Reviews (page 7 of 8)
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.
I feel like I've already listened to every Nick Drake and Tim Buckley record so when another pops up I'm always surprised. Not a huge fan of the psyche elements on this one, felt a bit carny. Not the first Buckley record I'd reach for.
How is this on here ?
Ok, but boring
Tim Buckley says hello and I say goodbye, not really super into this
This has some very good but also a lot of very annoying parts
While it's moer palettable then 'Greetings from LA' the gist of it is the same. It has some decent sounds but also a lot of whiney annoying parts.
I feel so bad but I really don’t get folk rock and that 60s folksy stuff. It reminds me of Godspell and pretentious people. But Tim has a really good voice especially hitting the high notes it’s like two different people singing. No song stood out to me but it was nice to hear in the background.
Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: Yeah it’s decent, nothing mind-blowing but rather soothing and gentle which is always a welcome break Favourite song: Track 3 - Pleasant Street
Very underwhelming.
Bruuf 2
meh
Decent album. Nothing stuck with me but it was pleasant while playing. Tim has a wide back catalog so I'm sure I'll come across him again.
This was a weird ass album. It’s only memorable because of the distinctive effeminate voice and it was occasionally interesting but was mostly irritating
Felt like this album was a bit dull and Buckley voice felt weird. Often times I felt like his voice was sounding feminine. It isn’t anything more than a 60s folk album. None of the songs really grabbed me. Not much worth re listening to. 3.6/10
Nah, sorry Tim. Reminded me of too many open mic nights I've sat through where people play seemingly endless stream of consciousness songs that just waffle on and were obviously inspired by listening to this.
I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain is a standout track. It shows how damn good Buckley's dramaticism can be if done well. Unfortunately, I feel like a lot of this album is held back by sub-par songs that don't play too well to Buckley's strengths. I'm often rolling my eyes are the cheesiness of compositions combined with Buckley's performances. This includes the album's namesake 8-minute song that is not all that good.
Meni taustalla ihan huomaamatta 3-4 kertaa ympäri. Ei voi sen perusteella kyllä kehua.
Ok but won’t listen again. Just a bit non-descript…
still not super impressed, got through half
The worse Buckley
2/10 worse buckley
very ballady some Americana mixed in 2.5
Too folksy for me, I'm sorry. Hell of a voice though, he sounds great in both the quiet parts and the loud parts. Very emotive too. Turns out that he's the dad of one Jeff Buckley, so talent runs in the family it seems! I thought Once I Was & Phantasmagoria in Two were pretty good, though not enough to add them to regular rotation.
No lo conocía, y no estuvo mal escucharlo. Un estilo folk que coquetea por momentos con toques psicodélicos que me hacen acordar a sus contemporáneos de Velvet Underground. El resultado es una agradable mezcla, salvo en esos momentos donde aparecen las cuerdas, no hacían falta.
Tried to enjoy the "folksy" song writing, but it was often too discordant to enjoy (looking at you Carnival Song). A couple good songs saved this from being 1 star.
You can see where Jeff Buckley picked up some stuff from his dad, but I definitely prefer Buckley the younger. Nothing memorable for me on this.
If I were to say to a musician for a film, give me that generic 60s folk rock sound, this is exactly it. I should like it more than I do , but I kinda don't. I did like Pleasant Street but the rest is just not landing with me.
This was not for me. It sounded like some Renaissance fair King Arthur mumbo-jumbo.
there were parts that i thought were mediocre but then others that just infuriates me… the okay parts weren’t good enough to change my perspective on the album as a whole.
a.k.a. Jeff's dad. is that why this is on the list? If the name were Tim Johnson would this even be remembered? I don't hate it, I just don't really connect with it overall - I will say that "Phantasmagoria In Two" is unique and "Pleasant Street" is a cool-enough song that is (as is everything else) very of-the-era. The rest seems to blend into the "oh this is clearly of the late 60s" sound - this may be unfair as there are a few sorta-unique/odd songs (e.g. "Goodbye and Hello") but at the same time they don't grab me - i.e. I don't know if I'll remember much from it. 4/10 2 stars.
