― Richard Jordan, Sunday, 11 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― keith, Sunday, 11 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― brent d., Monday, 12 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Phil Paterson, Monday, 12 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Mitch Surnamewithheld, Monday, 12 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
For me, "Sketches..." is a different story. I know it's not a 'proper' album and would never have been released in this form if Buckley had lived, but it's pretty damn good, much better than Grace. Without the opportunity to slap a load of raga-strings over the top and over-arrange the hell out of this material, it sounds really strong to me. "Everybody..." "Vancouver", "Yard of Blonde Girls", "Opened Once" are fantastic. The home demos CD, packaged along with "Sketches" is complete crap, of course. The live album sounds like a load of rock-legend showboating, but no doubt there will be more live stuff to follow. Probably best to avoid. Overall, dud I suppose.
― Dr. C, Monday, 12 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Edward Okulicz, Monday, 12 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Nicole, Monday, 12 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Andy, Monday, 12 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― the pinefox, Monday, 12 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― DG, Monday, 12 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Classic
― Josh D, Tuesday, 13 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
I find his canonistion problematic, even though he was a personable and approachable fellow. One above average record and an interesting live set does not a classic make.
― Richard Jones, Friday, 16 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― nathalie c-c, Tuesday, 20 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
In case you don't get it, Jeff Buckley was never very commercial, but he did some very dissonant and difficult 4-track experiments that ended up on his second product "Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk." He also did a very harsh, grating porno-punk song in the best tradition of, of, heck I dunno. My only exposure to punk is Greenday and Elastica, and I don't even know if they're really punk.
― Jack Redelfs, Wednesday, 21 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Sterling Clover, Saturday, 24 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Ally C, Monday, 26 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Matt Purdy, Sunday, 4 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link
This has to be the most un-Ned sentence ever.
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― darin (darin), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link
agreed:
Ned, i just can't abide Coldplay either and i don't know why. No actually i do. they peddle 'cheap, emotional patriotism' - see 'the scientist'. they send shivers down my spine in a lot of very bad ways, where somehow Jeff despite being One For The Ladayz manages to touch nerve-endings in an intimate folk-rock aor ballady number without resorting to such lyrical, emotional schmaltz that seems to cling like Gwyneth to a lot of Clayplod's output. 'Grace' is a fine, fine record of it's kind.
crappy cash-in live/unreleased albums, greedy moms, walking into rivers and rampant self-mythologisation: Dud.
Agreed Matt Purdy. For me it's all about Tim Buckley. Wading through the smack-outs and jazz odyssies may dissuade some, but pan-handling Tim's back catalogue gives a clear 50% yield of PURE FUCKING NUGGETS.
Sometimes nothing, no-one, is ever going to hit the mark like a Tim Buckley classic. No-one. And for the casual listener the joy is discovering these treasures without having them rammed down your throat by anyone.
― john clarkson, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
I will allow that there did get to be a point where I felt like it had gone a little too far with the posthumous releases, though. I still find the double SinE CD to be painful to listen to, I guess because it's such an intimate setting and he just seems so alive and in your face, and the video interview that came with that was devastatingly short - like 15 minutes. At some point I just wanted to stop reopening the wounds and finally quit grieving him and it was like I wasn't being allowed that. Some part of me feels that where he was planning on going musically when he left us was just so much more important than this stuff. And I didn't buy the reissue of Grace, either.
I hope no one takes offense at any of this, it's just my perspective. I don't play him often now but when I do, I prefer to listen to the last things he did, even where they are rough. I'd like to think he's still continuing on somewhere, I guess, that he's on his 4th album now and we just aren't privy to it.
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:50 (nineteen years ago) link
And Jeff, who I was acquainted with, didn't like her either.
I was at that Sin-e show and it sounded a lot better in person than it does on the double live reissue. He was really amazing live. Fearless even.
― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Steve.n. (sjkirk), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link
Exactly.
Jeff, who I was acquainted with, didn't like her either.
What gave you that impression?
― Huey (Huey), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link
They were barely speaking when he died.
She's a nightmare. Check out the wedding picture of her and Tim and the look on Tim's face. He knew.
Jed: OTM re: "Morning Theft."
I'm also quite fond of "Jewel Box."
― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link
Grace is obviously a fantastic, really musically accomplished and just plain beautiful album, though it took me a while to warm to it myself. Now I consider it one of the best of the 90s. Who has heard the recent 2cd + DVD edition? Is there anything on there that hasn't already been released on the various other odds 'n sods packages that is worth hearing?
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link
Who says I don't like Neil Diamond?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 25 February 2005 08:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 28 February 2005 06:08 (nineteen years ago) link
Classic.
― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 28 February 2005 06:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― miss chievous grin (miss chevious grin), Monday, 28 February 2005 10:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 28 February 2005 11:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 28 February 2005 14:08 (nineteen years ago) link
Well, personally speaking, the notion that his mother was trolling around the `net, chastising JEFF'S FANS for discussing his music (when, the point could be made in the particular instance i was caught in, it was the BAD BRAINS who were actually getting short-changed) left quite a bad taste in my mouth, so much so that it almost completely put me off the man's music, which is a shame. I'd paste some of the comments that were made during the exchange (it was rumored that she also used a variety of pseudonymns), but .....hmmmm....I was going to say "why dig up old bones?" or "that's just water under the bridge", but I can't think of a colloquialism that isn't somehow in exceptionally poor taste.
In any case, it never struck me as a good idea that someone so close to the deceased should be in charge of his vaults. I'm sure her maternal instincts and deep feelings of loss amplified any legitimate legal grievances, so she's not really to be blamed, I suppose. Still, I can't listen to the stuff anymore without thinking of her sitting at a computer, foaming at the mouth, ripping her hair out and painting herself red with lipstick like Diane Ladd in "Wild at Heart".
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link
It's got space, nuance, atmosphere, quiet bits that suck you in, enormous crescendos. Yes, it's OTT and baroque and dramatic at times, gut this isn't minimal techno; it's lavish, emotional rock music. I've also always preferred his originals to the covers, so "awfully produced and relies on the covers" is a nonsensical criticism to me. I skip the covers half the time.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 27 October 2016 10:25 (seven years ago) link
for me the issue with buckley is not simply that it's ott, ott is fine in music, but that his vocal style seems like some white boy equivalent to whitney houston, even though he's actually going for nina simone.
― mystery local boy (rushomancy), Thursday, 27 October 2016 11:43 (seven years ago) link
I'm listening to "Mystery White Boy" lately and I have to admit this guy was pretty incredible.
"Dream Brother" scorches
― . (Michael B), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
did people watch that movie about the 'greetings from tim buckley' concert slash was it any good
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
I only learned recently that Joan Wasser aka Joan as Police Woman was a good friend of him. Somehow that makes me love her music even more.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link
This previously unreleased Buckley/Lucas song, No One Can Find You Here, is spectacular. On Spotify now, from a forthcoming album by Gary Lucas and an Italian JB soundalike. Maybe I need to dig into Gary Lucas' catalogue.
― Supposed Former ILM Lurker (WeWantMiles), Thursday, 5 September 2019 12:04 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHqfMvrmPE8
was watching this today, fucking incredible
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 29 August 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link
i was a total jeff buckley stan in high school and... for good reason
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 29 August 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
all i do in this thread is talk about how much jeff buckley meant to me in high school lol
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 29 August 2020 16:45 (three years ago) link
i love that frankfurt show!!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 29 August 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
I used a jeff Buckley song as an audition piece for a musical theater troupe in hs (I did not get in lol)
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Saturday, 29 August 2020 16:58 (three years ago) link
what happened to the audio at 20:05?
― Lee626, Saturday, 29 August 2020 20:18 (three years ago) link
This must have been at least a decade after his death, unless you're significantly older than I thought you were. Thanks for the link, btw.
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Saturday, 29 August 2020 20:47 (three years ago) link
nah it was only about four years after he died. i bought grace when i was 13, in 2000-2001 thereabouts
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 29 August 2020 20:54 (three years ago) link
explosive fandom started when i bought sketches the next year. i think i love the first disc of sketches even more than grace, and it helped me get through a pretty traumatic year of my life. the expanded live at sin-é which iirc came out in a little bit later (2003?) opened up so many musical worlds to me at once i consider it sort of like this life-altering rosetta stone for the future of my taste. i was so in the tank that i even acquired a few of the cash-in posthumous releases—my parents definitely bought me the box set of grace singles for christmas one year, which is how i first became acquainted with big star, that was major. jeff buckley kicked ass
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 29 August 2020 21:02 (three years ago) link
Love Jeff. I used to hit on this French girl by pretending not to know the translation to the words to “Je nen connais pas le fin” off the sin e EP
― calstars, Saturday, 29 August 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
lol
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 29 August 2020 21:14 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxJI7hlPdnY
just... what a song. greg dulli covered this at an afghan whigs show i saw a few years ago and i died in my seat
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 29 August 2020 21:15 (three years ago) link
my favorite off sketches is “yard of blonde girls”
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 29 August 2020 21:18 (three years ago) link
that song is so crunchy and weirdly hot(????)
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 29 August 2020 21:22 (three years ago) link
Morning Theft is my favourite Jeff Buckley song!
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Saturday, 29 August 2020 21:23 (three years ago) link
gifts for boot-heels to crush, promises deceived.
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Saturday, 29 August 2020 21:28 (three years ago) link
meet me tomorrow night... or any day you want...
