Goodbye And Hello

I tried but anything that feels and sounds this much like a Renaissance festival isn’t helping anybody.

I LOVE Tim Buckley but I bet you fuckers voted him down. He's Jeff Buckley's dad and a very good song writer

Often cited as the ultimate Tim Buckley statement, Goodbye and Hello is indeed a fabulous album, but it's merely one side of Tim Buckley's enormous talent. Recorded in the middle of 1967 (in the afterglow of Sgt. Pepper), this album is clearly inspired by Pepper's exploratory spirit. More often than not, this helps to bring Buckley's awesome musical vision home, but occasionally falters. Not that the album is overrated (it's not), it's just that it is only one side of Buckley. The finest songs on the album were written by him alone, particularly "Once I Was" and "Pleasant Street." Buoyed by Jerry Yester's excellent production, these tracks are easily among the finest example of Buckley's psychedelic/folk vision. A few tracks, namely the title cut and "No Man Can Find the War," were co-written by poet Larry Beckett. While Beckett's lyrics are undoubtedly literate and evocative, they occasionally tend to be too heavy-handed for Buckley. However, this is a minor criticism of an excellent and revolutionary album that was a quantum leap for both Tim Buckley and the audience.

Genuinely can't believe I've never listened to this.

Not for me! But congrats on being cute, Tim.

Oh god is gonna be more folk rock. Far too much of it at this point. This adds nothing to the world of music, just seems to be yet another album from that 5-year period that only the editors of this book seem to care about. 2/5.

I listened to this several times a day. It's really beautiful and sounds so fresh and so ahead of its time

Thank you Tim Buckley. When I think "folk", this is exactly what I think of. Guy's like a little bard with an oversized hat that follows our chivalrous knight into the dragon's den. You can call it kitschy, I call it fuckin' art. "Pleasant Street" blew my socks off. His vocal range is insane and his songs give various buffs to his party members. Screw it, 5/5. Any album that thaws my black emotionless heart deserves such a rating.

I always loved Tim. I think his music is just something that cannot be compared to anyone else. Except of course his son. They both created something so incomparable and so special. Just so sad that both of them died and their art and what could have been. will be lost forever.

Alright but I really liked “I Never Asked to be Your Mountain” and the songwriting throughout was cool, so I’m bumping it up to a 4.

this dude's vocal range is freaking NUTS. Liked the first song the best by a good margin but psychadelia has been big for me the past few years so this album just felt like another thing I'd be intentionally seeking out anyway. great stuff!

"Pleasant Street" is one of my all time favorites. Love this guy. "Carnival Song" Is really weird. Tim Buckleys vocals are as crazy as ever. Great album. 4 Nevermind 5

Right up my flipping alley. How come I'd never heard of this guy before? Will buy

Pure and utter shite, don’t bother unless ur not right in the head, I’d give no star if it was available

This week I've had albums from '57, '67, '68, and '69. All killer records. The leap from musical styles and recording techniques in 1957 to 10-12 years later is massive. I feel like I had another Buckley album and liked it so I listened to his other albums, including this one. I dig this. 60's experimentation is off the charts. Folk, blues, rock, world music, all jammed together. Once I Was is really standout.

Ah yes, Jeff Buckley's dad! I listened to this album years ago and didn't really get it. It'll be interesting to re-listen to it now considering my tastes have changed a good bit since then. Wow what a voice! Very impressive songwriting too. I love how different each of the songs are, enjoyed every minute of this.

Give me more of that hippie bullshit PREFS: TOUT MOINS PREF: RIEN

Wow I am glad to get another Tim Buckley album. His voice brings such passion to these extraordinary songs. I lost myself in the music. Some particular highlights: “Pleasant Street”, “Once I Was”, “Phantasmagoria In Two”, and “Morning Glory”. And how about that epic title track “Goodbye and Hello”?! Wow!

Wow, I absolutely loved this album. The writing is amazing.

Solid album full of folk rock. Loved all of it. 5/5 stars.

