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It's pretty solid, not my style but fine for what it is
Not a great genre of music for me. Very light and folky, but just not interesting at all. Glad to move on.
No tengo palabras. Me dejó mudo.
It's fine, but it doesn't stand out. It hasn't aged particularly well musically, either. If it made this list, that usually means one of three things: it's an important influence on later artists, it's the token representative of a sub-genre, or his death was tragic enough to make his work retroactively better. Either way, I didn't really get anything out of this.
So so music by a true dickwad.
Very slow, boring album. How to make 40 minutes feel like 2 hours 👎
Some of it was good and I'd see them in a Tarantino movie. But some of the songs were so bad, this is the first time I considered not finishing the album.
Nice tunes, very quiet, experimental folk music.
Not sure what to make of this one
Mellow and downtempo
to be honest not much here that is memorable
Way too old school for me, but interesting to hear an old school anti war type of album. Melodies sound very folky but not in an interesting way
Like his other album, pretty mid Ren Faire jams. Not terrible, but not particularly moving to me either.
Average folk rock.
I thought this album was quite good, elements of it I enjoyed. Then I found out it was JEFF BUCKLEY'S DAD. So cool
Artiste inconnu. Album de chanteur/chanteuse, mais avec une instrumentation parfois intéressante ('Pleasant Street', 'I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain' - il faudrait qu'il arrête de chanter pour en profiter pleinement ...), et parfois vraiment mauvaise ('Carnival Song' -) ou ennuyeuse ('Goodbye and Hello', 'Knight Errant'). Pas sur d'avoir envie de l'écouter une seconde fois. =>2/5
Tim Buckley Some cool vocal moments but the songs/ and melodys didn’t resonate with me. No man can find the war- bass sounds like a trombone. carnival song and knights were pretty bad Favorite song was never asked to be your mountain. All of these songs are too long. Good by and Hello: Interesting how that rennissance fair sounding folk music really died in the 60’s . Morning Glory was nice.
Very dated and ultimately underwhelming. Tim Buckley is only retrospectively acclaimed because he is Jeff’s dad. He is a mediocre musician at best. I reviewed Happy Sad and thought it was dull Hello Goodbye is no better. The only thing I like about this album is his voice, which is pleasant on the ear. Otherwise there is no way this is essential listening. I won’t be listening again.
I've already been given Buckley's Happy / Sad, and on that occasion was pretty underwhelmed by an artist who has never really appealed to me. Found this a little more interesting in it's production values - started out well with a bit more of a Gene Clark 60s folk-psych vibe, but soon degenerated into tedious renaissance fair trappings. Still not convinced by his voice, and don't really understand his enduring appeal, but by the same token there was nothing truly awful here: bang average songs, occasionaly elevated by fairly decent production.
I dunno about this ren faire prog folk
Just really, not my cup of tea at all
Seems harmless but did absolutely nothing for me.
I apparently prefer his son, Jeff by a good margin.
I think it’s because I love Jeff Buckley’s music so much that all I hear is a deadbeat dad singing dumb poems. Once I Was is pretty good though.
Not really my style. Two of the tracks were a bit interesting, but overall most tracks were either forgettable or leaning towards annoying Standouts No Man Can Find The War Goodbye and Hello 2/5
The album amounts to songs for the Renaissance Faire. It's the kind of folk music that went out of fashion years ago. "I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain" is a good track, but the rest of them are too mournful and weepy for me.
I was excited to listen to this one. Jeff Buckley’s dad! This album turned out to be pretty frustrating. It has some great music and occasionally a great line. But mostly this is overshadowed by some truly ridiculous lyrics. Lots of lines about jesters and kings and queens and maybe the war is in your mind and it’s all very 60s and pretentious. Knight Errant is particularly embarrassing, as is the 8 minute title track. On the other hand, “I never asked to be your mountain,” “once I was,” and “pleasant street,” are incredible songs.
psychedelic folk rock just isnt my genre
Tough for me to get through.
Ok. Not my bag. That's on me.
I probably won't listen to it in my spare time. It's a decent album, with nice lyrics and rhythm. It's just not my vibe.
Don’t mind his voice. Even some of the music is alright. But another commenter wrote that it sounds like a bad Renaissance Faire performance and I can’t unhear it. 2/5
Yawn
Ok album. I can tell fleetwood mac members possibly a huge fan of him and there are lots of similarities with Dylan. I found his voice flat after a frw songs and not much innovative melodies. It was the 60s though..
2 1/2 Very 60’s folksy. Some songs are better than others.
Pretty standard 60’s folk/pop He has the stereotypical 60’s voice. Kind of a tenner / alto, Mammas and the Pappas voicing Not really my jam.
I actually don't think I like this one. 2 star
Folk
In the same vein as music like Peter Paul & Mary…I’m just not in to it. Hippy, free spirit, but somehow kind of churchy folk rock?
Jeff Buckley’s dad (though Jeff met him exactly once). Jeff is better.
2.5 - ok folk, but man did that knight song suck
An improvement on his previous album, but still not up to much. Nothing specific worthy of comment. 2
Skipped a fair few unfortunately 2/5
It’s fine, the songs feel a bit flat to me and started to grate on me after a while.
