Goodbye And Hello

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

snel niet meer leuk

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

annoying voice

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

3 estrelas

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