Greetings From L.A.

39 minutes is a long time to scream “I have sex”. Surprised there’s no cleverly innuendo named track ‘Lick my tube’

Each song has more offensive lyrics than the next. The racism and chauvinism age poorly.

I hate it

I was going to give it 2 stars, but then 'Devil Eyes' made me want to puke.

I'm not a huge Tim Buckley fan. I like some of his earlier records much more than this one. The singing style here begins to grate on me after awhile. It's like some kind of carnival ride throwing you about this way and that. I find it exhausting. I also find the whole raunchy thing he's got going off-putting.

Forgive a spoiler for the second season of the Sopranos: in his final moments, the character Big Puss simulates cunnilingus to his friends, soon to be his murderers. A moving scene. Greetings From L.A.’s main revelation is that this performance is a discrete homage to Tim Buckley’s lascivious scat on the song “Devil Eyes”, soon after the words “do the monkey rub”. This is representative of the album’s schoolboy horny, dick-windmilling vibe. Too ridiculous to offend, worth it for the sheer wtf and the band’s bounce and grit. Hong Kong Bar has been added to my playlist of 70’s burn-out freak blues tracks.

This album sounds so claustrophobic. Tim Buckley sounds like a white guy trying to be Bill Withers with a stuffy funky boogie. On top of that, his voice just kind of pisses me off. Pass!

Bro sounds like Barney from the Simpsons in the earlier parts of the album. This was pretty annoying and dude seems like a real POS.

He seemed like a shit person but I really liked the funky-ass album. Don’t emulate your heroes, kids.

Well – that was unfortunate… Sex-Funk huh??? So this was my 2nd Tim Buckley album and I’m only about 40 albums in, so not sure what I did to deserve this… I will say that his 1967 “Hello & Goodbye” effort was the first album on the 1,001 that I would have given a “0” to, as it had no redeeming qualities whatsoever, and was pretentious as hell… 1972’s “Greetings From LA” is definitely different from that previous album – so at least there’s that, and for the most part – some of the musical jams weren’t all that awful, and certainly better than “Hello & Goodbye”, but the lyrics were simply abysmal… It sounds like this departure from his early folk work really pissed off his initial fan base, and not quite sure what other fan base he was looking to appeal to with this record… While some of the vocal sections were interesting at times – as a whole however, it was simply a hot mess… Lyrically, it’s as if he didn’t bother to write any – and just sang, moaned, or screamed whatever came to mind while in some drug-induced state… "Move With Me", "Get On Top", "Devil Eyes" - just a frickin' nightmare,,, Actually surprised that he didn’t have someone give him a blow-job like Jim Morrison did, while recording the song “LA Woman” in order to pull out some degree of authenticity… Anyways, not as dreadful as the “Hello & Goodbye” – so not the "Animal House" Belushi grade point average, but maybe tad higher like a 0.25 if I could go there… Was really puzzled why “Hello & Goodbye” was on this list, and now even more puzzled that this one is on here as well… Begrudgingly giving it a 1 since I’m not allowed to go any lower, as this was simply a train wreck…

- more instruments than neils young :harvest: but still boring....

garbage.

do not like

I am fascinated with the music of Tim Buckley. Buckley has an unusual, rich, caramelly voice. He hits his high notes with a wail and such intensity, in a way that sounds, dare I say almost feminine? It's really cool. The album is full of high energy songs, sexy, bluesy concoctions with hodgepodge instrumentation including organs, congas, sax, guitar, also strings?! Love it. The horndog lyrics haven't aged especially well, but I'm not bothered by it. I'm actually impressed how sexually open the lyrics are. I can't even imagine how they were received at the time. Fave songs: Make It Right, Sweet Surrender, Get on Top

Tim is the inferior Buckley.

Yep

Not my bag

Well. Little Timmy got all drugged out and horned up since the last time we heard from him, didn’t he? Haha. Good Lord! I did not expect to hear this dude speaking in tongues and talking about licking toe jam on this record, but I wholeheartedly approve. 👍 (But what’s up with all the double artist dipping on this “random” generator so far? We’ve still got 900-some records to go. Spread this shit out!)

