Reviews (page 5 of 7)
This is either a boring album buoyed by a few intriguing tracks or an interesting one weighed down by some banal shit. I guess it depends on what kind of person you are. Best track: Pleasant Street
Great album, made me realize anything that doesn’t evoke an emotional reaction is a solid 3
this is not my jam. i don't know enough about the genre to assess. i tried. i read about the dude, looked up his hits, tried those again. just not my cup of tea.
Clearly a lot of talent here but this fell apart for me pretty decisively. The overlong and frankly pretentious title track exemplifies the flaws. The kind of operatic circus vibe definitely not doing it for me. Some decent music in earlier, more toned down tracks.
Honestly mid ag
The longer this went on, the less I liked it.
Father and son both very talented. There was some very pleasant folky stuff on this album.
Quite a nice psychedelic folky 60s album.
I like the lush, full sound compared to your average 60’s folk rock.
Liking this more than the other Tim Buckley albums I've heard. There are some things that bug me about it, like there's so much going on in the production, where it seems like the power of the message could have been clearer with a simpler setup, and the extra "stuff" distracts from it.
I can take Tim Buckley for a song or two but an album drags for me. Starts feeling a bit melodramatic.
Tim Buckley is mighty fine by me, but that's about it for me. No songs jumped out for me, but everything was good.
Nothing to say about this one unfortunately. 3/5.
This grows on one's slightly with more lisetning, but can't help resist thinking of how many similar acts were better/preferable – Nick Drake, obvs, but also Fairport, and, more recently, Belle & Sebastian or Richard Hawley. And TB isn't even in the same conversation as Dylan and Leonard Cohen. Even allowing for the "cult favorite" grading curve, one thinks TB is a bit overrated (largely due to the attractions of the tortured artistt/sensitive poet factor). Oddly formal vocal style, as if overtrained as a youth. And some of the songs reach excessively for a troubadour-madrigal vibe that sounds a bit silly today, however timely/on-point it might have seemed in the '60s. For instance, the title cut wants to be cinematic and comes across as an overdone show tune. The inclusion of both strings and winds and the song-cycle structure surely show the nefarious influence of prog rock on the folkies. "Pleasant Street" is easily the best song, followed by "Morning Glory."
Pappa Buckley. Tulee vähän Bob Dylan mieleen ilman huuliharppua. Vähän kanssa akustinen Led Zeppelin. Ihan mielenkiintosia kappaleita. Hallucinations jäi ehkä parhaiten mieleen.
OMG, a sadboi album lol. "I never asked to be your mountain" What???? Interesting sounds though, as far as these folk rock albums go.
Sympathique, belle voix, beau message, moins mon genre
Disc hippie en tot el seu concepte i significat. La portada, el so, les cançons de trovador dels 60's. Malgrat el seu reconeixement habitual, els temes són força normalets, tot i que són excel.lents a l'hora de traslladar-te a l'época i el moment. La tercera estrella és per les lletres. No m'he posat a escoltar-les amb atenció, però se les hi sobresuposa com un dels grans atractius del disc
Cool but not my cup of tea.
Pretty singer song writing with a few dark themes of nuclear war but it didn’t grab my attention as I had hoped.
Quite relaxing
It’s weird but good at the same time
I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain is a complicated song. well complicated in that he admits to being an unexpected father and not really caring? Phantasmagoria in Two is real good. In order to understand Jeff, you need to at least hear time. this album on its own isnt really my thing, but i am glad i heard it.
This wasn’t a great album. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t really my thing.
Jeff is still my favourite Buckley, but Tim sure could sing too, it seems (aside: I never realised he died even younger than his son - tragic). I don't mind a bit of lightly experimental, vaguely psychedelic 60s folk-rock; No Man Can Find the War, Pleasant Street, and Once I Was are good tracks. It can get a bit much when he goes all medieval rock-opera though.
Vahvasti päivän fiiliksestä kiinni miten tämä levy uppoaa. Tunnelma sopi tänään hyvin elävään elämään ja oli nasta kuunnella läpi, mutta toisena päivänä ei varmasti uppoa edes vähää alusta.
Some good tracks, occasional brilliant, but not really my jam so gets a bit docked for that.
Fine, but instantly forgettable. His son's album left a much larger impression.
Way more fun than I expected, some tracks I'd be happy to hear again. A good fu experimental vibe at times.
generic folk rock
An album where every song is a carefully crafted scene painted with vivid imagery and texture With all that said, there’s something keeping me from loving this - wish i could give it a 3.5 Once I Was
Had some bangers, lots of fluff, prefer his son
Never heard about him before, but not bad. . Half psychedelic, some pop, some soul.
надо ещё пятьсот раз послушать, может чё пойму
Tää oli aivan sellainen kun kuvittelin tän levyn olevan! Hyvä muttei poikkeuksellinen!
Tässähän oli pari oikein hienoa biisiä. Kourallinen taas vähän tavallisempia, niin annetaan 3.
some songs quite pretty but quite mid
3 out of 5
Pleasant street is pretty solid other than that meh
Great storytelling and an interesting psych-folk feel
This caught me off guard, I really enjoyed this. Unique instrumentals and his voice were almost eerie at points, which I really liked. 3.5 stars.
A step beyond standard folk rock. Its clearly influenced by Sgt Pepper and the like. I'm not a big fan of the warble in his voice. Probably should be more recognized as an artiste.
Some decent 60s rock tunes.
Great artist.
