Happy Sad

joni mitchell-esque (derogatory) super boring

Strange Feelin' had me feeling good about this album and then Love from Room 109 stands out with Gypsy Woman giving me some Led Zep vibes. Sing a Song for You just leaves me fealling melencholy so I guess the album does what it says on the tin.

Eh, Tim Buckley doesn't do much for me, it turns out. I was mostly neutral about this, except "Gypsy Woman", which actively irritated. I know singing about the allure of gypsy women is a classic rock staple but this one really rubbed me the wrong way - for god's sake, man, acknowledge your own agency! 😠 Fave tracks - eh, the more melancholic ones - "Buzzin' Fly" and "Dream Letter"

Boring ass album

Cool mix of folk and a jazzy vibe. Good voice but the songs I found boring and slow. Too repetitive but still a decent listen. To be fair I dont love this type of music genere but if I found it good it should be a great album to followers of the genere.

Hmm, not really my thang.

The jazz tendencies continue throughout the album and make for a great departure from his previously folk-inflected albums.

Not my favorite artist/style of music

1969. I quite enjoyed the chill quieter softer tones from the album. Some nice xylophone as well.

Umm... OK. Track 1, am I listening to a drunk bar singer? He has that particularly irritating, slurred, vocal style. I do like the arrangement, albeit there's that annoying 60's thing of being a little too impressed with stereo going on, "what happens if we put the guitar just on the right channel?". Track 2. More of the same. Can't someone shut the bar singer's mic. off? Track 3 starts with waves! How very cliched. Then some acoustic jazz bass... hopeful. Oh dear, more slurred droning. The others are more of the same. So, decent songs coupled with dreadful, self-indulgent, vocals. I think that earns it a 2/5. Hopefully someone else covered the songs at some point.

This was the first Tim Buckley album I’ve heard, and I really enjoyed it. It’s a more avant-garde and experimental take on singer/songwriter music, with a strong freeform jazz influence in the instrumentation. The entire album puts a lot of focus on mood and atmosphere, and what really stood out to me was Buckley’s vocal range—shifting from quiet, intimate whispers to wild, emotional outbursts that are often wordless and improvised.

aika mitäänsaamaton hmm

I imagine people in white robs listening to the leader. Seemingly random band instruments in play to give everyone an opportunity to participate. Let's add some wind chimes. I will not drink this cool aide. I need to leave the commune... save me...

It's OK

Happily sad I listened, track one started ok, but it went quite poor after that. Some decent moments, but mainly forgettable

wonderful voice and lovely psychedelia

Extraordinary music from a tragic hero.

Boring

Typical late 60’s folk. Very popular then. Retrospectively not that exciting though. I find it boring

A nice jazzy effort that bears deeper listening. Doesn't work well as background listening as too many subtleties that augment one's enjoyment. This album showcases very well the similarities between Tim and his son Jeff. love the opener Strange Feeling' with the beautiful vibraphone, lovely jazzy feel and dynamic shading to heighten the intensity. More of the same with Buzzing' Fly, though more upbeat. Things take a turn for the quiet and contemplative with the beautiful 11 minute opus Love from room 109. But that's not the only extended song here Gypsy Woman is an extended latin jam that has a fiery vocal performance and some wonderful jamming from an obviously great band. All-in all this is a really great discovery from an intensely original artist. 4 stars

really interesting fusion of genres but both get a bit meandering at times because buckley is rlly the best at neither of them tbh!! like okay wow u combined your decent folk music with subpar attempts at jazz, fair play man - an argument against cultural appropriation if there ever was one. liked buzzin' fly and love from room 109; gypsy woman was rainforest cafe bullshit. i would not classify this album as one you "must hear before you die" at all tbh!

Oh Wow, I love Tim Buckley. His brand of psychedelic folk is so unique and charming, and his voice is amazing. I think Star sailor is my favorite album of his but this one is great as well. Let's give it another listen. I don't know if "Happy Sad" is the correct title. It's more "Uplifting Sad". Tim's amazing vocals and powerful arrangements are somber yet uplifting. This is so beautiful.

Maybe just not in the mood for this now but found it boring and songs were way too long

Yawn

Kind of boring, and I immediately forgot what any of it sounded like.

yawn

I like folk music and should like stuff like this. Listened through a couple of times and found it very boring. Not unpleasant but don't need to hear it again.

Here's the thing about me - I just find this sort of thing a little dull, even though it's objectively both good and right in my wheelhouse. I am satisfied but unmoved. It's like the lemonade of music (that's the drink, not the Beyonce album, although I suppose that is, in a very literal sense, the lemonade of music).

Not too bad

I enjoyed it overall

blah

While I'd not list this as something I'd prefer to listen, I'm much happier with a slightly jazzy twist, than I am with the americana/folk wailings. This is very much not my cup 'o maté, too drawn out and probably very much centered on the lyrics, which I can't be bothered to listen. I've got nothing more on this one.

Could be a 4

This is certainly better than his 70s “funk” music. It’s still not very good, but it’s at least trying some stuff alongside a bunch of self-indulgent hippie crap. Nice vibraphone. Best song: Buzzin’ Fly

I tend to like folk but this sounds quite a bit like crying to me.

Dream Letter and Sing a Song for You weren’t bad, but for the most part these songs were way too long and slow. Buckley has a smooth voice, but when you drag notes out like that, vibrato starts to sound like inconsistency.

Happy Sad is a jazzy Prog folk slog. Imagine a jam band without the jam. 4.4/10

Ok. Nothing standout.

I don't have too much thoughts on this album.

Meh. It was alright. It wasn't unlistenable (for the most part). But for a 45ish minute album, it DRAGGED. This feels like the kind of album an indie boy would put on if you went back to his gaff from the bar and he really wanted to impress you. Like bro, just put on Fleetwood Mac, be normal. It was just flat and boring. It felt like I was listening to the same song the entire album and his voice grated on me towards the end. It just kept... GOING. I feel like, even if I put this on as background music, I would still get bored of it. My brain switched off about five minutes in and yet I was painfully aware of the run-on sound the entire time, checking the time I had left to see when it would end. There is a definite winner on who is the more talented Buckley and I'm telling you - it's not Tim.

dECENT

betra en sumt fyrri verka. ég er ekkert yfir mig hrifinn af þessu.

Not Happy Sad, just Sad Sad, Tim's too busy elongating every word in "Strange Feelin'" to realise this album of a mere 6 songs overstays its welcome by about 20 minutes.