Shut up, Tim

Really great album. Surprised more people weren't listening to this in the 70s (imo the most boring period of rock). Funky, sexy, funny and rockin. Some of the sexier lyrics havent aged very well but I think that adds to the art and showing of the times.

This is gooood

Tim's son be like "My name Jeff" amirite boys? Tim sounds like a bit of a freak which I love, Move With Me is a good vibe so far. This is a head bopper. Get on Top is super groovy, also he's so real for that. Amirite boys? Woman on top amirite? Where are my Detroiters enjoyers (https://youtu.be/JH-D5jShqWE?si=u3IRqO5Mio5Vzwe9)? Anyway, I'm pleasantly surprised by how much I'm enjoying this so far. Also he hit the high voice and said "Well, like a bitch dog in heat mama we had those bed springs a squeakin' all day long" I don't even know if you can say that Tim but I'm not gonna stop you because that shit was fire. Also he starts rambling about talking in tongues then acts like he's eating out the microphone this dude's a fucking freak I love it. I didn't know you could be this horny in 1972 I thought they'd put you in an institution. Tim Buckley walked so modern day gooners could run. Tim opens up Sweet Surrender with "Now you wanna know the reason why I cheated on you? Well, I had to be a hunter again. This little man had to try to make love feel new again" and I would be lying my ass off if I told you I was surprised. You can't keep a freak like this on a leash. Moral grandstanding aside I'm really loving this. Tim has pretty crazy range, and he's not afraid to play around with his voice and go all over the map when he's hitting notes. He goes high, he gets gruff, he's got a very charismatic way of singing that's super fun to listen to. One major takeaway I've had from listening to all these old albums through this challenge is that they used to have way more fun doing this shit. They would try things, and sometimes it didn't work, but it was at least different. Sweet Surrender is a really beautiful track. Nighthawkin' is hilarious, the whole premise is essentially that Tim lies to somebody about serving in the military so that he doesn't get stabbed. He does say some unsavory stuff about what he wants to do to a Vietnamese person before dawn but in his defense he's quoting the old vet singing in the backseat of his taxi. He still didn't have to say all that though if I'm being real. My takeaway is that he's anti-Vietnam War but it's admittedly not very clear. Devil Eyes is more of the same but in a good way. Groovy, jazzy instrumental with Tim just doing whatever the fuck over it. I love when he just starts foaming at the fucking mouth on the mic. Just starts making noises. It's genuinely so much fun. Hong Kong Bar kind of came and went, it's a nice slower song but I like Tim at his most voracious and ravenous. Enough of this tame shit let's close out the album with a freak show. Perfect, he's talking about getting beat whipped and spanked by a woman. He said "I wanna be your victim, your sweet little victim of love". Kinky bastard. I thoroughly enjoyed this album. Tim was gone too soon, would have loved to see what else this guy could've done if he didn't die at 28. Tragic family really but he did put this banger of an album out before he went. Strong 4, could see myself giving it a 5 but I'm reeling it in. This was fire. I know some of y'all absolutely hated this record and I think you're just afraid of a horny man with a microphone.

Like narration of a 70's porn flick. Lyrics aside, the music and the quirky vocals are excellent. I will listen to any album with Chuck Rainey playing funky bass which is why this get 4 stars rather than 2.5.

I was a little worried this was going to be some honky tonk bar band bullshit based off of the first track. On the back half of “Get on Top”, I’m reminded a bit of that late 70’s Can performance on German TV: they’re playing “Moonshake” off of Future Days (or maybe it’s “Don’t Say No” - same song, essentially), an exceptionally funky rendition. You may have seen the clip, they’re playing the funkiest shit you ever heard and they cut to the audience who is sitting there, perfectly still, with the exception of one college student who is causally bouncing his knee up and down to the beat. Its funny as hell and doesn’t do much to dispel the notion that the Germans are an extremely serious people. Sorry for the sidetrack, we’ll talk about Can another day… Greetings from LA sounds of its time, for sure, but it does enough to differentiate itself from its peers to make it a unique listening experience. It’s fun and funky, well produced and a little unorthodox; a worthy entry on this list.

