Goodbye And Hello

I`m more into Jeff

Whimsy aplenty; I am a bit of the opinion Tim Buckley is underrated as a whole, but this one is overrated - despite being good. Starsailor would've been a better pick

Loved the first two thirds of this and then it drifted a bit. Wasn’t a big fan of his other albums on here but I’d listen to this again.

I just like this shit

I’ve always preferred Tim Buckleys later funkier stuff, and listening to this again reminded me why. Songs like pleasant street see him stretch out vocally and musically and that’s the height of the album sadly there’s a bit too much fol-de-rol whimsy like Knights errant for me

Herra oli minulle uusi tuttavuus ja ihan tykkäsin kuulemastani. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

It's not bad but kind of boring to me. 3 stars or C-.

I enjoyed this, and didn't realise it was Jeff Buckley's Dad until after. I did think throughout, his voice is slightly haunting but beautiful, which also applies to Jeff. This is one of those obscure albums that sort of gets lost in time, so I am glad it was included on this list

The birth of a legacy family that created great tragedy and harmony.

Not my cup of tea

Bit of drag this one, didn't help with an 8 minute final song

Folkgetaboudit

Sadly, it didn't do a lot for me. ★★

467/1102 hello again Mr Buckley, I liked this album more than Happy Sad which i already really liked. it almost lost me at Knight Errant and the title track which hot a bit too ren-faire-y for me but then it came back together with Morning Glory Loved Hallucinations especially, a potential highlight song of this entire project so far. I think Grace is still my favourite album by a Buckley of the 3 I’ve heard. faves: Hallucinations, Once I Was, Phantasmagoria in Two 83/100

Good

Okay folk. I imagine it sounds great if that's what you like or are in the mood for. I couldn't stay focused on it though

it could have been better honestly, but why ruining a little bit the beautiful music with hippie lyrics?

This hippie shit is generally not for me.

Umilbare tanke er 3. Sidste halvdel havde jeg bedre tid, og kan mærke der er nok til at lytte ordentligt endnu en gang. Men sønnike er bedre! - Det er en 3er..

Enkelte gode melodier. Meget skrammel

I do not love his voice, and rhe tracks are fairly generic.

Folk. Not good.

Not for me. I haven't seen a review that makes me feel like my life is gaining anything by listening to this.

I want this album

I wanted to like this album. I'd not heard of Tim Buckley before, but having read his tragic story, and him being from an experimental folk era that I generally enjoy, I had hopes. Unfortunately, I just... Didn't. I found his voice a bit annoying and his lyrics quite twee. I actually skipped through a few tracks. I don't know whether to round up or down from 1.5, but given that he is the father of Jeff Buckley, I'll round up.

Nice composition and musical ideas, but the lyrics seemed really... Almost "the usborne first book of metaphors and smilies" Not really for me, 2

Interesting. I liked it. 3.5

🎡🏔️🪾🍂🎪

I kind of enjoyed that. Some of the songs do go on but then they sound like different songs. I'm glad that I can now say that I've listened to a Tim Buckley album and I sort of get the hype.

really pleasant listening, was sat at a café writing an essay, got side-eyed by the barista for my dialect, had a really lovely morning anyway. i love the harmonica.

Not sure Tim Buckley needs 3 albums in the book. This was fine but none of it really stuck with me.

Kinda getting tired of this genre…

Me ha gustado pero literalmente me he quedado dormido escuchandolo.

This dude is pretty whiny. Pleasant Street was an ok song; had to skip through the first two songs. Then the next couple were ok, then it turned into Medieval Times. 👎(2.5)

1.5

I wasn't familiar with Tim Buckley before giving this a listen. Pretty standard folk rock album with some heavier moments such as on "Pleasant Street" and nice vocal style throughout. I'm sure this was popular during this era along with Bob Dylan and other folk musicians. Had enough variation to keep my ears interested even though nothing completely stood out.

This is the second Tim Buckley album I've listened to as part of this project. So I have the dubious pleasure of getting one more of his albums among the remaining 86. I don't like Buckley's voice. That whiny, whimpering tone really gets on my nerves. Besides that, I didn't hear anything particularly noteworthy on the album. 2/5

Ok album

3.10

Not actively bad, but immensely boring. I used to think the Beatles were vastly overrated, but hearing what else was going on in the '60s makes me see why people were so excited by them. This shit is unbelievably tedious

A nice, psychy folk album but nothing really stood out to me.