Reminds me of Bob Dylan a lot
Un album à travers lequel Tim Buckley exprime sa lassitude, lui qui tente depuis plusieurs année de se débarrasser de son fils Jeff, jusque-là sans résultat. Ce dernier parvient en effet à éviter la mort à chaque tentative et retrouve continuellement les pattes de son père excédé, d'où le titre Goodbye and Hello. Après s'être essayé à plusieurs méthodes comme la mise au congélateur, la strangulation ou encore l'abandon au milieu d'une forêt, Tim Buckley a soudain une idée : il va cette fois-ci le jeter dans une rivière, pieds et poings liés. Bébé Jeff est alors enveloppé dans un sac poubelle et solidement ligoté. Tim prend sa voiture, se rend près du cours d'eau le plus proche et mène à bien son projet. Le soir-même, alors qu'il boit sa tisane, on toque à la porte. Tim se lève et, une fois arrivé devant la porte, jette un coup d'œil à travers le judas : Jeff se tient debout sur le pallier et semble en parfaite santé. Il ouvre alors la porte la mine démoralisée et n'adressera pas le moindre mot à son rejeton pendant plusieurs jours.
har kun hørt på sønnen hans, så detta blir spennande dvs hørte eit radioprogram om han for ei stund si trur eg like jeff bedre
Hard to listen to in 2022... I'm sure in the 1960s this was relevant. For me it was tolerable, but not great. 3/5
I love when folk has this weird, carnival feeling to it. There's something about the freakiness of a carnival that fascinates me, like this place where all the misfits congregate. It's a place for outsiders, but it's not a haven. It's just another place, like Pleasant Street. The psychedelic instrumentation is beautiful and mysterious, perfectly demonstrating what Buckley is singing, like how his lover just vanishes, as if the music itself has blown or carried her away. Almost every song is filled with feelings of trepidation and uncertainty about his romantic relationships. If I didn't know better, Buckley could've convinced me that love is lonely and fake.
Only listened because it is Jeff Buckley’s dad. One song I found interesting - “Once I was”. The rest seemed trite. His voice isn’t strong and wobbles a lot. I feel like in terms of folk music Nick Drake is the gold standard and everyone else pales in comparison
When we listened to our first Tim Buckley album (Happy Sad, ~270 albums ago), I said I would look for more from him. So I was excited to see his name again. This one's a bit more folksy, less jazzy, and Buckley sings in a much higher register for much of this one. I enjoyed the early tracks on the album with more of a 60s protest or psychedelic-folk sound. Once we got into the Knight-errant wond'ring whither his lady'd wandered, I was out.
A decent singer-songwriter LP that’s a bit thematically scattered but still mostly hits the mark. Does well when it leans into some real impressive guitar-driven tracks and stays away from the Scarborough Fair-esque stuff
Buena voz. Tranquilo de escuchar. Sin ningún tipo de extravagancia.
What I expected. Some of it good, some of it twee (the title track is excruciating). Everyone needs to listen to Knight Errant: I love her upstairs, I love her downstairs, But I love my lady's chamber. I can't stop laughing.
Some artists on this list people will say (myself included) that they were ahead of their time and the music sounds like it should be from a decade or generation later. Tim Buckley isn't that, his sound is behind his time seeming like be belongs in a royal court in the 1300s. Or his lyrics and themes around Vietnam are on time, since that was happening at the time. So he's on time lyrically and way behind with his sound. That said, it was still a nice album. Good singer-songwriter folk with psychedelic aspects, poetic lyrics, and a wide variety in the instrumentals between songs hearing a sitar in one and really big sweeping orchestral backing in the title track. Speaking of the title track, it's too long and just completely changes multiple times throughout. Wasn't a fan I think that was the lowest point. Overall decent album, I can see why it's on the list. Probably wouldn't listen again.
5/24/2022 - ALBUM #117 Today's Album: "Goodbye And Hello" by Tim Buckley - This is a fairly decent singer songwriter album in the same vein as Carol King, with a lot of folky guitars and unique percussion. The production probably isn't as high quality as Carol King's Tapestry, but it makes up for it with a lot of personality in the soundscapes, moods, and overall atmospheres Tim is creating. His vocals are really really impressive. He has this really smooth Steely Dan feel to his tone and he gets into some registers that really make me question if its a girl singing at any given point or if he's just goin crazy. I will say that sometimes he is a little over the top and gets a little to forward in the mix, drowning out the pretty great instrumental performances. I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain has this exact problem and I think overall the song sounds a little too noisy and blown out for the sound quality it has. Fortunately, it is followed up by one of the best tracks on the album, Once I Was, which plays out like a really somber break up song with a great harmonica melody and some nice banjo accompaniment. His vocals really shine on a ballad like this and it makes sense that it's also the most listened to song here. I am not a fan of a few of the ending songs, but I really appreciate the flow of this album, shifting frequently from mood to mood. The final song Morning Glory is another somber ballad and I have to say it's really where this album shines. He's singing about some hobo and I don't really get what it means but he sure is emotional about it and putting that on full display. Overall, this album is a really nice peaceful singer-songwriter piece with some solid moods in each song and great vocal performances/songwriting throughout. Listen to this one if you like some of the slower songs by John Denver or Carol King. Highlights: Pleasant Street, Once I Was, Phantasmagoria in Two, Morning Glory. Score: 6.5/10 Decent folky singer-songwriter
Folk. Ni fu ni fa.
Pleasant Street was a stand-out track, along with Morning Glory (which I knew from 1980's This Mortal Coil cover). Of the several Tim Buckley records on the list, this one seems most cohesive.
