Greetings From L.A.

I can hear where Jeff Buckley's voice comes from. The album is okay.

Buddy is overly freaked out. You know how when an attractive guy talks about sex it's cute, but if an ugly guy does it then it feels like sexual harassment. Yea... that's how this felt. If it were Maxwell or D'angelo's voice then maybe I wouldn't be so repulsed

Hmm, never heard of this guy before. Apparently, he has 3 list albums(I don't know why). This tries to approximate R&B/funk of the period-and does it so poorly it almost sounds like parody. Buckley was originally a folk artist as far as I read, so it makes sense that his voice is horrible for this type of music. It turns what would otherwise be an OK album into something annoying. Nothing about this aged well at all, and I don't see a reason to put this on the list.

the other one did it better lowkey

An uncharacteristic funky swerve from Buckley – not my favourite use of his voice, but kind of irresistible anyway. It's just so punchy and exuberant, and the fun ridiculousness almost doesn't outstay its welcome (the bit about licking toes did test me a little). By the end of it you do feel like he deserves a swat with a rolled-up newspaper, but he'd probably enjoy that, the cheeky bastard.

Cold shower, Tim?

Holy moly - this was hard work! I really dont get the reviews that say his and Jeffs voices are similar as I dont hear that at all. I think there was no need for this exploration into Tim Buckleys sex funk era - all made me feel a bit icky

In my teens I had a pretty intense Jeff Buckley phase (like a lot of music-ey people my age) which led to reading 'Dream Brother' and then investigating Buckley sr. I can't remember much about him other than me not really enjoying any of it, but also that Greetings From L.A. was the absolute nadir of everything I heard. And that still tracks, because this was abysmal, horny old nonsense. I'm pretty sure Happy Sad was the 'best' of the ones I heard which I guess is coming up at some point...the list does not need one Tim B album let alone three...

First track - wow is this the same Tim Buckley who did psychedelic folk in Goodbye and Hello? More soul-y, bit even funky or bluesy on Get on Top. Much more carnal lyric-wise. Does this represent a turn from TB? From 'white' (folk/rock) to 'black' (soul/R&B/funk) music? Is it honest or cynical? I mean it's also clearly ripping off Rolling Stones who were doing similar things at the time. Clearly Tim had some kind of sexual awakening! Ouch, his attempt at scatting on Devil Eyes is painful Unless.. is this a satire? A parody?? Surely not! Hong Kong Bar is hypnotic, hint of folksiness back in there. Best track - Get On Top 3 stars - music is fine, but knowing how he sounded before, this album feels like cynical hopping on the bandwagon and affectation.

very nice

A proper gem. I did not enjoy my previous Tim Buckley album - too dramatic. This one was a groovy little beast. The bass player was having a great time, the horns add some life and the production is pretty perfect for this. The lyrics are dated but still....

The first track is straight up, "I love black bitches"

I’m not sorry that I listened to this album because he has a great voice and obvious talent. This album was okay but not one I’d listen to again.

that was mostly noodling and none of the cool vibraphone stuff

Well when this started I wasn't so sure but as the album progress, the kind of sweaty shouty funk grew on me and I'm left with a great discovery. It's a bit too wriggly to take the top marks, but I definitely want to explore more.

If a movie is made that takes place in 1971 in Los Angeles, it should absolutely have this album as a soundtrack because it sounds exactly like what that time and place should sound like.

Cool! You can hear where his son has got his vocals from. Sometimes quiestionabble lyrics, but great sound.

First song he's singing about finding a "big ol healthy girl" and then spends the last minute of the song just saying "I love black women" over and over again. Hilarious album. I'm probably never going to listen to it again though.

