Greetings From L.A.

He paints a picture of a womanizing sleazeball. Found his voice rather annoying. I did enjoy the instrumentation and liveliness of the songs.

Not bad. Some weird ass folk music. But not super memorable for me.

it's fine but just meh...

Eh, this album didn't really do it for me. It had some OK funky grooves, but as a whole, I didn't feel very moved. Might be worthy of another listen when I'm in a more funky mood...

It's always a bad sign when I'm already waiting for an album to end shortly after it begins. I'm not sure why I clashed with this one so hard, but I'm just not into it at all. It's simultaneously boring and exhausting 2/5

Not a fan at all, background music was the best

Goes downhill after an impressive first track

It was... fine. Buckley seems interesting enough as an artist and person, but if I end up liking this album it will be as a grower.

dont mind when it is on but it's nothign special

The music is nothing to write home about, and the lyrics are weird at best and kind of offensive at worst. And I don't like him. Take this 1.

I was ready to say, "I dont like this album" before the 2nd song even ended. But, I gave it a chance and I gotta say, I don't like this album

Goodbye from LA

In a nutshell: boom-chaka-wow-wow To elaborate, I shall refer to the scripture of "Consumer Guide: 70s”by altruist Master Robert Christgau: "Perverse as it may seem, Buckley's mannered, androgynous moan has real erotic appeal for some, and here it turns a trick. This is rock pornography if anything is... and while I wouldn't call the band hard-core, it definitely fills the groove." Points to the band, for sure. Tim, I'm ordinarily fine with getting on top, but I need to climb off for this one. Overall: 2/10

Ass

Not for me

An ok album but nothing truly unique or worthy of my time. Minimally talented musician trying a bit too hard in my opinion.

Nope. Greasy and seedy reach for acid jazz grooves, but the caterwauling scatting (swiped from unhinged Jim Morrison and sane as hell Screaming Jay Hawkins) suck. The band is not enough. While foot fetishes, light S+M, infidelity, 'monkey rubs' and whatnot are a delight or some, the music is not.

When I reviewed Buckley’s second album Goodbye and Hello I noted that his reputation as a fey romantic folk singer was a misconception as it turned out he was actually a cheating lowlife who had walked out on his wife and infant son early in their marriage. This 1972 release only amplifies the impression that he was pretty much a sex addict on a path to inevitable self destruction. The album opens with a cheery number about sleeping with a black woman and hiding from a jealous husband, and moves on to songs about asking someone to get on top, creaking bed springs and there are no prizes for guessing what ‘talking in tongues’ is referring to. There is no love or romance here, just drunken screwing around with the morals of an alley cat. Musically, it’s pretty much by the numbers sleazy blues sung in a throaty croak which reminded me of Jim Morrison’s voice on LA Woman - another ‘romantic’ who was on a similar downward spiral. No coincidence that they both died without ever seeing their 30th birthdays.

Nope

Boring.

I'm glad that his son knew how to make good music. From these lyrics I only get that this guy was always a horny motherfucker. Jeff is the superior musician in the family.

Gross

"Like most of his other albums, Greetings from L.A. did not sell well" Wow. Hard to imagine.

This shit sounds like a parody of an album. Like something that a character in a sketch comedy show would make. Absolutely awful, it’s been a shit week for this list.

Um cantor de folk decide gravar um disco de funk explicitando seu fetiche por mulheres negras e balburdiando letras insípidas sobre nada… Quem diria que o resultado seria um álbum ruim? Que surpresa! 1/5

More "music" from the height of the cock rock era when every other rocker decided to court the screeching girlie audiences with track after track of "let's fuck a fuck a fuck, I wanna fuck you and I want you to fuck me baybehhhhhhh" The only thing I want to hear about is Buckley fucking off.

Eh

Crazy wiki, sad. Dude was a real rascal. Not a fan of his music. Supposed to be sex funk but it’s not sexy or funky. I think standard funk is more of both.