I love the lyrics and music... just not the voice.
This week I'm receiving a lot of family pairs albums and this is an interesting situation because on one side is very easy to know the influences of family in some songs, but some other times they look like opposite works (with also makes sense). Independently of family structures, I liked a bit of this album, but it is too much longer and starts to be annoying after the first 5 songs.
Another nice album from the era
Gut aber hab ich gefühlt hier schon 10x gehört.
Tim Buckley is in exceptional voice and a real pleasure to listen to on this album, as always. I admire Buckley’s desire to experiment with different genres and take folk rock into some interesting places. But I have a hard time connecting with the demented troubadour vibe that runs through some of the songs. There's a fine line between inventive and overwrought. Buckley stumbles over that line with gusto occasionally with some incredibly dense, psychedelic arrangements. That said, “Once I Was” is an incredibly gorgeous song, probably my favorite Buckley song of them all. “Pleasant Street” and “Phantasmagoria in Two” are also terrific. Fave Songs: Once I Was, Pleasant Street, Phantasmagoria in Two, Morning Glory, I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain
A bit slow for me, but had some really cool elements. Strong songwriting, unique voice.
A real oddity. Euphoric at times. Twiddly le Dee at others
I didn't find this too objectionable, but it's a little too ren faire, eh? "Pleasant Street" really reminded me of "Here it Comes" by Doves, but after listening to them back to back they're not actually that similar... And "I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain" sounds to me like it's about to break into "Get Together", but apparently no-one else on the internet is saying that, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Fave tracks - the two mentioned ☝️
I like this style of music a lot (60s folk), but unfortunately, there weren't really any stand out songs for me. Did not know he was Jeff Buckley's father!
Hoewel dit een mooi plaatje is, is Tim toch beter in het produceren van nageslacht dan van albums.
Best divers die Tim en een mooie stem, maar toch valt het kwartje niet geheel.
Voor de oudere generatie is Jeff de zoon van Tim. Maar voor mij is Tim de vader van Jeff. Jeff is een van mijn all-time favorites, en hij heeft de muzikaliteit duidelijk van papa geërfd. Maar ik vind papa's werk toch wat moeilijker om echt volledig te omarmen. Aantal hele mooie nummers op dit album, maar ook wat minder interrssante.
Really enjoyed half the album and particularly songs like No Man Can Find The War, I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain, and Pleasant Street. There were a few aspects I found annoying though, like his high voice and the title track which I was waiting till it was over.
My mum bought me this album a few years back as a random selection from the book, probably hoping I'd like it much more than I do. In reality, it's a half-decent selection of songs- well performed, but a lot of material that's just never made much of an impact on me. "Once I Was" is the most beautiful song here- easily the one I've kept on regular rotation ever since first hearing it and achieving the 3* rating almost on its own. Between an achingly wistful harmonica lead and Buckley's really impassioned vocal, it forms a break-up song for the ages. As for the rest of it, it ranges from intriguing to very dull. Some tracks are carried by Buckley's soaring vocals ("Pleasant Street", in particular, is where his voice is at its best) and others are marred by overbaked lyrics and poor pacing (the title track meanders through a cringeworthy 8 minutes). At its worst, "Goodbye and Hello" is bland and forgettable: "No Man Can Find the War"'s bleak and scorching lyrics just don't get the execution they deserve, and I still don't feel like I know "Hallucinations" or "Phantasmagoria in Two". It's the kind of subliminal psychedelia that drifts into the background, passing by on a wisp of fog, not leaving much of an impression in its wake. Reviewing Blueprint #101: "Goodbye and Hello" - Drop the trivia BOMB that Tim is Jeff Buckley Sr: reach the inevitable conclusion that his voice isn't quite as good. - Also compare it (probably unfavourably) to Sgt. Pepper, 'cos it's 1967. - Slag off the corny medieval themed lyrics and how badly they've aged - Try (and fail) to sum up one memorable thing about half of these songs.
6/10
A 2.5 album. I didn't hate it but it's not my jam. Very folky, but has a tendency to get weird and loud at times as well
No conocía a este señor.
Hello!!
På andra lyssningen känns det här lite väl teatraliskt för min smak, fortfarande fina grejer men int så slående som på första lyssningen.
3.5
okay
Goodbye and Hello is a decent album by Tim Buckley, but I don't know what the fuzz is about. I find the music of his son Jeff Buckley far more impressive. This is just average singer songwriter stuff and I can't find anything that really stands out in music, lyrics or performance.
Gave it three listens. I don't think it was something that super stood out to me. But I did enjoy it. Will it get rotated again? Probably not, but I do think it was worth listening just to say I know it.
Oh how I wanted to hate this album. I wanted to use this space to go on about how overrated Tim Buckley is. About how music journalists of the day believed Tim Buckley should have had the career Jackson Browne enjoyed (Well, Jackson Browne didn't die from a heroin overdose when he was only 28 years old, so there's one reason). About how 3 Tim Buckley albums are too many for this list, especially considering there are NO Jackson Browne albums. But goddamn if this hippie didn't put some gems on this album. Especially Pleasant Street, and the heartbreaking closing song, Morning Glory. I've come around to believing Tim Buckley deserves a spot on this list (ahem, but not 3 spots, seems high). And this is the album that represents his value.
Somber Vietnam War album. Interesting lyrics, lulling acoustic guitar.
Didn’t leave an impact really
Good voice, ok songs, not worth revisiting.
