Grace by Jeff Buckley

Grace

Jeff Buckley

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Grace is the only studio album by American singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley, released on August 23, 1994, by Columbia Records. The album had poor sales and received mixed reviews at the time of its release. However, in recent years it has dramatically risen in critical reputation. An extended version of the album (subtitled "Legacy Edition"), celebrating its tenth anniversary, was released on August 23, 2004, and peaked at number 44 in the UK. Grace re-entered the albums chart in Australia at number 44 for the week of January 29 to February 5, 2007, 13 years after its original release date. It is currently certified 8× platinum in Australia. The album has been cited by critics and listeners as one of the greatest albums of all time.

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This is a beautiful album, made tragic by Buckley’s untimely death. Lilac Wine is just beautiful and really highlights his vocal abilities and style. Last Goodbye is lovely. Hallelujah is the track that received the most attention and it was inducted into the Library of Congress National Recording Registry. It is a great song. I listened to this record a lot in the mid 90’s. In 2026 Buckley was nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the strength of this one album- maybe there is sentimentality at work given his death, but that’s still a great album.

Back in the nineties, when I had just turned sixteen, I worked in a supermarket with a bunch of older kids in their late teens and even early twenties. I was introduced to a lot of great music from some of those co-workers. One day, one of the guys came back from his lunch with a bag from Zhivago, our local music shop. When I asked him what he bought, he held up his copy of Jeff Buckley’s Grace and cryptically said “Jeff Buckley: The man who walked into the Mississippi and never came back.” I was intrigued. As soon as I could, I bought the album myself, and it very quickly became one of my all-time favourite albums. I couldn’t get over his voice. The control he has over his vocals are absolutely unmatched by any other male singer I’ve ever heard in my entire life. He controlled the intensity of a song with the volume, timbre and ferocity of his voice in a way that I’ve never encountered before or after. He fearlessly leaned into his falsetto high notes on songs like the haunting “Corpus Christi Carol”, while other songs showed how he could turn from soft and fragile to a snarling gruff and roar in an instant. His voice is an obvious one to focus on, but what’s equally astonishing about this genius is his guitar playing. Songs are built from strange, intricate chord voicings, little melodic figures and constantly shifting embellishments, all making for some fascinatingly original music. You really can’t categorise his stuff at all. It was both completely fresh, original and unique, while somehow remaining very accessible and easy to listen to. But it’s the combination of all of this otherworldly musical talent with his uncompromising visionary songwriting that makes this album so special. A delicate, fragmented riff textured with harmonics starts off the beautiful “Mojo Pin”. Everything slowly and subtly builds up and up in intensity, Buckley’s voice and guitar working together to explode at the end of the second chorus. He does the same build-up in the gorgeous title track “Grace” and the sublime, gospel-influenced “Lover, You Should’ve Come Over”. It’s an insane run of songs from start to finish in this absolute masterpiece, and I could spend days talking about all of the amazing details of each and every one, but I’ll spare you and focus on three tracks in particular. As an angsty sixteen year old, “So Real” stuck out to me immediately. It’s eerie, dark, and ominous. It creates an uneasy feeling, like something sinister is coming. And it does, in the form of that incredible anti-solo of noise, dissonance and despair. What follows is a moment of silence and Buckley’s whisper of “I love you, but I'm afraid to love you”. Incredible stuff. It’s hard to make a Leonard Cohen song sound even better than the original. But that’s exactly what Jeff manages with “Hallelujah”. The fragile and intricate guitar arrangement is incredible, particularly during the intro and the quiet moment when everything else falls away for that solo. It's the song you take pride in playing “properly” rather than just mindlessly strumming the chords like so many buskers would (causing my blood to boil as I walk past them on the street). His voice again is the instrument that composes and conducts the intensity of the song, rising and falling in volume and intensity from soft spoken to full roar, with an ambience that feels like it's being performed in the vastness of an ancient cathedral. With the recent passing of Irish legend Glen Hansard, a lot of stories started circulating. One I’d never heard about until recently was how instrumental Hansard was in helping Buckley get started. He was apparently working as a guitar tech for the Commitments on their U.S. tour, and became very good pals with Glen over their mutual love of Dylan and Van Morrison. When a friend of Hansard’s asked if he could wrangle getting the Commitments to play his small Irish bar, Glen arranged instead for himself and Jeff to play. That Irish bar was Sin-é, the venue where Buckley would go on to be discovered, after a residency made him known and revered. I love the Irish connection. Before he released Grace, he somehow ended up playing the Trinity College Ball in 1992, and performed a solo gig in Whelan’s in ‘94. There are tales of him staying with his A&R rep’s parents’ house in Dublin, sitting around the kitchen table watching the Late Late Show on a Friday night. He was a monumental loss to the world. I didn’t know of him until after his death. Or as my co-worker poetically put it: after he walked into the Mississippi and never came back. We’ve heard snippets of the interesting musical direction he was going down with the recordings that were released as “Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk”. My god, what I’d give to hear what that would have sounded like. Around the time that I first discovered Jeff Buckley, I started going to bars and clubs. It was the nineties and you’d have to put up with some terrible manufactured pop and dance music on a night out usually. But imagine my delight to discover a club called “Cuba”, that was randomly co-owned by Huey from the Fun Lovin’ Criminals, where they played all of the music I loved at the time. Everything from Queens of the Stone Age to Pixies to Rage Against the Machine, and yes, you guessed it, Jeff Buckley. The song “Last Goodbye” and Cuba are forever linked together in my memory. It was a staple of every DJ set, every single night there. And always welcomed by a dash to the dancefloor. The iconic bluesy slide guitar intro still causes goosebumps on my skin today. The gorgeous verse melody is punctuated with Eastern-influenced orchestration before pounding into that intense middle part that rocks so damn hard. And it breaks off into the glorious “Kiss me, please kiss me. Kiss me out of desire, baby, not consolation”. What a perfect song. We spent so much of our late teens and early twenties upstairs in Cuba. It became an important haven for us during that time. I even have a bit of the drywall that had come off as a souvenir of the place, because I’m a sentimental loon. I wasn’t still going to clubs when Cuba closed down, but I heard that the very last song they played was “Last Goodbye”.