No matter how many times 'the Buckleys' are lauded and I give it a go... its just not for me.

pretty good

still thinking about how Tim wrote a whole ass song about wanting to be apart of his family and yet he still ignored Jeff 😭

Some of this was really good, and some of our we just straight up caterwalling. Pass.

Mediocre album

nope ehhez nem tudok kapcsolódni nope nope nope. ha valami kreatívan meg izgalmasan rossz, az egy dolog, meg az is, ha valami teljesen korrektül összerakottan unalmas, de ez nem is tudom mi uhh

If I weren’t over 800 albums in, a second Tim Buckley album may have set me over the edge. No one wants to listen to this.

There were parts I like but a lot I couldn’t mess with.

3 for Buzzin Fly

Meh I don’t know, the vibraphones are really throwing me off

нормалек, но у сыночки песни позажигательнее, конечно)

Tédio

I really like the blues infulences, they don't feel too in your face as maybe led zeppelin does. This is also much more atmospheric that the previous album which I listened to from him. The Dream letter song might be one of the saddest I've ever heard, in hindsight. The first long song is great, and uses its length to develop a lot (not sure if I can say that about the other long song...) Gypsy woman is not good at all man. Favourite songs: strange feelin', love from room 109 at the islander (on Pacific coast highway), sing a song for you. Overall around 8/10

Musically it’s great and he has a great voice! Sing a song for you and Dream Letter were my favorite

2 stars. Depressing album

Bit mediocre, not great probably wouldn't listen to it again. Some looong songs.

D - nice to listen while working

-Tim buckley’s music is very interesting to me… I listened to this and Starsailor, both of which felt quite ahead of their time in a lot of ways -it was maybe a little directionless for my taste at times, but his voice is absolutely beautiful and saved pretty much every song anyway -Favorites are Strange Feelin’ and Gypsy Woman

# Album Name: Happy sad # Artist: Tim Buckley # Rating: 2/5 # Comments: Pretty boring. Not a patch on your son Tim. Shame really. # Top Tunes: None # Would I listen to it again? No

# 420 : An album which makes you reconsider whether there are as many as 1,001 albums you must listen to before you die…

This didn’t make me particularly happy or sad. Unfortunately the best thing Tim ever made is still Jeff.

It’s a very affecting album until it runs out of steam near the end of Side A, after which it just drags. Especially a problem when Tim Buckley does his damndest Jim Morrison impression in “Gypsy Woman”, to poor results. Trimming these songs would have done him a world of good.

Never heard Tim Buckley before, heard a lot about him. Impressive voice. A couple of these songs didn't hurt me much to listen to but really don't age very well - especially the post-hippie jam Gypsy Woman. "Cast a spell on me, mama!" Yikes. Mostly vamping, lots of vibes (vibraphones that is, maybe it's a marimba), lots of jazz adjacent chords, pretty, subdued. It's really about this dude's voice though. Probably should hear before you die. Definitely of its time, that being the come-down off of the trip that was the psychedelic era. Like a lot of other 70's handsome boy singer-songwriter stuff. My divorced mom would have loved this back in '75.

Not very interesting...

Expected worse from Mr Buckley

A hazy, late-night kind of album. Feels like a folk singer trying to make a jazz record but not quite settling into either. The instrumentation is lush, but the songs meander. I'm not sitting through 10 - 12 minute songs. It’s nice, just unfocused. Playlist Additions: - Buzzin' Fly - Sing a Song for You

It’s not exactly your standard singer/songwriter from the 60s. But I was fairly bored by the third song. I definitely prefer his son. 2.5/5

Only sad. But that was me. Sad that I listened to this entire infinitely irritating album. I groaned when this one came up, not expecting to see two Tim Buckley albums on the list. This one lived down to my expectations.

Perfect album to drink tea and gaze outside the window while it is raining. 3.5 stars rounded up. Stand-out: Dream Letter

He was great, great composer, great voice, great at all. But completely aged for these fast times.

I like quite a lot. The extended tracks pitch an almost Astral Weeks type vibe though the long vocal notes can get a bit wearing at times. Definitely night music. 3.5

Nice album, sounded great.

I'm running out of takes to have about albums of sad men with guitars idk

The most boring album ever on earth. "Happy Sad" should be called "Sad Sad" because there's nothing happy about it.

I got this on a friday and tried ro listen to it on the way home from work and it was not the right vibe. Tried again Saturday morning and it was a much better fit. Lovley, heartfelt singer songwriter fayre. I need to have this on headphones while walking through a wood i think

The tracks are almost all a bit too long. Another one with a fund instrumental feel, and lyrics I barely noticed. Though to be fair, this was also one that I just put on while dozing.

Am suddenly quite melancholy

Don’t realize this was Jeff Buckleys father. Nothing “happy” about this record - the vibe was down aside from Gypsy woman which was like Santana. Nothing grabbed me. It was fine and I’m sure he was great but more made me more bored than anything. Three completely average stars.

Not necessarily a style I'm super into, but I liked it quite a lot

Sad. Definitely sad.

Честно говоря, это чуть более сэд альбом, чем хотелось бы, и гораздо менее драматишный, чем тот с желтым фоном, который прямо вот настроил меня на получение истинного удовольствия. Лучшая песня - Buzzin' Fly.

It was equally happy and equally sad

#486. This had a lot of potential, but the execution is lacking. Mostly all the songs just go on for entirely too long. 2/5: Hard to get in to. Song added to playlist: Buzzin' Fly I've created a playlist on Spotify that consists of the best and/or my favorite song from each of the albums in this book. This list can be found here if you are interested: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7MAXDGLWlwLkFLb8veGfkA?si=FqkQQPgZTFWG0jAUJXLFZA&utm_source=copy-link

Really liked this a lot actually, very mystical and relaxing. I also think listening to Gypsy Woman from the lens of a jam session helps justify its length

Tim Buckley is that bleak prick who turns up at a house party with an acoustic when all everyone wants is to drink, get stoned, and fuck. This is fine, but completely unremarkable.

Last time I got a Tim Buckley album it was within the first week or two of this project, and I remember giving it a low 2 and saying it was definitely my worst album yet but I was trying to be open. Well I finally got another album by him and can confirm he’s really not for me. I don’t get it at all. Meandering, boring. Voice isn’t memorable. There’s an eleven minute track where he (a white man) basically just scream sings a slur over and over and over again. It’s music, sure, but it’s not music I like. At all. One star.

Spoke to me

Tim Buckley's greatest musical achievement was nothing he acheived in the recording studio, unless that is where his brilliant son Jeff was conceived...I have yet to hear a track of Tim's that measures up to anything Jeff created on his masterpiece Grace. It all sounds rather dated to me.