Not a big fan but can’t deny the talent
Not my favorite work by him but still a good album
Rating: 6/10
This album might be an acquired taste that I have yet to acquire. I've liked other stuff I've heard by Tim Buckley so I'm curious to dig a little deeper and honestly I can recognize the musical and songwriting skill here it just isn't my thing.
fine
Overstays its welcome, bloated with instruments
I mean, it wasn’t all bad, but it certainly wasn’t all good either.
Meh
Folky hippy melodic
Another background music, didn't hear anything to write home about.
Pet Sounds vibes
sooooooo 60s lol
1st listen. it's pretty good.
Some pretty decent songs on this, like a slightly less trippy Jefferson airplane. Can hear a similar anti war, new era lyricism as well. Enjoyed!
Interesting album, not really jumping out (eruit springen) cool voice 3/5
Some hits some misses
ccrayzy
I just found it a mediocre album I didn’t love the songs didn’t hate the songs 3/5
Very noisy, almost experimental. It’s definitely “good” objectively. But subjectively I find it too nebulous and lacking in substantial statement. It’s heavily veiled in metaphor like Dylan, but not as profound in my mind. You can definitely feel the sadness in his voice and the real ness of what he’s saying. Rose: the B-Side. Thorn: the A-Side.
It seemed like a nice album of the times
Overall enjoyable. Similar to Rolling Stones, The Who, Jefferson Airplane.
Mellow.
First Tim Buckley album I've ever listened to. Pleasant and well produced, but a little too earnest and heavy on the medieval sounding folk tunes for my taste.
Den Namen hatte ich vorher schon mal gehört/gelesen. Auch sein Sohn Jeff Buckley (der Mitte der 90er mit Grace ein schönes Album hinterlassen hat) ist mir ein Begriff gewesen. Mit seiner Musik hatte ich bisher wenig / gar keine Berührungspunkte, da es vor meiner Zeit gewesen ist. Grundsätzlich solider Singer/Songwriter Stuff aus den 60ern. Homeoffice-Kompatibel. Passt!
I didn't think the album was super special or super interesting. However I found some songs neat.
"Música protesta" como diría mi amá.
Lyrical wizardry and a strong vocal performance just fall short of making the whole thing blend. 'Morning Glory' is a lovely number.
A clearly influential folk rock/psychedelic rock album it mostly centers on social issues, especially war. Good message, good album, maybe not quite my style of music however.
meh - i can see how this was likely revolutionary folk but I am not a huge fan...strange that the subject matter is so dark given how happy he looks on the cover!
Really digging the Jesus Christ Superstar vibe of this album. But then some of the songs are very folky, a really interesting contrast. I enjoyed listening to this one.
better than that Leonard Cohen album. There's some pleasant strangeness attached to this folksy guitar. Maybe the album art was a good hint.
Pretty good. Kind of a dated style. Deserves another closer listen for full appreciation. Saved track: “Once I Was”
2.5. It wasn’t really bad to listen to but it’s like all of my least favorite conventions of 60s music.
Not bad, but nothing really held me spellbound either.
How odd - I found myself listening to this at the weekend quite by chance after a friend's recommendation. I am quite taken with Buckley's rather fruity, wavery delivery but the album doesn't quite hang together successfully for me. It's the usual grab-bag of ideas that seemed to be common in the era, and some of those ideas are better executed than others. The production dates this somewhat, especially those tracks that possess a widescreen ambition.
i've never heard of this guy but this was interesting. It sounded kind of "old" which I don't really care for.
Cantautor. Folk. Suave. Un poco psicodélico.
Just fine. More eclectic than I anticipated
There are a couple of really good tracks on this, but listening to a whole album of the nasally voice makes it become really grating. I particularly enjoyed Pleasant Street, when he really belts it out his voice is considerbly more enjoyable.
an entertaining album with a folk sound. Would listen again.
Good 60s vibe background tunes.
2.5/5 From the first beat kind of dated with the song about the Vietnam War. The instrumentation, with the carnival like drum beats and the laconic tempo, is very mid to late 60s. Lyrics are either kinda cringey or quite good depending on the song, although the plain and carnival-esque backing instrumentals on several of the songs brings them down. This in itself does seem to be part of a wider theme within the album in which the backing vocals or instruments mimic the themes of the songs, i.e. on a song with a magician in the lyrics, there are carnival like instrumentals, or a xylophone motif alongside lyrics about a dancer. Most of the songs are mid to slow tempo with a focus on vocals and sparse guitar/mandolin, as was the theme for mid to late 60s folk or singer-songwriters. This is fine, its just not to my taste. Buckley's distinctive voice and great range (the falsetto!) help make the experience pleasant despite this not being my cup of tea. Thankfully with the exception of a couple of songs most of the songs are pretty short, so they don't drag on. Two personal standouts for me are I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain and Once I Was. Overall a little bland to my taste, but some good lyrics and vocals.
Didn't really vibe with this one. I think Tim Buckley is just in a genre I'm not a fan of.
In fairness to Tim Buckley, the backing music is pretty solid. But I REALLY hate his voice. A white man trying to sing like a black woman is a piss poor combo.
Song to the Siren is so good so I had high hope for this album and I did not care for it much at all. Other reviewers mentioning the renn faire of it all hit the nail on the head
Hit or miss album landing somewhere between psych, prog, and folk. There's a few extended cuts that were fine but this one was pretty out there.
No. 2
Underwhelming
I really liked the other Tim Buckley album but I thought this one was underwhelming. It’s strange and doesn’t really get going
Too schmaltzy
Not my favorite. Kind of a male and not as good Joan Baez.