Correcto

any time someone wails on an album its tough to rate high

When I read “long improvisational jazz inspired folk rock” on the album description I thought this was gonna suck eggs. I am a huge idiot

Prima album. Best divers, het gitaarspel is chill. De zang soms wat overdreven en te veel. Maar van alle albums die we gehad hebben een gemiddelde. Ik merk sowieso wel dat veel muziek een beetje middenmode wordt. Dat ik er niet echt een mening over heb, een van jullie noemde dit eerder al het ergste wat een muziek kan overkomen. Dat je gewoon nietszeggend bent…

Heeeel erg matig. Saxafoon wordt ook weer stom gebruikt in dat eerste nummer. Geen idee wat die zanger aan het doen is maar ik vind het geen vibe.

Prima album maar ook niet om over naar huis te schrijven. Wat opvalt is dat Tim Buckley een vrij soepele stem heeft. T album kabbelt rustig en lekker door, wat dat betreft een typisch 3 sterren album. Moet ik nog iets zeggen over zijn zoon? Nee, komt later wel een keertje.

Alright. Forgettable. He has a decent voice though.

Familiar seeming songs and song-structures kept taking interesting turns and surprising me. Ratings are silly, but I kept wavering on whether to give this 3 stars or four. Went with the higher rating because like I said—these songs kept handing me surprises, and so few things do. Great musicianship as well. Favorite track: Make It Right

Ehhhhhhhhhh. Fun energy, but I was eager for it to be over. Felt too full of itself.

A capsule of its time. Didn’t do much for me. It was fine I suppose.

Also fine

A promising start but waned a bit towards the end

I think I see "Buckley" and immediately get the fear of a dreary acoustic album, so pleasantly surprised

Mid

Fine. Very in the middle for me. Nothing grabbed me. It didn’t drag.

Every now and then my sorta kind of thing, but mostly not.

So weird and sometimes good, but sometimes not good.

Love Tim Great songs. Great voice

OK

I haven't listened to this Buckley album before today, a really enjoyable listen.

I'm more of a Jeff fan than I am a Tim fan, but I can see this being a good recommendation for fans of Geese (especially the song "Get On Top"). I'd say this album is generally fine, but not super spectacular. Maybe you had to be there, or maybe it requires multiple listens to really connect with?

It was alright in a generic kinda late 60s folksy way

A bit odd but fine

Nope

Not sure who this is for

Buckley im Spätmodus: viel Soul, viel Schweiß, aber auch viel Chaos. Greetings From L.A. groovt, stolpert, glänzt kurz – und lässt einen dann doch eher mit einem Schulterzucken zurück.

Sometimes the best music is made by the most depraved people. Horndog lyrics aside, the instrumentation on this is pretty slick. Love the acoustic guitar and overall vibe on "Hong Kong Bar".

I was not expecting this. It sounds like Jerry Reed singing with some songs sounding country, some funk, and some almost sounded like some mid-2000s indie music. It was different that's for sure, but I still enjoyed it.

Rhythm section feels really barebones and simplistic. This is probably what I would have expected jazz-rock to be when I first started listening to the genre but now I'm glad it isn't. It's not bad, the sax still hits and it has some fun funk elements especially on Devil Eyes, but I'm not sure I need to listen to this again.

Lyrics not written for today’s standards, certainly weird

certainly listenable unlike what others on here might suggest, but nothing too crazy

some great tunes on this really enjoyed

Really liked this one. Cameron Winter = Tim Buckley?

5.5/10 I don't usually pay much attention to lyrics on a first listen, but I couldn't help but notice Mr Buckley uses the word "woman" a lot, usually telling them to do something. I also noticed the first song he is seducing someone to cheat on their husband and the third song he is making excuses for his own cheating. So overall not a great first impression for Tim Buckley as a person. Musically it's all perfectly pleasant however, if not particularly adventurous. Highlights: Make It Right

Pretty fun. Pretty good.

Surprisingly good! Not a fan of his folkier stuff, but this one swings.

A little too experimental for me. Preferred his other albums by far.

Oh, I just got my second Tim Buckley album a few weeks ago, and I distinctly remember writing about how two was too many. And now here we are, at number three!

His voice takes some getting used to, but overall I liked it.

as much as i HAAAAATEEE tim buckley, this album was pretty good, much more fun than i expected from the father of THE jeff buckley (i love jeff buckley.)