It's ok if you like melancholic meandering jazz-folk but if you don't it kind of sucks. I'm on the fence and I'd certainly have to be in the right mood. I think I prefer Blue Afternoon, which as a more hazy feel.

More sad than happy

Awful, didn't enjoy this at all. All over the place, and none of it in anything like a good way.

Mostly sad though. Some of it felt like you could play at x 1.25 speed and other bits were just a bit mopey. I'm aware that this is a seminal album to many. Reading up on his personal life (having kids too young, driving cars too fast, wasted on drugs and booze) on Wikipedia did not fill me with sympathy, but maybe I let my prejudice and assumptions get in the way of enjoying a perfectly nice album, then again maybe I'm just not that into folk.

Happy Sad or Meh! 🤷

Soporific. "Gypsy woman" would have been too long at one-quarter the length.

yup, it was super sad

Some pretty good moments in songs, but the songs are too long, and there's a lot of not great stuff in between the good stuff.

Happy Sad is an album i just couldn't enjoy to the fullest. I can see the direction where the album wanted to go in being a folk album with a couple of jazz elements but this album just failed in too many ways for me to really enjoy it. There is already the fact that the composition sounds really messy but add that with an inconsistent voice volume (he could go from overly quiet to trying to do his best Kermit The Frog impression). And another issue was track 5 where it clearly wanted to be a quirky sorta cultist song like something Dr. John would make but the problem with this track is that it doesn't fully play into the weirdness like Dr. John did which makes the song kinda have an identity crisis. Who knows, this guy does have a few more albums here so maybe my opinion might change but with this album, It shows me that Tim's son just makes better music. Best Song: Sing a Song for You Worst Song: Gypsy Woman

Pretty solid blend of more folksy sounds with a very like, jazz fusion-y structure to its songs. In general the songs can go on for a bit longer than I think they really needed to, and the vocals are just kinda eh. Still an enjoyable listen, and those instrumental soundscapes are lush and wonderful. 3/5 i guess.

Off the top, I just wanna say, if for my own sake if anybody's, that it was tragic Tim Buckley died as young as he did. He was only 28 — I mean, goodness. That's a sort of sentiment I feel like should go without saying. Big "No, duh," right? But I wanna bring it up 'coz of this idea that gets lodged in my head every time I find out an artist died: that to openly dislike their work would be in some way disrespectful. It feels like kicking a dead man when he's down, y'know? The whole "don't speak ill of the dead" thing. But, like, disliking an artist's work and respecting them after they've passed are two different things, right? I mean, just because I might not like someone's output, that doesn't mean I can't be gentle about how or when they passed. There's no hard obligation either way. And of course, having an artist's passing in mind when engaging with their work can actually bring something extra to it — I gave high praise to stuff like PACIFIC OCEAN BLUE and IF YOU WANT IT DARKER because of their proximity, after all. Not to mention, that sort of thing is why ★ has the reputation it does (that'll be a fun one to get to). (And, yeah, we'd all prefer all of those artists still be alive, but y'know.) So, jus', please believe me that I have no ill will against Tim Buckley when I say that I found this album kind of painfully boring. Like... **Painfully** boring. At first I was thinking it was just a thing where my undiagnosed ADHD causes me to get sleepy and yawn a lot when I try to sit down and just focus on music, but no, no. It just does that little for me. I mean, this thing was already fighting an uphill battle for being a folk singer-songwriter album. As I've expressed many times before, I do **not** do well with singer-songwriter music — check my review of SOLID AIR for the full lowdown on that. The short version is that this kind of music, especially from the 70's, largely ends up being poetry that just so happens to be set to music, and poetry is not what I come to music for. Although, it's actually fitting I get to bring up SOLID AIR. That's an album I actually ended like quite a fair bit thanks to how jazz-y it could get. Seriously, specific shout out to the end of "Dream By The Sea", goodness. Now, this album tries to get its jazz thing on, too, but... I mean, it mostly just amounts to a vibraphone being present on every track? So, great, not only is it the usual acoustic plonking, but you've also got a vibraphone meandering around, too. They just never do anything interesting. I'd honestly believe me if you told me that none of these songs had arrangements and that they just improvised the whole thing. Which, heck, puts it a step below SOLID AIR again, 'coz that's exactly what happened with its title track and it came out a **lot** better. It doesn't help that the songs are as long as they are. The shortest is the closer, at only two-and-a-half minutes, but the rest are all over five, and two of them are over **ten**. They just drag on and on and **on** without ever realizing that maybe they should actually **go** somewhere. Like, I really tried to just give myself to the music and let it take me away with its beauty, but besides parts of "Dream Letter" and "Gypsy Woman"... Look, if I can quote a fanmade Rap Battle with Huggy Wuggy: "You call it experimental; I call it b-boring as fuck." I'm honestly surprised that keeping Tim's passing in mind isn't causing me to be any kinder to this album, but there you go, I guess. And that's why it kind of bums me out to give this thing a 2. I know I said above that I'm not obligated to like this album; that I can still respect Buckley and his passing regardless of how I feel about it, but... Gosh, that doesn't mean I hafta feel **good** about this rating, y'know? And I was seriously considering at least bumping this thing up to a 3 for the parts of "Dream Letter" and "Gypsy Woman", but even the appeal I find in those can't last forever with how dang **long** those songs are. So, yeah. It's another one of those "That's just how it is sometimes" reviews from me. All I can hope for is that if there's another Tim Buckley album on this list I can get more of it than I did this one. Oh, and that I manage to get something out of his **son's** album, too. Goodness, it would **not** make me good if I disparaged albums from **both** of them...

The Buckleys were a gifted but ultimately tragic family, and this is the first example of it that my group has gotten. What a voice the elder Buckley has. Solid 5 Stars.