Andy was teaching me about Tim Buckley before we started and I really enjoyed the phrase “sex funk”. This was a fun album!

This is pretty cool stuff. Love the rambling rock, sexually charged lyrics, occasional bluesyness, saxophones, and I even think I heard some bongos - its a full serving. Very surprised to read that Tim Buckley was most popular in the Twin Cities - “getting substantial play on KQRS”. Wikipedia also has an excellent descriptive that sums up the careers of Tim Buckley and many aspiring, yet unnoticed, talents: “Like most of his other albums, ‘Greetings from L.A.’ did not sell well”. 3.5 stars, and rounding up for the local history.

Enjoyed the bluesy 70s feel to the music. Prompted me to learn more about this artist online. Another who died too young. And, same for his son!

Great album, love the guitar and congas on these songs, very groovy. Standout tracks: Sweet Surrender, Devil Eyes, Hong Kong Bar

the ctrl+alt+del guy?!??

It’s ok. He does a lot of push and pull, which I didn’t like. Also in many songs, he went very nasal, which again I didn’t like. Music wise, not bad. Layered instrument is good. But nothing really catchy. It’s a low 3 for me.

"I'm Horny: The Album"

About 1/3 of this is pretty good, quite different style from the folk minstrel material I was familiar with. I'm not fully convinced by the UrghSexBuckley on display here, but "Move With Me", "Sweet Surrender" and "Make It Right" are entertaining. Beautiful cover brings home the 3*

Pentecostal racist rapist rock great backing band and I can here from where Jeff got his pipes

I won't be listening again in a hurry

Jeff definitely improved on his father.

Jesus Christ, Tim, please try to have some decorum. I'm not sure I've ever heard a more flagrantly horny record. Shoutout to him for siring the great Jeff Buckley, but, yeesh.

I can't recall what was my first awareness of Tim Buckley; via the (awesome) This Mortal Coil cover of 'Song to the Siren' or mid-80s Triple J listener poll of "sexiest songs ever", that included 'Get On Top' pretty high on the list. In the 1980s, Tim Buckley was a largely forgotten artist. His albums were largely hard-to-get, often deleted. And, frankly, I think he would have stayed that way if not for Jeff Buckley's career and the eerie echoes of their similar looks, voices and early deaths. (David Browne's book Dream Brother points out the ways in which their lives also contrast.). I do not know why the Greetings from LA album is on the list. It's well recorded and pretty great band (shout out to Venetta Fields, always happy to see her name on album credits), but this album is not Tim Buckley playing to his strengths. A deliberate play toward some sort of commercial appeal, this turgid white-boy "sex funk" is frankly embarrassing. I cannot think of anything worse than trying to get it on to 'Get On Top'. It's appearance in that poll suggests to me that Australians in the 1980s were not a particularly sexy people, because this song is just cringe. I have time for Tim Buckley's jazz-inflected folk rock, and he has a great voice, and he wrote and covered some great songs over his career. But not on this album. This is not good.

For the love of me, I couldn't figure out how an album that has a wiki entry that says "Like most of his (Tim Buckley) other albums, Greetings from L.A. did not sell well, although this is probably his best seller" made the list of something I should listen to before I die. Sure, it's got a 1972 Jim Morrison vibe to it but, c'mon, give me L.A. Woman and get this weak shit outta here.

Not what I was expecting from Tim Buckley after the other more introspective offerings. But here he kinda comes across as just wanging on about sex endlessly, and it sounds a bit like bad Doors songs. Half the time he sounds like a demented gibbon on acid - and not in a good way.

Caterwauling faux-funky bongo white guy shit. I can't believe how terrible this is.