That wasn't good at all. Jeff clears.

Not for me

I've never really got along with Tim Buckley's music. The entire time I was listening to this I just kept thinking that I could be listening to The Doors. Also, "Devil Eyes" is amongst the worst things I've ever heard. It doesn't feel genuine in any way, more like someone pretending to vibe.

I’m a hater. “SEX. I HAVE SEX,” is what listening to this feels like. Instrumentation is fine, good even— but I can’t get past this dude and his dumb tone/lyrics.

Often heard Tim Buckley's name mentioned, never listened before. I believe his other work is more folky, but I hated this.

Previously unknown. Not interested.

This is disgusting.

So this is my second Tim Buckley album. My first impression of the first album was "I kind of love this album...", and Greetings From L.A. gave me the complete opposite reaction. I kind of hated this album, and I say kind of because musically I like this. The backing band is great. But I hated this lyrically and couldn't stand his voice most of the time.

Boring. Derivative. Drivel.

What a terrible day to have ears. Those lyrics were a choice. Ugh.

1 song was ok but didn't like the others

I absolutely hated this. I couldn’t wait for it to be over.

This album is terrible. That man should not be singing those high notes. You can tell his voice can’t hit those notes and he’s pushing it. It sounds like a transsexual trying to sing. One out of five

Move with Me - 2/5 Get on Top - 1/5 Sweet Surrender - 1/5 Nighhawkin' - 1.5/5 Devil Eyes - 1/5 Hong Kong Bar - 1.5/5 Make It Right - 1.5/5

I hate it wow. Bad lyrics, bad vocals.

Baffled as to why this album is on this chart. No redeeming qualities and should be archived in my opinion. To say the least, I did not like it!

Top song Get on top

Tim Buckley is just awful. His voice is shit, his lyrical content is just trash, and others have done the same style of music better. At some point I clicked a link to YouTube that stopped the album, and I thanked it for putting me out of my misery. I did not go back and finish it.

I was exhausted by track 3. There are lyrics here that would make Snoop blush and the vocalizations were like fingernails on a chalkboard.

I have no interest in how horny this dude is.

Man Sex Funk is such a ridiculous term. The lyrics didn’t age well and when I was listening to the first song I thought he heard War and figured he could do the same thing but it lacks soul. It lacks rhythm from the singer. Tim Buckley is terrible but the band isn’t. On some songs when he isn’t trying to hard it seems okay but this album is shit. The music isn’t bad but he is shit.

if this man would shut up and let the band play it would be at least passably fun and funky. as is, it's a disaster, with neither lyrics nor their performance being tolerable.

After listening to this album, I instantly regretted my harsh ratings at the start of the project. Tim’s voice makes annoying sounds over endless blues songs, please spare me!

To jail with you. Alarmingly horny.

This was utterly horrific and worse than his other albums, which I did not think was possible.

ew, ew, ew. everything about this album is ick

There's not much I hate in music more than the species of 70s song that this albums is mostly populated by. It's the kind that after being done with the main substance of the song just keeps going, droning on and on and would rather become annoying and bad (which multiple of these songs do) than end, and even when it does end it is often in a fadeout, the absolute worst way for a song to end. If you see a 40 minute album with 7-8 4-7 minute songs - run, run before this groove filler gets you and wastes your precious time on bullshit. Controversially I think Young Americans is also made up of this kind of song. The thing is, Tim Buckley is no David Bowie.