60’s folk music is not my thing. Seemed like one long song by the end.
TOOO sad, even for this depressed old man ..
Not a fan. I don't understand the fascination with him, nor his son Jeff... because they died young?
begon redelijk, maar verzandde vrij vlug in een soort Florence & the machine meets joni mitchell... en dat is géén compliment
This is like a caricature of sixties folk rock music, and I didn’t care much for this version. And I can just picture this guy skipping around in a minstrel’s costume at a Renaissance Fair somewhere. This just seemed really corny to me, and just begs to be made fun of. I preferred side two to side one, but this still feels like a two star album.
Pleasant Street is a great song. Rest ok 2/5
jeff buckley being a sorta kinda nepo baby is crazy! he was better than his father(warranted statement) this sucked
Kinda middling for me, I enjoy his voice but nothing about this album really latched onto me honestly. it was ok folk
Not my jam. Not bad background music but nothing really stood out. Won’t go another listen
I’m usually into this sort of 60s songwriter style, but there wasn’t much that stood out to me here. Also, I like the hippie psychedelic sound of some songs, but I have much less patience for that English folk style that is prominent on the second half of the album. “Phantasmagoria in Two” is a very pretty song. Awful album cover. What even is that? Even the text is pretty bad too. 2.5
Didn't much care for the son's music, so not really surprising that I wouldn't be impressed by his dad's. 2/5
Not for me.
this guy kind of sucks
2/5
This isn’t a good album
I like some of his other work, but this is over produced shite.
Tim Buckley had pipes but the overdone writing by Larry Beckett and rambling troubadour style really took me out of it. No Man Can Find The War is solid and I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain has banger qualities yet gets a little tired near the end - the rest though feels kind of forgettable to me aside from little moments where Tim's vocal talent shines through.
some flashes of brilliance but a bit too much of a carnival vibe for me.
How the hell did this guy share 50% DNA with Jeff Buckley??? The difference in talent level actually fascinates me.
Might've liked it back when I was fourteen, but now I find psychedelic rock/singer songwriter infuriatingly boring. Jeff Buckley is better.
point6.
Not for me
Maybe the definition of mid. Why would anyone put this on a list like this??
Sounds a bit dated to me. And I'm not into his vocals.
Didn’t super hate it 2/5
I thought I’d like this more but it kind of wears on you.
Not my thing
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Sounded dated. Didn’t grab me, but will give a few more lessons. I really enjoy Jeff Buckley so Tim gets a few more listens..
Hippie
Reading this guy's wikipedia page was interesting, I didn't know that Jeff Buckley's Dad was also a semi-famous musician. It's interesting how they never met, but Jeff became a musician too. After listening to the first three songs, I'm kind of lukewarm on this. I think it's something about the way he's singing. Just because you can hit a five octave range, doesn't mean you should....lol. At his highest range, it's too much...but I can hear the quality of his singing ability at some of the lower notes. In theory I should love this. It's my favorite decade, my favorite genre, etc. But I just don't?
Clasdic vluesy rocks jazzy and then random 1600s lute medieval music wtf hahaha
Much prefer Jeff to Tim. This just seems tame and unfocussed.
This just washed over me and left almost nothing behind
Nothing too notable
The production style is extremely 60s. How voice is so clear and ballad-like that it's almost like an opera singer doing pop music. The baroque pop moments of this album are interesting but the folksy moments are not very enjoyable. I wouldn't seek this out or really listen to it again.
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 2⭐️
Nope. Still don't like Tim Buckley. This album is alright, if you like him. The lyrics are interesting.
Goodbye and Hello sounds like what happens when mediocre folk music takes a wrong turn into a head shop and never comes back out. It's like someone said, “What if we combined the most pretentious parts of ‘60s poetry with the most chaotic parts of psychedelic experimentation?” and everyone else in the room just nodded instead of calling the police. There’s talent here somewhere, buried under layers of overambitious arrangements and lyrical rambling. But mostly, it feels like you're stuck in a Renaissance Faire where everyone's really into incense and existential dread.
No Tim, just goodbye.
You know how two negatives multiplied produce a positive, but a positive multiplied by a negative equals a negative…? Welp, that’s what’s happening here. Some have called this folk psychedelic music. I’ve found that I enjoy psychedelic music but generally dislike like folk. A positive and a negative. But if this was county folk… (negative * negative) it would still suck. But gangster rap + folk… that might be the winning combination. Mostly, I found this old-timey and boring and a borderline waste of my time.
One thing this 1001 album experience has taught me is to recognize music genres. I was able to guess psychedelic folk. I wish Tim had leaned into the folk more than the psychedelica.
