I know I'm 'supposed' to like this guy and all, but I really, really don't. Like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.

Lovely song.  Beautiful voice.

 nagsheadlocal wrote: 
Wow, what a shocking comment. Have you listened to the whole album? I think Jeff might have had one of the best male voices of all time, and I am a professional singer (so very picky and critical). Rarely do you find someone with the depth, range and control he had. Truly, a tragic loss, and we can only imagine what he might have gone on to do.

 nagsheadlocal wrote: 
You must be deaf if you can't hear it.

The opening of this song had a "Us and Them" Floyd feel to it.... than again.... maybe it's just me..
now I hear Adam Lambert from American Idol...maybe just me again.

 annersjen wrote: 
=shrug= I believe Jeff was one of the tragic losses of the late 20th Century, and while nagsheadlocal would disagree with that... I would disagree with his allocating a '10' to Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio" or ANYTHING Alanis Morrissette has done.

Long live the healthy debate and instant democracy of Radio Paradise!!

 pinklife wrote: 
Yeah, Jeff has a version of Mr. Cohen's song. I think Jeff's version is tied with Rufus Wainwright's, for pure vocal beauty.

But they are both second to the Maestro. I saw Leonard at Coachella last Friday (4/17). It was a life's dream realized.

I got to see Morrisey (he sucked), The Black Keys (rock-iron-roll!) and Paul McCartney the same night. Probably the best concert of my life.

Oh, yeah: nagsheadlocal, you can kiss my .

 nagsheadlocal wrote: 
That is simply a tragic response

 Atlantis wrote: 
"ho hum"...c'mon you cant be serious?....love it or hate it - this song is most definitely NOT "ho hum"

 Stefen wrote: 

Uh...Leonard Cohen?

 Laptopdog wrote: 
There's no denying the guy sang with a lot of emotion. But, I'm sorry, pouring your heart out, while it may be cathartic, is not the only component of good music. If that was the case, every emotional train wreck out there would be making top selling hits.  

 Stefen wrote: 
Suffers in the same manner as his "Halleluja" - he really doesn't have a voice.

I rarely get maudlin about musicians dying young... it happens so damned often I guess you get used to it somehow.  But I first heard Jeff Buckley on a college radio station (Rollins College in Winter Park) about two years ago.  I did a u-turn and went to a music store and bought everything they had by him.  Come in the door, sit down at the computer and put this cd in the machine, and browse the web to learn about him.

He's already dead.

A serious bummer... and I am not ashamed to say I shed a few for him.

What a f&*king loss.....

sfListener wrote:

me brain t'wer no the only one!

Xeric wrote:

not paying attention fully and the lead-in sounds like Us And Them. Big let down when it is this. Not horrid, but certainly not great, and definitely not PF.

robco1 wrote:


Thank you for saying that. I get really sick of people being so very harsh about songs. You don't like it, fine. You can say that without being hateful. Unless the song is hateful in its purpose and meaning. Then it's ok.

I purposely rated this song a 9, just to counter all you whiners. 

God forbid that the guy sings (sang) with a lot of emotion.  I guess you'd rather hear some Jimmy Buffett to keep yourselves nice and placated. 

 keller1 wrote: 
Turn down the volume for a few minutes. It will pass.

Xeric wrote:

Pass the Excedrin ...

this song didn't work for me, i like him though ..
Oscar

Xeric wrote:Still with you on that one....

Somebody please let go of this guy's balls!

Sorry. I know--great talent gone too soon, all that. But I just couldn't stand it, uh, three days ago, and I still can't. . . .

robco1 wrote:

Cool. I love a good flame as anyone else.

Still a good song from a too soon lost talent. God what a set of pipes this guy had!

this tune had me drifting back and forth between digging it and cringeing at it. this is the first time i have heard of jeff buckley and i'm pretty sure i won't become a big jeff buckley fan, but i appreciate being exposed to it and all the other tunes that RP puts out. whether i dig them or cringe at them, they broaden my musical horizon.

This starts out pretty tolerable for Buckley. And then after that it's not.

I'm rating this more on the acoustic live in Japan version which was the first Jeff song I ever heard. The album version is definitely overcooked but that's the way of things...
I think people post such aggressively negative stuff about Jeff partly because they know his fans are generally sensitive souls prone to teary outbursts - it's cheap entertainment for the emotionally stunted.