Jeff Buckley Classic or Dud?

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there's some very worthy stuff on the grace deluxe edition (say what you will about the necessity of a "grace deluxe edition"). his version of dylan's "mama you've been on my mind" is purty. but it always makes me smile when contemporary newweirdaltdotwhatevers cover dylan -- especially if they're good at it.

― a collectivist romantic fling! (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 26 May 2005 04:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Well if anyone in Seattle is interested, there's two showings of the Amazing Grace documentary for the Seattle Intl Film Festival, one is on June 2, the other on June 4.

― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Thursday, 26 May 2005 04:08 (eighteen years ago) link

i wasn't sure whether i'd think grace still held up, but i played it again recently and ya know, it does -- it incorporates a bunch of different early '90s sounds very interestingly. There's Dream Theater/Queensryche/Living Color-style metal, shoegaze, rockabilly revivalism/LA punk, NYC antifolk, classic-rock worship (remember the Doors movie?), and so on. It's a cool and unlikely time capsule of that era.

― a collectivist romantic fling! (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 26 May 2005 04:12 (eighteen years ago) link

I agree that Grace seems like a very "groomed" record, but that doesn't have to be a bad thing -- how many mainstream alternative acts in 1994 were singing Benjamin Britten?

― a collectivist romantic fling! (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 26 May 2005 04:19 (eighteen years ago) link

for some unknown reason i hate him.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 26 May 2005 04:24 (eighteen years ago) link

i hate it when artists get ridiculously overexposed to the point of inevitable backlash; people sort of HAVE to hate 'em if only to drown out the deafening pitch of unbridled adulation.

― a collectivist romantic fling! (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 26 May 2005 04:43 (eighteen years ago) link

i think thats it.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 26 May 2005 04:45 (eighteen years ago) link

i blame all the people who can't qualify thinking something is "brilliant" with anything but hoary old rockist cliches. why does everything have to be brilliant? why can't it just be interesting/compelling?

― a collectivist romantic fling! (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 26 May 2005 04:51 (eighteen years ago) link

well, he was pretty brilliant. AND interesting/compelling. to me, anyway.

Very kick-ass guitarist, very kick-ass vocalist, great taste in music/covers; had a great, sympathetic band. You'd have to be musically illiterate not to recognize his talents, even if you didn't like the particular idiom within which he worked... But then, ILM is a festering cesspool of anglophile/musical-illiterates...

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 26 May 2005 05:28 (eighteen years ago) link

I spent a full decade thinking that Grace was just one of those albums only used by uncreative high-school kids (i.e. everyone else at my high school) to demonstrate their Overpowering Sensitivity to dense Dave Matthews Band-adoring girls. Then I actually listened to it and went completely bananas over "Last Goodbye" and the title track and above all else the "Halleleujah" cover. My gut says Classic, although I can understand the hate. Ned probably shouldn't ever ask me what I think about the Cure, though (EMOTICON).

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Thursday, 26 May 2005 05:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Grace was dead useful for getting girls to sleep with me when I was at university.

I love "Mojo Pin" (especially the opening 45 seconds) and "Last Goodbye" and "So Real", really like "Grace" and "Lover..." and "Opened Once" and "Morning Theft", quite like most of the rest og Grace and CD1 (plus "Haven't You Heard" off CD2) of Sketches... and "Forget Her". The slavish worship by some people (such as the Aussie guy who's temping in my office) of him weirds me out a bit. But I generally don't like rock mythologising.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 26 May 2005 07:38 (eighteen years ago) link

my mum gave me a dvd of him a few months ago and i still haven't watched it. maybe i should. maybe the lavish rock mythologising for someone working in an idiom i don't really care for has been denying me pleasure.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 26 May 2005 07:45 (eighteen years ago) link

"Grace" = "Introducing..."

There were too many cover versions and "fill-ins" to be truly classic, and that they let off the only true "single" (for valid reasons granted) didn't help.

"Live at Sin'e" (deluxe) is the one.

The rest I don't have.

I don't know of many artists that were so immersed in music, not just their own, so on the whole I think "Classic" if only because he worked so hard for it.

And if "Taking sides" issuing live albums/demo collections/reformatting, well you don't have to buy them. They will run out of stuff, and that will be it.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 26 May 2005 07:52 (eighteen years ago) link

We went to see him at the Highbury Garage in '94. It was like going to an avant-garde Take That gig - lots of screaming ladies, JB stripping down to his waist, Laura giving me reproachful "BODY TRANSPLANT!" (i.e. why can't YOU be HE?) looks throughout - but the man was magic, no question about that.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 26 May 2005 08:06 (eighteen years ago) link

The couple of people I know who saw him live talk about him in similar terms, Marcello. In fact I think my friend Gav was at that gig.

I prefer Jeff to Tim, frankly, because Jeff seemed more exciting and dark to me when I was 18 and (trying) to get into Tim after having loved Grace (I bought it the week after he died, out of curiosity).