Eclectic album from a 20yo. Reminds me of a Love album, with the strings and instrumentation. Tracks 1,3,5,6,7,9,10 are all highlights. Recommended.

The only one of his albums I know, but one I have played regularly and think is a classic.

You get out a big pot and mix together Al Stewart, Harry Chapin, John Martyn and Harry Chapin... you get Tim Buckley. And it's pretty tight

Listened to the album, then couldn't recall anything memorable about it. I mean sure somewhere back in 1967 a beautiful girl in a tie dye dress turned to her boyfriend and said this music is so groovy this hello and goodbye album is going to be remembered forever and everyone will remember whats his name oh what is it again oh yeah Buckley and that one song you know the Pleasant Street is so down down down down and Once I Was is so sweet and what is phantasamachacallit anyway and when she finally pauses to eat some stale potato chips off the coffee table where the incense is burning down her boyfriend who is also in tie dye shirt with a big peace sign and is stoned anyway but thinking pass the chips and he says its called goodbye and hello not hello and goodbye you know the one from whats his name you got it all turned around and do we have anymore of those chips and she looks at him and says wait wait what were we talking about? I figured it must be me, I must have been distracted. Clearly this artist poured their heart and soul into creating this work. So I listened again. Nope, still not working for me. How can I describe my reaction to this album? Remember the scene in Animal House when Bluto Blutarsky (a brilliant John Belushi) is walking down the stairs and stops to listen to the "Charming Guy" sing a folk song to several beautiful toga-clad ladies, then takes the guy's guitar and smashes it against the wall? Yeah that kinda captures the feeling. Plus one star for letting me have that memory of Animal House.

I'm a dogged singer-songwriter apologist, and even I can't defend this being here. Aimless troubadour rambling; as before, the best versions are on "Dream Letter'. Inessential

Very melancholic and familiar. Good message and stuff

i knew some of Tim Buckley’ later stuff but had never heard this. this music is right up my alley, folk, psycedlic, californian flower power music. his voice is very feminine in some places which was a little offputting - i had to check if i was still listening to Jeff Buckley. But the music feels vibrant and energetic, you can almost feel that he is innovating with sounds and styles as he goes. i am adding this album to my rotation. love it!

Oh I liked this! I'm not sure I'd want to listen to a whole album again but I'm definitely a fan of this type of 60s folk. Felt peaceful

The first side gives an early taste of Buckley’s experimental tendencies, and the second features more ordinary folk. Both sides are great

Peaceful, sometimes dreamy. Very lovely

He’s got pipes and great song radio. Like some of his other albums better

This record is a collection of poems (Bob Dylan-esque) about an individual who finds himself helplessly at the mercy of the madness of the world. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Once I Was, Pleasant Street

This one seems underappreciated. I prefer this to a lot of other folk from the time.

No Man Can Find the War-Dude's got a strong voice. I could describe it like he's singing in a tremolo? I got no other word for it. Its deep and sombre. including that end. Carnival-Well, it definitely has that carnival feel to it. The instrumental mix is so interesting. it kinda sounds like a carnival gone wrong at times and other times its just ambient carnival noise. one of the album genres in psychedelic rock so that tracks. Pleasant Street-super lowkey sombre but chill and nice. Hallucinations-liking the mix of guitar, ambient sounds and...bells and rattles and echo stuff? Some...bongos too. more psychedelic stuff i see. I like the genre...ambience i suppose? I Never Asked to be Your Mountain-Cool drums. and ambient...melody in the background. dunno what instrument that is. Once I Was-western? harmonica? melancholy. remember meeeee Knight Errant-soo short what. very...knightly? Goodbye and Hello-that two minute mark. unexpected but nice surpise. hes like, telling a whole ass story through a song, with key signature and tempo changes and eveything. neat. final act best act. Morning Glory-i don't know how to describe it but it sounds exactly like the title describes it. choir hymns singing the the back, soft front vocals, medium tempo...like a morning glory swaying in the wind. Not a bad sound. Folk Rock and Psychedelic rock is what the wiki page said, def felt that. Looks like they used a kalimba, congas, a vibraphone and various guitars and percussion. Guess i can put a name to some of the sounds I heard now. You WTF this guy died at 28? Damn. He died the fate of many muscians, thats sad, especially considering how much debt he was in too. And his son died at such a young age too, but by accident. Ran in the family it seems. Sadness. He did have a unique sound here.