I’m at a 4. Wikipedia lists this as “psychedelic folk,” and I can’t say I find that description too accurate. It doesn’t feel as psychedelic as other 60s acts we’ve gotten, and I hesitate to call it “folk”, because it doesn’t really feel that close to acts like Simon & Garfunkel, or Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. I can’t really place a specific genre on this either; I guess my best attempt would be “ambient pop”, and certainly with a sad bend. It really does jump around between genres though – a bit of reggae influence, some straight jazz, some solid folk stylings with a bit of a rock lean, and oddly, some elevator music (that vibraphone’s really present throughout this thing). However, it never really strays away from the “ambient pop” feeling I described – a lot of these tracks are anchored in finding a rhythm, sticking to it, and expanding when necessary. It’s a formula that only works because the ambience is captured so well, and complemented further by his vocals. His voice has a strong power to it, and while his held notes do start to feel long and repetitive over time, when it works, it really worked for me. The biggest knock I have on this album is that it’s too long for what it offers, and that the tracks don’t do enough evolving to justify some of the longer run times – Gypsy Woman is the key offender here. You wanna make that track 12 minutes long? Fine, as long as you can actively expand it in a better way than the sort of lackluster “give / take” approach, especially when it’s taking a lot more instrumentation away compared to what it’s giving back. Past that, I do think the album, for as much as it jumps around in terms of genres and influences, simply has a problem with pacing – Dream Letter is the third slower song in a row after the opening track, and even though I think its lyricism is stellar, it just hits less because it’s the last track of a 21 minute stretch of slower songs. Those pacing issues, and the length of the album are why I’m at a 4 – it’s a great set of tracks, don’t get me wrong, but as a full front to back album, the progression isn’t as satisfying as it could be, and so it makes the 44 minutes feel slower than they should. If you listen to this and find it boring, I understand that too; maybe I was just in the mood for some slower and more relaxed stuff, so this hit really nicely for me. I do like this album, and I’m glad it’s on the list. I don’t think it should have a 2.78 average – it’s not that bad, but it doesn’t fully succeed at what it’s going for as a complete project. The moods are right, the lyricism is good, the instrumentals are fine; the ingredients are there, but the recipe feels incomplete. With a few tweaks, and a little more “fun’ sprinkled throughout (it’s a rather drab album, let’s be honest), I do think this could’ve gone up to a 5 for me. As it stands, though, it’s a 4; probably closer to a 3.5, but “Sing a Song for You” is an excellent closer that bumped me up to a flat 4.

This one is like a 3.5 for me. I liked some songs and his range of voice is incredible, but over all I think the album was too slow of folk music. K like it a little more up beat

I went from being happy to sad.

A man, a guitar and 10 minute songs. I can appreciate his singing talent and instrumental talent but when a song goes on that long It needs to evolve into something new throughout. These songs are just the same chords played with the same vocal styles for 10 minutes straight. It also doesn’t help that if he is telling stories I can’t understand half of what he is saying due to how he sings. 4/10

yikes.... said shit. its a no

The rare case where the nepo baby is better.

this was ok. I don't think I'd listen to anything from this album again

Not as magical as Goodbye and Hello, but I still love how complex and delicate a lot of the sounds are in this album, the use of marimbas and vibraphone gives it this sweet feel that fits the more subdued sound of this album. Not always a vibe I'm looking for but this is really nice and makes me want to keep exploring his discography.

Buzzin' Fly

This album sorta just sucks. There's like 30 seconds of guitar in Strange Feelin' that's kind of decent, but the rest is boring.

Hmmm not for me. Some good guitar though.

timmy i lovr your music but i love your son more than anything good album

didnt remember much from this one, just seemed fine Will I listen to again: 2%

Enemmän syksyinen mutta ei huono! 3/5

Tavallaan ihan mukavaa taustamusiikkia, mutta aktiivisessa kuuntelussa ei paljoa käteen jää. 2/5

7.5/10. It's a very sweet-sounding album. It's a nice folksy and jazzy listen.

Much Smoother and lower key than hiss other works. Very pretty and sonorous

I liked this a lot. I'm not generally into the melancholy singer-songwriter with a guitar vibe. But there was a lot of accompaniment by jazzy instruments like double bass and vibes and stuff and that gave it a different, er, vibe. It feels very sixties, somehow. But, yeah, I dig it, man! Another one I might revisit.

Powerful….

What a voice.

Een aantal liedjes klinken alsof de zanger aan het begin van het nummer eigenlijk nog geen idee heeft wat hij precies zal gaan zingen. Ik weet niet of het echt zo is, maar het klinkt soms wat onvoorbereid op de één of andere manier. En de man op de vibrafoon, of bij Gypsy Woman de marimba dan, zit een beetje hetzelfde in de wedstrijd: Geen idee wat hij precies zal gaan doen, maar nu hij toch z'n bed uit is gekomen doet hij maar gewoon mee. Ondanks mijn bovenstaande kritiek ga ik toch een hele nipte drie sterren geven, want richting het einde wordt er toch nog ontzettend lekker even wat muziek gemaakt. De Gypsy Woman bezweert me waardoor ik de oorspronkelijke gedachte aan een onvoldoende compleet laat varen. Bovendien heb ik de laatste weken een paar onaangename tweeën gehad. Ik kan dit album niet in hetzelfde hokje stoppen als een Sparks. Die Gypsy Woman ga ik overigens nog wel een keer ergens als ultieme snob-troef op tafel smijten, want dat is een verdomd lekker nummertje met op Spotify de minste plays van heel het album (slechts 300.000, tegenover de 10.000.000 van Buzzin' Fly). Wat een ongelofelijke banger is dat zeg. En met z'n 12 minuten is het toch een kwart van de hele plaat.

I did like the experimental nature but didn't really warm to this. Probably need another few listens to increase my score.

I've heard a few of these songs but not all together on one album. I find this to be quite mellow laid back jazz which I quite like. I can see why some would necessarily like this first time around. It may need a few more listens but it would be worthwhile. Not so sure about Gypsy Woman, sounds too much like a jam to me, strange feelin and sing a song for you more than make up for this. 4 stars.

Tough to tell if he's got soul or if he is just truly a sad boy. Either way, I like it but for my money i'd take his son over him.

Refreshingly different from all these grunge, indie, Britpop and whatever soundalikes thst somehow made it to the 1001 list

Psychedelic-Folk crossed with Jazz Fusion trying to create a sappy mood.

This isn't my favourite musical style, but as I began to listen to this album, I did like it, though it dragged a bit. I think Buckley was quite influential even though his album sales were not great.

3,5

He had a great voice that was very reminiscent of his estranged son Jeff Buckley. The songs were very much 'meh' singer songwriter music with no clear standout tracks, but definitely a vibe. 3/5

I guess pretty much anyone could make an album with just their face on it and a bunch of really boring music back in the 60s? This is not a good album. Plus one star for being mercifully short and not being actively unpleasant to listen to, just incredibly boring. 2/5

Tim should retire and have a son and teach him guitar. I think it’d go much better for him

Interesting. Maybe as background at a chill party.

I would give it a four but I don’t like his vibrato and some other things but overall I found it enjoyable.