Good easy listening. Just making me want to sleep, though. Not sure if this is peak music or absolute trash because it makes you try to do something that makes you unable to hear it called "sleeping" and also has loud f**king rock. Mojo Pin is a good example of this.

10s across the board!

A triumph of a debut for a man that could have been an all timer.

This Singer-Songwriter album feels like sitting in a dimly lit theatre while an intensely emotional performer pours his heart out onstage, yet somehow never manages to reach me in the audience. Jeff Buckley's voice rises from fragile whispers to soaring, dramatic cries, accompanied by ringing guitars, deep bass and swelling arrangements that seem determined to create emotional depth. But instead of drawing me into this intensity, the music leaves me feeling increasingly distant. The songs aim for something profound, yet the emotional gestures seem to disappear into a void, neither engaging me as background music nor giving me enough to connect with as an intense listening experience. Even the dramatic crescendos fail to bridge the distance. I remain an observer watching someone express enormous feelings without ever making me feel them myself.

One of my fave albums ever!!

Jeff Buckley’s father Tim recently hit this list with one of his albums. Is this the first (only?) father & son entries on the list? Anyhow, this was the only album from Jeff before he died. It took awhile for me to warm to this one, but overall it was pretty decent. Most of the sings are reasonably mellow, but there are a few rockers. Better than expected but not quite four stars.

Here's the baby Buckley. I didn't realise he only had the one album; makes sense why it became so very popular (sort of a Nick Drake situation). 'Grace' is one of the rare songs where I like the music (which is nice, very hopeful) better than the vocals. It's on the Rolling Stone Top 500 list, so I've heard it many times before and still have not added it to any playlists, which means... I must not like it that much. 'Last Goodbye' is on my liked songs list though! Looking back I'm not sure what the difference is, because it's very similar to 'Grace', maybe it was just on the radio so much that I conflated it with Pearl Jam and now associate it with 90s alt-rock. And there are strings! The rest of the songs* are pretty similar. Fine, delicate even, but his vocals aren't anything special to me (in terms of how much I like to listen, that is; I'm not saying he's not talented). The cover of 'Hallelujah' being by far the most lauded version of the song also annoys me, both on the traditional "Leonard Cohen's version is better, and original" level but also on the "there are 7 billion covers of this song and at least some of them are also better" level. I know this because I used to have an iTunes playlist of Hallelujah covers in the triple digits! It's my area of expertise! Still, it is a good song and I appreciate that JB popularized it for so many people, and it's probably in the top 25% of cover versions, anyway. *Except 'Eternal Life', which is different in a bad way. Good job emulating Led Zeppelin though! Interesting to see 'Corpus Christi Carol' was arranged by Britten, one of BBC Proms' most celebrated guys. Language observation: "because it brings me back you" is surely unacceptable to many (I allow me it though). Highlights: 'Last Goodbye', 'Hallelujah' Lowlight: 'Eternal Life'

His voice is great! "Dream Brother" stays with me.