Kände inte riktigt det här.
Least favorite of the three Buckley albums. It was okay, but too folksy and Jefferson Airplane psychedelic for my tastes. The man can still sing however. Beautiful voice.
It's a type of music that hasn't aged well, and really should be lost in the wheel of time.
I kind of wish the incarnate of the Sumer of Love had risen up and pimp-slapped this hippie. You're a man: stop trying to sound like Joan Baez for hell's sake.
2.5 if I could give it.
I hate his voice so much
I didn’t mind the first two tracks, but it was generally downhill from there. I’m not sure i actually like his voice or at least his delivery style. Its just too twee in places for me, especially the more Baroque elements. ‘Knight-Errant’ is particularly bad with its lyrics of loving his lady upstairs and downstairs, his lady’s chamber….
This was pleasant enough to listen to on a rainy Sunday evening, but it didn’t really do anything for me. By the last handful of tracks, I needed it to be finished it felt like it was dragging on so long.
The type of 60s album that won't change your life, but that you definitely need to hear to open up your 60s rock horizons. At least that's what I'd like to think, because there are definitely some interesting and unique ideas that I haven't heard from anything else from that decade. ....Sadly, very little of it landed for me personally. I can appreciate it though! Standouts: Pleasant Street • Hallucinations • Once I Was
Oof. I was interested for sure in what he was doing at first, but this one was just too long with not enough variety and I found myself waiting for it to be over.
I swear it feels like a prerequisite to being a folk singer is having a particular soft sounding voice. I didn't particularly like this - his vocal delivery was really odd at times and I don't like music that sounds like I could hear it at a renaissance fair.
I couldn't really get in to this album. The singers voice seemed out of place in a lot of the song and then almost perfect in others. I will take a very few songs with me and the rest I don't want to come back to again.
Reminds me of early U2
60's psychedelic music is to songs as bitters or Malort are to cocktails. They are to be used extremely sparingly otherwise they will overpower the entire thing and absolutely destroy the palette. Most of this album is just fine (tm), but when it's bad (Such as on Carnival Song), it's because the whole song is 100% in on psychedelic (bitters). I don't understand why bands/artists in the 60's thought slow as mud ren faire music where they drunkenly wail and slur their words over the whole song was good. And every band had one. Or meandering songs that go absolutely nowhere (Hallucinations). The 60's had great music, for sure, but short of the 80's (Which I used to think was the worst, but have come to appreciate more with this project), I can't think of a decade that had a higher concentration of music that is god awful, yet still is considered influential and good. IMO, 60's psychedelic music was not all that often good, and often absolute trash (Robert Plant, I like you, but your love of The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter is inexcusable). Why is it highly revered? I get it's experimental, but experimentalism by itself is not necessarily good. Additionally, I don't know what instrument it is, but it sounds like a sitar (Despite me not being able to find a sitar used in the album in the liner notes). So I can only assume it's a guitar used to imitate a sitar (Maybe a slide guitar?). Either way, another sin of 60's psychedelia is all the Americans and Brits having to bring in eastern instruments into their music (With no experience in the culture of those instruments), and it always comes off as cringe and appropriating to me. We need to take those instruments away from them, Jesus Christ. ANYWAYS. That's my giant rant on 60's psychedelic music. I know I've complained a lot before, but never really this in depth. Carnival Song kinda forced me. But like I said, overall, most of this album is just fine. In fact, it has some pretty great tracks as well. Pleasant Street (Even if the crescendo choruses do dip into a little too much of the psychedelic sound I can't stand). Pantasmagoria in Two is great too. Basically when the album sticks to it's lane as a folk album, it's great. When it decides it wants to sound like a Monty Python skit such as in Knight-Errant, it sucks, and it sucks hard. Goodbye and Hello is one of the few ren faire-y songs that somewhat works due to how folksy it is, until you get to the higher energy verses, similar to Pleasant Street. So yeah. This is an album that's very back and forth. A couple pretty great tracks. A couple fine tracks. And some truly awful examples of shitty 60's psychedelia. As good as Pleasant Street is (Might actually playlist it, shockingly), I don't think it's good enough to escape getting a 2 from me.
Just goodbye.
It's difficult to write a fair review when there is little information on the recording and hardly any reviews. There is this one- written by Matthew Greenwald for All Music Review: "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... an excellent and revolutionary album that was a quantum leap for both Tim Buckley and the audience." * Talented? Yes. * Album has "exploratory spirit"? Yes. * Revolutionary? Yes and no. Not for the genre. Pet Sounds, Procol Harum's Whiter Shade of Pale, the aforementioned Sgt Pepper's and Rubber Soul were already in circulation. Perhaps revolutionary for Buckley himself. His debut was a folk rock album. This still folk, but is more baroque. Gotta give Buckley credit for his vocals- they are strong and he has good range, despite his voice being unappealing. Overall: 3/10
Hmm, nice but not worth listening to again.
The odd good song, but far too many dreary ones.
And a half
Decent in places
I'm not sure why this would be critical to hear before you die. It sounds like generic psychedelic pop-folk rock of the 60's. There's far better records put out around this that I'd rather hear.
I genuinely have no idea why I find Tim Buckley so unexciting, I think this age of guitar and lyrics is lost on me. I don’t hate it but I feel as though I’ve wasted my time.