The greatest impact Tim Buckley had on the music industry was siring his far more talented son. And even then he was an absent father, and an all around not great guy. It would make sense then that from a man who's greatest achievement was spurred from his loins, that he would create an album all about how much he loves sex. However it really does not create a comfortable listening experience. There are plenty of ways one can sing and write about sex in an interesting and enjoyable way, in fact we've been doing it for just about all of human history. It can be romantic, it can be sexy, it can be beautiful, hell it can even be funny. However on this record it really is just gross, I found myself cringing just about the whole way through listening to this man lecherously describe just how fucking horny he was. The music itself isn't particularly bad, in fact I quite enjoyed some moments, like really dug the strings on Make It Right, but then Tim comes creeping in with "beat me, whip me, spank me" and I'm turned right off. So yeah, shitty guy, creepy music... it's not looking good on this one Fav Track: 7 - Make It Right

Quite like the sound but the lyrics are rough

Hell nah,

Chaos for my ears

ICK. I gave Goodbye and Hello 3 stars earlier based on the vocal stylings of Mr Buckley. But this one, just ICK. ⭐ HATED IT

Big cringe. Much misogyny. Licking toes? 😶

Musically it’s fine - well recorded, right - but lyrically and vocally, that’s just some minstrelry. The horniness & bluesman persona is risible, particularly when you remember he’s called Tim.

wtf

Hated it

Boldly answers the question “what if funk was joyless, horny, and deeply uncomfortable?” Admirably committed to the bit, but listening feels like being trapped in someone else’s bad decision.

I suppose I enjoyed this more than Jeff Buckley but it’s fairly boring womanizing and wailing

It's a no from me...

His voice is grating. I don’t like his words. I don’t like it. 1

Kind of twangy for my liking

Wow, this was some hot garbage. There are two more records from him on this list? Yikes...

This is just an absolute mess, there's no common theme or any sense of pacing in the album's sound, it feels like each song was recorded without any regard for how the whole thing would sound as a finished product. His vocals are annoying as hell and don't fit the intsteumentals at all only further adding to how messy this is, and oh my God don't even get me started on the lyrics....

no thanks

This album should be listened to only when you need to induce vomiting. If the image of Tim Buckley sucking on a woman's toes doesn't do that to you, you have a stronger constitution that I do.

Oh good grief... Listen, I'm not really a lyrics person, first-and-foremost. When I listen to a song for the first time, I'm primarily focussed on how it sounds - are the melodies and production good? I can look past bad lyrics, silly lyrics, goofy lyrics, cringeworthy lyrics, as long as I still like the way the song sounds. Oftentimes I don't even fully notice or process the lyrics upon my first listen. So if I'm noticing lyrics, it's likely they're either outstanding, or in the case of this album, absolutely atrocious. This was so icky to listen to. Distractingly horny, but not at all sexy, and the way he sings about black women feels disturbingly fetishising. Felt like I needed a good long shower after this. Safe to say I will never listen to this again. That being said, the last song Make It Right has absolutely banging production - someone should steal that instrumental and write some half-decent lyrics over it.

What the hell is going on with “get on top”? Lol. Once again, what the hell is going on with “Devil Eyes”? This album feels like what racist white people think funk music sounds like

and i thought happy/sad was bad

lmao

Buckley Tier List: S: Jeff A: B: C: D: Tim

my first 1 star album of this project! 1 star means i couldn't even finish listening. i got through four songs; tim's vocal range on Sweet Surrender is clearly impressive, but most of this album feels too... cocaine-y for me, or maybe heroin-y. it's like listening to your older brother's band practicing in your house and you're forced to hear them jam for weeks and sometimes you'll catch a riff that's interesting but mostly it's just four guys doing drugs and noodling, which doesn't impress me much.

Not my thing. Decent guitar chops but not my jam. Like doors meet dire straits

- I already have an aversion to this guys son so this pick is not doing any favors. - okay nevermind, I’m actually surprised to find that anyone gave or gives a shit about this album after it’s released. His voice, annoying. His lyrics, one dimensional and pandering. The instrumentals are nothing above the typical honky tonk band. Literally listened to two tracks and skipped around to find this isn’t worth my time. Dare I say it, his son might actually be more listenable than this, and I have a strong aversion to his music as well. - not worth anyone’s time, I hate the genre blend, this album is a waste of time.

