in 1995. However - and yes, I'll own up to making father/son comparisons - you all should check out Tim Buckley. He spanned folk, rock, blues, jazz, soul, and funk with effortless skill, over nine albums between 1966 and 1975. Start with Dream Letter: Live in London 1968, and then get Happy Sad. Tim was incredible.
I first listened to Jeff out of curiosity because I used to listen to Tim Buckley.. Tim is something else.... It is unfair comparing father and son,though we do have a tendency to do so! They both have (rather had) incredible voices, talent, charisma... (and damn.. do they look alike!). I envy you having seen Jeff live!
Grace is the obvious place to start ... then I would suggest the Legacy Edition of Live at Sin-e as well as great music it includes some monologues that show Jeff at ease chatting to the audience in an intimate setting and also show his sense of humour ... currently listening to Be Your Husband from this which he does acapella ... the whole album is just him and his guitar
So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
Maybe start with the guy who wrote Jeff Buckley's best song, Leonard Cohen. Jeff had a fantastic voice but his original songs were nothing special. Sorry if that pisses you off, but I'm not going to pretend that I think Jeff was some musical genious just because he's been overly glorified in death.
You don't need to tell me Leonard Cohen wrote 'Hallelujah', thanks very much.
Either way, it is definitely not the best song on Grace. Lyrically, maybe (Cohen was a poet, after all), but definitely not musically. And btw, do you not think Cohen's version of Hallelujah is musically quite horrendous to listen to?
'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'
You don't need to tell me Leonard Cohen wrote 'Hallelujah', thanks very much.
Either way, it is definitely not the best song on Grace. Lyrically, maybe (Cohen was a poet, after all), but definitely not musically. And btw, do you not think Cohen's version of Hallelujah is musically quite horrendous to listen to?
oh god i do. when i listen to cohen it's the only song i skip. i like to pretend that jeff's is the original. much the same way i pretend the lemonheads are the originator's of mrs robinson
hear my name
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
You pretty much started off with his best song which is also a cover of an old Leonard Cohen song. Jeff had an amazing voice, however his original material is nothing special. Had he lived he might have gone on to great things or he might have just faded away due to lacklustre songwriting.
He really reinvented that song though...he took it and made it his own.
He had such a haunting air of sadness to his music.
Like a great movie or beautiful piece of art, Grace is an album that is appreciated because it moves you....it makes you feel something.
PBM
"We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"
Grace is pretty much the best place to start, although Vancouver from Sketches is possibly the most beautiful song i've ever heard.
I have all his released albums except Mystery White Boy - is that worth getting if i've got everything else? I don't know how different it'll be from Live a L'olympia and the Live at Sin-e sets...
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Kind of in the same boat as you were 4 years ago. A friend's father played that at our wedding shower and I was hooked.
Check out Grace for sure....but Lover, You Should've Come Over and Last Goodbye were instant favorites.
Also, check out the original of Hallelujah...Jeff's is better, but it's nice to have a frame of reference.
PBM
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But try Grace first...
He only has one completed albbum--"Grace" and one uncompleted one "Sketches For MY Sweetheart The Drunk" .
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He's alone with his telecaster and an old fender tube amp
And it's just incredible!!!!!!!!
Love JB
I wave to all my friends...
Marseille 9/9/6
E.V
and
"Everybody here wants you"
are amazing.
forget her
grace
lilac wine
lover, you should've come over
i woke up in a strange place
dream brother
lost highway
everybody here wants you
last goodbye
hallelujah
i'm listening to it now. good shit.
-Greg Dulli
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHCccGEUMr0
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
There it is! Just reading the title of it makes my heart sink. Man that one rips me to shreds every damn time!!
Definitely agree with everyone here, GRACE is very necessary. A must have gem of an album from a truly gorgeous soul.
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I'm not one to jump onto people's opinions and say WTF, but seriously, WTF? Lacklustre songwriting? Crap, go on then, point me in the right direction of a good songwriter.
And don't say RHCP.
- the great Sir Leo Harrison
Maybe start with the guy who wrote Jeff Buckley's best song, Leonard Cohen. Jeff had a fantastic voice but his original songs were nothing special. Sorry if that pisses you off, but I'm not going to pretend that I think Jeff was some musical genious just because he's been overly glorified in death.
I wouldn't consider Halleluja his best song.. I think for lots it's his best KNOWN song. As for a cover... yes, but he completely rewrote the second half of the song.... His songwriting was far from lacklustre...
I first listened to Jeff out of curiosity because I used to listen to Tim Buckley.. Tim is something else.... It is unfair comparing father and son,though we do have a tendency to do so! They both have (rather had) incredible voices, talent, charisma... (and damn.. do they look alike!). I envy you having seen Jeff live!
You don't need to tell me Leonard Cohen wrote 'Hallelujah', thanks very much.
Either way, it is definitely not the best song on Grace. Lyrically, maybe (Cohen was a poet, after all), but definitely not musically. And btw, do you not think Cohen's version of Hallelujah is musically quite horrendous to listen to?
- the great Sir Leo Harrison
oh god i do. when i listen to cohen it's the only song i skip. i like to pretend that jeff's is the original. much the same way i pretend the lemonheads are the originator's of mrs robinson
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
He really reinvented that song though...he took it and made it his own.
He had such a haunting air of sadness to his music.
Like a great movie or beautiful piece of art, Grace is an album that is appreciated because it moves you....it makes you feel something.
PBM
Wishlist Foundation: http://wishlistfoundation.org
I have all his released albums except Mystery White Boy - is that worth getting if i've got everything else? I don't know how different it'll be from Live a L'olympia and the Live at Sin-e sets...
her love was a joke from the day that we met...