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.

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

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.

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

"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

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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

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.

8/10 FT: Pleasant street

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

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

great voice with some interesting lyrics

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

It's good

Pretty good folk. Feels timeless.

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.

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

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

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

Peaceful, sometimes dreamy. Very lovely

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

Too folksy for me.

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

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

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

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!

meh

Very melancholic and familiar. Good message and stuff

Very interesting. Good sound. Trippy Moody blues

love it

listened to this while blowing balloons

slow regard for the echoing things.

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

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

Poetry!!

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”

this isnt my kind of music, but its good.

4

Never listened to any tim Buckley before. Really enjoyed this

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

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.

Pretty

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

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

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*

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.

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.

"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.

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 🌟

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Locurón, el mejor descubrimiento de la lista hasta ahora. Folk rock psicodélico, con una voz arrolladora y misteriosa, de ambiente perturbador por momentos y largos desarrollos que no sabes a dónde van. Genial.

Love Tim Buckley's Starsailor for all of it's strange 60s experimentation a great deal, but never actually plunged into anything else from him. Glad to find that this album is a similar level of quality to Starsailor with some of the more eccentric aspects of that album stripped away to reveal Tim Buckley's absolute master over songwriting. A true joy and probably an album I'm going to return to many times in the future. 4.5-5/5

I pretty much like everything on the planet no matter what it is

"Musical talent: nature or nurture" is a never-ending debate in which every one of us has participated. I tend to fall on the "nurture" side of the conversation. I want to think that if you try hard and follow a rigid learning framework, you can do the impossible. But occasionally, I listen to people like Tim Buckley and find my arguments useless. Did you know he was only 20 when he composed and released this masterpiece? He was already covering strong subjects such as war, conciseness, and deep emotional struggles (like the song dedicated to his ex-wife and his son, Jeff, another music star with endless talents.) I was not expecting anything, but this album grabbed my attention for forty minutes. It was something similar to the one I experienced when I listened to Astral Weeks or Moondance for the first time. The production is exquisite. I particularly loved the mixing: voices placed strongly and in the middle of the mix, that crispiness in the percussion... Great album!

This may be my favorite album I’ve listened to so far. It hits such a sweet spot of folk and psychedelia that I love from this era. Him and Donovan were certainly powerhouses of this genre

What a beautiful nerd.

Got to sit entirely still on the streetcar while I listened to this on the way to work, was very relaxing.

excellent 60 pop a-la jim croce but less southern influence. Will definitely listen again

Pure magic for most of this LP's duration. Dimery's team also selected at least one later Tim Buckley album for no discernible reason--*Greetings From LA*, quite a letdown, to be honest. But this one's a keeper. The problem with Tim Buckley is that he sprinkled gems of songs throughout his discography, hence why his hardcore fans are tempted to single out lesser LPs containing said gems. Yet *Goodbye And Hello* is different. Because it is the most cohesive and most impressive album Buckley has ever released by a wide margin. This genre here draws from folk rock with a psychedelic edge, but with very specific idiosyncracies and so many emotional peaks: epic opener "No Man Can Find The War", groovy yet deeply melancholic highlight "Pleasant Street", the acoustic guitar-driven, aptly titled "Hallucinations" (with its blurry yet evocative echoes in the background), elegiac and yet incredibly hectic and intense "I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain" (possibly written for Tim's son Jeff), the solemn "Once I Was" with its "western-like" overtones, "Phantasmagoria In Two" and its delicate and heartbreaking vocal line, or closer "Morning Glory" and its cinematic tone, ethereal choir in the background, and heartbreaking existential lyrics about isolation... The title-track is a striking piece as well thanks to its classical orchestration, even if it's lengthy and a little quaint overall--but not as quaint as shorter "Knight Errant", fortunately, the only song that's clearly a miss here. The second track from the record "Carnival" is weird as well, by the way--but it's mostly an endearing sort of "weird" we're talking about here: not so far from the Kurt Weil-inspired shenanigans performed by the Doors at the time... Of course, you've already gotten it, dear reader: the "mood" displayed by this album could only have been created during the sixties. Yet what makes *Goodbye And Hello* great is truly timeless: the haunted voice of an angel--yet one that's often very lively and even sexy--, infectious melodies and rhythms, great atmospherics, a very dynamic tracklisting... File next to Gene Clark's *No Other One* and Fred Neil's eponymous masterpiece. 4.5/5 for the purposes of this list, rounded up to 5. Which translates to a 9.5/10 grade for more general purposes (5+4.5). Number of albums left to review: 244 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 328 (including this one) Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 194 Albums from the list I won't include in mine (many other records are more important to me): 242

This is right up my alley. I was hooked from No Man Can Find the War. Once I Was and the title track were also high points. This one is a soft 5 stars from me. As a rule an album only gets a five if it's something I'm going to come back and listen to multiple times. I don't know if I'll do this whole album again but I'm 100% learning a few of these songs and will have them on playlists going forward. Happy to hear this one.

Damn what a bard. I can't think of any better way to describe Tim Buckley or this album. Great lyrics, an achingly emotional voice and instrumental backing that makes the whole album just a little mystical, this feels like a singer plucked from a fantasy tavern. Favorite track is Once I Was

Reminds me of the Battle of Evermore. Very good album.

