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Kleynan
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Topic: Jeff Buckley 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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You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks.
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Rocktopus
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Posted: August 05 2006 at 10:10 |
He's Ok. I think his father, Tim Buckley is an amazing artist, though.
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Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me
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Kleynan
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Posted: August 05 2006 at 10:26 |
Yeah, I only got Tim's Startsailor. God it's a scary album. Impressive though...
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You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks.
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Vompatti
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Posted: August 06 2006 at 14:35 |
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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Teaflax
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Posted: August 06 2006 at 19:12 |
Vompatti wrote:
I actually prefer Jeff Buckley's cover of Leonard
Cohen's Hallelujah to the original.
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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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SlipperFink
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Posted: August 06 2006 at 20:21 |
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. SM.
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Kleynan
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Posted: August 06 2006 at 20:23 |
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.
SM.
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I'm impressed
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You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: August 07 2006 at 02:55 |
Rocktopus wrote:
He's Ok. I think his father, Tim Buckley is an amazing artist, though. |
Tim was really the tops in his category
Happy/sad, Goodbye And Hello, Lorca and Starsailor >>> all four are at least 4 on the archives
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glass house
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Posted: August 07 2006 at 11:57 |
Grace is an AMAZING album!!!!
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Kleynan
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Posted: August 08 2006 at 09:32 |
Grace is definetly up in my top-5 albums.
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You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks.
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Philadelphia
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Posted: August 10 2006 at 18:57 |
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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Padraic
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Posted: August 10 2006 at 22:11 |
Grace is simply one of those albums that everyone needs in their collection.
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soundsweird
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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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Dick Heath
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Posted: August 14 2006 at 12:24 |
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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Dick Heath
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Posted: August 14 2006 at 12:29 |
For the precursors of Grace and Mojo Pin
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