I didn't like this. It reminded me of people taking parody shots at folk music, like "Lesbian Seagull" or "I Gave My Love a Cherry". 2/5
This is the best Tim Buckley I've heard, I think. That being said, I didn't care much for it. 2.49/5
Tim Buckley < The Beatles
Produziert Nostalgiegefühle, außergewöhnliche Stimme, aber insgesamt nichts für mich
This is #day181 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and... it's my first time listening to Tim Buckley. I'm quite familiar with (and really love) the work of his son Jeff Buckley, but that’s a story for another day. I'm not always a fan of Tim's vocals, but instrumentally, this is a very late '60s record drenched in psychedelia, and that's something I don't mind. "Hallucinations" is my favorite song here, I guess. But then, I can't separate the artist from the person, even though I know I probably should. The story behind his personal life, like when he left his pregnant wife about a month before their son, Jeff, was born, is pretty shitty. This is a 2 out of 5. Looking forward to #day182.
Not a fan of this. A few of the songs I enjoyed however I found it overall to be a creepy sound.
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Very sweet and acoustic but not for me
I found this to be a bit too much. I don't like singing in this style. It's too grandiose and dramatic. I was relieved when it finished.
I've really been on a weak run here. I'm on the 2nd to last track on this one and it's bunk. I'll give it a 2/5 to be generous.
I'm not even gonna pretend I like it. I listened to the first seconds of two songs and that's it.
1.7 My initial thought was that albums like this are why people quit going through this list. But there are a couple of redeeming songs. Overall not for me though and will probably be the first and only time I listen to Tim Buckley.
minchia allegro
I was incredibly bored during this. It's not bad I guess. Just really boring. It's short though. So that's good.
Did nothing for me
This was alright. A couple of the songs dragged a bit. Some of the melodies reminded me of father John misty. I can see some shades of Jeff in there too. Ultimately a bit too folky for me.
Totally ok NEVER relistening tho
Very meh. No song really got me going, but was not horrible
Has a good voice but this was somehow boring?
Not very keen on this one.
The sort of music I should love, but I just couldn’t get on with this. All a bit warbling.
I don't remember a single thing about this.
Maso
I've always been disappointed with Tim Buckley given who his son was, and this relisten didn't really change that opinion. Not bad, just not deserving of a spot on the list over others.
I prefer his son, although it's alright in the background. Just nothing compared to Jeff Buckley.
Was ok, instrumental was like mid vocal below mid
Went into this thinking I would find it inoffensively mid, but I ended up actively disliking it. Spent the whole album wishing I was listening to Nick Drake instead. Low two.
He has a good vocal range but it's not my cup of tea. Not bad and clearly a influence to later generations but not for me.
Eh it was okay, nothing leapt out at me.
not my jam. couldn't really distinguish this from the other Tim Buckley album that was on this list. Just not my favorite genre at the end of the day.
Heard this album 10 different times by 10 different artists. 2
The music is very dated.
Tim Boklul, bekend van dat andere album wat ik van hem kreeg waar ik me eerlijk gezegd niks meer van herinner behalve dat ik het heb gehad. Ik mag hem nog een keer luisteren van ome Robert. Tim is een best aardige zangeres, als je ervan houdt. Af en toe klinkt 'ie alsof hij ieder moment 'White Rabbit' kan gaan zingen. Hij trakteert ons op een hele hoge stem met nog hogere uithalen, kermisgeluiden (wat ik altijd enorm prettig vind, zo'n schelle bende kutgeluiden) en wat langdradige nummers op een verder niet al te lang album. Wat moet je er verder mee? Dit is een album, dit is ooit gemaakt. Moet het daarom in deze lijst? Mwoah, van mij hadden we dit mogen overslaan. Maargoed. Uiteindelijk had het erger gekunt. Twee sterren, want tering wat wordt het af en toe een vervelend schelle bende (track 2, 5 en misschien nog wel meer maar dat kan ik vanwege irritatie niet meer zuiver beoordelen). Eén ster vind ik net te lomp.
Lots of emotion here, it's pretty but also kind of depressing. This isn't something I'd ever put on unless I just wanted to feel sad. And even then, I'm sure there are plenty of sad albums I'd enjoy more. If I'd found just one song to add to my playlist, I might give it a 3, but I didn't.
60s folk. Protest songs. Aggressively late 60s in a way I don’t particularly enjoy. Also not fantastic singer. Most songs are bloody annoying. Dad of Jeff Buckley, son was so much better.
Mostly ok
Listening to it was nice. I appreciated it because it was different but I disliked it because it was bad
He may be a good songwriter but the singing is ice-pick-in-the-ear worthy... good god. Just another folk singer from the late 60s and IMO not really special. 4/10
On first listen it was tolerable but I couldn’t listen again. 2*
Standard 60s singer-songwriter. Pretty dated, but not awful
Ugh I feel like I’ve just managed to forgot the terribleness of the other Tim Buckley record I got handed to me earlier on in this list. That being said, this definitely didn’t feel as grating as the previous record was (it was Greetings from LA for reference) but it was still all a bit dreary and wishy washy and I still don’t like his voice. Will continue to hope for Jeff instead 👍🏻
Why so many Tim Buckley albums?? Last time I remember I gave it a 4 and got cooked because apparently the lyrics were misogynistic.. Not catching me make that mistake again (plus this one's pretty shit anyway)
Dated. I was never a fan of falsetto leaning singers. The music provided me little enjoyment.