This brings to mind the old Buckley’s cough syrup slogan. “It tastes awful, and it works.” Effective advertising if any mention of the common name “Buckley” awakens my mind like a Cold War era capitalist sleeper cell. Hoping this slogan doesn't reflect the list maker’s modus operandi in adding this album the pantheon of mandatory albums. That’s right folks, I’m begging the amorphous entity(s) who compiled this list for an album that indeed sounds good, and works as an entry on this list. Will Tim deliver? We once again don our bell-bottoms and travel to a time before female access to credit cards, in the year of 1972. Take us to LA Timmy B. Fuck. Riverboat song about adultery. Four minutes into hearing somebody and I know everything I need to. The worst guy at a wedding gets too drunk and sings what he remembers of the blues brothers 2 soundtrack. I wish the guy in the song killed him before I had to smell this medical waste barge wafting down a tributary of the Mississippi River. Hey guess what? They didn’t cut off that wedding guy and now he’s doing a Jim Morrison impression while trying to woo a married bridesmaid. Why would I (in any universe) want to hear about this man’s sexual exploits? Why? It’s a theme that is so pervasive in musical history and I simply can’t understand it. Are there good songs that have sexual themes? Yes. I can almost guarantee those songs weren’t explicit. Not that I follow this advice, but brevity is the soul of wit. Try subtlety and maybe an entirely new lyric set and also music, and voice and also don’t release it. Then we’re on to something. You know what. As heinous as adultery is, the other person in this song dodged a bullet. I can’t imagine anything less likeable than this song. I lack words to describe how much I hate this. Oh boy! More fake blues!! INSUFFERABLE WHITE GUY BLUES DRINKING GAME - Now if the singer says any one of the following words - Boogaloo, Momma, Daddy, Redneck, ol’, or anything of the sort. Take a swig. Use bleach for best effects! I am mad at the band for playing behind this. This is another explicit sex song by the world’s least attractive moron. Aren’t you excited?? If this guy was around 30 years later, he’d absolutely be buying cocaine off of the friends of the minor he was courting and performing horrible Limp Bizkit covers in bars his girlfriend couldn’t get into. Are we serious with this? Reminiscing about fucking a teenager is not a point of relation, Tim. It’s a point of me wanting to quit listening to music. This will be my retirement. Here let me workshop a song from this album. Ok, let me channel my Grover from Sesame Street voice. Ahem. “Ahhh girl I’m your daddio and you’re 14 and I’m drunk on rum, how about I engage in inappropriate physical touching and sing about how that makes me an artist. Rahhhhh gurrrrl that’s right I’m your daddio and you’re my sweet child and I swear this Jim Morrison gig is going to pay off some day just wait ahhh.” I hate almost everything about this with a depth I thought unreachable. While the band was good at points, I’m the most disappointed in them. Why? Becausewhat they did was act as a vehicle for this drugged out, talentless moron to detail his laundry list of sex crimes to the applause of near deaf weirdos who comprise the music listening public. I sometimes hate living on this planet. Death does not create depth. Can we not see a project for what it is before and after the demise of somebody? This guy needed to be checked into rehab/jail, and he wasn’t, so we got this album, his death, and the ensuing brain dead applause from the internet’s most self-assured dolts. Now, I’m sure if he WAS checked into rehab, we would’ve gotten more bad music (with a fraction of the praise) a multitude of allegations, and a set of Botox influenced pro-Donald Trump TikToks in about 50 years time. If this album apparently matters, so do lyrics and these were some of the worst I’ve ever read. A complete lack of self-awareness surrounding each disgusting bar. Greetings from L.A. is the sound of a male manipulators final wheeze. I look back to my starry eyed intro to this review and I can say without a doubt that this tasted awful, and unless the objective was to get me to hate music, it did NOT work. 0 HIGHLIGHTS: The Consequences of the Rockstar Lifestyle

His complete over-performance of the vocals just annoyed me. Over-shadowed anything nice there might have been in the music.

No conozco el trabajo de este cantante, pero se nota como un album de transicion.

Terrible vocal style - hated it

Not my favourite.

