Goodbye And Hello

Wasn’t a fan of his last album and a fan of this one either

Another from Father Buckley! This was a great ride, just like the first. Plenty of tracks that I know I'll enjoy returning to. It's not as consistent as Happy Sad (what's with this guy and his oxymorons), but it's got a welcome degree of variety and it's light on the ears. Call me a fan. Favorite tracks: I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain, Pleasant Street, Hallucinations, Phantasmagoria in Two, Morning Glory. Album art: I feel like I've seen this one around. I can't make out what he's gripping in his eye. It's a cool cover but nothing special. 4/5

okay

Peaceful, sometimes dreamy. Very lovely

Goodbye and Hello is a decent album by Tim Buckley, but I don't know what the fuzz is about. I find the music of his son Jeff Buckley far more impressive. This is just average singer songwriter stuff and I can't find anything that really stands out in music, lyrics or performance.

Medieval funk rock, some of the songs (esp. Goodbye & hello itself) pricked my ears up as being very listenable, then the jesters and jousters get involved again and it loses me - switched off twice and went and listened to some zeppelin instead!

1967 - Folk rock; Psychedelic rock

This had potential but felt too all over the place and the music didn’t really do it for me!

Horrid. The typical post 60s folkie drops acid and makes unlistenable experimental stuff with random studio instruments, forgetting how to write songs.

Better than I thought, but a bit wierd

Gave it three listens. I don't think it was something that super stood out to me. But I did enjoy it. Will it get rotated again? Probably not, but I do think it was worth listening just to say I know it.

Oh how I wanted to hate this album. I wanted to use this space to go on about how overrated Tim Buckley is. About how music journalists of the day believed Tim Buckley should have had the career Jackson Browne enjoyed (Well, Jackson Browne didn't die from a heroin overdose when he was only 28 years old, so there's one reason). About how 3 Tim Buckley albums are too many for this list, especially considering there are NO Jackson Browne albums. But goddamn if this hippie didn't put some gems on this album. Especially Pleasant Street, and the heartbreaking closing song, Morning Glory. I've come around to believing Tim Buckley deserves a spot on this list (ahem, but not 3 spots, seems high). And this is the album that represents his value.

Somber Vietnam War album. Interesting lyrics, lulling acoustic guitar.

Didn’t leave an impact really

Tim Buckley's second album of folk rock music released in 1967. The songs seemed too slow for me to get into this album, but Tim's singing is good. I don't need to listen to this album again.

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

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

Good voice, ok songs, not worth revisiting.

Not a big fan but can’t deny the talent

Not my favorite work by him but still a good album

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

Rating: 6/10

wont search it out very folky, bit too much for me but not terrible

This album might be an acquired taste that I have yet to acquire. I've liked other stuff I've heard by Tim Buckley so I'm curious to dig a little deeper and honestly I can recognize the musical and songwriting skill here it just isn't my thing.

60s Folk with some experimental psychedelic sounds. It was okay.

fine

Overstays its welcome, bloated with instruments

Never listened to any tim Buckley before. Really enjoyed this

Decent but not for me

I mean, it wasn’t all bad, but it certainly wasn’t all good either.

Meh

This record is a collection of poems (Bob Dylan-esque) about an individual who finds himself helplessly at the mercy of the madness of the world. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Once I Was, Pleasant Street

Folky hippy melodic

Another background music, didn't hear anything to write home about.

Pet Sounds vibes

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

Lots of other stuff kind of like this that I like better or am more familiar with.

Muy buen álbum para el año en que salió

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

"Did you know that Jeff Buckley's dad was a singer-songwriter too?" "No, I did not, I did not know that" "Yeah, his name was Tim" "Never heard of him..." And now we know why... :)

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.

sooooooo 60s lol

1st listen. it's pretty good.

Some pretty decent songs on this, like a slightly less trippy Jefferson airplane. Can hear a similar anti war, new era lyricism as well. Enjoyed!

No Man Can Find the War-Dude's got a strong voice. I could describe it like he's singing in a tremolo? I got no other word for it. Its deep and sombre. including that end. Carnival-Well, it definitely has that carnival feel to it. The instrumental mix is so interesting. it kinda sounds like a carnival gone wrong at times and other times its just ambient carnival noise. one of the album genres in psychedelic rock so that tracks. Pleasant Street-super lowkey sombre but chill and nice. Hallucinations-liking the mix of guitar, ambient sounds and...bells and rattles and echo stuff? Some...bongos too. more psychedelic stuff i see. I like the genre...ambience i suppose? I Never Asked to be Your Mountain-Cool drums. and ambient...melody in the background. dunno what instrument that is. Once I Was-western? harmonica? melancholy. remember meeeee Knight Errant-soo short what. very...knightly? Goodbye and Hello-that two minute mark. unexpected but nice surpise. hes like, telling a whole ass story through a song, with key signature and tempo changes and eveything. neat. final act best act. Morning Glory-i don't know how to describe it but it sounds exactly like the title describes it. choir hymns singing the the back, soft front vocals, medium tempo...like a morning glory swaying in the wind. Not a bad sound. Folk Rock and Psychedelic rock is what the wiki page said, def felt that. Looks like they used a kalimba, congas, a vibraphone and various guitars and percussion. Guess i can put a name to some of the sounds I heard now. You WTF this guy died at 28? Damn. He died the fate of many muscians, thats sad, especially considering how much debt he was in too. And his son died at such a young age too, but by accident. Ran in the family it seems. Sadness. He did have a unique sound here.