Produziert Nostalgiegefühle, außergewöhnliche Stimme, aber insgesamt nichts für mich
I don’t get the accolades. Sounds like his balls never dropped.
I can’t say this is awful, but its mot for me. Ok, so the last track on the album is pretty good. All the rest were just background to me.
bim tuckley
If I've learned anything from this project, it's that I really don't like Time Buckley as much as I thought I would.
4/10 Otac (nasim generacijama puno poznatijeg) Jeffa Buckleya i prva prilika da cujem nesto od njega. Moram priznati da me ne impresioniraju ovakvi kantautori bas, osim ako nemaju neki goofy, originalniji ili out of the place spin na svoju muziku zbog kojih bi ih zapamtio ili pozelio cuti opet. Ili je do dekade gdje me rajcaju samo bendovi i odredjeni projekti vise-manje, a ne hipijevsko solo drndanje. Tipican album za to vrijeme, a meni nothing to write home about. Ako moram, radije bi si pustio Elvisa iz ovih godina, a ovaj album modernim hipijima umjesto trance-a. Barem bi netko bio na dobitku.
A little too much Ren Faire for a Tuesday night.
Highly reminiscent of John Denver. And, like with John Denver, his voice is sometimes charming and wonderful to listen to and at others extraordinarily annoying. I was tempted to round up my score given his tragic death at such a young age. But setting that aside, I’m actually going to round down. Not because of his vocal talent, but because the songwriting didn’t equal that talent.
I have to say, if I was told to listen to an album just based on the album cover, I’d pass on this one. 2 songs in and I’m pretty such this will be a rough listen. Side note, I thought I was listening to early Jeff Buckley at first and was shocked at how terrible he started off in his career. Crisis averted. This album sounds like the music was recorded first and Tim just had to come up with lyrics to put something on tape. Pleasant Street was a pretty good song though. This album is very “keep my castle happy while they eat Court Jester” This has moments of promise but it’s mostly a fail. I guess in the “protest” era it might have faired alright but that’s a long time ago. Choice cut: Pleasant Street
2.5
Folk rock. The good kind. Kind of. Still folk rock.
Would've thought this was a female if I didn't know any different. Had this on while working and nothing blew me away it was just kinda...boring? Might give another listen to decide between a 2 or 3.
Interesting falsetto vibe, reminds me of peace and love songs from the 60's. Not bad but I'm not sure I need to listen to the whole thing again.
Damn but the 60's we SO introspective. Is the war inside your mind? Is it? Or is it everywhere... Gaza, Ukraine, the White House... oh wait, that's not the 60's. Heralded as a great vocalist with multi octave range; I find him shrieky and unpleasant on the ears.
This was very boring.
Meh. Inoffensive, but it didn't do much for me. Actually, it *was* inoffensive until I got to "Knight-Errant" and then I had to knock this down to a 2 for being grating. The longer I listened to this album the less I liked it. 2.0
There's some interesting stuff going on here musically and I respect the ambition in a lot of places, but I'm afraid I found his voice really hard work and it just didn't really stick for me consistently. Good in some places but never really much more than that.
Boring
Robert Dimery, mannen med total avsaknad av fantasi.
Sehr sehr sehr whimsical die erste zwei songs. Pleasant street het etz chli meh edge vlt. hallucinations findi chli seeehr mittelalter folk type. nöd gern. ok er het nie wölle din verg sii okay, hübsche song bin bi phantasmagoria und gnüsses nöd wüürklich
mega en coole aug spezielli stimm aber no cool ganzes lied ungwöhnlich UHH die erste 2 sind voll oke gsi, pleasant street gfalltmer jz easy, het echli meh emotione? hallucinations passt sehr hahaha joa weniger min fall hie und da erinnerets mich chli ah experimentelli beatles? ja es gaht bergab COOL 8 MINUTIGS LIED oke de teil mit blöser un gsang isch na cute und chli chris de burgh? ja erste 3 lieder cool und hello and goodybe, de rest rechr nervig und langwilig
2.5
Kinda cringe
Psych folk just isn’t my thing. I like folk, but not this. The lyrics and vocals just feel pretentiously sincere. The music is mostly ok.
I didn't find much here I liked. Too dated, too folksy in that renn-faire way. Not really for me.
Lightweight Nick Drake
Way too folky
This is, I believe, my third Tim Buckley record. I now feel pretty confident in saying... why? I'm not saying this is bad, by any stretch, but it's nothing fantastic. It takes some risks, shoots some shots, mostly wearing medieval clothing, but much like all of his other records, sounds very slapped-together and busy. It often sounds like they take a song, record a base, and then just start throwing whatever on top of it until it's smothering. I guess Buckley's music just isn't my cup of tea. Favorite track: "Pleasant Street"
Not feeling this one. Poignant lyrics but not much else working for me.