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Saturday, 29 August 2020 21:29 (three years ago) link
xxpost yes weirdly hot is otm - has kind of a vague sleazy 70’s classic rock vibe that i like, that he hadnt really fooled around with before. i wish he could have hung around & done more stuff in that crunchy vein unrelated: my favorite thing, period, is when he did his spoken Edith Piaf impersonation in Paris, i think it’s on the Mystery White Boy live album. he was a huge dork
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 29 August 2020 21:49 (three years ago) link
idg the word crunchy in relation to this.
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Saturday, 29 August 2020 21:50 (three years ago) link
guitar goes crunch
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 29 August 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link
^ gets it
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 29 August 2020 22:01 (three years ago) link
yer both mad.
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Saturday, 29 August 2020 22:12 (three years ago) link
>:(
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 29 August 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link
Oh look an excuse to post this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lPdj4mE6wQ
― Vernon Locke, Saturday, 29 August 2020 22:32 (three years ago) link
what a song
one of the very few songs totally ruined beyond salvage thanks to high school cringe as mentioned upthread
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Saturday, 29 August 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
Jeff & Michael Tighe awkwardly hosting 120 minutes in 1995 - i get distracted purely by the fact that he’s smoking on camera https://youtu.be/5Y03BeeYH3k
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 29 August 2020 23:07 (three years ago) link
i saw him twice live in Melbourne - once at a community radio station rooftop gig in 1995, and once at the Palais in 1996. I was supposed to go to his first Australian show at The Lounge too but I was sick & my friends went & ugh regrets i have had themi was a fan, am still a fan, but after his death how he was remembered ~culturally~ didnt seem seem to have a lot to do with what it was like enjoying his music as a fan at the time & my enjoyment of him became more and more privatelike now, what, 23 years later? so much of the narrative about him now is limiting & binary, either ppl complaining about Hallelujah or claiming his sainthood.like with Cobain it was different bc he was so massive but it feels with Jeff Buckley that somehow his memory was overwritten with lots of crap that just doesnt even honor himanywayhe was fun, magnetic, weirdly humble, & also a dorky normie who liked records.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 29 August 2020 23:27 (three years ago) link
oh my god that 120 minutes video is extremely goofy
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Saturday, 29 August 2020 23:33 (three years ago) link
i saw him twice live in Melbourne
God, I envy that.
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Saturday, 29 August 2020 23:35 (three years ago) link
I know people tend to kind of automatically, maybe lazily assume he was headed for superstardom of some kind, imo the most realistic scenario for him was more like a few more hype years and maybe one or two more big to semi-big album cycles, then settling into a solid if idiosyncratic singer-songwriter career after that, ultimately cropping up as a hip influence on the youngsters....around now, really.
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Saturday, 29 August 2020 23:52 (three years ago) link
(I'm not trying to downplay the tragedy of course. I wish he'd gotten to do all that!)
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Saturday, 29 August 2020 23:53 (three years ago) link
I know people tend to kind of automatically, maybe lazily assume he was headed for superstardom
yeah this never tracked for me, he was headed toward making weirder and more fascinating records imo
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 29 August 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
the superstar assumption is just bc of his voice but it completely discounts his personality, background & literally everything irl about him
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 30 August 2020 00:07 (three years ago) link
This guy was really something… much respect (I’ve been spinning Mystery White Boy & Live at Sin-é)
― atmospheric river phoenix (morrisp), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 05:55 (two months ago) link
He was a f’in good guitar player, man (and I’ve heard one or two).
― atmospheric river phoenix (morrisp), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 05:57 (two months ago) link
Imagine having the dude singing a few feet from you while you were eating a muffin.― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, August 15, 2013 5:48 PM (ten years ago)
― atmospheric river phoenix (morrisp), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 06:08 (two months ago) link
Sin e is so great, I wore out that CD
― calstars, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 11:53 (two months ago) link
Almost exactly 30 years ago he sang a few feet from me while I was having a Sunday lunchtime pint in the biker pub in Stevenage Old Town.
https://live.staticflickr.com/3023/3250195553_a56704d029_b.jpg
― Piedie Gimbel, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 12:21 (two months ago) link
I went to his Olympia gig and indeed the Piaf moment was charming. One of the few things I remember about it !I don’t know if his duet with Liz Fraser was mentioned here. I wasn’t aware of that story then.
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 12:22 (two months ago) link
More pics here https://flic.kr/s/aHsj9mtUAQ He was persuaded to do a second set in Stevenage that evening, third on the bill to some local punk bands at the new town youth club.
― Piedie Gimbel, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 12:23 (two months ago) link
Very cool !
― calstars, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 13:05 (two months ago) link
Amazing!
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 13:26 (two months ago) link
getting a 404 on that flickr link?
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 13:34 (two months ago) link
Not having looked at my flickr account in about 15 years I realised all the pictures of my kids were publically viewable so I quickly made them private! Think I've just made the JB pics public again.Think
― Piedie Gimbel, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 14:10 (two months ago) link