Phenomenal. Swooning, heady (like lilac wine?) vocals and lyricism mixed with fantastic dynamic guitar work, and drums kind of stand out to me too - not in a showoffy kind of way but always complements the song Clear best version of Hallelujah, I also love Mojo Pin (especially when the aggressive guitar/drums kick in), title track, so real, that grungey sounding one, lover you should have come over, and there's not a single track that I'm waiting to be over. Maybe Corpus Christi Carol is the worst track and even that is a great vibe Imagine what he’d have made with a bit more time. Dolby Atmos mix made for a very enlightening listen, thanks Apple Music Did not like AI Jeff bobbing back and forth, not thanks Apple Music

A canon event in everyone’s lives is hearing the song Hallelujah for the first time during the movie shrek, a song so perfect it could never be topped. Until, 6 years earlier in 1994 Jeff Buckley decided to release his cover of the song, a rendition so powerful and passionate I can’t even remember what the shrek version sounds like and had gaslit myself into thinking they were one and the same. Enough people have spoke about this version of the song being the peak performance of this song, what stands out most to me is how different it is from the original. The Leonard Cohen version sounds almost alien to this, despite still being a good song, it’s impossible not to compare the two and be disappointed by Cohens version. Hallelujah isn’t even the best song on this album though. In my eyes that title belongs to So Real, although Grace and Lover, You Should’ve Come Over are very close behind it. When I first heard this album I had that song on repeat like crazy. The little riffs in the background on the acoustic guitar were honestly the best thing I’d ever heard. Forget Her off of the bonus tracks is 100% worth finding and listening to if it isn’t on your streaming platform of choice by default (it’s the only version of the album available on Qobuz). I do struggle to understand and appreciate Corpus Christi Carol though, I know it’s another cover, but it always just takes me out of the flow of the album. Still a five though. 5

Bit waily

I’ve heard his cover of Hallelujah before and absolutely loved it. Never listened to the full album though. It’s got a borderline Radiohead like sound to it. And apparently Thom Yorke was influenced by him. It’s a genuine shame he was lost so soon. Based on this record alone, he had so much talent. His vocals are great, everything is beautifully composed, insanely impressive guitar work, and it wasn’t like anything of its time. This is a really special album.

No notes. The goat. RIP king

A totally unique singer, a band on the top of their game and a great collection of original songs and covers equals a fantastic album. What's not to like about this album. One of the greatest losses to music and he never probably reached full potential but what an album to leave.

What a hauntingly beautiful album. Some of the most soulful songwriting, vocal performances and instrumentation on any album ever. Seriously, this album is one of the most emotion-filled experiences ever, and it is insane that these songs came out in the 90s. What an album, 10/10.

surprose me with how kinda different it gets . like sure lover you should have come over is like, good . but that was the only one i had heard beforehand so i went into this expecting like that vibe the whole time all bombastic and such but no man ! the riff from so real for real sounds like some slint shit and that's awesome!! eternal life is all grungy like i went into it expecting like an acoustic mopefest, which i probably would have still liked because i did like the acoustic mopey songs, but naww it rocks . #RockOn but also #MopeOn . lots of diversity and range in this one folks mandatory hot take lover you should have come over is good but it's not THAT good there's at least like five better ones on here . in fact i blame that song for me not listening to this sooner why isn't mojo pin the one that blew up ?? hellooo????

Like the mood But not favourite

Soulful with a bluesy rock sensibility. Unique and haunting vocals with dark, moody original music as well as a classic cover. Definitely adding to my Playlist. Album highlights: Lilac Wine and Hallelujah.

Rating: 4.9/5 Short Review: God, that voice. Jeff Buckley goes from a delicate whisper to something absolutely devastating without making it feel forced. The guitars are gorgeous, the atmosphere is haunting, and there’s so much emotion packed into every song. Occasionally dramatic to the point of excess, but when it works, it’s breathtaking. Favorite Track: Lover, You Should’ve Come Over

An old favourite

Man, what a shame we lost this man way too early.

