Wow. Ten years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Buckley
Jeff Buckley was my Kurt Cobain.
Grace is one of the greatest albums ever made. If you love it, give it a listen. You shouldn't celebrate death but you should celebrate genius.
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Ahh...this makes me very sad (and also, I feel very old) :(
Though I have a "top 10 best live shows ever" list, which is always in no-particular-order, mr. buckley is the only one sorted...at number 1.
Did you get the chance to see him live? I've seen his former bandmates perform as 'The AM'. I got a chance to meet them which was pretty cool (and get my bus pass signed...in the toilet)
If Jeff Buckley was playing a free gig at the bottom of my garden, I'd close the curtains. And wonder why he'd come back to life to haunt the bottom of my garden when I cant stick his fucking tiresome wailing.
Ok, a bit strong that but Buckley left and continues to leave me and pretty much all of my friends completely cold. I like over-emotional, whitter rock but Grace just doesnt do it for me and I genuinely believe that if he hadnt died, it wouldnt be as critically fawned over like it is. not least of all because it sounds horribly dated just 13 years later.
So, yes. Im a bastard. But hey ho. ITV Digital Monkey was my Kurt Cobain. Or was it the Poddington Peas?
Will do. Genius will always live.
I first heard Grace after taking a chance on it a few years ago. It stuck with me since and it's got me through some tough times. That's probably why it means a lot to me. It's dependable, much like a parade-raining comment from Mr Ben Baker. He hates everything I like. What kind of marriage is this, Ben?
I like soup.
I used to listen to that album over and over and over. I had another listen recently. He was sooo talented. His voice was just incredible.
Hey by the way I tagged you...
Thanks! I did it. It was cathartic :)
I got my _____ signed...in the toilet could go SO many other places.
And I did. He was opening for Julian Hatfield, which was an odd match in so many ways, and after his very first song (forgive me for not remembering which it was) my friend turned to me and said, "How can she even get up on stage each night after this?"
Cool! I would have loved to have seen that!
Chris, i was reading the Sunday times just now and i found this, you might want to listen to it:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article1831009.ece
it's a never-released live recording of Lover You Should Have Come Over
damn, i can't post this link.
well, anyway it's in the Sunday times website
Arts Entertainment-Music
and there is also an article "beyond the grave"
Grace is indeed amazing. I only hate one bit, which is where he goes mental during one song (I forget which, sorry; have not listened for ages). You know the one? He/the band just goes all spaz. I just don't get that. I like my music musical.
BUT that aside, the man was a genius. His cover of Cohen's Hellelujah gives me shivers. It is the single most gorgeous contemporary solo vocal performance ever.
Too many of the most amazing singers die young. Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley, Janis Joplin, Elliott Smith, Shannon Hoon... these days when I hear a new amazing young singer, I immediately worry that they'll be dead within a few years.
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