Silly and boring

Self indulgent LA muso cosplaying as a sexy person. 1 star sex funk

Unfortunately, this wasn’t my cup of tea

Incredibly boring, tedious and uninteresting. The worst thing about this project is his voice. I couldn't stand it. Feels very inauthentic and pretentious. The only redeemable aspects are some of the instruments, like the strings in 'Make it Right' and 'Sweet Surrender', or the change of pace at the end of 'Get on Top'. Nonetheless, I think the composition is very tame in general. On top of everything said, most of the songs are almost 7 minutes long, so yes, I didn't like this at all.

Naaah.

This is the sort of music your creepy uncle listens to. Quagmire would listen to this.

Was this written by a 15-year old? A score of zero should be available to separate this from the other bad albums on the list. Straight crap 1/5

This was so bad wtf, how did Buckley go from Goodbye and Hello to THIS raunchy disaster of a funk record

Self-indulgent, ephemeral, highly forgettable. Tough backstory, but still...

Absolutely terrible, should have saved “shit sandwich” for this

I'm sorry, ears. I will never again subject you to Tim Buckley's screaming about "speaking in tongues" or his drug-fueled sex songs. This *almost* makes me want to cue up Birthday Party. (Almost.)

I stopped listening to the second song about cheating, which was literally the third track on the album. "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," after the first track literally was about pretending to be a handyman to screw some dude's wife. Gross. There is too much good music in the world to waste time listening to stuff that grosses me out. Shrug.

Just no.

Sounds like musical blackface

Sweet surrender is the only song I saved

did not listen

How is Jeff Buckley so otherworldly and yet his dad made the most insufferable music imaginable

Alternate title: guy brags that he has sex for half an hour

Det här var ju dö'dåligt.

did not enjoy. DNF. 1/5

The funk and soul grooves are undeniably infectious, but the lyrical content is so drenched in misogyny that it feels like you’re dancing at a party where the host won’t stop cornering women in the kitchen. Tim & Jeff Buckley infect this list too much

Being the father of Jeff Buckley is probably enough reason to be on the list. Historically speaking that is interesting enough. Gives some context to his much more talented son. But knowing that he was such a massive PoS (only met his son once) makes his music almost impossible to listen to. And it's fine. Would probably be interesting even if I didn’t know the artist's history. Lyrics are very 14 yr old boy talking about all the sex he would have if he had sex. I'm sure he has other albums on the list because of how overrepresented this generation of musician is on the list, but surely this one could have been left off in favor of another of his albums.

Listen to Dream Letter instead. The most notable thing about Tim Buckley is that he's Jeff Buckley's absentee father (they only met once). His music was creative and every album was a different genre/iteration, and he was never able to find commercial success. Listening to this album seems like a music appreciation project in college - intended to expose you to music that exists. However, it's not particularly enjoyable. It's listening to musical experimentation. No Best Songs

I hate this dude! And I hate him more before I’ve had to listen to three albums of his shit so far for this project! His songs stink, and he either sounds like he’s doing a bad Jim Morrison impression, or he sounds like a chihuahua getting pinched. This was slightly better than the last album of his I got, in that it was shorter and less self-indulgent, but it’s the difference between a 1 and a 1.5. Stop making me listen to his guy!!

I feel like this is album is an inside joke that I’m not a part of.

Sort of typical bluesy roots 70s style stuff with super cringe lyrics. Pass

It's a shame that this is basically the soundtrack for the deadbeat dads who "go to the store for milk" and never come back. I wanted to find something to like about this album, but I grimaced more than once. Serious question, do some women find stuff like this flattering? Funny? Charming? It's definitely not tasteful. And now I feel bad as a heterosexual male.

Jamming or "grooving" type tunes. Songs are pretty long. Not a fan of Jamming music. Im not enjoying this.

