jeff buckley

girella

hows it goin?
just said id make a post here and see and find out if there is anybody out there as interested in the legendary jeff buckley as myself and also if your not to say shame on you you uncultured swines.
recommended song- dinks song. you'll find it on one of the live at sin e recordings enjoy peeps

Woden

hmm i have one of his albums grace i think it is. funny story my grandmother bought it for herself because she wanted the hallejuhah song but realised his other stuff wasn't like that so gave it to me.

i don't go out of my way to listen to it or anything though i do like hallejuhah (but then again its not his originally think its leonard cohens) but it was on in UGC one night when i was in the bar and it was quite enjoyable. i like the song after hallejuhah, should have come over or something i think its called

oh and welcome to boards

data

mr_angry

Nice to see somebody looking down on their fellow Boards posters, so early in their career here! :dunno:

Anyway, Jeff... amazing talent... great music... dead... sad loss to the world. What more is there to say?

girella

thanks to both both dataisgod and mr angry for replying to me
hate the fact that he and most my fave musicians are dead.
yes he was out of this world and it is a sad loss
good to know others love him also
hallelijah is amazing and ya it is leonard cohens but i think jeff does it justice ya?

quarryman

The Last Goodbye is the best on the album IMO.

welcome to boards.

Beruthiel

just thought I would upset all you peps by telling you that I went to see the beautiful Mr. B when he came to dublin nine years ago....

I think I shall have them play 'satisfied mind' at my funeral, beautiful song

colincarnate

i think his music is boring, just not enough riffs for me to be honest, he's a good kid though, sure fair play to him...

girella

im really not liking the person who saw him. i envy you
so how was it great id expect
and for you who does not like him. why hes genious you should probably listen to more of his rare stuffi f you want to hear more riffs

Hairy Homer

AFAIK he only made one studio album, Grace, before he got killed.

Eternal life is terrific. How many riffs do you want colincarnate FFS???? So is Dream Brother and his version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah is marvellous. Not too gone on his live stuff though.

Beruthiel

Originally posted by girella
im really not liking the person who saw him. i envy you

I can live with that :;)

so how was it great id expect

beautiful would be more the word, as good live as he is on disc
threw himself out into the crowd afterwards

Lucutus

Dream Brother

What will you say?

NoHotAshes©

I think Lover You Should Come over is the best on the album , my mam likes Hallelujah ..... weird !!

Jeff was great

colincarnate

i want 'Peace Sells...' riffage all the time, songs with 'Easter Egg' riffs in them which are forgetaboutit, sure still he's a good chap though, i like him

ll=llannah

is amazing. no more need be said.

cannonballkid

is that the base player from tippinst

girella

colincarnate you should try and expand your taste not everything has to be heavy but you are entitled to you opinion and im not getting bitch or anything just so you know. but you are wrong about cliff burton most definately.
im a feisty bitch! and you wont change my mind

cannonballkid

Calm down

D!ve^Bomb!

Originally posted by Hairy Homer
AFAIK he only made one studio album, Grace, before he got killed.

erm, wot about Sketches for My Sweetheart The Drunk,

grace is by far one of my favourite albums of all time... best songs


mojo pin
grace
the last goodbye
Hallelujah and
lover you should have come over

Altheus

Lest we forget the short but sweet take on The Smith's tune, on Mystery White Boy. Or perhaps the finest unfinished album of all time, My Sweetheart, the Drunk.

girella

ya sketches is great.
there's some kick ass stuff on live sin e recordings and others too. have nearly all of them and im officially well impressed.
his take on van morrisons the way young lovers do is incredible and who can forget dinks song not to mention his take on nusrat fateh ali khan- pure genious.
them there's always the classics like dream brother, last goodbye, grace and mojo pin ha i could go on all day......

The jock

jeff buckley lives on through his music i think he was at his best during the Live At Sin-e album.Music hasent been the same since died. his was the inspiration for a lot of up and coming bands and influenced many others including myself.Cliff burton was the best base player ever and metallica will never come across any one like him.+i dont like metallicas new stuff because its lacking that extra touch of his.does any one agree with me.

Jeff Buckley
BORN: November 17, 1966, Orange County, CA
DIED: May 29, 1997
R.I.P.

Quatre Mains

- I'm a long time fan of JB.

None of you have even touched on his best song, I assume you haven't heard it. Look hard in the usual places and you will find it, its called Forget Her. It was recorded for Grace and was left off at the last minute. Possibly my all-time fave track.

(if you have the CBGB's bootleg 2CD I think its hidden at the end of that as well)

Let me know what u think.

Enjoy
Neil

Woden

Originally posted by NoHotAshes©
I think Lover You Should Come over is the best on the album , my mam likes Hallelujah ..... weird !!

definetly not as weird as my grandmother liking it and buying the album, i win i win

colincarnate

oh i actually know this other really secret song and... b*llocks.