This screams 60s. Vocals are so dramatic and operatic. Too much organ. Too much falsetto. Psychedelic or experimental folk? Some of it sounds a bit like Jefferson Airplane. But not as good. The music meanders and seems a little self-indulgent. The lyrics? 🤮 “I love upstairs. I love her downstairs. But I love my lady’s chamber”? Really? I found the second half of this record significantly worse than the first half. I understand he has better albums, so if he pops up on this list again, I’ll try to by open minded. But this one is no bueno.
Anti viet nam war blather
No. Folk is ok but this is way too folk.
I don’t like the easy-listening stuff from the 70s. This was like elevator music covers of ren-faire music.
This didn’t do much for me so was going to give it 3 stars. However it was so bland Plus I don’t understand why he sounded like he had a British accent. So knocked it down a star.
Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at “goodbye”.
So so
Pleasant street was nice, but the rest is exuding too much of that hippie folk that didn't age all that well. And while all the movements in these songs are impressive, they just don't sound all that great.
Eh odd
Review - tried listening to this guy a few times and never really gotten into it. And I feel like this isn't his best album, so all around it was a fairly low-mid listen. Rating - 4/10 Need to hear? NO
Hmm, its sound is a bit too polished and clean-shaven. I didn’t really like it. I prefer his son’s stuff.
Not bad, but nothing really interesting going on here.
I felt this was quite a boring album and nothing really stood out for me not a bad album but nothing for me to come back to.
Голос хороший, но слишком много пафоса в музыке и исполнении
TIL: Jeff Buckley had a much less talented father. 2.5/5
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Soft Folk stuff from the 60s. Didn't really catch my attention
renaissance fair ass music
Dad of the year over here. Bet he thinks he's so cute in that album cover the wank. A few good songs to be fair to him
Meh
Not really doing anything for me
This was so dated, from the organ instrumentation to his warbly singing voice. I also kept waiting to hear "Hallelujah" but I 1000% thought there was just one musical Buckley.
Folksy rambling, mostly pointless. Some cute instrumentation here and there at least
Syk i hodet
Best Song: I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain. This was actually good. A nearly frenetic energy with an interesting lyrical conceit. Worst Song: Knight-Errant. "I love her upstairs, I love her downstairs". Shakespeare, he is not. Overall: There are a few glimpses of something interesting, but mostly it's just this wistful 60s naive earnestness that feels painful to listen to. This album was concurrent with the early works of Bob Dylan, he should have aspired to more.
unremarkable at best, vocals tending to whiny and lyrics to obnoxious, and poorly mixed.
hasnt aged well
It’s really not that often, in the creative world, that you get a son who follows in his father’s footsteps and turns out to be even better. Usually the son just becomes an NFT guy or whatever like Sean Lennon. It’s maybe a bit easier if, instead of having created the full range of John Lennon songs, the father had only created The Benefit of Mr. Kite.
I didn’t think this was very good.
little weird for me
Seems anachronistic even for 1967
🎧I’m sure this is for somebody but it’s not for me
More Hello and Goodbye
It’s another trauma porn. Not awful but I suspect if he’d lived we’d have had something better but maybe not 1001 album worthy.
very cool, too tied to a specific mood and period
For singer -songwriters, you have to enjoy the singer's voice and enjoy their lyrical content. Unfortunately, I enjoyed neither here. It wasn't unbearable like Pentagle was, though, so this ranks a 2/5.
Liked a couple songs but I don't really feel anything Just average if I'm being honest
Not something I would listen to
Day793 - a fitting time to here an anti-war song. no man can find the war and pleasant street were the only ones i could really stomach. it’s too bad he died so young.
meh, give me something cool
More like goodbye to these album reviews. Meh, but Pleasant Street was pretty good. Nice British rock big guitar solo strong vocals type thing happening. Idk there’s nothing really super interesting happening in these songs they’re pretty straight forward and repetitive boring. I don’t mind the genre and tones they have happening it’s that classic late 60s sound which I enjoy. But compositions aren’t anything special. Not interested in finishing this album. Got through most of it. Skipped quite a few cause they were just too repetitive. 2/5
The album is overall alright, and given that it was at around Beatles-time, I guess it was pretty chill and enjoyable but maybe not the most popular at the time perhaps.
I think Once I Was is one of the most poetic songs of its generation, and it works to the detriment of this album as nothing else compares to it.
Meh
this is quite interesting. its different from alot of other music ive listened to from the 60's. tim's vocals are strange but they work with his music. i'm personally not the biggest fan of these songs but i can appreciate a good album. Favorite song was Phantasmagoria in Two. 4/10
Too Donovan-derivative bells-on-my-shoes-while-I-prance-through-the-lilies for me
My interest in seeing Tim Buckley in concert, at his peak, would be about a 2 out of 5, so this seems right. Do not love the heavy bass lines in the opening tracks.
Better than “Greetings from L.A.”, but that is not saying much.
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No private session used. Big fan of his son's work, but never checked Tim out seriously. Album is very folksy and of it's time. Folksy and not interesting, I couldn't find anything worthwhile on this album.
This was an interesting album: at first I was ready to pass. No Man Can Find the War was okay but Carnival Song was way too English medieval minstrel. Then Pleasant Street came on and it was pretty good, raising the bar to a “2”. Hallucinations was a trip literally and figuratively, but was a great intro to I never Asked to Be Your Mountains with its slide guitars, intense strumming guitar and drumming that reminded me of Rusted Root. This raised the bar up to a curious “3”. Unfortunately once I reached the top of the Mountain it descended back onto medieval Knight-Errant territory, literally. I was lulled into a sense of comfort but was reminded that English folk is different than ‘Merican folk. It was a listening experience but I don’t know if I need another.