Meh

Essentially, did not listen. First tune failed to get my attention in the very least.

Fuck that Springsteen shit

Ça m'a pris des années avant d'apprécier Tim Buckley mais maintenant j'aime beaucoup. Cet album état définitivement dans ma liste d'écoute lors de notre dernière visite à Los Angeles en mars. Cet été, on est allé voir au Festival du film de Knowlton le docu "It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley" (2025) de Amy Berg. J'ai appris que Jeff était le fils délaissé de Tim. Ça ne faisait pas passer Tim sous un si beau jour... Vraiment bon docu, China pleurait à la fin.

Agréable découverte, j'étais pas sûr à la première écoute en faisant mon cassoulet de Thanksgiving. Mais ce matin j'ai trouvé ça super entraînant. Je pense que les premières écoutes en cuisinant ou en dînant c'est pas winner. 5 étoiles c'est pour dire j'ai envie d'y revenir.

Look the rest of the album is really fine, but Hong Kong Bar and Make It Right are just songs on a VERY different level.

"Move With Me" is a raucous, full band (including Gospel female backing vocals featuring Clydie King and Venetta Fields) treatment, rave up... some killer sax playing... having Chuck Rainey on Bass and Ed Greene on Drums, is quite the good thing to have in one's band... Tim Buckley wrote or co-wrote every song on this album... it didn't sell well... i'm pretty sure none of his records did... he is a tenor... and does some wild singing... and there are no "home runs" on this album... all the music and playing and writing and production are top notch... "Get On Top"... of me woman... lol... if i wrote that i'd be immediately arrested... but it's a cool song number two on this album... "Sweet Surrender" is a wild song... and i can see why, maybe, his music wasn't radio friendly... a lot of these songs, including this one, approach the seven minute mark... this is pretty complex music for a Rock and Roll record... and it takes an attention span to appreciate... some folks may be turned off by his voice... but, there is no doubt of it's range and technical ability... along with the total "letting go" that he does... let's just say... Tim Buckley... is IN TO IT... lol... he is not half ass-ing anything on this record... he wails like a banshee at times... it's riveting actually... "Nighthawkin'" is the shortest song on the record... and it rocks... some cool lead guitar by Joe Falsia... "Devil Eyes" features the obligatory "Sympathy for the Devil" congas and percussion... it's not a home run as i said before, but as i also said before... he is IN TO IT... "Hong Kong Bar" is a blues rock workout... and he gets down on it... this one and the closer "Make It Right" sound like they were recorded live in the studio... Chuck Rainey's bass sounding so cool... and right... horns rave it up... and Tim is still IN TO IT and wailing like a banshee... i must say... this IS an album you must hear before you die... and i give it FIVE stars... for sheer heart and originality"

Shouput to another track full of bangers

Perfect

Ok, ok this is sort of like CCR in my opinion. I’m hearing Grateful Dead jam outs, sort of. I’m not a Dead fan but from what I’ve heard, their jam outs sound the same. I’d say this is the more talented Buckley for sure. Oooooo maybe some Santana vibes as well. It’s blusey, folky, jammy and it just is a good fire side soundtrack. Choice cut: Hong Kong Bar

Absolutely love it. Makes me smile, makes wanna dance, makes me laugh. The performances are terrific. But what sets it apart is that it's interesting. He builds the album from the conventions of the day but manages to create something wholly unique. It makes you realize how banal so much music on this list is.

Tim Buckley was amazing and this is his best album.