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 26 May 2005 08:16 (eighteen years ago) link

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― discus, Monday, 13 February 2006 17:18 (eighteen years ago) link

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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 February 2006 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Ned is that your Juggalo name?

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Monday, 13 February 2006 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link

No, I just rent it out.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 February 2006 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Classic for his influence on lots of great bands, for his voice and for his version of "Hallelujah". Even though I am not that impressed by the "Grace" album myself.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 01:01 (eighteen years ago) link

four months pass...

Is there any reason not to sing his praises once more? Only very recently a few months ago I felt I'd finally grieved enough to be finally comfortable with listening to him again, without pain. It's so nice. I mean, I really didn't think the day would come.

― Fryin' Berry, Buck Cherry (Bimble...), Saturday, 24 June 2006 02:37 (seventeen years ago) link

"Night Flight"

― Fryin' Berry, Buck Cherry (Bimble...), Saturday, 24 June 2006 02:40 (seventeen years ago) link

ten months pass...

i quite like grace, but i'm not going to make the conscious decision to listen to it anytime soon

i remember back in high school i'd go to parties and one of buckley's songs came on and there'd be some smug fuck who'd sit there listening to it with his eyes closed, breathing slowly like it was the embodiment of musical perfection. that really irritated me.

― Charlie Howard, Friday, 11 May 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't know you went to school with Chris Martin.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 May 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I was really into Buckley for a while (around 15-16 years old I was).

His voice is quite stunning, and I think Grace does have some amazing moments (esp. the Britten hymn and 'Lover, You Should Have Come Over'). But the hype surrounding him is so bunko and weird, so i say 'eh'.

― the table is the table, Friday, 11 May 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

dud

― Just got offed, Friday, 11 May 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah pretty dud

― pretzel walrus, Friday, 11 May 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

haha, yeah. chris martin = the more nasal, less gifted incarnate of the late mr. buckley.

― Charlie Howard, Friday, 11 May 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

chris martin and jeb fuckley deserve each other, in some musical hinterland far, far away from my auricles. jeb's voice in no way comes close to balancing out his utterly anaemic songwriting.

― Just got offed, Friday, 11 May 2007 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

clud.

― Roz, Friday, 11 May 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

never liked this guy, despite trying to. lilac wine is good, but i hate the sound of that album in general.

― negotiable, Friday, 11 May 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I've mentioned this elsewhere, but who has heard the Buckley/Fraser duet "All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun"?

I feel guilty having it, it wasn't meant to be leaked and all that, too personal blah blah but OH MY GOD it is so beautiful.

― Trayce, Friday, 11 May 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

you can really hear buckley's influence on her in tracks like 'group four' and the like

― Charlie Howard, Friday, 11 May 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

what

― Just got offed, Friday, 11 May 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Tongue not so much piercing cheek as further turned and now tickling ear.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 May 2007 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I refuse to believe that CH would joke about such things. 'Group Four' is Massive Attack's greatest achievement (IMO)!

― Just got offed, Friday, 11 May 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Ned: eh?

― Trayce, Friday, 11 May 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm actually serious.

obviously there's nothing amongst the cocteaus work that resembles jeffrey, but i can hear something in group four. i dunno, maybe i was deliberately listening for it.

― Charlie Howard, Friday, 11 May 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I think Fraser's brief was to sound as heavenly and oblique as she possibly could, to complement del Naja's subterranean menace. I'm really not convinced there's any Buckley in there.

― Just got offed, Friday, 11 May 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

just a thought really. but i see how my post can be interpreted. buckley influencing a much more impressive musician and all. very sorry about that ;)

― Charlie Howard, Friday, 11 May 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

heavenly and oblique is dead right though

― Charlie Howard, Friday, 11 May 2007 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Let's not argue Buckley vs. Fraser. Please. Let's agree to disagree and let those two be. I can't take that kind of war.

― Bimble, Saturday, 12 May 2007 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link

eight months pass...

"Woke Up In A Strange Place" anyone? He's just killing me now on all fronts. "What Will You Say". I haven't played him in a long, long time. And it feels so good.

― Bimble, Sunday, 3 February 2008 13:55 (sixteen years ago) link

I figured this board would be the type to try to knock him down a peg, so I'll step in and say huge classic.

Grace is amazing, and to a lesser degree, Sketches....

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 3 February 2008 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link

three months pass...

who knew he was so cute!!

― Surmounter, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link

jeff's always had a curiously massive following here in sydney so in my high school days i was subject to that whole adoring female crowd obviously just in it for his looks

― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 16:11 (fifteen years ago) link

i saw him on a cover at the record store the other day and kinda flipped

― Surmounter, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 16:12 (fifteen years ago) link

It's "Mr. Buckley" to you.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 16:12 (fifteen years ago) link

Yeah he was pretty good looking. I liked him more for his music than his looks, but yeah.

― Bimble, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 16:14 (fifteen years ago) link

His music turned him into Medusa.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link

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