Random thoughts: * I thought maybe this would be a hidden gem with this being Jeff Buckley's dad and all. * It was better left buried. It was whiny and dated. I listened to it once and had no desire to listen again. * I'm sure there is something good here but it left such an unpleasant first impression. * I will stick with just goodbye for this one.
This was one of the more confusing albums we have listened to haha. I don't know if this was genius or complete garbage. Super unique singing voice. Surprisingly great instruments for a 1967 no name solo artist. The songs were just goofy and the singing was goofy.
Not my favorite- pleasant enough but a little on the boring side for my tastes. I could see how it was influential in the folk revival movement of the late 60s but for me it didnt land. Overall- 2.5/5
This was neither psychedelic folk nor renaissance folk enough to catch my attention either way. Really wish I had more to say about this album, but nothing really stuck with me. I found it to be pretty forgettable.
boring generic trash
an talent made even bigger talent even tho i dont really liked but i dont mind that the songs are written well
Meh.
Favorite Track: No Man Can Find the War
Two stars because he gave us Jeff
It's like hearing nails scratching on a blackboard.
Not for me again. I really don't like the slow folky harmonica type music. There are other artists that make this type of music that I prefer. I wonder if people tend to consider slow music more artistic and elevated because humans have a tendency to think slow speech indicates confidence? I'm tired of it personally I like faster music.
Too Mideval Faire for me
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Not my thing
Top Songs: Pleasant Street Once I Was
Nothing memorable about this, in fact I forgot the album a few hours after listening to it.
I’m gonna say it. There’s too much “psychedelic folk” on this list. Halfway through, I was looking for reasons to give it a 3 and then he hits me with the “whither shall my lady go“.
Some reasonably decent (but not exceptional) songwriting here, but Buckley's earnest delivery makes the most of the tracks seem like dusty museum pieces.
crazy voice tho
Let’s just leave it at “Goodbye”, Tim. Could not wait for it to be over, then found out the stream had gone back to the start and I got to listen to the first four pretentious, renaissance fair numbers all over again.
Poetry styled album. Another 1967! I can appreciate this without really liking it. Sure, I enjoyed it, but I don’t see myself turning this on my the heck of it in the near future (vs Disraeli gears). Folksy, earthy. He was a young boy in this!!!! 20. I briefly listened to Happy Sad and his style def changes. I find it so tragic but also, magical (?) when people get famous after they’ve passed. Keeps a good balance in order.
I don't care for Tim Buckley. Jeff, yes. Tim, no.
Pretty meh. Sounded kind of whiny and just didn’t get into it
Disappointingly twee. 2 Few singers are blessed with a voice as sweet and true as Tim Buckley’s. He wasn’t a bad songwriter either and yet there is something crucial lacking; a little self-awareness perhaps. This album is so po-faced and prim. A Renaissance fair at which fun is absolutely out of the question. The album cover is a lie. This is all very difficult to forgive a day after listening to Velvet Underground and Nico, released just a few months before. 2/5
Ren fair vibes. Not something I would revisit.
Not s'good. I'll say 1.5? I'll round up.
Not super for me
This is okay - nothing special.
60s rock that has no effect on me.
Maybe this is good for what it is? But I hate what it is. This was torture for me. 2* is the best I can do to transcend my biases.
Some decent bluesy psych rock with a nice groove and soul/RnB arrangements and some solid mellow country/folk rock ala Neil Young. Best on the higher energy tracks or in full out spacey ambient mode - the folksy ballads with medeival melodies are a drag. His voice is bearable for the most part, but fundamentally annoying and very nasaly - he really pushes it with some of the extended wailing portions. Favorites: Pleasant Street, Once I Was
OK album. This is my 2nd Tim Buckley album in the past week. I did not care for this one anymore than I did the first ("Happy Sad"). I don't what to make of his work. This album aspires to be big and dramatic but musically it seems to fall flat. I think his voice is nice but it is better suited to musical theater. Sometimes he'll try to hit the high notes and it's cringy.
I'd never heard of Tim Buckley prior to this. The album reminded me of something else that I know, but I can't figure out what at the moment. Tim has a decent voice and the music was OK too but there wasn't anything that really grabbed me and said "this is brilliant". So it's good to have heard it but it won't be in my playlists.
Not a huge fan of this so far Instrumentally I appreciate it Just nothing really has grasped me :( Which is a shame because I wanted to really like this.
2.5
This was like 60’s singer/songwriter 101. Harmonica? Check. Tambourine? Check. Heck I think he even had a harpsichord just for good measure.
Yo creo que ya hice este chiste con otro disco de él, pero en mi opinión y para mi gusto lo mejor que hizo fue su hijo. Y ya.
There are far too many Tim Buckley albums on this list
I can appreciate that other story tellers may have been influenced by this material but this was not really my style of music.
Really unique falsetto that he passed on to his son, but I largely did not enjoy this one. Once I Was is a really nice song, very Nick Drake-esque. But theres way too much annoying psych-folk bullshit thats so dated sounding. Folk rock does not have to be so full of silly medieval references, like a lot of 60s singer songwriters for some reason thought it did. Just for the most part found it a really tedious listen. Clearly Tim Buckley was a talent, but I dont like the bardic style of this one at all.
Enjoyed the fast songs, even recommended Pleasant Street to a friend, but the awful slow songs knock it back to 2 stars.
There seems to be an awful lot of Buckley on this list. Must be political correctness because the tunes (such as they are) are pretty lame. Could we have some Showaddywaddy or Mud next please. I fancy a carefree singalong.
