Jeff Buckley appreciation thread.

One of the greatest singer/songwriters to ever live. Such a shame he had to leave us soo early.

I couldn't believe he was stupid enough to jump into the river fully clothed.

One of the greatest ever? He had an incredible voice (just like his late father) but his own songwriting was still a work in progress. The song in that video was written by Leonard Cohen

I'm a big fan of his music. I was really disappointed when he died so suddenly (and early).

On a different note, why is this topic posted in the KSS section?

An excellent question. I'll move this to the Singer's forum.

From a singers perspective I've seen a lot of Jeff Buckleys live footage and one of the interesting things he did is that the first or second song he played was always a sort of vocal "warm up" song.

Listen to the Sine version of Lover you should have come over or the first song on Mystery White boy to see what I mean. he does all these trills that sound like showing off then you realise that was just his way of stretching and limbering out his voice.

"Lover you should have come over" - Hands down my favourite "sad" song of all time - the lyrics, chord structure, the vocals - Just gets me everytime. I am trying to get our duo thing to do it, but I can understand why our singer chooses not too....

Once was opened, morning theft, Grace - Epic beautiful songs.

Buckley actually did write his own songs, even though a good number of the songs on "Grace" were actually just great remakes - He penned "Mojo Pin" and "Last Goodbye", both musically and lyrically, from what I remember. I'll check the notes in the CD I have later. I'm curious now. lol

I never realized that those little trills were actually warm-ups. Hmmm..

I always get goosebumps whenever I hear the Corpus Christi one...SO beautiful is his voice on that.

I didn't start to truly "get" that one until recently.. Probably one of my favorites by him now.

I'm not that dumb. I knew he didn't write "Hallelujah". I was talking about his own songs being great compositions. There is however no denying that Buckley's version of Hallelujah will likely never be topped and he was the one who really made it such a popular song to cover.

Yes! I was going to bring up his "warm up." After realizing what he was doing, I have begun a similar thing in place of scales before a show to warm up. It really helps me to put my sad voice up into my head.

It took a couple viewings of his DVD to realize how incredible his voice was.

oldMattB

Not to wiz on anybody parade but he is an enigma to me. I know singers I'd give my left nut to sound like and they all love buckley but I don't care much for anything he's done. I want to sound like Chris Cornell the huge fan of Jeff Buckley but not Buckley himself. How long does it take to become a fan?

Well, how are we supposed to tell you how fast you're going to like something, IF you're going to like it, for that matter.. lol

I remember having a hard time wrapping my head around "Corpus Christi Carol" when I initially bought Grace in high school but eventually coming to appreciate it in ways I never would "Mojo Pin" or "Eternal Brother".

Then I heard "What Will You Say" from Mystery White Boy and that was that. The man!

I think he's really good, but his showing off gets on my wick after a while. Just sing the song, stop having an orgasm.

Grace is pretty much a masterpiece (helped by a lot of covers in among his own stuff), but I'm not convinced by Sketches that he was heading in a direction I liked.

And as for Mojo Pin and Grace, the music for them was written by Gary Lucas anyway, so really he did have a lot of help on that album - it also helps if you can afford Andy Wallace to mix it.

His Dad Tim for me is better by dint of having a longer and more varied career. And Tim is really just a Fred Neil imitator when it comes to the crunch...:poke:

Buckley was probably better at songwriting than he was singing.

And that's one hell of a compliment.