Versatile voice, but I’m indifferent to the folky pop music. Not for me.
It had it's moments. I just generally don't care for this style of music.
I only like one song of Tim Buckley's and it's called Song For A Siren. I like it because it has a lovely melody/imagery and because he played it live during the last minutes of the last episode of the Monkees. His voice just bothers me but I guess Micky must have really liked him. As for this album, it's ok -but for the voice! Just find it a bit annoying!
Strange and I suppose unique, this just wasn't for me. I thought it would be a solid 3, but then I got to 'Knight-Errant' and the sound of the song made me realize how much this album put me off. Wish I could have enjoyed this more.
njae det flyger inte riktigt
60's psychedelic swirly tunes with the elder Buckley intoning oh-so-earnest twaddle in a Kermit + vibrato-everything voice. I'll take the son's tunes over this stuff any day.
I can appreciate his voice, no doubt, but it's actually a little too operatic for my tastes. Musically and lyrically, this album is very much a reflection of the time in which it was created. A lot of music is like that, I know; on a personal preference level, this style of music just doesn't reach me so much.
2/5 well, nope
The songs are competent enough here, but there is something about his style of singing (similar to many of his late 60s/early 70s contemporaries) that puts me off. Despite the strength of some of these songs, I cannot really listen to this for any length of time. 2/5
This sound wasn’t for me.
woooaaah duuude. mellow out maaaan and stop being such a square. weirdly depressing for something that sounds all flower power. must have had a few too many bad trips.
Just a bit shit in the end
Not great. Very 60s
I didn't know Tim Buckley. He is not bad but I prefer others artists.
Mad
2nd listen. 2/5.
Goodbye Tim Buckley.
it's not hip hippie happening
A voice like a fraying rubber band across pseudo-psychedelic folk rock. I'm sure it all means something, I'm just not sure what. Best Tracks: Pleasant Street; I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain; Once I Was
mehh
The father of Jeff Buckley. I read that he only met his father Tim once. I usually enjoy psychedelic folk, but this album didn't really hit for me. I liked so many of the ideas, lyrical and musical, but I was left wanting more follow through on some of those ideas. I might need to give this one another try, but first listen didn't stick with me.
Meh...
Interesting album, its pretty good. I dont know if he has a female sing on some of his songs but if not his falsetto is amazing. his tone reminds me of Roy Orbison in the lower register.
Hadden we deze niet al geluisterd?
Borning
Interesting sound…. OK
This had potential but felt too all over the place and the music didn’t really do it for me!
Better than I thought, but a bit wierd
wont search it out very folky, bit too much for me but not terrible
60s Folk with some experimental psychedelic sounds. It was okay.
Decent but not for me
Lots of other stuff kind of like this that I like better or am more familiar with.
The Sgt. Peppers influence is all over this album. I'm not a fan of the experimental folksy lovey-dovey folk sound of Tim Buckley so this doesn't ring to well for me.
Like the old-school vibes, don’t like his voice
2
I'm liking the radio music that Spotify plays after the album more than the album
This is basically the record that is being made fun of when movies like Spinal Tap reference schlocky 60's records with a high pitched singer over folk rock.
Didn't like it as much as Happy Sad. A bit too much 60s folk rock in this list...
Although I do like a few Tim Buckley tracks a full album of his is hard going. Pleasant Street was decent but too much introspective folky stuff on this for my liking.
Can't remember much from Friday
This guy again? Really? Sounds like someone force-fed him Jethro Tull and a lute.
I had to check to see if this guy was Tiny Tim - turns out he isn't. Very high voice though. Sounds a little like Cher. Favorite song on here IS Pleasant street. He did seem to be ahead of his time a little on that one, but it's a voice only a mother could love. I would be embarrassed to listen to this with someone else though, so only 2 stars.
Love the lyrics and the story telling, not a huge fan of the music. But not bad!
Parts of it were interesting. Tried to listen to it twice.
I like Tim but this was not my fave
his voice is incredible but i couldn’t really get into it otherwise, a few nice tracks but otherwise i wouldn’t come back.
Boring folk music. Not a fan.