It's decent, but I don't think we'd really talk about Tim Buckley anymore were it not for Jeff. That connection makes it all more memorable and important feeling, but the music itself is just "quite nice".

Mér fannst þetta barasta hin fínasta plata. Ágætlega fjölbreytt í rólegheitum sem kallar á að vera sett aftur í spilun til dæmis á matmálstíma. Ég þarf bara að muna eftir henni

Bit sad

Slow singer songwriter vibe.

This could possibly be a 4, but I just don't see myself listening to it multiple times. High quality, interesting songs, but not enough going on to make me want to listen to it multiple times to find new things.

This flew a bit over my head, I think I was a bit unfocused when listening to it.The first two songs are quite good, then it turns a bit dull and samey from 'Love From Room 109 at the Islander' and onwards. Think this will have to cement it as a strong 2 for me.

Enjoyed parts of this. The first tracks were good but then it took a real nose dive. From the middle of "Love from Room 109 at Islanders" it just became a slow, boring mess. "Dream letter" continued this downward trend. When I got to "Gypsy Woman" the tempo increased but my mind was set. A 3 star without the slog in the middle but now a 2 star.

Jazzy. I think I'm slowly getting into jazz, thanks to this generator. I actually enjoyed it, it's quite joyful and satisfying, I would probably give it a 3.5-4/5. Strange Feelin' is an amazing track. Love the marimba or whatever that sound is. People really should use marimba in modern music more. Don't quite like the folk and rock side of this album (e.g. Gypsy Woman), overall it's quite pleasant though.

It's alright. Very low key and great for music in the background. Not sure if I'd listen to it again though.

Solid folk album, but the songs are long and some of them begin to drag.

As someone who has recently taking a liking to Nick Drake, I found this album quite pleasant

Can't do it Tim Buckley...you're just not for me. 1.5/5

I feel I'm in the minority but I like this album.. Jazz-psych-folk and vibraphone!!! I don't why but I love that sound. Yes not for everyone but Buzzin' Fly is an outstanding song.

Buckley isn’t for me. Highlight: Jazz guitar on Love from Room 109

A boring folk record. There's a lot of Buckley on this list

I thought this was fine. I could’ve been better and didn’t need two songs over 10 minutes long. But the parts that were good were pretty good.

Music journalists are storytellers as much as anything else. And I can’t help but think this album is on this list is because the story of the gifted, died-too-young Jeff Buckley having a gifted, died-too-young biological father who was also on the list was just too good a story pass up.

3.9 - When he's good he's amazing, but I feel some of it is a bit too indulgent and I expected to like this a lot more.

Good vibe, bit of an incoherent overall experience. I like the expansive jazziness of it in principal, but some tracks don't really land. Fave Tracks: Love From Room 109 at The Islander (On Pacific Coast Highway), Gypsy Woman 3.5/5

new to me and I really like it!

This is a subtle album, but if give it your patient attention you can hear the musicians get in the zone. First couple songs were really the best for me but it had quality throughout.

An alright album but no stand out songs.

Albumet berörde mig inte. Jag gillar hans son Jeff.

Laid back. Almost too laid back.

Nix für mich

It was exceptional. I loved everything.

2.7 2x

There were a couple songs I liked alright but this album didn't do much for me.

nope... sad sad

Well, he has a lovely voice and the production is strong. It's a bit maudlin and indulgent for me to really get excited about. I do want to give Van Morrison's 'Astral Weeks' another shot now.

How the f*** does this dude have 3 albums on this list?? Come on

Happy Sad is the third album by Tim Buckley, originally released in 1969. Most people will only recognize Tim Buckley as "Jeff Buckley's dad", but Tim was an amazing musician in his own right. He was very experimental, so he obviously won't fit everyone's tastes. This is one of his records that signified his movement to more experimental music. He started out as a folkie in the mid 60s and by this record he moved firmly into spacey-psychedelic-jazz-folk, and beginning to use his voice as an instrument. He would later move to funk and free jazz, but this album serves as a very interesting bridge between his folk and jazz phases. You can even hear that funk influence beginning to creep in on songs like "Gypsy Woman". It may meander a bit but that was the 60s man! Gotta drop some acid in a field and listen to this. Tim Buckley was a super interesting person and artist and I encourage others to dig a bit into his discography because there's some real cool stuff.

3 - I've listened to quite a few of Buckley's albums now, and this is one of the ones I like more. While I really like Goodbye and Hello, the rest of his albums... Not so much. This is a little bit of an in between, I suppose. There's a song or two on here that I think are good, which is why it's getting a 3, albeit a light one, but the rest of the songs are kinda boring to me. Maybe it'll grow on me like Goodbye and Hello did, but I don't think it'll be by much. But hey, I'm just glad that I enjoyed parts of it.

I really hate this guy's music and his voice

just Sad

Palpable emotion in this album. Wasn't what I was expecting really with the longer song lengths and sort of atmospheric jams but I thought it worked, and I liked Tim Buckley's vocals as well they really tied it together

3/11/24 Definitely different, not my thing.

It's poetry...you just don't understand it. That's the problem -- YOU don't understand!

Buckley bridges the gap between his earlier folk period and later avant-garde work, finding a pleasant middle ground where his trademark vocal elongations and jazz improvisations can run free.

Buzzin Fly and Gypsy Woman are hell of a good songs but the rest of the album is just nothing special. I am some kind of happy and sad.

Listened to this on my 1am drive home, Was a good time for this

Good, interesting

This felt like a meditation soundtrack, made me wanna go sleepy time.

Jeff Buckleys dad goes alright. I thought this was gonna be one of his proper out there weird ones but was fairly tame, still enjoyable His voice sounded like Alice in Chains at the start of Gypsy Woman

Looks like it runs in the family, and by it, I mean. Well, let’s just say. Talent Rush could learn a thing or two from Tim

Weird psych folk jazz something or other. Loved the vibraphones, highlight of a couple tracks for me.

Happy? Sad? Boring.

I wanted to like this more than I did. More familiar with his kid than him before going through this. A lot of interesting vocalizations. Some good ones on here. I really can't say I remember much of it after the listen though. Talented guy, but largely a pretty boring album for me. Glad I listened but won't be revisiting most likely. 2/5

The title kinda sums him and his music up. 28 is way too young.

I went into this one truly blind. I had no real sense of who Tim Buckley was or what his deal was, nothing. I really loved the first two thirds of this, which were light and jazzy in a kind of spectral way, but the last third kinda lost me. Still, there's a couple songs here I will come back to, I think.

lots of reaallllyyyy long songs

Good album. Nice to listen to when it was still dark outside but I feel like some of the bird progressions could have been more effective if they get didnt veer off into the blues or country directions but that’s just a pet peeve.

