NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:  
Just finished this great feature article from the June 2013 UNCUT.  The guy was really anti-drugs & cigs, and no alcohol was found in his system after the autopsy.  Why anybody would want to swim in the Mississippi in Memphis at all (I grew up a mile from it, and it was "murky" to say the least way up in Minn.), let alone wearing clothes & boots, is beyond me.



   

Just read up on his death. Motto of the story: kids, never swim with your clothes on.

Sheesh, it's so easy to drown out there.

I like Jeff Buckley fine but can we PLEASE, PLEASE stop playing this song and all 17 other different versions that get played all the time on this station.

The apparent consensus to the contrary, I think Jeff Buckley is generally just awful.  SO overblown, overwrought, over the freakin' top.  This song, however, is really beautiful.  

This is one of my most favorite albums, best listened to all in one go, since parts are a long segue. I was fortunate enough to see him in a small club here in Utah and he signed this disc. It was a fantastic solo show. Amazing guitarist and vocalist. No telling where he might have gone if he was still alive.

I agree that it is not the best version; there are three or four better including Cohen's. But Jeff Buckley live such a tragically short life. Everything he left behind is a gift.

Jonno wrote: 

Not KD Lang please!!!  Her version is so overwrought:

My top three versions:

John Cale
Jeff Buckley
Rufus Wainright

Bultaco wrote: 

Still like John Cale's version the best though.

There is actually a book about this version of the song, Weid, huh.  I copied this link from Amazon:

I like this song alot, but there are way better versions of it out there.

 vito1975 wrote: 
Fortunately, I didn't.

 Sasha2001 wrote: 
Geez, what ever happened to "play nice, kids."

This is RP Classics pasted in from the bottom of the Music/Artists page.  The note there says "top listener ratings", so the rating is apparently the highest each particular song ever achieved.

Next time you decide to be obnoxious, perhaps you could make sure you aren't making a fool of yourself first. 

what a great song to listen before leaving for my flight to the wouthern hermisphere!!

please file this under "played"..Bill !

 vito1975 wrote: 
You got that right!

Way, way overrated, if you ask me...

This song was played at my best friend's funeral. Now every time I hear it it's like he's alive again for a few minutes.

 swart wrote: 
Personally, I prefer Leonard Cohen's version, but tastes differ (and that's a good thing!)
I love Jeff Buckley, though, like Phantasmagoria in Two… :)
/bow
 

 swart wrote: 
Ditto.

 capzfan wrote:  None of these songs have the rating you've given. Where did you get this list - your alimentary canal?

 ploba wrote: 
dsylexic ... i was thinking 01

silly me, i had previously given this a 9  lol      this is unquestionably a 10 

I think even Vince GILL has one........let's hear it, thanks.

Michael 

We seem to be hearing Buckley's version of this song on an almost daily basis.

Can we dig a little deeper into the archives, please, and try kd lang's, or Cash's or ANYBODY else's version, pleeeeeeease! 

Much better than the one that played two hours ago... or maybe it has to do something with Jeff and his voice... I'm such a girl

already heard a different version of this song today...too much 

Suckelujah!