Pretty good folk. Feels timeless.

It's good

great voice with some interesting lyrics

I really liked this album. Pleasant Street is a banger and a half.

Very good. This is more of the folky protest stuff I like - Buckley's voice is great

8/10 FT: Pleasant street

Is almost every album here from the 60’s? I only listened to like 2 tracks

Too folksy for me.

love it

Very interesting. Good sound. Trippy Moody blues

meh

Sounds good Can't believe this guy ripped off Jeff Buckley

Love Jeff Buckley and you can definitely hear how Tim informed and inspired a lot of his son’s music. Beautiful.

I'm torn between a 3 and a 4. I've listened to this album before and still put it on now and then, but truth be told, it's really just Pleasant Street and Phantasmagoria in Two that stick with me. The rest works nicely as background vibes though, since I do enjoy it. His vocal style is great, really distinctive, but if you're not in the right mood it can start to feel a bit samey. Also, I've got to say, I love the cover, and let's not pretend Tim isn't ridiculously pretty with those curls. So I guess it's a 4 then!

Really very good album, some of the post-Sgt. Peppers production actually distracts from the quality of the songs and performances. The less fussy sounding tracks are the ones I find more enjoyable. I discovered Tim's music through listening to Jeff and was initially disappointed as a teenager in the 90s but I have to say his music has grown on me over the years and all of his albums are worth investigating.

Another day, another Tim Buckley record. This one’s interesting, has a summer of love psych-folk feel. He tends to bring a darker, moodier vibe to his records, so this isn’t upbeat psych pop like your Sgt. Peppers’ or what have you. More importantly, it doesn’t have any cabaret music masquerading as psych, a tactic the Beatles were fond of torturing listeners with. Something I’ve noticed with Tim Buckley’s records is that they seem to sound both of their time and a little ahead of their time. This is pretty clearly a sixties record, but at the same time, it doesn’t sound completely tied down to its era. There is an avant-garde streak to his records, particularly in the skillful way he approaches the atmospheric backdrops of these songs, which is refreshing when compared to a lot of the psychedelic music of the late 60’s. I’ve liked the other Tim Buckley records on the list, this one, the last I’ll review, is no exception. So Goodbye (and Hello), Tim Buckley.

The record starts with a few moments of definite Scott Walker-ism. The opening tracks are notable in that they move away from the more avant-garde implications of that, into poppier territory which retains a bit of a psych edge. There are a couple of notably weak tracks near the end, but Goodbye and Hello is a return to form for this list: Something that evokes both curiosity and familiarity with things I already think are great.

I was vaguely aware that Jeff Buckley's dad was also a singer, but I was never curious enough to listen. 60's folk protest rock is exactly what I need right now. As I type this, there is a war in Ukraine, a leaked decision that attempts to overturn Roe v. Wade, COVID deaths in the US hit 1,000,000 yesterday, gas is $4 a gallon, and people in the "richest county in the world" can barely afford groceries. I like this. I listened to it three times in a row.

My second Tim Buckley album, an artist I was unfamiliar with. Greetings from LA was a more rocking album, this one more English folk based, which is more what I expected from Buckley. I really liked Greetings and this one has its own charms. Quieter and more acoustic in nature I hear some Steeleye Span and Fairport Convention influences especially in the epic title track. Lots of great songs that I enjoyed tremendously. 4 🌟

"Once I Was" always hits me hard. The cadence of it only is matched by the beginning, where it starts off with a few guitar strums and then off beat drums. I love how digs into the beauty in sorrow. As much of Tim Buckley's work does. I can think of a bunch of bands/musicians that might not exist without him taking the chance to do folk music differently-mixing folk, psychedelia, fantasy and rock in a new way.