Definitely a 2. But add a 1/2 point for the use of xylophone in multiple songs. That’s a bold strategy, Cotton. 2.5.

first listen i can hear the smoky haze in the room as i listen to this

I'm a huge Jeff Buckley fan but never have his father much of a listen before. I definitely prefer Jeff although this is not without its charm it's a nice psychedelic folk album but at times a bit boring, it may grow I me with future listens.

Don't know that this was that significant, but for some reason I enjoyed the vibe(raphone)

As bad as the label folk-jazz would make you assume. Tuneless but talented vocals and dangerous levels of xylophone. Really dreary stuff. It's a hot guy moping around for attention, don't give it to him, you're falling for his trap!

"Strange Feelin'" starts with a huge wink to Miles Davis's "All Blues" -- dissonant at first, then a little less anguished. And when Tim Buckley's vocals enter the scene, it's as if Fred Neil was covering the legendary jazzman. A match made in heaven, if you really want to know about my opinion here. With this idiosyncratic mix of influences, such a perfect opener actually perfectly encapsulates the jazz influences bobbing up on the surface in many other great moments of this nice LP -- with a lot of those influences conveyed by that wonderful, dreamy vibraphone in the background. Tim's angelic voice also does wonders on follow-up track "Buzzin' Fly" or the delicate moving closer "Sing A Song For You". "Love from Room 109 at the Islander" and "Gypsy Woman" are more complex, sprawling affairs -- two cuts drawing on lengthier jam dirges that might phase in and out your consciousness but never overstay their welcome. I had to work on my computer while listening to today's album, and I gotta say that session was pleasant and quite productive. Wish I can find some time later to listen to those two compositions with more attention. Probably not as arresting as *Goodbye And Hello* and *Starsailor* -- but still far better than the generally ridiculous and hackneyed *Greetings From L.A.* -- I can understand why someone would wish to include this LP in a list of albums to listen to at least once in your life. Not sure if I would do that myself -- at this point of my own project, it seems to me there's not much room left in my list, and maybe having more than one or two Tim Buckley albums in it would be overkill. But I'll leave the door open to it. At least for today. 3.5/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums, rounded up to 4 8.5/10 grade for more general purposes (5 + 3.5). Number of albums left to review: 41 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 413 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 242 (including this one) Albums from the list I won't include in mine: 306

It’s okay - to me it’s just on par with Greetings from L.A. although I enjoyed that one more musically (not lyrically) But I’m generally not a fan of Tim Buckley I’m not sure I am going to listen to this many more times in my life.

Lemppari: Strange Feelin’ Vähiten lemppari: Buzzin’ by

Enjoyed it

An interesting blend of folk and jazz, with mellow, haunting melodies and Buckley’s distinct voice. The album is captivating at times, however the experimental sound can feel meandering, and some songs drag on longer than needed. While it’s an interesting listen, it might not appeal to those who prefer more structured compositions. A solid effort but not immediately engaging. Highlights: Buzzin' Fly Gypsy Woman

Nope

Ugh this should be called sad sad not happy sad

Nice but too slow for me

irgendwie nichtssagend

Definitely one of the best naps of my life!

I enjoyed this record, it's got some interesting instrumentation and songwriting.

The good news is, only about half of this album is painfully boring. The bad news is, when it isn't boring, it's annoying. And that's arguably worse.

Aptly named album

Moments of Perfection on This Album.

Was unable to give this a dedicated listen will return at some point.

62/100

Longer, more experimental songs meant monotonous.

To be fair, not bad, but not special either. Another singer guitarist who does a good enough job of it. Nothing to write home about a low 2

Thought this was going to be ok. Decent musician and vocal. But then the jazz took over. Kept getting the feeling that he was singing along to a different song than he was playing. But maybe that’s just jazz for you. Gypsy woman just killed the whole thing off for me. How many times does he have to say that a gypsy woman has cast a spell on him? The answer is 12 minutes worth.

Interesting album, I listened to this bloke 30 odd years ago round a mates house, who loved all this sort of stuff, and I wasn't a fan back then. With the passage of time, am I now? No, but it isn't disappointingly bad. OK in places, but the songs were bit long and could have been chopped in half, as some did sound like 2 songs shoe-horned together. He is marginally better than his son. 2 stars.

How did this make the list? Every track on this album could have been the weakest part on hundreds of other albums, by hundreds of other artists, in the same period. Who did this inspire?

Tim Buckley is one of few artists that did more good to music by having unprotected sex than by making actual music.

This album is just plain tiring.

A little meandering, but enjoyable.

Ein bisschen fad.

It's true! I have absolutely no taste whatsoever for Tim Buckley. I just hate how he sings and how carelessly he throws away a talented voice. It feels like he's barely trying, and something about that gets under my skin. But I only know this because this list has, like 4 Tim Buckley albums (I think we've had 2 so far??), and they were further into the era of excess and laziness that seems to define Tim Buckley's output. It's like Van Morrison, except instead of liking it, I don't. At all. This is maybe the least offensive of all the Tim Buckley albums we've had, but it does little to reduce my extreme prejudice against him. Oh no. Nevermind. We got to Gypsy Woman. My rage has awakened again. 1/5 is generous. Suck it Tim!!!

Enjoyed this more than I expected. More interesting than a lot of singer songwriter stuff. On another day, I might have found the pace a bit boring and the tracks too long, but for whatever reason, this just hit right today

Not as good as Jeff. Actually did vibe with it at all. Simpsons: No

It was alright on whilst playing FIFA.

I'm neither happy or sad after listening to this just bored 😴 it dragged on too long

Really enjoyed Strange Feeling, the All Blues riff was cool and yeah. Gypsy Woman was too long but I didn’t hate it despite that which is odd. Different enough to be interesting, didn’t love it as much as Jeff but I was impressed.

Not really a fan of older Buckley's music. I didn't like this album, songs were very uneventful, it was hard to see any merit in it. Bit of a wasted time.

The best song is by far the first, where the Jazz influence is most clearly showing, but props to Gypsy Woman for the showcase of Buckley’s vocal abilities. Happy Sad is probably the best example of Folk Jazz I’ve listened to outside of Van Morrison, and although I liked it quite a lot, I think I’ve reached the conclusion that I’m not a huge fan of the mixture. I like Jazz, I like Folk, but Jazz Folk almost never quite blends for me. Also, isn’t it crazy that Tim Buckley was 2 years younger than Jeff Buckley when he died, but Buckley Pere recorded 7 albums to Buckley Fils’ 1?

