Jeff Buckley: Mystery White Boy

[Know Talent]

Mystery White Boy...give it a listen. AMAZING vocal talent

 

[Sordel]

The DVD Live in Chicago (different track listing but very much the same thing) is also excellent. Both/either is worth buying for "What Will You Say" alone, which is one of Buckley's most staggering performances.

 

[uraflit]

jeff buckley is goooooood

 

[markl]

Love Jeff Buckley, he's the most influential vocalist of his generation (from Thom Yorke to that awful James Blunt).

But dudes, you gotta check out his pops, Tim. As amazing as Jeff's vocal gifts are, Tim can sing circles around him. Tim was another great artist who lived fast and died young, and was driven by art, not commerce.

If you think Jeff Buckley is amazing, Tim will blow your mind.

 

[sbulack]

Every time I listen to Tim Buckley sing, for example, "Song To The Siren", recorded on "The Dream Belongs To Me", I am in his creative presence again. The intimate moments that we can have with an artist through the recordings of their performances is an amazing gift. Recorded music is a strange and wonderful opportunity for such moments. When folks have described pictures or recordings of people as capturing their souls, it is sort of true. Not "capturing" in the sense of entrapment, but "capturing" in the sense of latching onto it and taking its form to preserve it for the enrichment of others.

 

[sno1man]

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Originally Posted by markl /img/forum/go_quote.gif But dudes, you gotta check out his pops, Tim. As amazing as Jeff's vocal gifts are, Tim can sing circles around him. Tim was another great artist who lived fast and died young, and was driven by art, not commerce. If you think Jeff Buckley is amazing, Tim will blow your mind.

I agree with you most of the time Markl but not in this case. I think they are both superb especially if you go up a level and consider them as artists in total.

They are both superb in vocal skills (and you can hear the father in the son) but I think that some of Jeff's avant garde leaning made him an artist on par with his father.

It is truly a tragedy of the highest order that they both dies young. A duet of the two of them surely would have been mind boggling

and BTW: thanks to you introducing me to Scott Walker, my girlfriend now worries about my mortal soul

 

[Sordel]

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Originally Posted by markl /img/forum/go_quote.gif As amazing as Jeff's vocal gifts are, Tim can sing circles around him.

Too strong. I'd put both Buckleys in my list of top twenty (probably top ten) male vocalists ever, and although Tim had some great moments (e.g. "Gypsy Woman" from Happy Sad or "Pleasant Street" from Live in London 1968) they aren't massively better than Jeff's (such as "The Way Young Lovers Do" from Live at Sin-E). I don't think that Tim could have sung Jeff's lines as well, or vice versa. (Tim's voice was pitched in a notably lower register for a start.)