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    Posted: August 05 2006 at 09:58

So, what's you thought on this amazing artist? I've been listening to him for a long time now, and Grace is one of my "deserted island" records.


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He's Ok. I think his father, Tim Buckley is an amazing artist, though.
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Points: 720 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 05 2006 at 10:26

Yeah, I only got Tim's Startsailor. God it's a scary album. Confused Impressive though...


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Grace is indeed a great album. I actually prefer Jeff Buckley's cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah to the original.
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Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

I actually prefer Jeff Buckley's cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah to the original.
Well, yeah. Cause Buckley can sing like an angel, whereas Cohen doesn't. even. try. It's like the Jennifer Warnes version of The We Take Berlin, which actually came out before Cohen's. Listen to her phrasing of the title line, then compare it to Cohens toneless on-the-beat un-groove. How he gets any respect at all is beyond me.
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Mixed and Produced by my pal Andy in the control room I'm typing this from.

He was a monster talent.

And a monster pain-in-the-ass.

HOHOHO.

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Originally posted by SlipperFink SlipperFink wrote:

Mixed and Produced by my pal Andy in the control room I'm typing this from.

He was a monster talent.

And a monster pain-in-the-ass.

HOHOHO.

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Originally posted by Rocktopus Rocktopus wrote:

He's Ok. I think his father, Tim Buckley is an amazing artist, though.
 
 
Tim was really the tops in his category
 
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Points: 4986 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2006 at 11:57
Grace is an AMAZING album!!!!
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Grace is definetly up in my top-5 albums.


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Grace is... pretty much the only thing you need on you mp3-player when traveling on a bus by night. Absolutely wonderful.
And I agree that Buckley's version of Hallelujah is better than Cohen's, I've never liked Cohen, I just don't see what all the fuss is about with him.
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Grace is simply one of those albums that everyone needs in their collection.
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Points: 408 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2006 at 23:47
 
    I have 5 versions of "Hallelujah":  Cohen studio, Cohen live (I got these because he wrote several extra verses of the song, and there's no single version that contains them all), Bono (spoken, not sung, on the Tower of Song tribute album), k. d. lang (on her recent tribute to other Canadian songwriters Hymns of the 49th Parallel) and, my favorite, by John Cale (on his live album CD/DVD Fragments of a Rainy Season/his studio version appears on another Cohen tribute album called I'm Your Fan).  I've heard Jeff's version and admit it's very good, certainly better than Cohen's and Bono's, probably better than Lang's (she's too subdued on that entire album).  Of course, Rufus Wainwright has a version on the Shrek soundtrack (I've done that version at karaoke!) that is probably good. 
 
 
    Incidentally, I also prefer Tim to Jeff.  His out-of-print CD's Blue Afternoon and Starsailor are at the top of my want list.  I think Jeff is held in such high regard simply because there are very few truly gifted singers that came out of that generation/era.
 
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Cohen's voice was for the bed-sitter single persons, in other words it has a time and place adn will appeal to the lonely hearts of suburbia . But still an acquired taste, like Tom Waits' bass growl, Bob Dylan's nasal twang,  or Randy Newman's monotone - all reflecting the composer having the right to record his/her own tunes, instead of having them processed and often stolen through the Tin Pan Alley machinery (i.e. the pre-Dylan/pre-Beatles situation).
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Level the Playing Field: Early Hurly Burly 1988-1994
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