Oh god... make it end! it gets a star for something I probably missed... I just couldn't
Where do I begin… This is the second Tim Buckley album I’ve had. The first one left me a little underwhelmed. This one largely left me whelmed. I knew it was gonna be weird by the album cover alone. What an uncomfortable image to look at. I’d be interested to know what it’s trying to convey or make the listener feel because for me it just makes me uncomfortable. I don’t think the music is trying to do that. So why is the cover? As for the music itself, it’s pretty standard mid-60’s folk/psychedelic stuff. Sometimes it feels like renn faire folk, sometimes it just tries to tell a story, sometimes it’s completely obtuse. I wasn’t a huge fan. I liked the first track “No Man Can Find the War.” Felt like a protest song about Vietnam, and war in general. No man can find it, he can only create it. Other than this the only song that stood out was “Pleasant Street,” but I can’t remember why honestly. Overall this was fine but nothing I’m really excited about. The arrangements were great and clearly took some talent to create. For that alone it deserves three stars. But it’s downgraded to 2.5 because I didn’t like it much, and then rounded to 2 from there because, well, I didn’t like it. Two starts. Standout Tracks: No Man Can Find the War, Pleasant Street
Wanted to like it. Some songs ok. Not so much the rest.
Tim Buckley's 1967 album, "Goodbye and Hello," aims for high artistic expression but falls short in several areas. While Buckley's vocal prowess and lyrical depth are notable, the album suffers from a lack of cohesion and overcomplicated arrangements. The ambitious mix of styles often feels disjointed, and the production sometimes buries Buckley's voice beneath heavy orchestration. Despite moments of brilliance, like the evocative "No Man Can Find the War," the album's overall execution is more self-indulgent than impactful.
Was nice to listen to
Title of the album was Goodbye and Hello. Should have stopped at goodbye. Vocals were less than impressive
Favourites: pleasant Street, once I was, phantasmagoria in two. Not really my type of genre. 2/5
For some reason this album made me think of Forrest Gump and Ella Enchanted
I feel like I should like this album. It is very interesting as a lot is going on in each song. I can't stand the singing though. I want to give this a 3 so badly but I also can't stand listening to his voice do it's a 2.
I just can't see it. Or feel it. Why is this album worthy of playing, anyway?
Ok
Great vocals and style but nothing sticks. I lot of points during this felt like I was listening to parts of Jesus Christ Superstar.
such a mixed bag of terrible and okay no man can find the war pleasant street
Folk. Lembra Jim Morrison
Ren-fair vibes. Incel themes. +1 for bass sax. 2/5
This album sounds like the kind of thing that Bluto would have smashed a guitar over.
I was not a huge fan of this. I find it to be a little overly dramatic and overly busy.
This whole album hit me wrong. I'm just not a fan of this style of folk - the turns into carnival music and bard-like high fantasy in particular.
This was a little too far into the "renn faire" side of the folk music map for me
claramente no es para mi, muchas cosas que no me cerraron, pero no es un mal album claramente
Not really getting it here. Seems like the same song is often repeated. Vague psych overtones creep in here and there but are not explored (except in I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain). Phantasmagoria in Two shows how it could work. Title track seems a mishmash of 60s themes and tropes. A good try falling a little short.
After rolling my eyes over yet another Tim Buckley album on this list, I wound up not hating this one. At times his lyrics were rather painful (making me long for Dylan), but the music was often interesting, if dated. Also his singing wasn't as weirdly unhinged as it would become later on. (In fact, he often reminded me of Mickey Dolenz of the Monkees.) Anyway, this one's all right, but I'm glad we've finished with him. (Also, I would be remiss if I didn't once again say that his Starsailor album is better.)
Started well, then got interminably dull
best left to be forgotten with time
Zo, ik heb dit album even in drieën geknipt. Het trekt de energie wel uit mijn kop. Maximaal een kwartier te luisteren om gezondheidsschade te voorkomen. Het eerste nummer is met de geforceerde langgerekte lettergrepen en de geforceerde trillende stem wel gelijk het dieptepunt van het album. Ik kan nog helemaal losgaan op die verschrikkelijke zang. Maar laat ik het leuk houden. Het eerste nummer dat aardig klinkt is Pleasant Street. Het is relatief toegankelijk. De uithalen balanceren wat op het randje. Maar muziek die net op dat randje blijft, is soms het leukst om te luisteren. Verder presenteert dit album muzikaal nog van alles, van een kermis tot een minstreel. Het zou best een aardig cover-album kunnen opleveren als een andere zanger zich er aan waagt.
Eerder kregen we al het album wat hier op volgt en dat was me te experimenteel en oeverloos. Maar ik schreef er ook al bij Dylanesque en dat ademt dit gelijk vanaf de eerste toon uit. Al zingt hij iets hoger, met ongetwijfeld diepzinnige poetische teksten. Na dat eerste nummer dekt baroque pop de lading meer eigenlijk, carnavalesque, folky singer-songwriter. Het doet me heel ouderwets aan, een troubadour. Een bard, zoals bij Asterix & Obelix. Assurancetourix. En als ik een Gallier was, dan zou ik Tim dus ook een stoot voor zijn kanes geven. Ik heb niet zoveel inspiratie als Tim zelf, want ik snuif geen heroine. Dus ik hou het hier maar gewoon op de klinische feiten. Het is niet mijn smaak, een 2 is het maximale denk ik voor Tim. Zijn zoon was beter.