Good, perhaps I ought to listen to more Tim Buckley

A surprisingly complex sound for 1967. Me likey. Not quite polished or diverse or virtuosic enough to warrant more than 3 stars, but there isn't a single bad song on the record. Minor-key folky sound in No Man Can Find the War. I adore the percussion throughout, the way it rumbles and builds up before calming back down again. And the (presumably) warlike explosions at the end: reminiscent of Remember (John Lennon), though of course Buckley's song was recorded and released first. Carnival Song sounds straight out of the Syd Barrett playbook, but with more falsetto. It has a ton of charm. But the real songwriting prowess ramps up in Pleasant Street, a song that sports the most interesting melody and instrumental textures so far. Those soft horns(?) in the prechorus make a world of difference. Almost like the world is about to end. And then, in the chorus, it does. Buckley's ridiculously overdramatic howling, the electric guitar, the drum crashes, the intensity... it all works, and extremely well at that. My memory of other Tim Buckley albums is sketchy but I wouldn't be surprised if this was in the top five strongest tracks in his discography. Hallucinations is deliberately muddled and mysterious and medieval, to pretty good effect. I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain? Sir, this is a Wendy's. Love the frantic mood though. The song goes on a little too long without changing, but I can see the appeal. The howling of "hoooooo, please come home" at the end is pretty cool. Once I Was is a great way to launch us into side 2. Intense, impassioned, and laden with harmonica and aggressively emotive acoustic guitar. Buckley gets tons of points for using the word Phantasmagoria in a song name as far back as the prudish 60s. The song itself doesn't emanate masterpiece status – just a decent, well-performed folk tune, really – but I love the title. Knight Errant sounds like a follow-up to Carnival Song. I wonder if this guy secretly wants to be a whimsical medieval knight frolicking around a field of sunflowers. Goodbye and Hello, the penultimate track on the record, doesn't beat the allegations. Clocking in at an impressive length of 8:40, you'd damn better hope it incorporates some level of progression. And thank Merlin, it does. The more intense section at around 5 minutes is pretty cool. (And it has that one carnival-core melody played on the flute. Get a load of this guy.) The trumpet- and violin-based part at 7 minutes also injects a lot of drama to the already overdramatic piece. Whew. Morning Glory sports our first instance of standout backing vocals, set to a sort of church choral mood. 3/5 Key tracks: Pleasant Street, Once I Was

Well, it'd be a boring world if we all liked the same things! I'm not sure this belongs on 1001 folk albums, never mind 1001 of all albums

Generically 60’s

The standout for me was Once I Was. Didn't care much for the rest, especially the album's second half. Full of medieval imagery and just stereotypical folksiness.

Un poco mejor que Grettings pero no mucho más. Está bien, el tipo canta bien y su hijo fue un crac

Jeff's da has quite the vocal range and has created a dense and complex folk album. This is not your normal troubadour. At times it drifted to far towards the operatic, but I really enjoyed it.

Should maybe be a four, but come on. This thing is divine.

It's alright. Maybe i'm just worn down from listening to all the other Buckley albums, but i wasn't majorly moved. There's something there.

I've heard of this artist, may have heard some tracks but not sure. Cool tracks, not for me though. I respect it.

Didn’t recognise a single song, nothing really stood out to me either. Not a fan.

At least he gave us Jeff

Too folksy, too 60's. His voice get weirdly feminine in some songs. The song about 'her chamber' was cringy. 2 out of 5

With each listen I liked this one a little more. Some standout songs for me were Pleasant Street, I Never Asked to be Your Mountain, and the title track.

Je suis à Rimouski et hier je suis allé voir mon ami Antoine qui sortait un mini-album et faisait une petite performance chez un disquaire pour la Journée de l’album québécois. Plus tard, à la bière, on parlait justement de comment on aimait Tim Buckley.

Je pense que j'ai mieux aimé que Greetings from L.A. mais si je pouvais réviser je mettrais les deux 4 étoiles, ça manque d'un peu de revenez-y. Son histoire personnelle est quand même trash. Je pense que je préfère Nick Drake dans le style.

Je crois l'avoir préféré à Greetings from LA. Mais bon ça reste du folk des années 60. Bien aimé Pleasant Street. à quand Jeff maintenant?

I used to think that the 70's was the worst decade for music since it was the era of disco, but I'm softening that stance and beginning to think the 60's was the worst. I cannot stand this renaissance festival sounding hippie-dippie crap, and there's a ton of it on this list.

Era todo lo que necesitaba escuchar hoy.

I dislike his over-singing.

People who listen to this have messy hair.

리듬은 좋았는데 전체적으로 평범한 느낌이었다. The rhythm was good, but overall, it felt ordinary.