40 minutes of groovy, blues-esque, unseasoned rockstuff. I still feel like I have a zest for life and that disqualifies me from meeting some form of minimum age threshhold to like this album My subjective brain is taking over to tell me to banish this to 1-star hell and I have lost the willpower within myself to fight against it I liked the part where he sang about licking between her toes but that's also just a joke because actually I didn't like that part Credit where credit's due for being an early pioneer in the sphere of foot fetish music Tedium Buckley I'm very glad that he has two more albums on this list that I haven't heard yet and both of them are rated lower than this one but that's also just a joke because actually I am fairly unhappy about that (but I'm sure that each of them are more important than Discovery by Daft Punk since they're on this list) I wish to leave

Not my taste at all, kind of laughable really. Sounds a bit like a Cher impersonator at times. Don't think I can finish this one haha; too cringe for me.

It sounds very 70s, something my guitar teacher would be into .

Pretty bad stuff here, won’t listen again

How did this make the list?! “Greetings from L.A. did not sell well, although this is probably his best seller” Cheesy Vegas lounge music, at best.

This was more...promiscuous and raunchier than I was expecting? It also was the longest 39 minutes of my life. I'm not sure who this album is for. I'm normally a funk guy, but not even the funk presence could save this record for me. Too one-note on the sex side of things and the late Tim Buckley's vocals are borderline uncomfortable to listen to.

I thoroughly hated this. Found the whole style to be grating and annoying

After 3 songs, this was increasingly irritating. I stopped when the 4th song started. I will now reclaim my life and get this trash out of my head.

Like if someone copied “The Doors” without the organ and instead just sang about his organ. Honestly, the lyrics were terrible, just songs about sex without any finesse. The songs were bland, felt like some kid tried to copy other famous acts (Rolling stones, The Doors etc.) and just took the worst parts of blues, rock and funk mixed together.

First listen

this starts off with one of the worst openers to an LP I've ever heard - it doesn't suit the other songs on the album and made me dread listening to the rest. fortunately the songs that followed were better, musically at least. the lyrics throughout the whole album are bad. like very bad. Buckley can hit some notes for sure, but honestly his voice doesn't do much for me most of the time. the only thing this record's got going for it, is that the band sounds good. I didn't hate the album completely, just casually listening to it, but I definitely didn't like it. I'd feel too generous giving it 2 stars, so 1 will have to do...

This guy has 3 albums on this list, 2 which are ok to good, but this one sucks.

I’ve heard of Tim Buckley, but don’t think I ever listened to him. I’m not sure what I expected, but it wasn’t this. Can’t say digging it much. Just because you can drag a song out past six minutes doesn’t mean you should. That seems to be the pattern on this album. A song that’s not great at three minutes, but forced to slog on long past the limits of good taste. Which was over pretty quick on this one.

1. move - 1.5 2. top - 1 3. zuueet - 1 4. night - 1 5. devil - 1.5 6. bar - 1.5 7. right - 1

Why is every song so long

genérico repetitivo chato ruim horrível quase desisti na segunda música

Nothing new, nothing special

This is #day205 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and... here we are with the second Tim Buckley album on this list. Surprisingly, given how vibrant it is, I always thought he was more of a folk-rock guy. The music itself is okay, though I can’t say the same for the delivery or his persona. I just looked at some of the lyrics, and they're absolutely atrocious. Sweet Surrender was the last drop for me. Save yourself some time, you don't have to hear this before you die. This is a 1 out of 5. Looking forward to #day206.

I didn't like it this much \_____o______/

This was one of the longest 40 minute albums so far. I've liked Tim Buckley's other albums on this list so far, but I can't do *whatever this was.* 1.5

bland, boring, uninspiringn

⭐️ let's just say his earlier work was much better than whatever the fuck that was. wish i stayed oblivious of this side of Tim Buckley's music maybe i just don't see what some of you guys see. maybe i'll come back and re-evaluate

gettin a lot of the doors vibes from this. i never liked the doors. but honestly, jeff come collect your horny dad. he's been yowling like a cat in heat for forty minutes and the neighbors are starting to complain. marvin gaye this is not.