10/10 album, behöver jag ens motivera??

Sounds like his old man! Of course would’ve had some great albums I reckon

5 stars no notes

Boring...

da is nie slicht, ik hoor da gewoon nie graag

He was such a powerful singer. The title track, Kiss Me is the hit, all of this album reminds us of what could have been. This is not a perfect record, but Lover Come Over makes it almost perfect. Great record.

I love this album. Beautiful, raw, emotive rock. Great production, gorgeous vocal. I love the rise and fall. 5/5

I have very little patience for romance, which is saying something because this album achieves the remarkable feat of making love songs sound bearable. More than that, there's really artistry involved here with some needy melodies and an astonishing vocal performance by Jeff Buckley through the album. The album is certainly front loaded with the best tracks hitting you first. Mojo Pin might be one of the more entrancing songs of the 90s period.

I really enjoyed the novel The Bell Jar. It's a poignant dark comedy that, unfortunately, the most distinctive things about it is its inability to get out of the shadow of the author's actual death shortly after writing it. It's similarly a shame how hard it is to experience this album as Jeff Buckley intended. Every song has these echoes of being a meditation on death that works hauntingly sometimes (Hallelujah, Lover, You Should’ve Come Over) and is entirely distracting at others (Eternal Life). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before *You Die* may invoke death in the title does not usually so sharply serve as a memento mori as this. I've repeatedly read participants of this project voice two claims: 1) they did not need to hear some particular album before they died, in fact (typically one they disliked) 2) There is no such album, that one MUST listen to before you die, regardless of its quality. But what is true is that we must do something with our brief time on this planet. And enriching my life with an album a day is certainly time well spent. Today more than most.

Album : 43/1089 Songs known going in : 2/11 favourite song : hallelujah rating : 4/5 notes: corpus christi carol is some baulders gate ahh music

The emotion here just makes it, smooth. Loved the back half of this Playlist add: “Lover, You Should’ve Come Over” but arguments could be made for “Eternal Life” or “Dream Brother”

4/5. Lots of ink has been spilled about this album and its artist Jeff Buckley whose life was cut unfortunately short. Whether that be the beautiful power of a song like “Lover, you should’ve come over” or the decades of discourse over whose version of “Hallelujah” is better between him and Leonard Cohen. So with so much already said on this album I’ll keep my take simple, which is damn that boy can SING.

Undeniably good, but it’s immensely elevated by his angelic cover of Hallelujah. Without it, I would have considered it somewhat forgettable and given it a 3.

First listen, thanks, awesome.

I know Jeff Buckley’s version of Hallelujah. It is amazing. I am looking forward to hearing the album. This is an average album. Except for Hallelujah none of the songs stand out. Buckley’s voice is okay but it is a little whiny. His style is singer-songwriter. Guitar is the principal instrument. A lot of the songs seem to be about death. Except for Hallelujah this is an average album. Three stars.

Restarting The Artist’s Way today and thought let me restart this project too. I will take this as my sign. perfect album no notes 10/10.

just wish there was more! no-one will ever cover lilac wine quite that well again

oh hey its hallelujah guy!

Add it to the list of surprise fives that keep me coming back to this site. Tough to put in to words the kind of emotion that's in this album, which is probably why I'm not a famous songwriter. I've heard "Hallelujah" so many times throughout my life but this version was like hearing for the first time again. Incredible stuff.

Beautiful, just beautiful

Yearning: The album. It's good.

Hauntingly beautiful

Didn’t really enjoy it tbh

Truly one of the greatest albums of all time. Mix is perfect btw

Decent album, but anyone covering Hallelujah gets minus star

There are certain albums or songs that will always define people in your mind. No matter how long it's been since the first connection, it will always stick as a staple of who they are in your head. For me, this album defines my girlfriend specifically the early stages of our relationship. I had heard of this for a long time before she recommended it to me, but it wasn't until she said she was listening to it that I decided to give it a shot. Each song holds its own significance for me, whether its Lover You Should've Come Over when things were good, or Last Goodbye and Forget Her (which I can't believe wasn't on the original release) when things were bad. It even bleeds into other phases of my life, with songs like Hallelujah and Dream Brother. But every time I listen to this album, I remember December 2024, when we were just starting over. I remember our first real talk after we decided we were better as friends, I remember the time without her there. This album is indicative of what makes music so powerful. Favorites: Last Goodbye, Hallelujah, Dream Brother (and Forget Her but I'm not counting it cause technically it wasn't on the album and they only added it on streaming later)

Decent. Really ambitious. Doesn't always 'make it'.

