Tim Buckley - (1967) - Once I Was video free download


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Artist: Tim Buckley

Album: Goodbye and Hello

Release Date: 1967

Label: Asylum

Often cited as the ultimate Tim Buckley statement, Goodbye and Hello is indeed a fabulous album, but it's merely one side of Tim Buckley's enormous talent. Recorded in the middle of 1967 (in the afterglow of Sgt. Pepper), this album is clearly inspired by Pepper's exploratory spirit. More often than not, this helps to bring Buckley's awesome musical vision home, but occasionally falters. Not that the album is overrated (it's not), it's just that it is only one side of Buckley. The finest songs on the album were written by him alone, particularly "Once I Was" and "Pleasant Street." Buoyed by Jerry Yester's excellent production, these tracks are easily among the finest example of Buckley's psychedelic/folk vision. A few tracks, namely the title cut and "No Man Can Find the War," were co-written by poet Larry Beckett. While Beckett's lyrics are undoubtedly literate and evocative, they occasionally tend to be too heavy-handed for Buckley. However, this is a minor criticism of an excellent and revolutionary album that was a quantum leap for both Tim Buckley and the audience.

Comments

8 years ago

leesydo

Too beautiful for words! Brings me to tears!

9 years ago

stitchesful

I don't think anybody needs to tell you this, Tim, but you will forever be remembered. I just wish you'd realized this while you were still here. 

9 years ago

Felisberto Magalhaes

Tim Buckley - (1967) - Once I Was

9 years ago

Margarita M.

And sometimes I wonderJust for a whileWill you ever remember me...

10 years ago

jay fray

tim still gives me tingles.kicks ass

10 years ago

Angela N

I have had my original Elektra vinyl copy of this truly magnificent LP for 30 years now. It is one of the GREAT LPs of the GREATEST ERA ever of rock. Tim's voice soars & swoops around a series of sometimes delicate, sometimes hair raising psychedelic/folk masterpieces. This track remains one of my particular faves along with "Morning Glory" & "Never Asked A Mountain". So sad to lose him so early at 28. Other Tim Buckley tracks to check incl spine tingling "Wings" off his first LP...

10 years ago

elcamman50

I wore out my casette of Goodbye and Hello while I was in Vietnam. Use to listen to this song in particular over and over....He left us way to early, and so did his son.....What a great loss to us and the rest of the world....Lyrics like poetry.....

10 years ago

antonio scardino

bellissima... ("coming home", un capolavoro).

10 years ago

net user

A beautiful song excellent album would recommend this album, check out this song in a tv prog called "Letters from the Nam".

10 years ago

Heidi Ivy

sure did, he is STILL is blowing the crap out of me with his music, like moreso each day- what a FREAKIN" TRIP! Gotta love it eh? ENJOY!!!!!

10 years ago

megm w

Sometimes, I wonder, just for awhile....

10 years ago

BruceTheSillyGoose

oh. it worked.

10 years ago

Heidi Ivy

to leave an intense impact for those who have he ears to hear!

10 years ago

João Lopes

Jeff died from drowning. In his autopsy, there wasn't found any alcohol or drugs. It was just a mere accident. Get your facts right

11 years ago

Michael Casey

Keep spreadin' the Love.

11 years ago

Michael Casey

World Peace

11 years ago

Wells Martin

Alexis Scot Collins - this is for YOU

11 years ago

camelfish74

i feel ya oldtimedrumcorps spiritually dude x

11 years ago

camelfish74

jeff got me here

11 years ago

BruceTheSillyGoose

why did both he and his son have to die prematurely?

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