Like the old-school vibes, don’t like his voice

4

2

Interesting album, not really jumping out (eruit springen) cool voice 3/5

I'm liking the radio music that Spotify plays after the album more than the album

Some hits some misses

this isnt my kind of music, but its good.

ccrayzy

I just found it a mediocre album I didn’t love the songs didn’t hate the songs 3/5

Pretty good folk. Feels timeless.

I can’t help but compare his voice to his son’s, and it’s just so much worse. That weird back of the throat closing thing when he goes up high. This album goes between some really great songs and some songs that must be what all 60’s folk sounds like to people who hate 60’s folk music. Favourite track: “Phantasmagoria in Two”

Very noisy, almost experimental. It’s definitely “good” objectively. But subjectively I find it too nebulous and lacking in substantial statement. It’s heavily veiled in metaphor like Dylan, but not as profound in my mind. You can definitely feel the sadness in his voice and the real ness of what he’s saying. Rose: the B-Side. Thorn: the A-Side.

It seemed like a nice album of the times

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...

Overall enjoyable. Similar to Rolling Stones, The Who, Jefferson Airplane.

Mellow.

First Tim Buckley album I've ever listened to. Pleasant and well produced, but a little too earnest and heavy on the medieval sounding folk tunes for my taste.

Den Namen hatte ich vorher schon mal gehört/gelesen. Auch sein Sohn Jeff Buckley (der Mitte der 90er mit Grace ein schönes Album hinterlassen hat) ist mir ein Begriff gewesen. Mit seiner Musik hatte ich bisher wenig / gar keine Berührungspunkte, da es vor meiner Zeit gewesen ist. Grundsätzlich solider Singer/Songwriter Stuff aus den 60ern. Homeoffice-Kompatibel. Passt!

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.

Wow, I tried to listen to this three times, and I can't get through one song of his. I find his voice way too high pitched and whiny. Maybe other stuff will be better. I am going to get the book tonight so I am excited to read the entry.

I didn't think the album was super special or super interesting. However I found some songs neat.

Can't remember much from Friday

Poetry!!

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

This guy again? Really? Sounds like someone force-fed him Jethro Tull and a lute.

"Música protesta" como diría mi amá.

It's good

maybe it was my mood, but I did not like this album.

I only listened to one of the 10 tracks to the end! Didn't like his voice, didn't like his folk style

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.

Quando vi a cara do Tim Buckley pensei que fosse ouvir mais alguma coisa chata e banal. Curiosamente estava enganado. A voz do Tim é um bocado peculiar, no sentido de por vezes não se encaixar e ser demasiado aguda. Neste álbum uma música sofre com isso, mas aas restantes não me posso queixar, acho que a voz casou bem com a instrumentação. O que realmente cativou-me foram os instrumentos, as primeiras cantigas eram boas, mas comuns, até chegar ao apogeu do álbum, a meu ver, que foi o Hallucinations, a partir dai o Schitar foi normalizado e casou perfeitamente com o resto do álbum. Nota: 8/10 Data02/10/2025

Lyrical wizardry and a strong vocal performance just fall short of making the whole thing blend. 'Morning Glory' is a lovely number.

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

A clearly influential folk rock/psychedelic rock album it mostly centers on social issues, especially war. Good message, good album, maybe not quite my style of music however.

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

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

I don’t like it. It’s folky and dull & ive had enough of getting stuck with these disappointing choices. 1 Star!

meh - i can see how this was likely revolutionary folk but I am not a huge fan...strange that the subject matter is so dark given how happy he looks on the cover!

Not for me! But congrats on being cute, Tim.

Really digging the Jesus Christ Superstar vibe of this album. But then some of the songs are very folky, a really interesting contrast. I enjoyed listening to this one.

Love the lyrics and the story telling, not a huge fan of the music. But not bad!

Really didn't dig it. Generic 60's Folk/Psychedelic.

better than that Leonard Cohen album. There's some pleasant strangeness attached to this folksy guitar. Maybe the album art was a good hint.

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

Parts of it were interesting. Tried to listen to it twice.