Minstrel-esque folk rock. Meh. 2.4 stars
Eh😬nothing album from a something song writer 👎
Pretty boring
It was nothing to write home about
Tim has a very medieval minstrel style. He’s not my cup of tea to begin with, but the album also never seems to hit a groove.
Sounds like most of the other folk rock on here. It's not bad but I've heard this so many times before and there's nothing at sets it apart from the others.
I wasn't crazy into this. I get a kick out of all things vaguely medieval, psychedelic folk, so this should be a pretty easy win. But I just felt like, as unbelievably good as Tim Buckley's voice is– maybe top 5 voices, technically, we've heard here, he has a gift– he just isn't connected to anything he's singing. I get the sense that Tim Buckley has his "Performance Voice" on, and it kind of separates me from him in a way. Almost in the way you can feel weirdly distant from, say, Sinatra when you listen to him for long enough. Is he just performing, merely singing the words, or is he actually there? And then I found out that he's Jeff Buckley's (criminally absent) father, and things clicked for me what's going on here. His other album we had is a true miss for me, and I went on a rant about how I don't like singers who have insane talent but aren't– again– using their powers for good. It seems like his son inherited these superhuman genes as well, and I'm glad that, unlike his dad, I really feel things when I hear Jeff sing. I'm just not feeling anything here. Not saying I didn't like some songs. "Phantasmagoria in Two" has this nice, wild country swing that struck me as weirdly fun. At the very least I've never heard anything like that. 2/5. A pretty cool find, something about that cover is so damn cool in an unsettling way but I honestly will probably not return to this.
I realise the list is only one person’s view, but really this is rather off the mark for me. Ultimately nobody could have listened to every album produced and as a result there are many out there that could replace this one. Mediocrity at best.
Boring
Forgettable
I just can't.
I don't think I've ever listened to Tim Buckley before. This wasn't bad, not sure I'm coming back to it, but it was a good listen.
Standard Folk Rock
Not for me. A bit too folky and smells of the 70s
59/1001 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑
Weird, and not enjoyably weird. The vocals aren't great, and the rest of it is just odd folky music with some ancient instruments thrown in (that was a nice touch, though). Not worth listening to.
I don’t know what I was expecting but this was not it. Disappointing
space opera 60ies rubbish. starts promising, get's on my nerves quickly
Late sixties mid tempo folk-rock. He uses a lot of falsetto in his voice. Doesn’t really Grab me.
Equally underwhelming in a very different way. Slightly psychedlic folk, a bit too twee for my tastes and not really offering that much of interest. Knight-Errant is a low point, there's not much in the way of high points. 2/5.
Not my cup of tea
Kinda sounds like something I'd slowly waste away to. Something that would play when I've fallen into a mountain cave and broke both my legs and couldn't get out. Nothing left for me but my sweet memories and the slow sad tunes of Tim Buckley.
I guess we know the limit of war and peace songs you can have one album, too many.
This was such a stupid album. I can't in good conscience give it a 1 because the instruments were played well but holy cow I did not like this. He sounded so pretentious, I can't really describe why but he sounded so pretentious. The lyrics were super medieval themed for some stupid reason and oh, of course, there's an 8:41 song for absolutely no reason right towards the end of the album where this fool just rambles on and on and on. Then there's some random song about a hobo. Did not like this album, I mean what was even the point of making us listen to this?
sheesh. not a fan at all 1.5
Middling 60s folk
Gähn
I had one previous Tim Buckley album, which was from his late-sex funk(?) period, and was underwhelmned. I was hopeful coming into this, but overall it doesn't sound all that different from the many, many, many, late 60s albums that I've listened to on this list. At the end of the day, I guess I don't fully understand or agree that Tim Buckley was an important artist - I feel like his reappraisal comes from the fact that his son had a much more important career (reverse nepotism in a way).
Meh. Folk music
Nothing against Tim, I would rate Bob Dylan the same - just not my thing
Singer songwriter, folk and psychedelic rock are my jam, but this isn't it. Also, it's not Jeffy's fault, but I don't love the mixing in the 60s. Favorite songs - Phantasmogoria in Two I was about to write off this album as just not for me, but I really liked this song, the rhytm section is *mwah*
He has a very goofy likeable smile on the album cover so he might get extra points for being a nice guy. Bit too religious for me. Bit slower than what I normally vibe with. Got a bit bored of the album towards the end. Would not listen to again. Goodbye and hello was a bit fun though.
Ugh not this gross womanizing deadbeat dad again… *eyeroll* YOU SHOULD HAVE STAYED AT HOME AND BEEN A PROPER FATHER TO BABY JEFF, YOU PRICK!! This douche is the inferior Buckley. He does have a nice voice, but I hate his music.
The music is mostly pretty good, but the writing is at times a bit insipid and full of forced rhymes. When I think of the songwriters he's contemporary with - Dylan, Seeger (Pete, not Bob), Simon, Lennon/McCartney, soon Taupin, Mitchell, Taylor......many more...mediocre.
Wasn't the worst thing but I felt it was a bit outdated and repetitive in some parts. Still some decent songs but don't like it a lot as an album
Dull
Some good instrumentation, but why is this list so rock heavy?
