If I'm feeling a bit sad and moody I'll put on this track. I think it's amazing that we can all have a little piece of Buckley to chase our blues away. God bless vinyl.

Also, how is his post-folk era material? I've heard it was pretty mediocre, and the tag "sex funk" makes me feel a bit unsure. I have all of his other albums, so should I just get his last three records or should I steer clear for my own good?

That album Blue Afternoon is certainly one of his better albums.


I've wondered the same thing. I can't say any of the previews I've heard from his later albums make me want to shell out for them. I can understand a musician wanting to branch out artistically but as a fan it can be disconcerting when they have excelled in a particular genre and they want to go in a different direction.

I absolutely love this man. His music is incredible and his voice is amazing too. I discovered him 2 years ago now. My fave albums are Greetings From L.A and Goodbye and Hello.

It may be a little more hip to like Tim's later, more experimental stuff, but I'll stick with his most evocative period, which for me would be Happy Sad and Blue Afternoon.

In my college days, Happy Sad was my #1 "light a candle in the dorm room and hop beneath the sheets with my girlfriend" album. Set the mood better than any other I can think of. Beautiful, sensual…nothing quite like it. An album I'll never tire of.

In so many words, I've made this statement so many times over the course of 55+ years of loving music.

Yes, you want to "grow," but what are you growing to? It may feel good to you as an artist to do this, but if you're leaving your greatest strengths behind...what then?

I'm very much with you when it comes to this dilemma and Tim Buckley.

I'm more of a Starsailor/Lorca guy, but all of his albums are excellent.

What do you think Tim Buckley lost when he started becoming more exheroinmental?

Random comment, just heard Starsailor for the first time, seems like Song to the siren was tacked on there to help sell the album? Seems totally incongruous with the rest of the material, which is quite experimental.

Greetings From LA has some good songs but be prepared for a somewhat different experience from his earlier albums. I have seen it described as "blustery white funk". I think that's a bit unkind. The three songs on side 1 are all fascinating, especially "Sweet Surrender"; the second side perhaps less so.


Some of the lyrics are... well, they could be called politically incorrect. Let's just say they dwell heavily on the subject of what's tactfully called "making love".

On Song to the Siren when he says "Were you hare when I was fox?" it sounds like he's saying "were you here when I was farting?"

Gets me every time.



(@1:25)

****.

You're right.

Thanks for ruining this song for me Frown.