Why?

Meh. "Sexual funk" from Jeff Buckley's deadbeat Dad. Weird misogynistic, philandering, and racist lyrics

Too before my time. Folk just never grabbed my attention. On the plus side, Tim Buckley gave us Jeff Buckley.

First impressions were im going to like this. Opening track was great, unfortunately that's where it ended. Rest of the album was, well somewhat less than enjoyable. Can't really define why, but it was just rubbish. Really didn't like it, so it's a rare 1 from me.

After listening to this I was left baffled. I was trying to work out if I liked it or not - another case of Marmite syndrome? After a brief spell of reflection, the answer was no and a tiny bit of yes. Instrumentally it was OK, but the vast majority of the vocals were a big messy pre-Ayrton Senna style car crash (they knew how to do them properly before 1994). One thing is for sure, I shall not go out of my way to listen to anyone called Buckley in the future, unless James Buckley decides to do a cover album of Kasabian songs playing a violin.

Damn, this album was annoying. Another reviewer said it best. This dude just wanted to scream “I had sex!” 😂 I think the L.A. sun might have fried his brain. It was an imitation of a bunch of musical styles but worse. The production was hollow, absolutely no low end. A few good studio musicians playing but parts but the songs sucked. Worse version of the Doors which is a worse version of American soul and R&B.

My three previous albums were, unbelievably, NOT 70's classic/dad or terribly experimental punk rock, which was a complete anomaly. Three in a row that WEREN'T Strokes/Stooges/Dylan clones? I couldn't believe it. But with this one, we're back in the saddle. We've got: - nasally singing - electric guitar work you've heard a million times - repetitive rhythms - the one slower acoustic cut - and the feeling you're listening to a Miller Lite that became sentient and wrote music at a Boomer's BBQ. The whole shebang. We are so back baby.

Too much Buckley for this list.

There is nothing enjoyable about this album: The bigoted lyrics, the sub-par instrumental play, the singing, the production, the beats, and not even one song is "catchy". Favorite Song: "Make It Right"

Gather round kids and listen to daddy sing about his ebony fetish

I don't think Tim Buckley deserved a single album on this list, let alone the three or four we've had, and I didn't enjoy Greetings from LA very much. It's full of mostly crass lyrics and content and delivered in a style that aims to honour or imitate predecessors of a funk or rock and roll/rhythm and blues background but really only comes off as a poor effort at best, a mockery at worst. Actively annoyed me at times, not gonna get higher than a 1/5, and like I've said before, I think he's only revered for his lifestyle and his young death (plus Jeff) more than his music.

Wasn't sure why his other attempts were in the list, and this one manages to be worse than either of the previous 2. Lyrics are pretty uncomfortable, music is uninteresting, might scrape a 2 if I was feeling generous but I'm not. 1/5.

That didn’t necessarily sound horrible, but wow did I hate it. Worked about as well as you’d expect white man sex funk to work.

Snore fest

Like a 70s porn flick…this has not aged well. Not my bag, and doesn’t even seem that Tim Buckley was popular when he was putting out music (putting out…see what I did there? I could write these lyrics). White boy sex funk honky tonk bullshit. No thanks. 1⭐️

I hate to be so facile as to throw another complaint on the pile along the lines of "WHY DO WE HAVE SO MANY ALBUMS BY OBSCURE ARTIST XXXX" I truly do. But why tf do we have THREE albums by Tim Buckley? The previous 2 were at best curios and at worst a mess. But this album is immediately and sustainably comically-awful - one of the worst in >900 for many reasons. It mostly plays like a parody - is this a sexist-racist Barney Gumble singing??? What the actual living (dead) hell? Beyond a throwaway, this is insulting. This spot on this list would have been better served by even another Bowie album (mostly kidding). I've no way to prove it but "worst/most-stupid lyrics of all time" is not a reach in any way and sometime during the 3rd song I pulled the cord and bailed tf out of this travesty. Bass player (Chuck Rainey!) is killer, though. Have to remember this one when i'm done and compiling the 10 worst albums because this is an easy call. 1/10 0 stars.