Tim Buckley kenn ich nicht. Warum eigentlich? Mir ist das wirklich unverständlich und richtig unangenehm. Denn dieses Album ist fantastisch und wunderbar. Seine Stimme ist fantastisch und unglaublich variabel. Und wie er mit seiner akustischen Gitarre umgeht. Grandios.

Greatly underrated.

Does anyone else find the album cover extremely unsettling? What’s the deal with it?

10/10. 9.5/10 on the new scale. Nearly every song was great. Entire album made the playlist.

The THIRD Tim Buckley album. I’m as surprised as you are. I’ve liked the other two; but Goodbye And Hello is the album of his that truly deserves its spot on the list. The experience of this album is almost that of a fairy tale. His vocals are phenomenal and the compositions never fail to both surprise and astound you. There’s magic to be found here.

Le daré un 4 porque canta muy bien. Folk. Padre de Jeff Buckley

Kolejne odrycie muzyczne na liscie, tym razem troche mniej egzotyczne, ale tez bardzo jakosciowe, klimaty folkowego rocka z elementami psychodelicznego grania, czyli klimaty grateful dead czy tez byrdsow, ale woklanie najblizej mi ten albumik pasuje do drake z domieszka donovana, jest to dopiero drugi albumik w karierze buckleya, a na plycie towarzyszy mu conajmniej dziesiecu grajkow sesyjnych, choc pewnie jest ich wiecej, ale bez credistsow, a to wszystko za sprawa wytworni dla jakiej nagrywal, bo jest to albumik wydany przez electre, dodatkowo piecze nad produkcja trzymal sam zalozyciel holzman, co z pewnoscia dodalo rozmachu projektowi, bo jest to epicki kawalek mateiralu, biorac pod uwage, ze artystow z lapanki mozna zapedzic zeby zrobili takie tlo dla wokalu, ktory jest trzonem albumu, 42 minuty w 10 trackach, ale ciezko sie czymkolwiek znudzic z powodu tej roznorodnosci w epkipie grajkowej, bo bandy z tamtego okresu nawet jesli potrafia grac, to wpadaja w monotonie, a tutaj kazdy trak jest osobna historia, ktore opowiadane sa czystym spiewem, poza typowymi erosowymi motywami poruszane sa takze sprawy pacyfistyczne, spirytualne, no i psychodeliczny stuff, jeden z albumikow ktory raczej sluchac od poczatku do konca, ale na plejke leci 1, 4, 6, 9

Really great, love the singer's voice, love the very peogressive instrumentation. My only gripe is that the lyrics while generally emotionally effective and striking feel very corny on certain cuts.

Muy buen álbum para el año en que salió

1967 - Folk rock; Psychedelic rock

"First things first rest in peace uncle Tim". Među prvim, ujedno skoro i među zadnjim albumima gdje bi išao tim nekim folk rock putem, divnim. Iako ne kažem da je Starsailor imalo loš, ali ipak rekao bih pošto je dosta dobro držan među njegovim najboljim albumima - teži od ovog i Happy Sad za započeti njegovu diskografiju. Ima glas takav da bi ga ja od kuće u Novoj Kapeli čuo od Ratkovice (kad bi tamo imao koncert u domu). Uglavnom, svakako je ovo super album za krenuti u njegovu pustolovinu (ja sam sa Happy Sad, al nea veze). Ako ti srce ne trzne na prve note harmonike u Once I Was, onda ne znam šta da vam kažem. Morning Glory je baš predivan način za završiti album.

Svidio mi se jako album. Nekako imas osjecaj kao da slusas bliskog prijatelja slušajući album.

Escutei no busao indo pra aula e vendo o por do sol na estrada Interessante

Le daré un 4 porque canta muy bien. Folk. Padre de Jeff Buckley

Better than the previous Tim Buckley album we got

I am starting to dig Tim Buckley. His sound is growing on me…or at least it was a good fit for today.

This is the second Tim Buckley album I've listened to, after Happy Sad. That jazz-influenced album apparently was too weird for some of the fans of his earlier work, but I think Happy Sad was more interesting and engaging to me. However, although it was very different from the other album, I liked this folk rock sound quite a bit, finding it very personal and revealing.

J,ai bien aimé, il y a du psychadelique dans cet album, mais aussi de belle chanson. Ca finit sur une super note avec Morning Glory. J'ai réécouté plusieurs fois en plusieurs partie donc j'ai de la difficulté à faire un bon résumé de ce que j'ai ressentit en écoutant tout l'album. Cependant, j'ai bien aimé l'exprience peut importe quelle partie j'écoutais. 4.20

Hmm, va jo egentlig ganske nice

La réunification tant attendue entre les Buckley n'a pas eu lieu. La couverture grotesque de Jeff (qui s'était fait passer pour Jeff Beck je le rapelle) n'a absolument pas réussi à berner Tim, qui questionnera tout de suite la présence de son fils: Tim: "Mais qu'est ce qu'il fait la ce petit merdeux?!" Jeff: "Mais je suis Jeff Beck qu'est ce que tu racontes papa?" Tim: "Dégagez moi ce morveux de là" Un nouveau coup d'épée dans l'eau pour Jeff, qui n'a pas encore dit son dernier mot pour tenter de renouer un semblant d'affection avec son père.

Aurinkoinen levy ja ihan kiinnostavia tekstejä sen perustella mitä sain napattua. Varsin hyvä siis. 4/5