I've never bothered with Jeff's old fella, mainly because I assumed he did a line in basic Bob Dylan-esque '60s folk minus the Dylan foghorn voice. I enjoyed this though, the voice is as big as you'd expect but musically it's much more complex than '60s hipster New York folk. He's done a good job of cramming all of the '60s into a folk framework, it's a bit psychedelic, a bit avant-garde, there's some soul thrown in there and some jazz and it works. Strong ketwig too.

It's June 1967 and the Summer of Love is already underway. A twenty year old Tim Buckley has heard Sgt Pepper, released at the end of the previous month, and enters a studio in L.A. to record a psychedelic baroque folk masterpiece which will hit the streets before September is upon us, cementing his reputation as a prodigiously talented, adventurous, almost impossible to pigeonhole artist. Of course, given the time and setting of its recording, it has its fair share of whimsy and flight of fancy (I draw your attention to the lyrics of Knight Errant: "O whither has my lady wandered? I'll search until I know I've found her When I catch my sudden maid I'll deck her out in lace and jade I will take her to her room I will take her to her room I love her upstairs I love her downstairs But I love my lady's chamber" Oh Tim, you dirty fucker) ...but it also has moments that stop you in your tracks. It being 1967, there is the inevitable psychedelic imagery and, of course, a bit of a fairground waltz, but there is also the astonishingly beautiful (and beautifully, astonishingly played) Once I Was, Pleasant Street and Morning Glory, the last of which sends you into a blissful reverie as the album finishes. It left me wishing that I too was twenty years old and living in L.A. at the beginning of the Summer of Love. Yes, I would have liked that a lot.

Not sure I've ever listened to this in its entirety before. It's pretty great! Buckley has a sublime, expressive voice. The music and songwriting don't let him down either. "Once I Was" is a gorgeous ballad. I want a whole album of that. There's some of the darker side of folk-psychedelia in some of the songs. The only thing I don't dig is the "olde worlde English village fete" side of American folk. Also find it slightly weird that Buckley seems to have an English accent at times. Overall, it's gooood. 4*

Feels very ahead of its time. Fantastic folk with lots of electric guitar. His voice is amazing.

Was nice to listen to Jeff Buckley's father, can see that its a talented family. Solid album (tho I prefer Grace)

Pretty

Mooi. Tegelijkertijd is dit van die muziek die ik niet altijd kan hebben. Het kan me ook erg op m'n zenuwen werken. Toch is vier sterren niet ver weg.

Another from Father Buckley! This was a great ride, just like the first. Plenty of tracks that I know I'll enjoy returning to. It's not as consistent as Happy Sad (what's with this guy and his oxymorons), but it's got a welcome degree of variety and it's light on the ears. Call me a fan. Favorite tracks: I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain, Pleasant Street, Hallucinations, Phantasmagoria in Two, Morning Glory. Album art: I feel like I've seen this one around. I can't make out what he's gripping in his eye. It's a cool cover but nothing special. 4/5

Never listened to any tim Buckley before. Really enjoyed this

4

this isnt my kind of music, but its good.

I can’t help but compare his voice to his son’s, and it’s just so much worse. That weird back of the throat closing thing when he goes up high. This album goes between some really great songs and some songs that must be what all 60’s folk sounds like to people who hate 60’s folk music. Favourite track: “Phantasmagoria in Two”

Poetry!!

Nice album to listen to. I liked how melody was combined with pessimistic lyrics.

I liked ‘pleasant street’ the most. The rest was okay but pleasant street was a real banger. I’ll listen to that again.

slow regard for the echoing things.

listened to this while blowing balloons

Remember the scene in the movie Animal House, during the Toga Party, John Belushi walking down a crowded staircase as a hippie folk singer woos the coeds with cringy lyrics? Yeah? If not, go look it up on YouTube. I’m with Bluto on this one.