Favourite songs: Strange Feelin' Least favourite songs: Love From Room 109 at The Islander (On Pacific Coast Highway), Dream Letter, Gypsy Woman 2/5

Hörde försten låt från ena annan skiva av Tim Buckley den var fin. Insåg misstaget och började lyssna på rätt album. Det var inte lika fint. Buzzin Fly är fin. Men det räcker inte för sen blir det en lång låt. Inte bra. Gypsy Woman sänker hela skivan. Jazz och folk i en ohelig kombo.

Andra låten är mycket bra. Tredje låten är för lång och oinspirerande. Fjärde låten är sisådär. Femte är svinlång, bitvis svänger det, men det duger inte för 12 minuter. Omotiverat. Sista låten är najs. Men totalt är skivan väldigt ojämn.

Två bra låtar (framförallt Buzzin fly men även Sing a song for you), en bitvis bra men på totalen bara hyfsad eftersom den är på tok för lång (Gypsy woman) och resterande tre usla i lite olika utsträckning. Ihopviktat blir det en svag trea.

1.5

Meget sjovt at få far og søn lige efter hinanden. Der er nogle rigtig gode momenter på albummet men også for mange der ikke helt rammer. 3,5/5

Started good, got boring in the middle, ended well.

This is one of the few times I found myself bored to tears. On paper, this totally sounded like my kind of jam. But most tracks are far longer than they need to be, the mood and vibe is far too slow and chill to the point where damn near every song starts to blend into one another, and it’s simply not musically interesting enough in any respect to leave an impression on me. It all just feels rather..: lifeless? Sure, ‘Buzzin’ Fly’ is okay, ‘Dream Letter’ is probably as interesting as the lyrics get on the album, and ‘Gypsy Woman’ is where Buckley finally musters up some of the energy needed to boost up the jazz elements. But overall it’s just an absolute slog. It feels like a huge step down from his previous album ‘Goodbye And Hello’, which is a really solid effort. I also feel he executed this particular sound far better on his follow up ‘Blue Afternoon’. But hey, props to him for doing something different at the time. ‘Happy Sad’ just simply does not click with me in any way whatsoever.

# Playlist Track - Buzzin' Fly # Notes - I enjoyed Buckley's first album. I got it here, ended up listening to it for like a week, and even delayed getting to this one to avoid being "saturated". However, this is a very different beast. - Two 10+ minute tracks are awful, and they make more than half of the play time for the entire album. - Unless you're actually interesting in learning more about Buckley's career, I don't see any reason to go listening to this.

Yawn

A lovely album, with lots of interesting things going on. Not his best work, in my view, but pretty damn good.

Another 60s rock album! This one didnt captivate me as much. It had some moments of good instrumentals- i liked the inclusion of woodwinds in a way atypical of rock music at the time. But I also felt like it really dragged at parts- and was a little sappy (gypsy woman comes to mind) Overall- a fine album, not for me.

The use of xylophone gives every song an almost Cal Tjader vibe. Very chill

This is good, but John Martyn does it better (e.g. Solid Air)

Buckley's performances were so overly sincere and earnest that they almost seemed like satire. It had the unintended effect of me not being able to take him too seriously because I obviously wasn't feeling what he was feeling. Every now and then I'd catch a spark of something that was kind of interesting but for the most part this was a drag to listen to.

Kind of mid. I’ve had a few other Tim Buckley albums so far and haven’t found much to like.

As a big Jeff Buckley fan, I’ve tried to get into Tim Buckley’s music before, mostly because I was curious how he compared to his son. But I had a hard time getting into some of his most well-known songs like Song of the Siren because of the overuse of falsetto. This album is definitely much better in terms of his voice — the lower register he uses here is a lot more pleasing to the ears. Musically, this album is an interesting mix of blues, country-western, and pop. The influence of The Lovin’ Spoonful, who produced it, is very clear. It also reminds me of Roy Orbison, as well as — oddly — Don Johnson’s foray into singing in the 80s. The album as a whole gives off a slightly more country Doors vibe. The vibraphone gives the music an interesting mood. As a millennial, vibraphone often reminds me of Sesame Street before anything else, so it can be very hit and miss for me. Here it’s sort of a mixed bag — used to the right effect it adds to the bluesy vibe, but it also comes close to going too far over into lounge-music territory at times. Take “Strange Feelin’” for instance. If the song had ended at the 6:20 mark it would’ve been better (and even that’s pretty long) — but there’s no reason for the track to go on for almost 8 minutes just to have an extended vibraphone solo. I think my biggest issue with this album is the length of the songs. With the exception of the closing track, which is 2:41, the shortest song on this album is still over 5 minutes, with two tracks running longer than 10 minutes. “Gypsy Woman” could be a fun jam song, but it’s just way too long. Less vibraphone and shorter songs would’ve made this album way better. I’ll give it a 4/5, but it’s more of a 3.5 for me.

Tim Buckley has a great voice. The songs here were okay for the most part. Didn’t care for Gypsy Woman. Love from Room 109 was such an awesome song though. Layered, dense, switched up the tempo. Really fun track. I was only really invested in 2/6 of the songs. Standouts: Buzzin’ Fly and Love from Room 109 at the Islander.

Just a bit boring.

Der var noget rigtig godt i alle sangene, men de var simpelthen for lange så jeg begyndte at kede mig!! Jeg kunne virkelig godt lide hans stemme, men den lå stadig ved middel, og så trak den 12 minutter lange kriminelt horny sang den ned under

Fed! Vildt god stemme og pladen har et rigtig godt flow!

Da pladen startede have jeg lidt en off-feeling af at det var den falske Buckley. Det var så hans far. Tror aldrig at jeg har hørt så meget vibrafon før! Det var afslappende, jazzy, men også semi depri og kedeligt i længden. ☹️

*I thought this was a sad, slow, and depressing album.

Guitar noodling and a very nice voice. I could listen to this in the right mood.

Tedious.

Can't believe this dude got 3 albums.

Massively low energy. I just can't vibe with it.

Experimental folk-jazz? Uh, apparently sign me up. A bit of an out there listen. And he’s no Jeff Buckley, amiright? But I dug it.

I used to prefer his earlier Goodbye and Hello, but this one just may have overtaken it.