What exactly is that in his eye on the cover? Is that like one of those jeweler’s magnifiers for looking at diamonds or what the hell’s going on there? Regardless, I enjoyed some of the songs here and merely listened to others. “Once I Was” is the winner for me, but mostly I found myself thinking about how this combination of folk and rock probably made him super popular with a certain type of woman in the 1960s. And look at those teeth! I bet he never left a party alone.
I liked this album, it reminds me a bit of Cat Stevens in lyrics, and a voice a bit like Don McLean, but doesnt do either of those very good.. nothing jumped out at me as being great, but my favorite song was definitely "Pleasant Street" Worst one was "Morning Glory".
not for me
Bored
Meh.
It was fine. I liked the strangeness, but Tim’s vocals were folky.
If only the tunes lived up to the smile and the barnet.
Not really my style. I didn't really enjoy this one.
Really like his voice, just didn't like the album
Maybe I’m just in a bad mood but this record is boring, forgettable, and I feel like this list has generated a bunch of these. Hopefully tomorrow is better, this week has been pretty meh
Not for me at all.
Storytelling, god sangskriver, stemningsfyldt, kærlighed, 60’er, Singer/songwriter
boring and kinda sad.
Meh
I have no memory of listening to this
One of the most pretentious albums of the 60s. I couldn’t wait for it to be over.
Sin duda fue un álbum que escuche
There’s too many Tim Buckley records on this list.
1. uuar - 1 2. carnival - 1 3. ztreet - 2 4. hallunication - 0 5. mountain - 1 6. once - 1 7. tuuo - 1 8. knight - 0 9. hello- 1 10. glory - 1
This album was released in the year after Jeff Buckley was born. "I Never Asked to be Your Mountain" is an interesting listen with the lens of Jeff Buckley's experience of Tim. Go watch the documentary "It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley." More people should watch that than listen to Tim Buckley's music.
not good
Jeff's dad I'm assuming? ------- This was totally forgettable man with a guitar. His vocals are particularly grating, the medieval inspired sounds add some variation at least. The musical equivalent of being partially sedated and the ventilator alarms going off constantly. Knight errand is one of the worst songs I've heard yet.
I'll just stick with good bye
Hated it. Best Song: Pleasant Street Rating: 2/10 Stars: 1
3 albums that are all the same? Why?
Nope... absolutely not His voice grinded on me. I suffered through this album 1 ⭐️
Soft singing, guitar strumming. The word "troubadour" came up in another review, and that's what he reminds me of, some guy hanging around a party singing and serenading everyone else without being asked to. The lyrics (although not the singing) also remind me of Bob Dylan in the way they are exhaustingly and heavy-handedly symbolic, the final two tracks especially, which lost this album a star and were like listening to something medieval, in that it felt like the singer was from a completely different culture where all his references were completely lost on me and it was a tiring struggle to comprehend for little reward.
This sounds so, so, so "of it's time". It almost feels offensive not to be wearing a flower crown and fringed waistcoat while listening to it. When he attempted to hit the high notes in Carnival Song it was almost painful to listen to, but by Pleasant Street it almost sounded like a completely different (and much better) vocalist. That continues throughout the album. "I love her upstairs, I love her downstairs" made me start sniggering. It sounded like a lyric Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer would have written for a skit in the mid-90s. This wasn't really my thing, but there was the odd glimmer of stuff I enjoyed. More a 1.5 really, but it's getting a 1/5
Holy shit this was not good. Can’t get over how bad this dude is. Definitely that dude in college who would play his guitar to get ladies
this album sucks! 1 star
109 albums in and this is, by far, the worst of the lot so far. Painful.
About 700 albums ago, I had to listen to this record's successor, Happy Sad. Well, as I can't go below the 1 star I gave that record...
I'll take bad bookstore music for 1,000 please, Alex. 1.00
nah
He must have had some kind of stage presence to get as far as he did with so little talent.
His sad songs made me angry. And bored.
Folk singer. No real hits per se.