Never heard of him and will soon forget his name.

Jeg var faktisk oppe mellem 2-3 i første halvdel, hans stemme og især hans tekster bliver aldrig lige min ting men jeg kunne godt lide musikken. I anden halvdel går luften noget af ballonen, så det ender på en stor 1'er. Ikke fan af Tim!

Thanks, i hate this.. sexist and racist lyrics... 🤷

For what would otherwise be a pretty solid album, the lyrics make it completely unlistenable. The babbling and moaning on get on top was awful. Where do I even begin with Devils Eyes? 1.5/5 simply for the instrumental

This was so weird. I was convinced this was a horny old man singing and then I realised Tim Buckley died at 28 and I couldn’t reconcile the voice and the subject matter with a man in his 20s. Too much going on, lots of screaming and wailing, and the songs were way too long. I’d never listen to this again but I’m glad I’ve heard of him.

His grating voice does not mesh with the instrumental music whatsoever. Poor emulation of Janis Joplin meets Eric Burden with no soul.

I had no idea who Tim Buckley was until June of this year when I this generator gave me one of his albums. I hated it. Since then I've gotten 2 more and I hate them too. This one has to be the absolute worst. The lyrics make me want to puke and the music isn't doing anything at all for me either I hope to never hear Tim Buckley again as long as I live.

hmm garnicht meins. oder heute halt nicht.

What is this shite?

not as bad as expected. Still no joy

This was annoying. I appreciate singing shenanigans when likes of Nina Hagen do it, but this did not hit the mark for me.

Clanky, annoying nonsense. A wind chime of an album.

Did Tim Buckley’s relative make this list?

Complete shit

Not for me

Not my type of music

Did not like

Torture.

Couldn't make it through the whole album.

(Not) Bob Dylan

Blimey. Surely this was cringewothy even in the 70s?

Didn’t enjoy this, cringey lyrics

Did not like this one. My second Tim Buckley album and I didn’t like this one for totally different reasons. The media was groovy but the lyrics were gross and he just doesn’t shut up. D teir cause the musicians are great

I simply cannot think of one good reason why this album is on a list of albums i must listen to before I die.

Singer/ Songwriter around awhile. Never made it as a popular artist.

I didn't like any of this. I was glad when it was done.

Some albums would benefit from an instrumental version

Holy hell this was awful. A candidate for the worst album on this list and Tim Buckley is a candidate for worst artist on this list.

Tim Buckley gives me the ick

Bad

Man this was not for me. Way too jammy. I'm sitting here trying to enjoy my morning coffee and some wanked out jam is happening where he's crooning about the Boogaloo? What the fuck is this shit?

Fuck is wrong with this guy?

I know he has a cult following but I've never been a fan, it's years since I listened to him but listening to him again my opinion hasn't changed. Not for me.

Boah, ist das ein langweiliges Geklampfe

Is Vic Reeves singing on this album?!?

Boring and too misogynistic for my liking

1 Is not interesting for me.

The bass is the only thing that I'm really enjoying from this album. His voice isn't impressive, nor do I feel like unique or interesting.

Inte mycket rätt här.

Eh. The volume of these 60s and 70s rockish records is way too high. This is just another in a long line of them.

Yup… this is pretty flat. A few days removed here, and I don’t feel anything from this album. Tim Buckley as an artist is one of my least favorite types: singers who are so naturally, obviously talented, who use their voice for mediocre music. It always boggles the mind! You’re so talented. Do something cool with your gifts! I got about 5% of what I usually get from, say, Van Morrison out of this. The sound from this period is rich… but we’ve had better albums from this time. Cole described it as “listening to a bar band.” I agree. All the worse because these are supposed to be songs! 1/5. Maybe a little low. But I won’t be coming back here anytime soon.