This is definitely Buckley's best album, but I just don't think it's all that good. It is perfectly fine, but I don't find him to be a particularly good singer. (I do think that part of this is that he's overshadowed by his son in my mind, though)

Beautiful, but totally fucking depressing. This makes Elliott Smith sound like the Spice Girls.

Mehhhhh, I thought being Jeff Buckley's dad that I would like this more. But really the songs are wayyy too long and just kind of boring.

Loved this. I liked the way that it feels experimental but within limits.

Snooze fest.

Rating: 5/10 Meh.

Not sure what to think of it. 3.3

I don’t know whether this is a pretentious album that would have appealed to my younger self or a pretentious album that bores my older self.

not my favorite. Was pretty bored listening to this one.

He has a good voice but I don’t really get this music.

2.5

Pretty good

meh

Boring

I really liked this album-I knew Tim, but a whole album from a-z was perfect to get to know and appreciate him better. I LOVED his son Jeff and bought and listened to everything he made in his short career, which is why I paid any attn to Tim in the 1st place.

Грустный и трогательный альбом и история музыканта

I’m starting to realize I really don’t like long, drawn out albums. You’ll be listening to a song and feel like it’s starting to end but NOPE, there’s still 7 minutes ha ha you dummy. Not to say there can’t be good, long albums. There are some amazing records over an hour long that deserve a 5, but not this one. Not at all. These songs are pointlessly long with nothing but repetitive, boring, sleepy melodies. I like the voice and that’s about it. Even that gets monotonous about halfway though the album. But the bare bone instrumentals, the sappy lyrics, and lack of anything truly intriguing give this record an easy 2. It was not enjoyable to say the least.

How can an album be so familiar yet remain so strange? All the album is a beautiful prologue to “Gypsy Woman”.

When listening to this, I keep thinking about how it reminds me a lot of Andrew Bird, just without the whistling and also much less captivating sounds overall.

Interesting mix of vocals and instruments, deep and whimsy

2/5. I enjoy experimentation on albums, and this is surely a big step from his previous work. It is heading to a bombastic future release of Leaving LA but this is the middle zone. I like the progressive jazz spread throughout but I have heard better. Trying this to try things is a vibe but intentional experimentation is different from calculated experimentation. This is the former. It's unique, but not enough. I do like the jam session despite the unfortunate title. Best Song: Gypsy Woman, Strange Feelin', Buzzin Fly

Gave it one listen. The lyrics were good, music was ok, and the singing wasn’t for me. 2/5

So boring, just like the other album I had from him. Please say there isn't a third.

I should like it, based on my preferences, but I cannot seem to get into it. The songs don’t stick with me.

The first two songs were okay, but the last four were painful and schlocky.

01) Strange Feelin - 5,5 02) Buzzin' Fly - 5,5 03) Love from Room 109 at the Islander (On Pacific Coast Highway) - 5,0 04) Dream Letter - 5,0 05) Gypsy Woman - 4,0 06) Sing a Song for You - 5,5 TOTAL: 5,08 (51/100) Current ranking: 224/240 God, what boring music. After a while it starts to turn from boring to irritating. Everything depends on the last song, let's see if this is another one star or it will get away with two...

I'm very conflicted on Tim Buckley. The previous album I got from him, 'Greetings from L.A.' I scored 1 star. The music was a bit boring and the lyrics were trite and obsessed with proving to everyone that he sleeps with a lot of women. Wikipedia calls this his 'sex funk period'. 'Happy Sad' stands in pretty stark contrast to that later work, it's introspective, somber and remorseful. It is as much influences by folk music as it is jazz, with long and winding songs throughout. It's hard not to be transported to a bleak seaside view during ' Love from Room 109 at the Islander'. He sings an apology to his ex-wife and son. Apparently it would take another five years to actually meet his son, which undercuts the sincerity of the apology, but as an emotional expression, there's truth in it. In general, it's kind of good and without the cringeworthiness of his later work. If I had heard this album first, I might have even started to feel like a fan.

This took me a second listen to start appreciating. It's honestly quite good, but overly long tracks and two songs on the six song record don't really sit well and take away from the overall experience.

Tim Buckley is a wonderful singer, but the music felt uninspired. I'm not sure what the appropriate ratio of vibration to serious music is, but it's a fraction of this. I felt like I was trapped in a slow moving elevator with music that only felt like it was on a loop.

Buzzin Fly Strange Feelin sing a song for you gypsy woman dream letter Love from room 109

First time with this one. Buckley's vocals are excellent. The music is melancholy and subdued. This is a good rainy-day record. Overall not bad.

i loved it soo much. the vocals. the guitar. the lyrics!! i am in awe of almost every song and i think it is right down my alley, the vibes and instrumentals are to die for. so much melancholy that is so enjoyable but sad to listen to

This is not an album for the groggy. Most of it felt like when I wake up from a dream, then go back to sleep and the dream continues, but is kind of different. Then the alarm goes off, I hit the snooze button, and it happens again. For pretty much the whole album. That isn’t to say I disliked it entirely. It just felt like being in and out of consciousness a lot. The highest praise I can give it is that the first track sounded like something off of a Peanuts special. The biggest critique is that every one of these songs should have ended far sooner than it did. Some songs need the time to unpack and explore, then time to tie it all together. None of that was the case here.

Ta bueno, tampoco pa tanto

Psychedelic jazzy stuff. From the album title you can guess that it might not be the most upbeat affair. 3 stars just for Gypsy Woman

More sad than happy this makes me. Boring, noodling faffery

The first 2 tracks are listenable and enjoyable. But not much else that would make me come back here.

The album sounds like it's composed for a film at times, but it could easily be the soundtrack to a day spent walking outside. The vibraphone adds a cool element to the mix, but in general, it doesn't speak to me.

I don't know. Is this what the world needed/needs? Prog folk? I did the first two tracks - especially Buzzin Fly. But then the album really just feels like too much more of the same. Where as a comparable album - astral weeks - I am able to get swept up this album just drones. I have tried to engage with Tim Buckley at several points over my life and have never been able to get into it. This time is no different.

Extremely dull. Low 2.

Still not a fan of Tim Buckley. I don't want to call this bad, because I don't feel that it was, I just don't care for it. 2/5

Just sad. And not an enjoyable sad.

The author of these books is a coward for having multiple Tim Buckley albums on this list, but not including Lorca or Starsailor. The people deserve to hear Tim at his peak weirdness, 'Gypsy Woman' on here starts to come close to that realm, but it's not enough for me. Listen to those albums please (this one is still great though).

Contains some of Tim's most accessible songs, but also breaking the barrier into his primal side with songs like Gypsy Woman.

beautiful