Gee that Fred Neil has a particular style, interesting. Oh no sorry it's Tim Hardin, Red Balloon is a good tune, oh no..sorry it is Tim Buckley! Fuck me, they literally all sound the same, the same and I mean the same. Were they all sitting having coffee in Cafe Au Go Go practising to sound alike? Weird. Still at least it wasn't Coldplay/Sonic Youth/Nick Drake, I should be grateful for small mercies. Jesus Mary and Joseph this was boring, there is nothing, and, I mean it sports fans, nothing going on here. Across the world a claque of middle aged over educated white men are suffering through this, trying to think of a reason to accept why Dimery and his goons put this on the list. It's existential man, there is no reason.
Reminded me of Merlin's Monocle. Not my thing. Also feels and sounds like other 1960s albums on this list.
Not memorable or interesting at all
Not a fan at all, I love Jeff’s voice find Tim’s voice irritating
Did not love
Goodbye
A collection of 10 hippie folk melodramas.
oh brother this guy stinks
Tim Buckley can fuck off
Redundant. One Tim Buckley album on this list is enough. His brand of shrill Folk singing is just not my bag. Hey, look! Another album that features the fine drum work of psychopathic mother-killer, Jim Gordon. I guess that's kind of interesting.
I’m pretty sure this is the guy whose guitar is smashed by Belushi.
This guy sucks...
The Carnival Song was maybe the worst thing I have ever had the displeasure of hearing.
no
Felt one-note. Too folksy for me.
I’ve tried Tim Buckley before. I want to like it, or at least to feel that I get why so many later artists namecheck him as an influence, but it’s way too fey and fussy for me. The lyrics are very much of their time, or one strain of that time, with fantasy-folk tropes (“Oh whither has my lady wandered?”) that set my teeth on edge. I also don’t love his undeniably big voice: it’s ‘impressive’ rather than enjoyable. The whole thing just sounds quite pompous and pretentious to me, even allowing for the spirit of the age it was released into.
I wouldn't leave my drink unattended around this donny
Clunker
The Good: This album serves as a reminder that there are people out there who suffer from dyslexia! The Bad: Mr Buckley suffers from more than just dyslexia… The Ugly: My dyslexee being awakened by thiss album? At some point I will have to find a library which includes the 1001 book in its collection, so that I can find out which criteria resulted in so many shit albums seem to be important to listen to before one dies, while there are one too many albums missing on this list which, IMHO, should be listened to. 1967, it seems, has one too many psychedelic folksy crap albums one might be forced to listen to if one, like this fool, is attempting at finalizing the 1001 list. Here’s to my fingers being crossed that this is the LAST of this kind of shit albums I have to listen to… 1* out of pure spite, though one could bump it up to 2*… but I already did that with his last album, so fuck it...
31/1001 First listen. What a trip. Like what you hear in movies setting the scene that it’s now the late sixties except it’s nothing cool like All along the watchtower. Hard to embrace this one for the first time in 2025. 2/10
Not for me. 1/5
It was not immediately apparent why this album was included in the list. I consulted Wikipedia and that was no help. It is times like these that I wish I had the book because I am stumped. I did not enjoy that at all.
TS PMO
Boring songs, annoying voice
Absolutely rubbish sadly
There was very little engaging in this. And vocals were annoying. 1/5
Not for me
This album feels forgettable in every way.
Not good all the worst tropes of singer songwriter cali folk sound. Cringe lyrics. Thought there would be a gem or two among considering the esteem but blarg not good boring even.
2/10 - very boring, can't remember one song
Previously rated: Greetings From L.A. (3/5) Happy Sad (2/5) ******************************* The first half is lame hippie folk rock, and I was leaning towards a 2/5, then the second half was just lamer hippie folk with no rock.
Aargh. Very disappointing.
Not for me.
Ehh
Pass
I found this album atrocious. A mediocre opening two tracks, cheesy/stupid lyrics throughout, a reliance on medieval and circus music? Just when there is a nice ethereal musical moment it is immediately dashed away when he opens his mouth. Very unessential listen. 1.4/5 - > 1/5
Too hippy for my taste. Not a fan of his voice overall.
Really hate everything about this, most of all his singing. Knight-errant is one of the worst songs ive ever heard. Somehow this is so much worse than the german construction noise albums on here.