Ja dit is wel echt waar je het allemaal voor doet. Dit vind ik gewoon geweldig,,,

This sounds like David Wilcox. It’s okay.

I quite like this record - I was put onto it years ago by a really good friend with a musical taste and enthusiasm very similar to my own. I probably like the record more because it reminds me of great times with great people rather than because I love the music itself. It's fun to listen to it once in a while and it probably fits with the spec of being something everyone should have a listen to, or should at least be made aware of. All that said though, it really, really reminds me of that band in the Muppet Show* - having those characters in mind while listening to it somehow make it all the more digestible. *Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem! It's never occurred to me to look that up before - so glad I did. Thank you Tim Buckley!

Dreadful. Silly waffle.

I don’t believe I’ve heard of this guy. Tim Buckley was born in DC then moved to LA as a youngster. He managed to put out nine albums before he died at age 28. This was his seventh album. Only seven songs on the album, and most of them are good. Overall the album exceeded my expectations.

Any relation to Jeff? Wait, yes?? It's his dad??? I wasn't expecting that. Add it to the [related people on the list] list! Surprising no-one, I like the 90s Buckley a lot more than this 70s Buckley. I'm sure you had to be there, but it sounds very 70s. Interestingly the genre is listed as R&B, which at least disproves my "r&b is just pop by black people?" theory, but I also don't think this sounds anything like (modern?) r&b. More like blues rock (boooo, although I guess that is the eponymous "b") with some jaunty horns in the background (yay?). Altogether, this album made me vaguely uncomfy. Next!

Quite a horny album, although it's nothing I find especially sexy. And I never thought I'd say this, but L.A. Woman covers basically the same territory but with more class. Still, this album is fun and sleazy and I choose not to investigate the lyrics too thoroughly.

2/5

ihan ok? ei jääny ihan kauheena mitään käteen. alku oli raskas mutta loppua kohden parani, en tiiä onko levyt monesti semmosia vai onko mulla käynnistymisvaikeuksia. mutta vika biisi oli paras.

Oon koittanu kuunnella Tim Buckleya teininä kun olin niin pöhinöissä Jeff Buckleysta ja halusin ymmärtää hänen juuriaan. Sillon ei lähteny, mut nyt lähti! Tää oli musta monella tavalla makee levy, mutta eipä Tim ihan poikansa tasolle tällä yllä.

Hyvä meininki. Ei mikään kotijuoksu, mutta aivan jees. Jos Elvis oli 2.6 -> 3, niin tää on ehkä 3.3 -> 3.

Nyt ei lähteny, liian winky-wonky. Ehkä jonain toisena hetkenä ois toiminut, mut ärsytti ääni ja liian sekava meininki.

5/10

funky, electric

Super vibrant album, great vocals. Make it Right is absolutely brilliant.

Interesting but good

I'm never heard Tim Buckley OR Jeff Buckley. From what I've seen however, is that this is Tim's lowest rated album on here. I'm scared that it will leave a bit of a bad taste for the other Tim Buckley albums, but here's to the best. 01. Move With Me Way more jazzy than I was expecting! I really like this opener! Funny third verse lol. 02. Get On Top Second best song about eating pussy, right behind I Will by Danny Brown. This one goes on a bit way too long. 03. Sweet Surrender The best singing so far. I love the chorus a lot. 04. Nighthawkin' A very... interesting song. It sounds great, but the lyrics are pretty awful. 05. Devil Eyes Not as good of a song about having wet sex. It's still fine, but we already have Get On Top. 06. Hong Hong Bar It feels unfinished. I get what he was going for, it just misses the mark for me, sorry. Goes on WAY too long, especially for how rough it sounds. 07. Make It Right A fine ending. Really kinky. :3 A very horny album; and that's to its detriment. It's TOO horny. Basically every song is about sex. And it gets really repetitive near the end.