I have listened and loved this album. Encapsulates my longing and heartbreak so well. His voice is an incredible and intimate experience. Every song has a place and curates deep-seated feelings in love, and loss of it. An amazing album to listen to over and over again while you think about lives never lived and love never realised.

Never participated in the Jeff Buckley moment. I feel like his actual career is overshadowed by the sad story of his death and the eerie parallel with his father's death. This album is ok. It failed throughout to engage me. Hallelujah and Buckley's preferred mode converge perfectly on his version here. I think that arises from their shared theatricality. Which I don't like in either case. So ... two things that are not for me get together and converge seamlessly to make something a lot of people love. But ... I got restless and skipped to the next song on every one of these. Hallelujah included.

I really expected to like this a lot more than I did. Every song was so BIG this was just exhausting to listen to. It's obvious Buckley was bursting with talent but he really needed to allow a producer or manager rein him in somewhat. For some reason I had a very different idea of what Jeff Buckley was about and I found it hard to reconcile that with the reality of the album. This isn't really three stars for me but he's too talented for me to rate it two.

8/10 amazing vocals

Not my cup of tea

Dna for a lot of my favorites come from this

I loved listening to this album! He had a beautiful voice with so much emotion in it. The songs themselves feel complex and different. Absolutely stunning!

The main problem I have with Buckley jr is that he thought perfection meant drawn out high pitched squeals every single time and for me it comes up short and becomes extremely repetitive. Grace is a vey ordinary album. it's not good and never threatens to be good (not on an overall, consistent basis). Noticeably the three poorest numbers are written solely by Buckley and I think that is the most damning indictment. Its syrupy and mellowdramatic and prtentious, over-the-top and very unadventurous for me. The meandering elastic voice of Buckley after two listens works on my nerves and the music sounds like just about any band could've produced it. Predictable and outdated stuff.

Great sounding album

After hearing the first track, I thought this wouldn’t be a good album for somebody feeling depressed, and that feeling didn’t entirely go away. However, the title track, his cover of Hallelujah and Lover, You Shouldn’t Come Over did have a bit of spark and I might re-listen to these.

It was ok, this is favourite of my family, but I can't get too excited about it.

Escuché este album por primera vez hace dos años en uno de esos días que por como se dieron me los voy a acordar para siempre, y como empecé el album en un avión, lo escuché en estado pleno de concentración. Me acuerdo del instante que sonó Mojo Pin y de cómo me hizo sentir, no solo la propia canción me voló la cabeza sino que el album me hizo click al instante. El run de las primeras tres canciones es espectacular, Jeff Buckley tiene una forma de describir el dolor y sus sentimientos TAN poética. Y además de que tiene una voz preciosa, canta de una forma que expresa el dolor como no lo hace nadie más. Como guitarrista también es excelente, no escuché nada similar a las cosas que hizo. Se que Liz Fraser estaba muy enamorada de el y le dedico varias canciones por lo que me genera más cariño el propio album. Por más que algunas canciones tienen un ritmo mucho más desacelerado, yo considero que el balance de este album es perfecto. Que bueno que decidieron agregar Forget Her (que no estaba en el tracklist original) porque es de mis canciones favoritas. Entre mis partes favoritas del album, destaco: cuando entra la voz de Jeff en Mojo Pin, cuando en Last Goodbye dice "kiss me out of desire, not consolation" y la estrofa del final después del instrumental, cuando arranca la guitarra en Lover You Should've Come Over, el canto en coro de Dream Brother y cuando empieza a gritar en Forget Her. Otro album perfecto y de mis favoritos, 10/10

His voice is expressive, beautiful, otherworldly. But this album has just never really reached me emotionally. Nothing stands out lyrically and I'm almost bored by the music at times. Even Buckley's 'Hallelujah' isn't my favourite version. I can sort of see why so many people love this album, but I'm ready to stop trying to love it myself.

