Jeff Buckley

[Val3]

^^^^Oh, I'm so happy, Everybody Knows by Concrete Blonde is one of my favorite songs. It's cool you found "sketches" so fast. i found it without looking in a record store one day.

[jessicaw]

^ cool if id see it in a store id probly buy it even if id have it on my comp lol
im downloading the concrete blonde song right now! ill tell you what i think about it after i listen to it

[rockpit]

Originally Posted by Jessica

hahaha

yeah i went to HMV like last year and then i saw this like variety pack type of thing of jeff buckley i was like no way cuz befor that day i couldnt find grace like anywheres, and well it was grace, and a live cd called mystery white boy, wich you probly already know about but yeah!

hes really amazing live

Haha, there's four of us now! Yay!

Yeah, Jeff Buckley gives even more when he performs live. I have both Mystery White Boy CD and DVD. Kangaroo in the CD is plain awesome. The DVD will make you love him even more.

You should all check out Live at Sin-é, though. It's where it all started. He played two hour circa gigs at Sin-é once a week or something. It was just Jeff and his guitar. The magic was/is breathtaking. There are two CDs with a lot of covered songs (he even plays Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit for a few seconds) and a DVD with some footage from the shows. It's really really worth it.

Originally Posted by Claudia

Alright uhm
you're lucky i'm into soul and jazz lately
it's great really
and halleluja is one of my fav songs I love it so thats bonus points

Glad you like him.

He's not all soul and jazz, though. Check out Eternal Life, or The Sky Is A Landfill. I'd reccomend you check the former live, because it's pure rock and roll.

Originally Posted by Val3

I first heard him when he released the single "So real" and I loved the video directed I think by spike jonez. My Favorite song by him might be "Mojo Pin." It's a real tragedy that he died so young. His father Tim Buckley died a young musician also but I know it gave Jeff's mother some comfort to know that he was one of the only musicians at the time to die without any drugs or alchol in his system.

The only videos I've seen are Everybody Here Wants You and another one (I really don't remember which one it was) in which he walks hald naked in the street.

I am/was reading "Dream Brother," a sort of biography about both Jeff and Tim. It's in italian, though, that's why I temporarily stopped reading it.

Originally Posted by Val3

Do you have "Sketches For My Sweetheart the Drunk?" It's a compilation of things left unfinished after he passed. It's more rockn'roll. He's always been loud when he wanted to be, but this one, he really seems kinda angry, which makes him seem more alive than even on Grace, which is an album i really love. How's Mystery White Boy?

I have it, but not the actual, tangible CD, yet. Vancouver is just indescribably amazing.

Originally Posted by Val3

^Cool. I know it's kinda hard to find, but you should try to buy it for the cover art and the liner notes. They're really something special. it's a double disc and it has, i think one cover. Did you know that Hallelulia is a cover? It's a song by Leonard Cohen. If you have heard the entire Unplugged by Nirvana, right before Kurt sings "Where Did You Sleep Last Night", a song by Leonard Cohen, he calls him one of his "favorite guys". I don't find him too appealing as an artist, but he's a wonderful writer. Try to find "Everybody Knows" sung by Concrete Blonde, another great act from the 1990's, like Jeff.

Lilac Wine is also a cover. It was originally sung by Nina Simone.

Jeff's rendition of Hallelujah is known to be the best among the millions of covers there are around. Elisa's is too long, Imogen Heap's is bleh.

Whew, long post. I'm really glad some people know and appreciate Jeff's works.

[jessicaw]

lol omg i totally loved imogen heap;s cover tho! i agree its bleh haha but i dunno theres somethign about it that i like it


and yeah i think im going to go buy the book dream brother i checked on my local book store's site and they have it!

and i didn't know he had a DVD ? i totally want it!


andddddd Val i listened to that concrete blonde song, its cool!

[Val3]

^^^It was only after I heard Everybody knows that i realized that i do want a box of chocolates and a long stem rose. But yeah, Sheryl Crow's version of Hallelujah is total blah too.

Guy in a dog suit on a skateboard!

YouTube - Jeff Buckley-So Real

[rockpit]

Where can I find Everybody Knows?

[Val3]

it's a song by Leonard, sung by concrete blonde. I was just telling jessica that it's one of my favoirte leonard covers. you can hear it live on youtube.

[rockpit]

I have slow Internet, so YouTube is not convenient.

I'll try to find it tomorrow, when I have time.