When I first saw this, I was thinking "Yuck. Folk!" But I'm always willing to try stuff, so... I was about halfway through I got to thinking I'm going to start my review with "I like this well enough." But then, right about "Once I was," it becomes the most typical folky-folk crap that annoys me. Yikes! Why do so many folk singers make that weirdly affected "folk singer" tone/inflection? "Knight Errant" is almost a parody of folk to me. Horrible! The first half is pretty good. I bet if I listened a few more times, some of these would stick. Let's see. People make a lot of comments about Tim being Jeff Buckley's father, and yes, there is something to be said about genes. But, it's not like they lived together or he had any influence on Jeff's life. Probably a good thing that he got his musical education from his mom and stepdad otherwise he might have turned into this instead of the amazing rock-leaning guitarist and singer that he became. Enough about Jeff as I'm positive that Grace will be on this list. And if it's not, the original author must be destroyed! For Tim though, I gotta give this a 2. The decent songs at the top cannot counterweight the horror show that is the second half.

I liked a couple of songs at the beginning of the album, but the rest were a bit daft and it got old quickly Sidenote: he is very, very fine. Got that creepy serial killer style smile, as if when I meet him he will dismember me and eat my organs. But like in a kinky way. And I might enjoy it. Maybe even let him do it

A bit of a whine, tbh. It felt like I was attending a shitty Church service.

Well, another folk album on this list. I didn't care for the cod mediaeval twiddling or the vocals, and I couldn't help but wonder if Buckley's early demise contributes to its critical standing.

I like Buckley, particularly on Dream Letter, and I found this a chore, weighed down by plastered-on psychedelic tics, perhaps the influence of the producer, Jerry Yester, the carnival, errant knight and wandering minstrel tropes especially irritating me. As an aside, I remember admiring Yester’s record with Judy Henske, Farewell Aldebaran, and wonder if that would now similarly irritate me. Looking him up, I’m disheartened to see Yester was convicted of child porn possession a few years ago; which brings me back to the creepy carnival sounds on this record. Queasy.

Terrific album

Guuuurl

I'm extremely pleasantly surprised by this - I did not know this guy but this was a fantastic album, with so many interesting things happening, musically, lyrically, vocally. This is my new thing.

this record is a trip that started in a crowded pub room sounds that carried experiences and friendships and memories of love and wonder and enduring feels of teenage crushes a life whispered in the winds

Tim Buckley had an amazing voice with a fantastic range. This is his second album, which is so very 1967; he comes across as the wandering minstrel (which is fine by me) but it does date it. I think it's more accessible than say The Incredible String Band, which shares the same innocent charm and mystical exotica. It's certainly one to play with Joss sticks, beads and a kaftan on a hazy afternoon and it's appeal is best served in tandem with all that camaraderie.

Amazing that some stoner drop out teen father working at a taco bell, with the not insignificant contributions of his HS friend on lyrics came up with this. Ambition only occasionally outstrips its grasp and this only highlights the incredible reach. Works in world percussion, freak folk, free jazz, amazing singing and unique lyrics. All to have some fats on here complain about "ren faire" or whatever. Love that they tried that parallel poetry that we all learned about in middle school and seldom saw another example of.

Really enjoyed this. Had never heard of him before.