Pretty good. Kind of a dated style. Deserves another closer listen for full appreciation. Saved track: “Once I Was”

Often cited as the ultimate Tim Buckley statement, Goodbye and Hello is indeed a fabulous album, but it's merely one side of Tim Buckley's enormous talent. Recorded in the middle of 1967 (in the afterglow of Sgt. Pepper), this album is clearly inspired by Pepper's exploratory spirit. More often than not, this helps to bring Buckley's awesome musical vision home, but occasionally falters. Not that the album is overrated (it's not), it's just that it is only one side of Buckley. The finest songs on the album were written by him alone, particularly "Once I Was" and "Pleasant Street." Buoyed by Jerry Yester's excellent production, these tracks are easily among the finest example of Buckley's psychedelic/folk vision. A few tracks, namely the title cut and "No Man Can Find the War," were co-written by poet Larry Beckett. While Beckett's lyrics are undoubtedly literate and evocative, they occasionally tend to be too heavy-handed for Buckley. However, this is a minor criticism of an excellent and revolutionary album that was a quantum leap for both Tim Buckley and the audience.

2.5. It wasn’t really bad to listen to but it’s like all of my least favorite conventions of 60s music.

Oh I liked this! I'm not sure I'd want to listen to a whole album again but I'm definitely a fan of this type of 60s folk. Felt peaceful

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

Not bad, but nothing really held me spellbound either.

You get out a big pot and mix together Al Stewart, Harry Chapin, John Martyn and Harry Chapin... you get Tim Buckley. And it's pretty tight

slow regard for the echoing things.

How odd - I found myself listening to this at the weekend quite by chance after a friend's recommendation. I am quite taken with Buckley's rather fruity, wavery delivery but the album doesn't quite hang together successfully for me. It's the usual grab-bag of ideas that seemed to be common in the era, and some of those ideas are better executed than others. The production dates this somewhat, especially those tracks that possess a widescreen ambition.

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

Alright but I really liked “I Never Asked to be Your Mountain” and the songwriting throughout was cool, so I’m bumping it up to a 4.

i've never heard of this guy but this was interesting. It sounded kind of "old" which I don't really care for.

I like Tim but this was not my fave

Petitioning for no more Buckley albums

his voice is incredible but i couldn’t really get into it otherwise, a few nice tracks but otherwise i wouldn’t come back.

Cantautor. Folk. Suave. Un poco psicodélico.

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 LOVE Tim Buckley but I bet you fuckers voted him down. He's Jeff Buckley's dad and a very good song writer

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".

I tried but anything that feels and sounds this much like a Renaissance festival isn’t helping anybody.

great voice with some interesting lyrics

not for me

Just fine. More eclectic than I anticipated

Bored

Meh.

It was fine. I liked the strangeness, but Tim’s vocals were folky.

Genuinely can't believe I've never listened to this.

Too folksy for me.

If only the tunes lived up to the smile and the barnet.

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

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

There are a couple of really good tracks on this, but listening to a whole album of the nasally voice makes it become really grating. I particularly enjoyed Pleasant Street, when he really belts it out his voice is considerbly more enjoyable.

Not really my style. I didn't really enjoy this one.

Really like his voice, just didn't like the album

an entertaining album with a folk sound. Would listen again.

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.

2.5

Good 60s vibe background tunes.

Storytelling, god sangskriver, stemningsfyldt, kærlighed, 60’er, Singer/songwriter

Eclectic album from a 20yo. Reminds me of a Love album, with the strings and instrumentation. Tracks 1,3,5,6,7,9,10 are all highlights. Recommended.

2.5/5 From the first beat kind of dated with the song about the Vietnam War. The instrumentation, with the carnival like drum beats and the laconic tempo, is very mid to late 60s. Lyrics are either kinda cringey or quite good depending on the song, although the plain and carnival-esque backing instrumentals on several of the songs brings them down. This in itself does seem to be part of a wider theme within the album in which the backing vocals or instruments mimic the themes of the songs, i.e. on a song with a magician in the lyrics, there are carnival like instrumentals, or a xylophone motif alongside lyrics about a dancer. Most of the songs are mid to slow tempo with a focus on vocals and sparse guitar/mandolin, as was the theme for mid to late 60s folk or singer-songwriters. This is fine, its just not to my taste. Buckley's distinctive voice and great range (the falsetto!) help make the experience pleasant despite this not being my cup of tea. Thankfully with the exception of a couple of songs most of the songs are pretty short, so they don't drag on. Two personal standouts for me are I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain and Once I Was. Overall a little bland to my taste, but some good lyrics and vocals.

8/10 FT: Pleasant street

boring and kinda sad.

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

listened to this while blowing balloons

Oh god is gonna be more folk rock. Far too much of it at this point. This adds nothing to the world of music, just seems to be yet another album from that 5-year period that only the editors of this book seem to care about. 2/5.

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

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