Urban Hat€monger ?

Matt Bellamy holds Buckley's work in high esteem.



Oh yeah I know ALL about that one.

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Mookie Wilson

just watch this and stfu:

Jeff Buckley - Documentary From BBC

Urban Hat€monger ?

All the sources in the world won't make me think anything different.

Sure he had a good voice , sure he's good at doing covers by other artists but thats only half the story. I just found his own material bland.

If I was forced to listen to a Buckley album at gunpoint i'd choose one of his dads everytime.

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=ladyface=

Were those last posts supposed to make us change our minds or something? Awww.

Mookie Wilson

fair enough, different music in/for different generations.

he did some great covers cuz it was early in his very brief career.

i'll stick with jimmy page's, elton john's, and patti smith's opinions of him, seems a bit more reputable.

no, but show some goddamn respect

Urban Hat€monger ?

As I was born a good few years after Jeff Buckley was i'd rather not consider myself as being a part of his dad's generation. Besides I don't think somethings age should count against it. I prefer his fathers music because he seemed more aware of music in general & experimented more often ,plus I think he was a better songwriter.
Is it fair to compare his body of work with his sons one and only finished album? Probably not ,but that's all there is to go by. He may have ended up a better songwriter , his music may have got more experimental , he could have done plenty of things , but he didn't. And that is my biggest problem with people who love this album. People want to heighten up all the positives of it & think what could have been and it's treated as a 'what could have been' rather than what it is. And what it is to me is an album that shows some promise but relies far too much on other peoples songs.

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boo boo

I disagree strongly and besides Grace only has 3 covers, I don't see why anyone should be discredited becaused they covered other peoples songs, Elvis sure as hell ain't discredited for that. I prefer Buckleys cover of Hallelujah over Cohens original by a great deal.

I don't think people praise Grace simply because of "what could have been", IMO it wasn't an album that promised that Buckley would one day make a great album, it WAS a great album, and sometimes one great album is all you need. At least in my opinion.

His voice is godly and he was a pretty great melodicist too.

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WolfAtTheDoor

Doing a classic song justice is one thing, completely outdoing it is another. Jeff Buckley did this with most of his covers. Even though he wasn't entirely original, not by a long shot, he had a voice that was out of this world. Great vocal range. And the songs he wrote himself on Grace are brilliant no question about it. Last Goodbye has some of the most perfect lyrics I've had the pleasure of hearing...

=ladyface=

I don't recall disrespecting you or your wonderful Jeff Buckley.

Mojo

This threads kinda funny really. Apologies to certain people for bumping it I guess.

In response to a previous post (pages back) I think 'amazing' is more than a valid word to describe 'Grace'.

Grace is without a doubt my favourite record. Let down a little by Corpus Christi Carol but as close to a perfect record as I've ever heard.

Ive noticed Jeff Buckley fans can get kind of defensive. I can, I try not to with music because I can't see the point but with Jeff Buckley I cant help it sometimes. However, I have never seen a Buckley fan attempt to force their love down peoples throats and pass it off as absolute, unarguable fact.

I think the guy was such a talented lyricist and songwriter, a greatly underrated guitarist and only surpassed vocally by Robert Plant - and I don't need quotes from Elton John to reinforce that belief.