Jeff Buckley was many things, but humble wasn't one of them. Grace is an audacious debut album, filled with sweeping choruses, bombastic arrangements, searching lyrics, and above all, the richly textured voice of Buckley himself, which resembled a cross between Robert Plant, Van Morrison, and his father Tim. And that's a fair starting point for his music: Grace sounds like a Led Zeppelin album written by an ambitious folkie with a fondness for lounge jazz. At his best -- the soaring title track, "Last Goodbye," and the mournful "Lover, You Should've Come Over" -- Buckley's grasp met his reach with startling results; at its worst, Grace is merely promising.
This album, on its surface, didn't strike me as anything overly remarkable when I first hear it. Grace's presentation seemed too flashy and ostentatious, with a singer so in love with his own voice that he has built an hour-long sonic altar to himself. It took a 7 1/2 hour flight from Dallas to Honolulu to give me the mental patience and pliability to give Buckley's debut album an in-depth list...
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This morning I woke up and looked at my Apple homepage and saw that Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" was #2 on iTunes. I love this song, but Buckley covered it back in '94, so I wondered what had caused this iTunes phenomenon. I did some research (a.k.a. Googling) and found out that American Idol contestant, Jason Castro, sang it a couple of nights ago.The judges say they like his rendition. Even Si...
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Although I already had Jeff Buckley's album "Grace" on my iPod, it had been a while since I had listened to it and I was reminded of it when Lizziegreeneyes mentioned him in one of her posts last week.Whilst doing some research online, I discovered that there was a DVD released in 2000 of his 1995 concert in Chicago at the Caberet Metro, where he played tracks from "Grace," so I decided to rent...
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Just watched the DVD "Jeff Buckley - Live in Chicago" Great 1995 performance. He seemed to rock a little harder in this performance more than he did on the Mystery White Boy live album with some pretty neat little guitar licks, which makes me wonder what the next studio album would have sounded like. Thoughts? Here's my fav part of the show.
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Jeff Buckley was born in California's Orange County in 1966 and died in a tragic drowning accident in Memphis on May 29, 1997. He had emerged in New York City's avant-garde club scene in the 1990's as one of the most remarkable musical artists of his generation, acclaimed by audiences, critics, and fellow musicians alike.
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In 1998 or 1999 I crowded into the top floor of a little church in Noe Valley with a few hundred Jeff Buckley fans. Jeff's mom, Mary Guibert, was on a tour following Jeff's drowning in 1997. That night, Mary talked and answered questions and then played the "Mystery White Boy" DVD. Jeff's body and music were there onstage, and the TV was big enough that he looked more than half life-sized. At f...
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In 1998 or 1999 I crowded into the top floor of a little church in Noe Valley with a few hundred Jeff Buckley fans. Jeff's mom, Mary Guibert, was on a tour following Jeff's drowning in 1997. That night, Mary talked and answered questions and then played the "Mystery White Boy" DVD. Jeff's body and music were there onstage, and the TV was big enough that he looked more than half life-sized. At f...
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You better watch out You better not cry You better not pout I'm telling you whyHipster Claus is coming to town Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to deck the halls pour out the gingerbread latte and count down the days to Xmas. So as we enter the last week of Advent, let me dose you up with holiday cheer and play you the hippest of Christmas cuts. With a new, vapid version ascending the charts cou...
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"yousoldtheworld":http://mog.com/yousoldtheworld has a "post":http://mog.com/yousoldtheworld/blog_post/79001 of the utmost importance to me on this day, the 29th May. It's my Mum's birthday - this makes the 29th a happy day in my life. It's the anniversary of the loss of Jeff Buckley - this makes the 29th a _*heartsmashingbreakingintoabloodypulpymess*_ day as well. It's a day I feel most at ...
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So some dreadlocked guy sings Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" the other night on American Idol, and Randy and Simon rattle on about how they love Jeff Buckley's version, and just like that, the Buckley track jumps out of nowhere to #4 on the iTunes chart, which is the first time Jeff's music has been in any top 10 in the U.S. (I'm pretty sure). We live in an odd world.You've heard and seen Jeff si...
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Right, so I've been thinking long & hard on some mix tapes (CDs - I just can't get out of the habit of calling them tapes) that I've been working on for some of my fellow MOGgers. It got me to thinking about what I would consider _near perfect_ songs. I really shy away from saying _perfect_ song, as this is totally a subjective matter (though I'm *always* right) ! ;)I've got a few that I've ...
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Leonard Cohen has to be raking in big bucks on royalties for his song Hallelujah, but that doesn't mean that he's rejoicing over all of the different versions.Hallelujah has taken on a life of its own over the last decade. The late-Jeff Buckley recorded a version on his last album, Grace, that brought huge popularity to the song. It was used on the soundtrack to a number of movies and became ...
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Beautiful...simply beautiful.
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When I was cleaning my dog's toilet (and by that I mean some piece of paper unfold – usually half Sunday newspaper), I noticed he flushed his bladder on Jeff Buckley (Holy schmutz, don't know how that got there.. I usually keep music related pages away from such _wet destiny_).It was quite comic in the way there was something written about his death (I'm sure you all know he drowned a decade ag.
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by now, everyone on MOG has heard of the lovegodsway.com people, and their gay band list. i wrote this email to them, but after reading some of what other people are saying, not just here but on the net in general - and how many people actually AGREE with what this guy is doing, i'm posting it here, as a general argument against it, rather than a personal email, because this really applies to ...
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I swear I'm not trying to make this 'Morbid Monday' or anything, but the more I listen to Andrew Bird's newest album the more I notice some vocal similarities to the late Jeff Buckley, and I had to bust out an album that I hadn't listened to in way too long, and that would be Jeff's Grace. I bought this album for about 2 bucks at a thrift store (okay maybe it was a nice pawn shop) around 7 or ...
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This journal entry was influenced by a new Pitchfork news column in which guest contributors list the music they were in love with every five years of their life. See an example with Art Brut's Eddie Argos here. TeamRobin: Age 5 Pink Floyd - Keep Talking (The Division Bell, 1994) My first real musical memory should have been one in which a young Robin has a major epiphany on a summer's day and...
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There was that boy. That one boy that started this whole goddamned year. That one boy that knocked me higher up into the stratosphere then I've ever been in my life, then took off when I was past the clouds and let me crash back down through the earth into it's core.I don't know where I would be now if I wouldn't have known him. But I know for certain it wouldn't fucking be here.I attempted ...
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first song i head this morning. playing it again while i drink coffee & notice how blue the sky is today. a beautiful song & a beautiful day. strange how this song can make me cry & can make me soar, depending on where my heart is residing that day. l *
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Just watched the DVD "Jeff Buckley - Live in Chicago" Great 1995 performance. He seemed to rock a little harder in this performance more than he did on the Mystery White Boy live album with some pretty neat little guitar licks, which makes me wonder what the next studio album would have sounded like. Thoughts? Here's my fav part of the show.
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Here's what played on the lizziegreeneyes' Pod as I made my way home tonight... Eternal Life is now on my trailGot my red glitter coffin, man, just need one last nailWhile all these ugly gentlemen play out their foolish gamesThere's a flaming red horizon that screams our namesAnd as your fantasies are broken in twoDid you really think this bloody road would Pave the way for you?You better turn...
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| 3 Last Goodbye |
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| 4 Lilac Wine |
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| 5 So Real |
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| 6 Hallelujah |
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| 7 Lover, You Should've Come Over |
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| 8 Corpus Christi Carol |
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| 9 Eternal Life |
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