I prefer his son.
The lyrics were overwrought and everything else was meh.
Eh, musically it was ok but his high-pitched singing (as talented as it might be) was distracting.
meh
I don't enjoy all the medievalist schtick tbh. Morning Glory and Pleasant Street are nice enough. Undoubtedly a beautiful voice but I just didn't enjoy the album very much
Fín sönglagaplata ... ekkert sem festist
Not for me.
I am happy to be exposed to this album. It is something that I would never have come across if not for this album generator. Tim Buckley has an amazing voice and interesting arrangements, the lyrics seem poetic. I liked the first half of the album more than the second. While I appreciated hearing this, I didn't particularly care for it. I planned to rate at 3 stars, but the final few songs just didn't appeal to me.
whats with his eye no man can find the war- what is bro talking about. theres this weird bass line maybe. 4 carnival song- stop singing 4 pleasant street- 3 hallucinations- 3 i never asked to be your mountain- 3 no more
Good musically, did not like
Probably a good example of this kind of hippie folk music but I just found it whiny and annoying.
Really trying to keep that one star for stuff I think is truly dreck, but boy oh boy did I get close to voting this one star. I found the lyrics bad, the voice cloying, just the worst kind of 60s singer-songwriter “this is deep” music. Sorry, Tim!
I just don’t love the folkie scene but I learned he had a “sex funk” period in the 70s. Gotta check that out - 2
There was a couple of good subs near the start but the rest was just boring.
so dull
That one where he says he loves his lady’s chamber? Is he talking about her cunt?
chatice
This album is from 1967 and it shows. Some interesting use of of background sounds (was that wind blowing? a blacksmith?) that give off psych-rock vibes and can hear a jazzy influence but it's just too folksy for me. This one didn't age well. That being said, T-Buck does have an incredible vocal range and gift for expressing emotions. This might be for you, if wispy tones and wailing are your thing ::cue pan flute::
Too minstrel-ly. Very poetic but I could not follow the lyrical story. Title track felt like multiple songs mashed together. Not a repeat play for me.
4.5/10
Whining, droning voice. This album was boring. Music wasn’t awful, but the singing was.
Started promising, but the remainder conjures images of lutes and skipping
Boring and dated. 2
I prefer Tim when he's not stable, so this was never going to be my favorite album by him.
Ollakseen taas kerran vuoden 67-psykehairahduksen tuote tämä on aika vakuuttavasti toteutettu. Esim. Carnival Song on juuri sitä, mitä voisi kuvitella, mutta toisaalta sen kuuntelu ei aiheuta kärsimystä. Kuunnelluimmat kappaleet, esim. Once I Was, ovat vähintään hyväksyttäviä. Miinusta nimibiisistä.
Nothing amazing, decent but not anything I’d go back to
Didn't really care for his voice. Nothing really stood out.
2.5
I like Jeff Buckley but found this rather boring
01) No Man Can Find A War - 7,0 02) Carnival Song - 5,0 03) Pleasant Street - 6,0 04) Hallucinations - 4,0 05) I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain - 5,0 06) Once I Was - 7,0 07) Phantasmagoria In Two - 6,5 08) Knight-Errant - 5,0 09) Goodbye And Hello - 3,5 10) Morning Glory - 4,5 TOTAL: 5,35 (53/100)
If you're looking for some frolicking through a meadow music, I've got an album for you! 2 grasshoppers out of 5 🦗🦗
One second listen it wasnt as bad as I initially thought but I still wasnt an enjoyer
Voice is beautiful, but music is a snooze
It's what happens when Mickey Dolenz from the Monkees gets pretentious, psychedelic and far too serious for his own good. Tim hits some fine spots with No Man Can Find the War, Pleasant Street and Once I Was, but enough tracks spiral out of control (I'm looking at you Goodbye and Hello) that it stays dated and overall not my cup of tea.
Yet more Tim Buckley and I am yet to find him less than insufferable
No
This music is not my style However it is still better than rap so I’ll give it 2/5
Definitely a different album. Not really my thing, but not necessarily bad. 2.5/5
Impressive vocal range on this guy, decent folk music - but that’s all I can muster for a review. I was generally unimpressed.
It was ok.
Has its moments and Buckley's voice is always golden, but this is a bit naff sadly. 2.5
It’s okay
It was not good. It felt like a Renaissance fair was taking place. I am not sure why this made the list at all. Not the worst album but not noteworthy.
Kinda reminded me of that scene from Animal House where the guy was playing guitar on the stairs. Just... cheesy I guess? Not my cup of tea.
There are a few cool moments, but sounds WAY too much like a renaissance faire for my liking. 2/5
I don't get Tim Buckley. This is the third album from Buckley recommended to me on this list and I still don't know why any of them are here. This time around I heard bits that reminded me of John Denver, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Janis Joplin, or Jefferson Airplane, but not their good bits. Buckley's music feels like it is lacking in energy, and neither the lyrics or the musicianship are enough to make me want to listen. "Knight-Errant" was my least favorite track - an almost fairy-tale setting makes the love song even worse. "Goodbye and Hello" is a close second for worst track on the album, because Buckley stretches the lack of energy out over more than 8.5 minutes. I hope this is the last I have to listen to from Buckley. janis joplin jefferson airplane particularly terrible probably worse because it's 8:38 instead of 2 minutes
Boring as hell
Nothing really grabbed my attention on here, but nothing bad that made me want to skip this, so I'm not really gonna revisit this and listen to it again.