Utterly fantastic. I missed out on this album when it came around because I heard "Hallelujah" and gave it a pass based on that. With all due respect, he sings it well, the guitar sounds great, but that song can get in the bin. Turns out it's the least interesting song on this album. I usually don't listen to music as emotional statements of purpose, but sometimes I can see the vision, where the singing and the music all coalesce into something greater than the sum of their parts. He can be singing in an ethereal falsetto above a haunting melody at one point, and sound like Roger Plant raging above a squalling sea of guitars and thundering drums at another, sometime on the same song, and it all works. I'm babbling right now and I definitely need to come back and give this a more cogent review, but the upshot is, this is great. Can't wait to give it another listen. 6 stars.

I love this album. I know it can feel a little disjointed but i enjoy the left hooks it takes (like eternal life, especially coming out of Corpus Cristi Carol). Jeff buckley did well at straddling the line between soulful and sad and angry. I love his voice and though the instrumentals arent necessarily the most groundbreaking but i do think some of the production on this album is a bit ahead of the 90s. Like a poppier james blake. Ill always be heartbroken that we wont be able to see what else Buckley would do with music. I think there was so much creativity that this album just touched the surface of. Maybe objectively its lower but this album will always be a 5 to me. Favorites include Lover You Should Have Come Over (duh), Mojo Pin, and Dream Brother

This is like my fourth time through this album and definitely the most I've enjoyed it, though I still don't think I want to hear any of these songs in isolation. Such amazing guitar work and post-punk sounds to pull out even more emotion from every ballad. Fizzles out in the last few songs but good album Highlights: "Mojo Pin", "So Real"

it was so real🤣🤣🤣

I started playing in the morning and felt so alive. I was quite numb due to work and tiredness and this made me grab a croissant and open my old Egon Schiele art album. Beautiful record, glad i finally listened to Jeff Buckley

Oldies goodies.

Amazed by this album. Hallelujah and Corpus Christi Carol are probably my least favorite songs, but everything else is near perfect. A true tragedy that we lost him so soon and with only one album under his belt. I wish we could've known what else he would put out into the world.

bangery, szczególnie so real i lover you should have come over

Instant petica i razlog što sam uopšte upalila ovu listu ikad. Jer mi je Hallelujah najmrža pjesma ikad, onda sam jednom odlučila odslušati album, i nisam mogla sebi doći. Remek-djelo čisto, osim Hallelujah. Pa kontam koliko mi se još takvih albuma skriva, gdje znam pjesmu-dvije i ništa drugo a postoji nešto daleko bolje. Tako divan album da ću prokomentarisati pjesmu po pjesmu: Mojo Pin - najnevjerovatnija struktura pjesme, mislim da nema nikakvog smisla ali tačno se osjeti katarza na svako slušanje, čim sam je čula kad sam prvi put slušala album znala sam da ovdje postoji nešto magično, zauvijek jedna od najdražih pjesama s albuma Grace - imam jednu malu zamjerku, pred kraj jednom kad kaže "it reminds me of the pain I might leave..." dodan je neki efekt na glas koji nikako nije bio potreban, da toga nije i ovo bi bila bukvalno savršena pjesma, jedna od onih koje su trebale biti veći hit od Hallelujah Last Goodbye - e ovo je trebao biti najveći hit s albuma, bukvalno stvorena za hit singl i ne razumijem kako i zašto je nisam nikad čula prije nego što sam se odlučila na slušanje, ovo je jedna od najboljih alt-rockastih emotivnih pjesama ikad, također veoma zabavna za svirati na basu Lilac Wine - sušta suprotnost od muzike koju inače volim a opet dotakne svaki ćošak srca, svaki put kad je slušam posvetim se u potpunosti So Real - još jedna nevjerovatno katartična, ovaj čovjek je bio majstor onoga što sam jednom pročitala i zapisala da je rekao za svoju muziku: "shaping sound to fit a feeling" jer meni je inače muzika rijetko emotivna a ovdje osjetim cijeli spektar emocija u skoro svakoj pjesmi, valjda se tu vidi utjecaj ustad Nusreta i sl. jer ovo je neki viši nivo od ostale muzike Hallelujah - želim da se ubijem svaki put kad čujem ovu pjesmu, u digitalnim verzijama je obavezno preskačem ali na ploči ne ide tako pa presaburam i nikad ne mogu da vjerujem koliko je još ostalo, isto kao da ne zna završiti, ovu pjesmu krivim što sam dugi niz godina živjela bez Grace-a jer je 100% kriva; nedavno se zapitah zašto mislim da je LYSCO 6. pjesma na albumu, zato što meni jeste 6., 6. uvijek preskačem. mislila sam da ću naučiti da je gotivim ali je fizički nemoguće, malo mi pomogne kad zamislim da se Mr. Bean svaki put dere hallelujah Lover, You Should've Come Over - nisam opsjednuta ovom pjesmom kao tik tok i moderni ljudi ali da je divna pjesma stoji Corpus Christi Carol - da li je bila neophodna za album? ne. prvi put sam se prepala da je neki nastavak haleluje jer ta pjesma jednostavno neće da umre ali sad mi ne smeta jer dođe kao vokalni masterclass i predah pred bombastičnu... Eternal Life - nije mi žao što na pravi album nije dospjela "road version" jer se ova ljepše uklapa, inače prva pjesma koja mi se potpuno svidjela kad sam prvi put slušala album jer najviše liči na muziku koju inače volim Dream Brother - trnci svaki put. i nakon milion slušanja. a tek u izvedbama uživo. ovo je nešto najbolje na svijetu Forget Her - ok nije mi na ploči (inače, ovo je album kod kog je prošlo najmanje vremena od dana kad sam ga otkrila do dana kad sam ga kupila, slušala sam ga svakodnevno koji dan i prošlo možda mjesec i išla sam na put i rezervisala između ostalog ovaj album da mi sačuvaju u radnji) ali moram je svaki put odslušati, po mom skromnom mišljenju druga najbolja pjesma s proširene varijante albuma i znam da svi ostali vole Hallelujah ali ja pošto mrzim smatram da su trebale biti zamijenjene i da bi mi ovaj album bio 9.9999999/10 da je upala Forget Her. I ovako mi je dosad najbolji album s liste (i koliko znam vrlo je malo kandidata koji bi ga mogli prestići). Grehota što nismo dobili još albuma. Ovo je nenadmašno ali zauvijek ćemo se svi pitati šta je moglo biti...