*Goodbye and Hello* (1967), Tim Buckley's second album, is a landmark of psychedelic folk that showcases the young artist's audacious ambition. It represents a significant evolution from his folk-rooted debut into more complex, orchestrated territory, offering a rich analysis of its late-60s context through both its lyrics and music. The table below summarizes the core strengths and weaknesses of the album: | Pros | Cons | | :--- | :--- | | **Ambitious Songwriting**: Literary, poetic lyrics tackling major themes like war, consumerism, and generational change. | **Dated Arrangements**: Some orchestral and psychedelic elements can sound excessive or products of their time. | | **Buckley's Vocal Performance**: Extraordinary range and emotional delivery, from gentle falsetto to powerful crescendos. | **Inconsistent Focus**: The album can feel uneven, with sprawling, complex tracks alongside simpler folk songs. | | **Inventive Production**: Creative use of diverse instrumentation (kalimba, congas) and studio effects to create a textured, psychedelic soundscape. | **Lyrics Can Be Overwrought**: The poetic ambition occasionally results in lyrics criticized as heavy-handed or "impenetrable Dylanspeak". | ### 📝 Lyrical Themes and Songwriting The album's lyrics, primarily written by Buckley and his collaborator, poet Larry Beckett, serve as a sharp commentary on 1960s America. - **Social and Political Critique**: The opening track, "No Man Can Find The War," is a poignant anti-war song that focuses on the psychological terror and confusion of conflict rather than battlefield glory. Other verses directly critique hollow consumerism ("The king and the queen... worship the electronic shrine") and oppressive traditions. - **Generational Shift**: The title track, "Goodbye and Hello," acts as the album's centerpiece. It pits the fading, machine-like "antique people" against the new, free-flying "children," symbolizing the hopeful spirit of the counterculture saying goodbye to the old world and hello to a new one. - **Personal Exploration**: Songs like "I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain" delve into Buckley's personal life, explicitly addressing the pressures he felt from his failed marriage and new fatherhood. "Pleasant Street" explores themes of addiction and surrender, though its specific subject (drugs or a suffocating lifestyle) remains debated. ### 🎵 Music and Production Produced by Jerry Yester, the album's sound is a significant step forward from Buckley's debut, embracing the psychedelic and experimental spirit of 1967. - **Eclectic Instrumentation**: The album moves beyond standard folk-rock, incorporating kalimba, congas, vibraphone, and harmonium to create unique textures. "Carnival Song" uses sound effects and disorienting instrumentation to mimic a fairground, while "Hallucinations" features congas and detuned guitars to create an ethereal, psychedelic atmosphere. - **Buckley's Vocal Artistry**: Buckley's voice is the album's most powerful instrument. He demonstrates incredible range and control, shifting from an intimate, gentle delivery to a soaring, emotive falsetto, particularly on tracks like "Pleasant Street" and "Carnival Song". - **Orchestral Ambition**: Yester's arrangements, influenced by contemporary albums like *The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper*, are expansive. However, this ambition is a double-edged sword; while it creates a grand, open sound, some critics find the string arrangements cumbersome or dated decades later. ### 💎 Influence and Legacy *Goodbye and Hello* cemented Tim Buckley's reputation as a serious artist beyond a simple folk singer. - **A Creative Launchpad**: The album was a quantum leap for Buckley, establishing him as a vocal powerhouse and a restless creative spirit unwilling to be confined by genre. This artistic fearlessness would define his subsequent, more experimental albums like *Happy Sad* and *Starsailor*. - **Enduring Influence**: While not a major commercial smash, the album's blend of poetry and music, along with Buckley's vocal techniques, has influenced generations of musicians. Songs like "Song to the Siren" (first recorded around these sessions though not on the original album) have become modern standards, covered by artists from This Mortal Coil to Robert Plant. ### 🤔 How to Approach the Album To get the most out of *Goodbye and Hello*: - **Listen with Context in Mind**: Understanding it as a product of 1967 helps appreciate its themes and sonic experiments. - **Focus on the Highlights**: Tracks like **"Pleasant Street," "Once I Was,"** and **"Hallucinations"** are often cited as standouts for their emotional depth and musical innovation. - **Read Along with the Lyrics**: The dense, poetic nature of songs like the title track benefits from following the lyrics directly.

Just really rated this, was a fun listen. Don't know how often I'll listen again but I think it deserves a 5.