Looking at him on the cover of his second album he could be a young man in 2026. There can be no question as to the distinct quality and range of his voice and Robert Plant has always raved about him (and covered song to the siren). This album seems to be the moment when his original folk leanings moved into the psychedelic approach of 1967, however I can't really rave about the songs - without his voice they could be odd ramblings. I hear his influence in Roy Harper and, oddly, early Chris de Burgh........... an interesting listen but not a corker.

Interesting & strange psychedelia-rock.

It’s okay.

Quite slight offering. Some nice moments - but mostly quite meh. Not as icky as his other album. A bit too medieval in places. Unremarkable

Goodbye & Hello I had The Tim Buckly double CD Anthology, which basically was his first few albums in order, I think I always preferred the songs from Happy Sad, including the superb Buzzin’ Fly, where there's a nice jazziness percolating the songs, rather than the more post Pepper psychedelic whimsy and hippiness on here. That’s not to say there aren’t some excellent tracks, there definitely are, they are just perhaps scattered among some songs that are a bit clunkier, particularly lyrically on some of songs with Larry Beckett like No Man Can Find the War, Hallucinations, Knight Errant and Goodbye and Hello where the heavy handed hippie smugness or ren-fair nonsense is a little grating. In the plus column though I like Pleasant Street, the intro piano feels quite Kinksian, as does the title, but it has a great melodramatic build, and I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain is a nice stomping psych-folk track. Once I Was is probably the best song, a great melody and a nice and languid folk-psych-country backing. Phantasmagoria in Two is nice, despite the title, and is quite Janschian in its guitar playing. Morning Glory is the best of the collaborations with Beckett, a lovely tune with a touch of the jazz that would come on Happy Sad, nice choral backing vocals and fiddle (I think). I think ultimately despite those highlights the more dated and clunk tracks bring it down a notch or two. So it doesn't quite reach a 4, I’ll reserve that for Happy Sad 👋👋👋 Playlist submission: Once I Was

Tim Buckley keeps confounding me. His albums are rarely as good as I anticipate them to be. This does have it's moments however. 'Once I Was' is a great song - some touches of Jeff's voice here, and a wonderful laid-back melody. At times it goes very bardcore, gratingly so, as he explores what an American thinks it was like to live in medieval England. He gets away with it on 'Hallucinations' but 'Knight Errant' is unbearably parodic ("How I love my lady's chamber"). I'm torn between 2 and a 3 because there are a number of decent tunes here. But certain other tracks are so feeble that I'm marking it down.

Pleasant enough, but I still think the best thing Tim ever did was help create Jeff Buckley

First song really good, then it meandered a bit and it was okay in the end

This album is utterly charming. Gorgeous voice and soundscape. I need to revisit it to pick out some favorite tracks as it all blended together. Rating: 3.5

Meh

An extremely respectful, this is not for me but I see the appeal

You can see where Jeff got it from. Accessible Folk Rock and enjoyable enough.

Perpetrates some of the worst crimes of the sixties. There are a couple of ok songs that save it from a 1 star. Not for me.

Solid 4.0. Favs: Pleasant Street, Hallucinations, Phantasmagoria in Two, Morning Glory.

Whew, earnest. I’d have to be in a really special mood

Interesting stuff from way back. Still OK.

p108. 1967. 2 stars. Great voice let down by poor material and suspect mid-60s twee production, including a harpsichord on a song about knights. Oh dear.

sphärisch, ungewöhnlich aber in die Zeit passend und sehr gute interessante Tracks

Not my thing

he has the most renaissance fair-sounding voice I've heard. I wrote down when I first listened to it last year, "trippy, medieval LARP vibes" before LARP became slang for poser. Gave me an earache.

Ich kann gar nicht genau festmachen, warum, aber das sagte mir sehr zu!

Den Gesang empfand ich als gar nicht mal so gut, aber gepaart mit der leichten absurdität mancher Musikstücke war es doch ein recht interessantes Album.

Nicht sehr spannend.

This part of the 60s couldn't die fast enough

A four?! What can I say, I’m a Monkees man & some of this scratched that itch. Plus, FULL bonus star because I loved a song with a harmonica in it. That’s wild.

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.

not for me but not bad

Important record of jazzy introspective folk. Unusual in style and Buckley’s voice is extraordinary, bringing great power to the material.

That one song was pretty good. But just that one. And only until he started warbling.

yas. from monkee fame

Sin duda fue un álbum que escuche

There’s too many Tim Buckley records on this list.

Second Tim Buckley album reviewed. I still require some groovy psychedelic drugs to enjoy however less than the first album I listened too.

Wonderful voice. Never heard of him before today.

This is a messy one. I like some tracks, like pleasant street, but there is a bit much going on.

Wonder if he knows jeff