Boomer mating calls

Not my type

Boring

Sleazy and creepy…but in a bad way. Probably my least favourite so far.

I thought I misheard the lyrics on the first track when he goes on and on about loving a black woman, but when I checked, that's what he was saying. Weird. Then the speaking in tongues stuff. Haven't listened to all of this yet but I don't think I'll bother. I just wanted to be listening to Jeff Buckley instead.

Boring

This album is just embarrassing. Buckley seems desperate for us to believe that he has a lot of sex. Any merit the music had is subverted by the very cringe lyrics. Wait, he was Jeff Buckley's father? Wikipedia says they only met once when Jeff was 8. Right, that tracks.

Tough to get through. Not at all shocking that I never heard of him before. Hopefully this is the only album by him on this list.

Exhausting

I know for a fact there are 1001 albums that are better than this.

Imagine Jay from The Inbetweeners learned guitar, moved to LA and told his sex stories over some jangly riffs. Sleazy, cringey and uncomfortable, the worst part being this isn't even satire - it's just another Tim Buckley record.

Parts of this were giving me a bit of a Charles Manson Cease To Exist vibe. Maybe it's a 60s thing - or 60s hangover thing - but it didn't ease me into these tracks. Other than that, my over-riding feeling was that he liked sleeping with 'attached' women. Not one I'll be revisiting.

Not for me.

1.5

why does this list blow tim Buckley

Almost got a mark for the music - but the lyrics are such a negative any redeeming qualities of this album are lost. Not feeling guilty about stopping this listen halfway through

12 string guitars should be banned.

loathsome

Meh

Rubbish

Onsitä 1972 parempaakin musiikkia tehty.. Helppoa musiikkia kuunnella.. Ensimmäisen biisin rock popittelu antaa tälle albumille yhden tähden!

Not even remotely what I was wanting/expecting from Tim Buckley, and honestly surprised he even recorded this dreck!

Seems like it wanted to be a Doors album but fell far short.

I like the album cover. Fatalistic vibe, kind of the Bizarro Welcome to Asbury Park. First song starts... OK, it's the '70s I guess, different social clime, but still, pretty sleazy. Next up... maybe this is kind of sexy? But I'm not feeling it. What's up next? Nope. This is like all the stupid impulses of an asshole, serial cheater put to music. He can sing. I mean, maybe if the lyrical content were different. But even the songs started sounding similar. How did this album make this list?

Honestly. Time has forgotten this album. So will I.

Terrible. No redeeming features at all.

Couldn't wait to be done with this album from the lyrics alone.

Fuck off, you small dick energy little cunt. Didn't even have the decency to die before breeding. 1/5.

Dull as dishwater meat and potatoes early 70s songwriter-rock.

I have to give it to Tim; He's really into what he's doing. Unfortunately, that energy doesn't translate into a connection for me. The band is tight, and they do well with the music they've been given. They even get to stretch their legs a few times, in tracks like 'Devil Eyes'. But that isn't enough to offset the fact that Tim's vocals and lyrical delivery are just too awkward for me to hear past. Moreover, the characters he trying to convey and/or the stories he's trying to tell in each song, just don't seem believable as he depicts them. Nowhere is this more apparent than 'Get on Top' and 'Sweet Surrender'. I was literally cringing and tensed listening to 'Sweet Surrender', which was basically a 2-minute song followed by 4m44s of Tim's warbling and nasally improvisations. You figure that they would've learned from the previous track 'Get on Top', where there is a very apparent and abrupt cut around the 5m50s mark in and amongst a similar 4+ minute long outro. I will say that I was almost into 'Nighthawkin''... almost. All told, it feels like an attempt was made to make a gritty album that told the stories of hard worn lives in a big city, but what came through was more like a kid telling tall tales.

1.5