Goodbye Tim, thanks for having Jeff, but your music didn't resonate with me.
Appreciate the juxtaposition of the sweet voice and chaotic music.
Pleasant enough, but generic hippy music
Not very boring but nothing special.
Not really my cup o tea but it was definitely a folky album of the 60s lol
Not very into this one
5/10
D e jo faren te Jeff!!!!!!! eg elske jo jeff!! han va bra han her åg då:) Beste sang: Phantasmagoria in Two
I just couldn’t get into it. Sappy.
Not my thing
#121 - I didn't get this one
It's all a bit too medieval for me I'm afraid. Liked the album cover, reminded me of the joke-shop inked telescopes from childhood
Not my thing at all. Too folky. Too much poetry on acid.
Not good
meh
Som en tråkigare Doors
Just okay
Johnny Bravo made an album. It's not good. Gets 2 stars only because Pleasant Street could be pretty great with a better vocalist.
Standouts Pleasant Street
OK, this is a bit more bearable than the other Tim Buckley album I listened to (Greetings from LA) but I'm really not interested in feeling like I'm at some sort of medieval English circus. I think the lyrics are actually quite good, but the music is so bad that it's distracting. I could listen to the whole album and I wasn't "upset" like the first one, but I also couldn't wait for this to be over.
2.5/5
Wake me up when the 60s are over. I LOVE Greetings from L.A. This one doesn't grab me. The Woodstock Hippy-Folk-Artists-on-Acid sound is, 60 years on, largely annoying. Like so much of the genre, most of this album's musical exploration comes across as gratuitous and masturbatory, and the lyrics pretentious and oddly impersonal. It was listening to this, though, that it occurred to me for the first time, that Jeff may have been Tim's son. So it gave me something.
What in the holy hippie at a renaissance fair. Didn’t love this and his voice bothers me.
This is just incredibly boring folk rock. There's much, much better stuff in this vein made at around the same time. 2.0/5.0: Disappointing
A pretty voice but ultimately a tepid delivery of folk songs with grand ideas and moderate delivery.
Seemed like pretty generic folk music, not sure why this record would make the list.
Totally forgettable, but a good album to help you nod off to sleep
Was this considered good 58 years ago?
yeah this folk singersongwriter stuff from the 60's is just NOT for me omg. esp when it's not my first listen of this album - gets boring hella quick. the best thing about Tim is the fact that Jeff came into life, i have to give him that haha
My first score below 3 in 16 albums... I understand the significance behind the album, a singer-songwriter folk 60s album, and the father of a certain Jeff. But what a dull album. Nothing was exciting about this album.
If I took drugs and had a shower, this would be what I sang.
He has a police voice but it didn't really appeal me me
Ehh
I could never stand good singers. They always have to show off the range of their voice. Worse singers have to fill the songs with emotional depth and feeling instead which makes it more relatable. There is interesting music and good lyrics here, but dear Tim just has to ruin it with his oh so very competent and dorky singing.
Interesting protest album during a psychedelic era. His music is full of metaphor and poetry, and I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t fully understand what he’s trying to say. He has a strong fantasy influence in his lyrics, which comes across as spending too many days at a Renaissance fair on LSD.
#695. I bet people that listen to show tunes would be big into this. 2/5: meh
His son makes better music
Really just didn’t do much for me. 3/10
I got bored as hale
Pretty bad. I like folk and this was trying to be too folky for me. A lot of the songs were simply annoying. The only exception was ‘Once I Was’, which was lovely.
I'm sure this was a popular album, a relevant album. But it just sounds so... dated to me. even the recording of it sounds like it comes off of an old recording studio, one or two tracks max. I dug the extra instrumentation, but it just felt so antiquated I didn't give it a second thought. NEXT.
Interesting as an historical artifact, but incredibly dated and often cheesy, both musically and lyrically. As a Jeff Buckley fan, what I found most interesting is the echoes of Jeff's voice. I suppose it's the other way around, but to me Jeff was leaps and bounds superior to Tim, both from a vocal perspective and a songwriting perspective. I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain is a decent sounding song, but basically he's declaring what a POS he was for abandoning his newborn son. F this guy. Songs I sort of liked: Once I Was, Phantasmagoria in Two, Morning Glory. Most irritating song: Goodbye and Hello - cheesy AND long.
Listened in the truck via YouTube music. It’s like magic folk music. His son got it right though.
Mmmm very very difficult to "judge"...not for listening during work...overall don't liked it that much...
The emotion is dialed all the way up, but it doesn’t give me much else. It’s sad, slow, and ornate in a way that feels more heavy than moving, and for me it just drags. That kind of says it all. Spins: 2 (rough) Playlist Additions: - Pleasant Street - Once I Was
I don’t get this project, man. Is this album *fine*? Sure. It’s perfectly OK. But it’s just a template of 60s hippie, renaissance fair, folksy bullshit. I read this guys Wikipedia page, and it sounds like he was an interesting dude that had some experimental shit, and some albums that really pushed boundaries. So why include the cookie cutter album? Why not one of the interesting albums that pushed boundaries and inspired experimentation? I don’t know. His son’s album is miles better.
I’ve tried a couple of times before, but I struggle to really enjoy Tim Buckley’s work. Some of it is fine but it doesn’t really grab me. Generally it’s too medieval/psych folky for my taste.
Aware of some of the songs. I think this is an album you really need to sit and listen to as the lyrics might be the key to it's greatness. Not for a commute.
Didn’t totally fw this sorry