Folly and solemn. Cozy and lovely. 5/5

This is the second Tim Buckley album I’ve listened to, and I’m definitely becoming a fan. It’s a progressive, psychedelic folk record that pulls from jazz, baroque pop, and avant-garde influences. The guitars are mostly acoustic and fingerpicked, with occasional percussive strumming, and the orchestral arrangements add a lot of texture. The harpsichord, in particular, really brings out the baroque and psychedelic elements. After hearing this, I’m definitely planning to slowly work my way through his entire discography.

I’m at a 5. Looking back at what I wrote about “Happy Sad”, my biggest issues with that album involved the pacing and the sense of progression, making the length of the album feel far longer than 44 minutes. This is thankfully a much better paced album, with a significantly better sense of progression, making this thing fly by in a way that doesn’t feel like 42 minutes. It also adds all of the “fun” that felt lacking from “Happy Sad”, but I suppose the title of that album should’ve been a giveaway back in January. Lyrically, this thing is really dense, which might be my only proper knock on it; I’m big on lyricism, and this is a very well-written album, but I’m also big on letting the vocals flow, and I think this album has points where the structure & the lyrics just don’t mesh as smoothly as they could. This album remedies that through two things: great vocals from Tim Buckley, hitting far higher & more varied registers than I remember him hitting on “Happy Sad”, & by just having a precision strike of instrumentation sort of attacking it at all times, and at all angles; it’s a slightly loud album, but in a way that always fits & elevates the emotional bend that the tracks are going for. A shining example of this is on “Pleasant Street”, which is about the feeling of being on drugs (heroin specifically) and how pleasing it can all feel despite the horror that emerges from a lack of true self-control. The storytelling still emerges from the slightly screechy tones of the electric guitar, the acoustics rolling, and the percussion finding a good groove, but it’s Tim’s vocals hitting the full range of emotion on the track that really sells the sense of “nightmarish ecstasy” that the lyricism is trying to portray. Put them all together, and you get something that really works as the sum of its parts, in a harmony that wouldn’t work otherwise. There’s other standouts that work in a similar way for me, namely on “Hallucinations” (which has great sound design for 1967), “Once I Was” (just a wonderfully written track about paranoia over lost emotional connection, elevated by the wistfulness of the instrumental), and “Goodbye and Hello” (a grandiose instrumental with orchestral flair, with the lyricism elevated by how stoic his vocals feel). The whole album takes this sort of approach though, and it REALLY worked for me. It doesn’t always work, but those are only for brief sections of each track. I enjoyed this a lot – it’s aligned to my tastes a lot more than “Happy Sad” was, it’s far better paced to stop it from feeling like a drag, and I think it just carries a pep in its step that makes it a more palatable album. It’s even in the cover; he’s smiling here, as opposed to the frown he had. Yes, the lyricism is still a bit more drab than it might feel like on a first pass, but I love a good “sad album that sounds happy” dichotomy when it’s done right, and this does it pretty well. I think it’s worth giving a 5, and I’m far more ready for the third Tim Buckley album to pop up, whenever it does.

So good I didn’t expect it to be this good 5/5

Wait THIS is wimpy-boy-at-the-renaissance-faire-core

Another great album erect penis is on its way

Wondered if he had any relation to Jeff and turns out that’s his bio dad. Anyway, it’s an okay album.

Fantastic voice! How come I never heard of him? I liked his music. Folk music mixed with a psychedelic rock from the late sixties.

Beauty

Soundtrack for a spooky medieval fairytale. Sweetly melancholic and really hit good

Wow, this really blew my mind. I am a big fan of Pentangle and the incredible string band and this record sits perfectly between these two. Amazing work which is better then most of the rest of Tim Buckley.

it is so crazy that he was TWENTY years old at the time

Pure magic. Every song was so unique. Every song I finished I was eager to hear what the next one would sound like. This is probably among the best folk rock I’ve ever heard.

Beautiful. Maybe it’s cause I’m a nerd but the bardic whimsy Tim has here is nothing but charming and engaging, and his writing is gorgeous.