Looks familiar, but I don't think I've ever seen this album before. The artist himself also sounds familiar. Ohh dam Jeff Buckley is his son, mm now I'm interested even more. No high hopes, but it can be short and sweet. First song, I like how funky it is, the intro was too good. Girls voices are well done. I'm enjoying this type of oldies apparently. Every second was so worth it, dam it's too upbeat not to like. Second song, kinda tropical intro. Mm love the backbeat, perfect for walking. His random vocal outbursts are mm fun, same as his gibberish björking around. Couldn't get bored of this shit even though lyrics are purely sexual and maybe irritating for some. Outro is amazing in headphones. Third song, dam he cheated now huh. Also song is less upbeat now, production gets much better onwards though. It progressed so we'll, I'm amazed even more now. The outro is the most outroest thing. His random vocals are so good, love em for some reason. 4th song, mm already a good start. This one's short hm. Probably my least favorite for now, it still bops tho. Also ladies appeared again mm. 5th song, back to the longer ones. I enjoy the intro having instrumentals that will somehow be enhanced with better beat in the later of the song, at least I hope that happens as it did in the preceding ones. He must be down bad making all them noises, having so much fun in the studio I'm guessing. 6th song, ngl this one has some moments that are fun to listen to. The backbeat is good, his voice well we can't do anything about that some don't like it, I don't mind it. This one has less production, but I kinda see through it, he wanted this about lyrics tho that's for sure. This one lasted for too much, but the chorus is worth it, it's so weirdly delivered I enjoy it. 7th song, daaaam the beat coming in after that mini talk. Mm kinda sentimental. Just as I was low-key bored, the chorus came in, violin is doing its job too well. This is one of the best songs here for sureee. The production is just too fucking good. I was between 4 and 5 with this one. But I liked every song and everyone actually offered something new, I'm happy with all of their little quirks, some had little lows but that's how albums work, especially on the first listen. I want more from him and apparently there is one at least, based on the reviews. Also because of those reviews, reading while listening, I thought I was dislike it soon enough, but mm it's good. Lyrics don't bother me, he's right there with Diamanda Galas with that vocal outbursts, and I fw her so he's fine in that category. Anyway, I liked him more than I expected.

Idk what type of music this was but it was great

Only one song on here that I wasn’t particularly fond of. The lyrics while pretty basic for its time comes second to its instrumentation and Tim Buckley’s vocals. Was not expecting this.

I didn’t listen to this

Great album! Reminds me of the doors in some ways. Listened to it twice.

Bangers with some horny posting

This was apparently the start of Buckley's "sex funk" era, and I've got to say I quite like it. The lyrics didn't register as being fantastically objectionable, unless you're some kind of puritan, perhaps a pearl-clutcher. He tries to pick up a girl in a bar who's married, and gets the shit kicked out of him. He gets his end away. He picks up hookers and likes to get spanked. Ooh, scandalous! The music is good. His voice is great. This will score highly from me.

Yes

Sweet surrender

Tim has some really fun tunes on this.

I feel I stumbled upon a backwoods after hours lounge. It’s a bit naughty, but the musicians are giving it their all, and I am totally captivated. I gave it three listens and I’ll be back for more soon!

Sex songs

10/10 damn, Tim Buckley really delivered such an amazing and diverse discography despite it being tragically short, it really did so much

What a strangely unique voice. Some questionable lyrics but man was this jammin. Reminded me a bit of Talking Heads which Im all for. Pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this album front to back. 9/10

A little groovy, nice guitar and instrumentals. His voice is great too. Tragic to find he died shortly after this album!

Love it. Tim Buckley had problems though, damn.

Monkey rub down under the sheets? WTF? Anyway. Lots of groove, a bit of wistfulness, some wanton lust and free spirit. A good sound, but perhaps a bit dated.

okay tim!

I thought I knew what to expect from Tim Buckley. But I didn’t expect a rock album dripping with backup gloriousness. The backup singers on that opening track “Move With Me” sounded right out of the Schoolhouse Rock “Verb” song. I loved this!!!

Funky

Amazing, i really really enjoyed this album.

Funk-rock. Me ha gustado bastante. Venga, le pongo un 5.

Nice

I thought this was really strong top to bottom. He had great presence and the band did a great job keeping the songs interesting musically. Better than the other Tim Buckley album we heard, which I also liked.

Perfect mix between folk blues and new wave. Excellent for musicians.