You got me spot on Girella, i need to wise up alright but i'm too bogged down in catchy music to listen to anything else, i'm not mad for the heavy stuff now but if there's constant changing and other classes(Imperium MH-style) of things in the song sure i'm laughin', i'll give Jeff Buckley a spin sure just to try him again

Soltra

Don't know if anyone has heard it but Songs to No One is another great JB album. And it was made with Gary Lucas from the most excellent Captain Beefheart...

NoHotAshes©

Yeah you win Dataisgod, haha your granny listening to jeff is pretty weird alright !

Witches Rave on My Swetheart is pretty heavy ... for jeff anyway and anyway he doesnt play heavy riffs cause his voice is too beautiful to be masked with distortion ( I say beautiful in a totally non gay way but beautiful is the only way to describe it)

girella

to the jock
you are a legend and i think we would get on very well. cliff is without a doubt the best and yes there new stuff is ****. as for jeff i dont think there are enough words.
colincarnate, thanks for being reasonable even though i wasn't
at the minute you are all my favourite peeps and you all know why and also i introduced my nan to jeff and she loves him, also very weird but also very cool.
beautiful is the only word to describe him and thats so true
also have any of you read the book dream brother on jeff and his dad tim, excellent i recommend that ye read it coz ye wont be disappointed.
see ye now enjoy and have a good weekend!

Deadwing

Jeff was probably the greatest singer/songwriting talent of the last decade, actually make that last 2 decades! I doubt theres anyone else whos listened to him wholl disagree that you actually felt a real sense of loss when he died, not just "Ah well there goes another good musician". And i cannot believe noones mentioned The sky is a landfill!!! Jeffs Heaviest song, and one of his best!
(For further proof that Jeff did actually rock out from time to time check out his live version of Eternal life and Kick out the jams!)
And as someone else said..not in a gay kinda way..but dammit i love Jeff..*L*

davidclayton

jeff does a great cover of
"the way that young lovers do"
by van morrisson
[on the sin e album]

dave

NoHotAshes©

Yea, he does a great cover of the way young lovers do !

I love all jeff buckley's songs .... when he sings ... you know he means it ! Class

ferdi

Originally posted by cannonballkid
is that the base player from tippinst

kill yourself please.

tendofan

Yes, he'd a world-class voice, and "Grace" _is_ a very good album, maybe even excellent, and he is a great loss to music, but he's over-rated.

"Sketches" is patchy, which I suppose is no criticism, as it would be by definition, but I _hate_ the "Live at Sin E" recordings - especially his cover of "The Way Young Lovers Do."

It's a drawn out, pretentious, heavy-handed reading of one of Vans' most cracking tunes. He stomps all over the notes in a way that is not too dissimilar to Mariah/Whitney/Celine (the singing whippet). If he kept the discipline shown on Grace it'd have been way better.

Or maybe I'm just over-analysing. :-)

girella

i think over analysing is dead on.
you are entitled to your opinion but im sorry i really dont think he is recognised enough for it. and if he gets alot of praise its cause he deserves it.

Quatre Mains

I agree with Tendofan. Much as I love some of his stuff a lot of it is not great, especially some of the live at Sin-E stuff. I will never be persuaded that songs like "Through the Yard of Blond Girls" or "I Woke Up in a Strange Place" are in the same league as his best stuff. I never listen to Songs to No-One. People tend to go easier when criticising dead artists than live ones IMO

jerenaugrim

The version of Hallelujah that Jeff does is John Cale's version. The Leonard Cohen original is pretty crap (slow, too long, different words). John Cale had a version, just him and piano. It's on a Cohen tribute album called I'm Your Fan.
I think the best thing Jeff recorded was the duet with the African guy. I think someone mentioned it above. It raised the hair on the back of my neck. Absolutely awesome.

The jock

edit: If your next post here is as abusive, your banned.

isthisit

jeff buckley is great. grace is one of the best albums ive heard.

isthisit

MrJoeSoap

Last Goodbye is his and THE best song ever. It'll definitely be played at my funeral. I've listened to it almost every day since I heard it over two years ago. And I was listening to the acoustic version of it when I saw this thread. Another weird moment in my weird life.

Dave Conway

What a talent! ...and a loss, and 'tis a pity that every little sneeze and sniffle he emitted has been issued as a release since his death. Doesn't do him justice, at all. I cried the night he died, wrote a song for him, played it the next night at a gig I was doing. I don't think any of our audience knew who he was. Got to play it at a tribute night for him a year after though.
Speaking of which, there is a gig called 'Under the Influence' happening in the Sugar Club, on Leeson St. this Fri 27th. It's a nite of music featuring bands/artists doing songs from people that have influenced Jeff; I know some of the people playing, and the guy that's organising it, who's a real big Jeff fan. It should be good.