Bit of a slow burning album, similar to my experience with his son. This is my first Tim Buckley experience and I understand it's also not the norm. I find it to still have a nice long drag of Americana running through the funk essence, and it feels ahead of its time as far as composition goes. My favorite track is the one where he justifies cheating, which is a bit of a bittersweet sensation. I feel like he communicates so well, that today he'd just be the type of person to naturally be in an open relationship. This guy was 50 years too early to the game, but right on time for musical influence. There's points for that, but there's nothing on here I'd look forward to listening again. 2.65/5

Overall: 5/10 Well this has got to be one of the horniest albums I've ever listened to. It's not even regular horny, it's just straight depravity. I like it for Tim's voice and I think the instrumentals are great, but those lyrics are definitely a tough thing to ignore. I think he had some better albums, and he wasn't the best dude on the planet. Fav Song: Sweet Surrender

Yeah not great

This is the second Tim Buckley record I've listened to. I liked elements of the first album, Happy Sad, quite a bit, although I felt like the album could have used some judicial editing in the production. Starting this album, I thought this might wind up in the same place. Buckley can sing and the band is good, but I really started disliking this album after the first song. It contains all the worst elements of the previous album, but intensified. It's not a particularly interesting investigation of sex and it really feels like he's making up the lyrics as he's going along. The intermixing of funk, the blues, and folk is really done much better by Bill Withers. This isn't very good.

I can only assume Tim was commanded by the studio to abandon folk and “make something that rocks, something sexy” and he decided to malicious compliance this album out. That’s my only way of taking this nonsense in anyway seriously. Mercifully short, some good funky bass but yikes.

A weird one, lots of falsetto, but I did had fun listening to it.

Lol. I don't care this is tight as hell. Spank me! Man the boy could sing, interesting to see it applied to otherwise fairly straightforward funk. Miss lee underwoods geetar.

Aspects of this are really intriguing and I look forward to listening again. But this period’s use of the blues without innovation bugs me. 3 Boolean: True

Why has it taken me so long to find this guy. Happy sad was a shock 5/5 for me and Greetings from LA swaps the soft but intricate jazz folk for a funk rock sound. There’s better funk rock out there, but this is still fantastic. Like Jim Morrison, James Brown and the Stones merged into one 40 minute long rocker

oh tim

Another album that makes me wonder how many Tim Buckley records will make this list. Buckley shifts gears into uptempo near funk and protodisco from his jazz-folk approach of his first three records.Perhaps he sought a mass market audience after his idiosyncratic style failed to earn him many sales. Unfortunately, this record failed to score at the cash register and artistically. Buckley has a distinctive style vocally. He always had a tinge more blues to his voice than most folksingers, then he often jumps to anguished yelps. That style and unique musical arrangements made Happy Sad and Goodbye and Hello intriguing records. Buckley had carved out his own niche, whereas Escape from L.A. seems more rote. Too many of the songs are brassy big numbers without the necessary riffs and rhythms to make for strong white boy R&B. Whether due to the songwriting or Buckley’s studio musicians only the occasional numbers rises above average. “Move with Me” and “Nighthawking” stand out as the best/worst examples of the album’s flaws. “Get on Top” had a catchy, slinky quality to it; the album’s best track. “Hong Kong Bar” reverted to his earlier style, although too blues tinged to be interesting. Feel sorry that Buckley could not get a hit to give him the visibility his talent deserved.

bro came out with an album in 1972 where the first song has him screaming that he loves black women? i have no choice but to support him

I’m getting mad dela vu from this album

Very good album. 3,7

3.5

80s la dive bar blues. Great voice

I mean its listenable but I dont really appreciate his voice too much on this genre prefer his acoustic guitar stuff

Typisch jaren 70

Warm tone with some wild vocals, super fun

damn he was a freak

There's something about this, but I can't put my finger in it.

Bum Tickley getting a little freaky… idk……

sooo easily the 7th best tim buckley album... no Starsailor... guy is literally a terrorist sometimes. awesome i got to listen to the tim buckley funk album i guess haha.

Funky bass, Yikesy lyrics.

It was ok musically but some of the vocals drop it a star. 👎