I can see why people like this album. His voice is able to carry much emotion through the project

Not for me

Ótrúleg plata í raun og afar sorgleg sagan hans Jeffs. Mörg frábær lög á plötunni og hún er ein af stóru plötunum úr níunni.

Óumdeilt meistaraverk og sorgarsaga.

Oh Yeah, well this is a 5. My husband actually hates this whole thing. But what can I say? I know this album so well it’s a sing along. Jeff is the rare artist that can do covers and standards and make them completely his. And his originals are masterpieces. 5 Boolean: True

I promise I'm not just giving this a 4 because Hallelujah is on it

Good if you're in the mood

yep yep yep, great guitar, great vocals, so much emotion

RIP Jeff Buckley

my beloved Jeff Buckley

This is a great album. What a great singer. My favorite songs were Mojo Pin, Hallelujah, and Lover You Should've Come Over. Sad to see that he passed away and this is his only album.

Great album. One of my favorite songs ever on this one.

This is one I've heard before. Nothing has changed, I still think the guy was fantastically talented singing and playing wise, however I stand by thinking this seems a little unfocused and not quite my thing.

Okay album. No further comments.

Absolutamente fantástico, pero soy muy estricto con los 5, sería un 4,5 seguro

5/5 no notes just a beautiful album start to finish

I've loved his Hallelujah all my life and loved Lover You Should've Come Over for many years now. I don't understand how I ever didn't get the rest of this album, this shit is perfect

Heartbreaking fucking album

life changing

Man's got a voice.

Unironically one of the most hauntingly beautiful albums I've ever heard, can't believe it's taken me this long to finally listen to this.

stole this from my parents’ cd collection, also just got my first tim buckley album last week woah… one time i was sitting in my room at night listening to so real and i remember feeling like i was in the outro scene of an episode of house

Really expressive voice. The quieter bits and the heavier guitars work well together.

It's a perfectly nice album. I'm mostly impressed with his guitar sound and the overall mood and atmosphere on the album. The sound is very rich, with lots of deep layers of sound, nice minor keys and so on. He has a nice voice of course, but it is a bit over-dramatic. I know that's what everyone loves about him, but I find it a bit much, and even a bit annoying at times.