Goodbye And Hello

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

Folk. Not good.

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

🎡🏔️🪾🍂🎪

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.

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.

I`m more into Jeff

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.

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

I like some of the eccentricities on this.

It's definitely better than his atrocious album that took us to the City Of Angels. I like the psychedelic, and folk mix, but nothing really stood out to me on this album. Him, and his son died too young, and for all we know, they could have developed into stars later on in their careers. Favorite Track: "Goodbye And Hello".

I’ll admit I’m a little impressed Tim Compared to the other two we had, it’s not nearly as annoying and gross as Greetings from LA and a lot less boring than Happy Sad. From an instrumentation perspective it feels a lot richer with some late 60s psychedelic sound at times, and I think his vocals are actually pretty decent; he really shows off his vocal range in this one. Phantasmagoria in Two, Once I Was, and Hallucinations are genuinely solid songs and have well written lyrics. Even the songs I don’t particularly care for still have nice lyrics I still think it’s a bit on the boring side though; Folk is a genre that very rarely impresses me, and the folkier songs on this one are no different, why wouldn’t you just like listen to Bob Dylan or something? His vocals are fine for the most part, but sometimes the falsetto parts get on my nerves. I think the title track derails this one a bit at the end, way too long, and I think the way it builds and evolves is deeply unsatisfying I think my strong disdain for his previous work might be tainting my perception of this album a bit; I had a wave of dread roll over me when I saw I had to listen to this guy again, and while this one doesn’t change the fact that the other two albums of his on this list straight up suck, I’ll give him credit for putting out a very decent album that takes the best parts of the other two and combining them together

extremely creepy picture mr tim. music is mid, nothing else to say. rock? theres no energy. psychedelic? there's nothing unique. hes like a sub sandwich where they forgot the sauce and youre munching on big bits of dry bread.

Not bad, not great. He has an interesting backstory, but that doesn't garner you any extra stars today. You can hear the coffeehouse vibe underneath and in the lyrics, the arrangements sometimes hit and sometimes miss. Overall? Meh.

While his debut Tim Buckley was little more than a respectable start by a 19 year old, this record really shows his talent evolving. The psychedelic folk arrangements suit his voice well, but he shines on the ballads, a trait he would develop further in his short- lived jazz/folk period. Once I Was is a gorgeous song that really makes his unique, sensitive voice shine for the first time. Phantasmagoria in Two is the more upbeat counterpart. By now he was a rising star in the hall of fame for great singers, and it rose fast. He won't stop here at all. The ambitious and original jazz/folk of Happy Sad was soon followed by the experimental Lorca which in turn was artistically eclipsed by the crazy Starsailor. After that his lifestyle caught up to him, but the first half of his career is a crazy path of outstanding talent that went progressively out of control.

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

I really only like Once I Was. Everything else is pretty corny and aimless, bordering on grating

A couple decent cuts, that’s the biggest compliment I can give today.

this was just fine, kinda was waiting to get to the end of it but i have nothing bad to say so idk it’s just middle of the road

Pretty generic 60s folk rock

A landmark folk album from 1967. Tim Buckley experiments with a wide array of instruments, showcasing them much like the Beatles did on their album *Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band*, released that May. I wouldn't say he copied them, but the recording sessions were certainly heavily influenced by fairground music (evident in "Carnival Song"). "No Man Can Find the War," with its background war sounds, depicts the disconnect between the brutal reality of combat and the way the civilian population consumes it via the media. While soldiers fight and die in the jungle, the home front sees only images, films, and news reports. It is a stirring anti-war song that opens Side A, blending Tim’s superb folk vocals with late-60s psychedelic rock elements to create an indictment of the Vietnam War. "Pleasant Street" is a song that builds beautifully, featuring prominent congas and some lovely guitar solos by Lee Underwood. It deals with addiction, despair, and disillusionment—themes that come through powerfully in Tim’s plaintive voice. "Hallucinations," in turn, begins quietly with a kalimba, jingles, and tambourine, accompanied by Tim’s smooth, hypnotic bottleneck guitar playing. This melancholic track explores painful loss, longing, and illusions. A beautiful song. The final track on Side A is "I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain." The lyrics serve, in a sense, as a farewell letter to his ex-wife, Mary Guibert, and their son, whom he had left shortly after the boy's birth. That boy, incidentally, was Jeff Buckley—who would go on to become a tragic figure much like his father. But perhaps more on that later. Now, time to flip the record. "Once I Was" opens with harmonica playing by Henry Diltz—who took some of the greatest photos in rock history! It is one of Tim Buckley’s most moving songs. The underlying mood is melancholic. Perhaps Tim was already contemplating a breakup back then, even though the lyrics actually describe a soldier longing for his old life and his beloved. The song took on special significance years later: when Jeff Buckley performed at a memorial concert for his late father in 1991, he sang this very song. Midway through, one of his guitar strings snapped, forcing him to sing the final lines entirely a cappella. The question "Will you ever remember me?" thus became one of the most intense moments—an unforgettable, almost ghostly dialogue between the deceased father and the son who had barely known him. If you listen to that recording, you’ll know what I mean; anyone who doesn't feel moved by it must be as cold as a block of ice! But moving on to track two, "Phantasmagoria in Two": this piece is one of his most masterful and emotionally vulnerable works. It blends Elizabethan and classical folk motifs with subtle 12-string guitar arrangements and outstanding lead guitar work by Lee Underwood. "Knight-Errant" sounds like pure Baroque music, seemingly out of time, yet the two-minute piece is enchanting. It is immediately followed by the title track, "Goodbye and Hello"—an epic spanning over eight minutes that is both psychedelic and socially critical. The song perfectly captures the turmoil of American society at the time, torn between the Vietnam War, materialism, and the burgeoning hippie counterculture. It features brilliant lyrics woven across two narrative layers—"Goodbye" and "Hello." The final song, "Morning Glory," sounds conciliatory, featuring rich vocal harmonies. But this one, too, deals with the unbridgeable gap between two different worlds: on the one hand, the hobo, and on the other, the snooty student. I own this record and like it very much. Thanks to this little game, I’ve been able to listen to it again after a long time.

08/27 Forgettable

Really just not that good for this era.

Gran disco, me sorprendió Lyrics 10/10 3.7

The weak stuff - Carnival song et al - is very meh. But the strong stuff - No Man Can Find the War, Pleasant Street, Once I Was, Phantasmagoria in Two, Morning Glory - is fabulous. Letting my love for Buckley color that rating.

didn't get this. white bloke with a guitar. I am sure this floats someone boat but not mine

nice and psychedelic 7/10 best song - i never asked to be your mountain

lovely lovely album

Better than Greetings from L.A....but this guy didn't need two albums (or even one) on this list. 🤷‍♂️

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.

When listening to this album, you can hear echoes of all the artists who are influenced by his work. His voice and lyrics haunt and repeated listens find new moments to treasure. He is untethered by time or place.

I dunno. Doesn’t really do it for me.

Temu James Taylor.