P.S. I was at the Tivoli gig too; was it really 9 years ago? And did he hold that beautiful note in 'Hallelujah' for as long as he does on Grace, and with such control and clarity? Yes, he did, and longer, and clearer. It was simply amazing; and then he threw himself off the stage into the loving arms of an awestruck crowd.........

P.S.S. Dream Brother is my favourite...

girella

for all of you who saw him ye are in my eyes the most lucky people.
i have no doubt in my mind that ye will all hold that concert close to your hearts for the rest of your lives and damn straight you should.
i am always going to regret never seeing him and although there are many musicians that i love so much and will never get the chance to see, he is the one that gets me most upset.
unfortunately i have no control over these things.
couldn't pick a favourite but as were talking grace is blaring in my ears and every second of it is unbelieveable.
woop-shiver down my spine-everytime without fail
later peeps

AnotherBlueMoon

Just thought I´d add my name to the Jeff Buckley fan list. I bought ´Mystery White Boy´ last summer and it blew me away. Unfortunately I´m too broke to buy CDs at the moment, but I mentioned Jeff Buckley to my French flatmate and he took out a copy of ´Grace´. Haven´t stopped listening to it since. His voice on the Corpus Christi Carol just stunned me. I´m definitely a Leonard Cohen fan, but Jeff blew him out of the water with his version of ´Hallelujah´.
Whoever it was that said Jeff´s stuff isn´t heavy enough - listen to ´I woke up in a strange place´ or ´Eternal Life´ on Mystery White Boy. They should satisfy your hunger for guitar riffing!

The jock

Did any of you know that Dream Brother is the theme song for the Sci fi program the dead zone.

Duffman

Originally posted by MrJoeSoap
Last Goodbye is his and THE best song ever. It'll definitely be played at my funeral. I've listened to it almost every day since I heard it over two years ago.

Yes! One of the greatest songs of all time...

curtismayfield

just saw something about jeff buckley. hate him and his mostly awful songs. that he is also responsible for thom yorke (he of wonnky eye from radiohead) going falsetto is a crime. radiohead were bad enough before he went even more whiny. radiohead, buckley and sigur ros are all terrible, overwrought, overblown and downright boring.
that and they're the preserve of muso students who ruin most music for everyone anyway.
doubt if anyone else agrees somehow.

Duffman

Originally posted by curtismayfield
he is also responsible for thom yorke (he of wonnky eye from radiohead) going falsetto is a crime. radiohead were bad enough before he went even more whiny. radiohead, buckley and sigur ros are all terrible, overwrought, overblown and downright boring.
that and they're the preserve of muso students who ruin most music for everyone anyway.

Quite whiny ourselves now, aren't we? Way to ruin music for everyone dude...

girella

damn staight duffman!you tell him.
there'll be none of that talk in this tread thanks very much

MrJoeSoap

Originally posted by curtismayfield
just saw something about jeff buckley. hate him and his mostly awful songs. that he is also responsible for thom yorke (he of wonnky eye from radiohead) going falsetto is a crime. radiohead were bad enough before he went even more whiny. radiohead, buckley and sigur ros are all terrible, overwrought, overblown and downright boring.
that and they're the preserve of muso students who ruin most music for everyone anyway.
doubt if anyone else agrees somehow.

Oh I'm putting you on my list of enemies, you evil muppet. That rant seriously hurt me inside. How you could even think of blaming him for whatever Thom Yorke did is just plain wrong. Jeff Buckley is Jeff Buckley, nothing to do with Radiohead or Sigur Ros. How can you say he ruins music for anyone, when so many people have obviously been touched so deeply by his music?? And to say that you actually hate "him" as a person is the most disgusting and idiotic thing I have heard. Did you ever meet him? Did you ever talk to anybody who knew him??

girella

here here MrJoeSoap.well said.
my intentions for originally posting a comment about jeff buckley was for fans of his and people who had some respect for him and his music.
if ANYONE has bad things to say be it in relation to jeff buckley or otherwise i strongly suggest you find a different thread to do it on.
i am aware everyone is entitled t his/her opinion but clearly this was posted for good reasons not bad, meaning for us (the fans) to share our views on the legend that was jeff buckley.
please dont come back here again if you've nothing good to say

MrJoeSoap

Originally posted by girella
please dont come back here again if you've nothing good to say

Well said. BTW - Has anyone here heard the acoustic version of Last Goodbye going round. It starts with a nice (and different) little riff that can only be heard through one speaker (or earphone). Behind the album version, its my favourite.

Anyone else agree there should be a Jeff Buckley forum!!!

girella

yes yes indeed.
i've heard an ecoustic version alright but don't know if its the one you're talking about.
anyway peeps if i dont talk to ye beforehand, happy paddys day and happy drinking!

The jock

the accoustic version of last goodbye is on the live in chicago dvd. theres two bonus songs on the dvd and last goodbye(accoustic) is one of them and so real(accoustic) is the other.i agree with you that there should be a jeff buckley forum and i also agree that curtusmayfield should find another thread to bad mouth a music legend.