Excellent Rock/Blues album, reminiscent of the doors LA woman. Killer vocals with huge range. Funky, jamming instrumentals supporting lyrical styles from from detailed stories to wild howls to playful skat. Tight guitar work on the likes of Hong Kong bar. Not a bad song. All new to me. 4.5

Great mood music.

Sweet surrender is great. I like that sexy vibe of 70s. Obvious and naive.

Great voice, great songwriter

Funk-rock. Me ha gustado bastante. Venga, le pongo un 5.

I had never heard of this guy, but wow, this was fun as hell.

Muy bueno, en serio.

5/5 - I had heard of Tim Buckley but never listened to any of his catalog. This is a great album.

V good rocky album

Great album will definitely be added to my rotation

4.5

Great album. Each song needs a little bit to get going but all worth it

Le père de l’autre! J’ai aimé ça en écoute semi distraite mais je ne crois pas que j’y retournerais tant que ça

So Jeff Buckley's dad is a massive horndog. Tracks. Good sleazy blues if you're into that sort of thing. Better than I thought it would be.

great

Parts of this album goes harder than it has any right to. 7 ?s out of 10 lizard wizards

It’s been over a year since I reviewed a Tim Buckley album (Goodbye and Hello), and over two years since I reviewed Happy Sad (that review that says “Crappy/Bad” will randomly pop into my head and make me chuckle). I thought Happy Sad was fine, but I liked Goodbye and Hello quite a bit more. I’m hoping that I’ll enjoy Greetings From L.A. just as much as I enjoyed Goodbye and Hello, if not more. I’d place Greetings From L.A. between Tim’s other two albums on this list, but it’s closer to Goodbye and Hello in terms of quality. Like Goodbye and Hello, I thought Tim Buckley’s vocals on this album were great, and there were some excellent arrangements on this album as well. Of the eight songs here, I only thought one of them was a dud, and even though these songs all brought something unique and different to the table in terms of their sound, the psychedelic rock sound tied them all together nicely (Wikipedia says this album is closer to funk, which I strongly disagree with). Lyrically though, this album wasn’t nearly as good as Goodbye and Hello. There were some interesting themes to some of the lyrics on this album (more on that below) that just weren’t my jam. Those lyrics weren’t enough to take away from my enjoyment of the musical components, but enough to drag the overall album down a bit for me. I’ve included my notes for each individual song below: “Move With Me” started off fine, but I really liked it when the backing vocals kicked in. Tim’s vocals were great, and the piano and saxophone sounded really good too. Apparently, Tim enjoyed life’s carnal pleasures quite a bit though, and he’s not afraid to sing about his love for black women. That’s certainly an artistic choice to include in your lyrics. Is this whole album going to be about sex? Man, Tim guy loves to get laid and then sing about it. I do like the percussion and the organ on “Get On Top,” and it’s got a very fun sound overall. The vocals are great once more, and the bass line is slick. I love Tim’s little vocal fills are really fun too. We’re at “Sweet Surrender,” and Tim is batting a perfect 1.000 on sex songs on this album. His vocals are great once again though, and the string arrangement is excellent. Despite this variation in sound, this is still a really cohesive album. Second side of the album starts off with a big shift from the end of the first side, and I think that “Nighthawkin’” was the weakest song on the album. The vocals are good, but that’s it. Thankfully, “Devil Eyes” as better than Nighthawkin’. I liked the chord progression that was used, and the percussion was good too. The vocals and organ playing were great as well, and I was happy to hear more of those weird vocal fills. “Hong Kong Bar” was awesome. I loved the little blues guitar riff, and the handclaps add a raw feeling to the song that I enjoyed. And to close out the album, we’re back with another sex song. Well played Tim, I thought you’d gotten that out of your system on side one of this album. I do like the sound of this song though, and when the strings kick in, it sounded really great. There’s another batch of really good vocals to close this album out as well. Greetings From L.A. was short of five stars for me, but musically, it was great, and I really enjoyed Tim Buckley’s vocals. I’d never heard of Tim before I started this project, but I’m glad that I got to listen to three of his albums that all brought different things to the table.