If music that feels so ancient is allowed here, why can't we have actual good stuff like Beethoven? I will also question the album cover.
Nah - so much for a legend
This is one of those albums that you think is quite good - he’s an excellent singer and song writer, but I just didn’t enjoy it. 60s folk is just not my jam. And for the record I like Jeff better.
Fine voice but sounds dated. Lyrics are phony. Who talks like that in California?
Third album by Tim Buckley. Still the best thing to come out from him was 50% of his son's DNA. His songs are good enough, but all a little bit staid and dry. A critics fave, I think.
Lovely to get to know the guy who helped give me Jeff. But the pere is not the equal of the fils. Also, he sounds so much like Grace Slick.
Father of the late Jeff Buckley, this is a weird, not all unenjoyable folk rock album that ages like a Twinkie - looks good on the surface, but is slowly growing mold inside.
Dull as dishwater!
My man is on some Greensleeves shit here, medieval hippy rubbish
Once I was is lovely.
Not a fan of this type of music
Lyrically interesting but musically overwrought, and thus underrated for a reason. Too precious and serious by half. There are moments, of course – “Phantasmagoria in Two” and “Morning Glory” are quite good and “Pleasant Street” is haunting. The prog-rock-esque overindulgence (strings and winds!?!?) fails to elevate the proceedings and muddies the production, which cancels whatever subtlety might exist within the excess. Among this era of troubadours, even saying TB is a poor man’s Nick Drake is being charitable. And he's certainly not worth mutliple records. 2.5 for 2.
Meh
Felt very locked in time. Couldn't remember any of the melodies the next day.
Voða rólegt og algjörlega án wow-factora.
dull folk 1.6
I love to bag on the author of this list for all the 80s/90s british post-punk/british new wave. Because it's funny how like fully 25% of the albums on this list, which is supposed to encompass the entire world and a century of recorded music, is so one-note. But while I get tired of those albums because there are just so many of them, the music itself is generally pretty enjoyable. I like them all just fine. What we really need to start talking about is the author's obsession with BAD 60s/70s singer-songwriter folky bullshit like this asshole. This album is so bad and so hack and I feel like I have to listen to essentially this exact album at least once a month on here. All the lyrics are about fair maidens and knights and also about like protesting nuclear war or some shit and there's fucking lutes and gtf-outta here with this nonsense.
60's hippie protest rock.
Feels like a candidate for the best album of 1560.
Uneventful and kinda forgettable, nothing that really caught me
30th March 2023 Listened while not really working from home. Dad and Stephen round to do kitchen bits, took the platter off the wall. Creed3 in the evening with Barnett. An amazing voice but I don’t think I listened properly to give it justice. 2.5 if I could.
Can't bear his voice (or his sons) - it just grates. Lots of people love him, but I'm not one of them. Sorry.
Expected it to be more rock than folk, it’s not
Listening to this album was like hanging out with a friend’s friend who at first seems cool but the more they talk the less you wish they were there. I don’t really know why but that is just how this feels
Thought I was starting to really enjoy this towards the end but then realized the album was over and the artist had switched lol
Solid late 60's
More artsy hipster music, great! Never heard of Tim Buckley until today. Upon a bit of research, I learned that his music is like psychadelic rock meets folk with some jazz sprinkled in. It sounds like all those genres got drunk at a renaissance fair and came up with this album. Apparently Tim is Jeff Buckley's dad. I know that Hallelujah song that Jeff did a version of. It is a great song, but I don't know anything else he has released. The one thing this album has going for it is Tim's voice. His range is mind blowing. He can go from sorrowful to wailing, and everywhere in between. The issues arrive when he changes time signatures like underwear, having 15 different ones in a single song. Pick 2 or 3 like a normal song, and do those for fuck sakes. You never get a chance to settle into a song because by the time you get into the groove, he's off doing something completely different, and singing about Christian's licorice clothes for some fucking reason... Whatever those are.... Are they clothes that smell of licorice?.... Are they clothes made of licorice?? Fuck off with the artsy hipster bullshit. It's one thing to be a poet, it's another to rhyme off nonsensical horseshit that makes people sitting at Starbucks get into arguments about what the song theme is. The musical accompaniment was just as horrid, again because of the constant changes. I know this is a staple of jazz music, but leave it to jazz. It works there. It does not here. Overall, horrid. The only reason it gets 2 stars is because of Tim's voice. I will never listen again. Favourite songs: Once I Was, Pleasant Street Least favourite songs: Hallucinations, I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain, Knight-Errant Goodbye and Hello, Carnival Song, No Man Can Find the War 2/5
Had a hard time with this one.
Ok Tim, how did you slip Knight-Errant past the censors? Anyway, this is of an era, and I wish it had of stayed there.