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Epicurus.com - Grace
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List Price: $11.98
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Manufacturer: Sony
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0074645752822
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 1994-08-23
Studio: Sony
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Editorial Reviews:
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Resembling at times a soft-sung Robert Plant, Buckley was an intuitive vocalist capable of dizzying arabesques and choir-boy sweetness. He is joined here by a tight band for 10 tracks highlighting his stylistic range--Pearl Jam bluesy on "Eternal Life," impossibly serene on Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," art-school noisy on "So Real," Led Zep daring on "Mojo Pin." Unorthodox, this was the debut of '94. --Jeff Bateman
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Summary: So Real
Comment: If you've got a thing for music then you should enjoy this. You can feel Buckley's emotion and soul come through in the recording. You can hear the imperfections and feel how real it is. Beautiful lyrics along with his voice take you away. If you listen to music and truly enjoy doing so, then you will not be disappointed.
Most people will probably buy this album for Jeff Buckley's cover of Hallelujah. That's a perfectly legitimate reason as he definitely recorded the definitive version. However once you start listening to the other tracks, you realize you just hit the jackpot. "Lilac Wine," "Lover, You Should've Come Over," and "So Real" are great ones to start off with. His death was tragic, but his legend will live on with his music.
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Summary: Not graceful enough
Comment: 3 1/2
It is an amazing debut, and of course a bittersweet release, but I can't ever shake the feeling of overachieving all over this thing. The diverse ten song set showcases Buckley's premier falsetto and many of it's incarnations with some haunting rock variety, but for every grace that occurs, it sounds like as many or more steps are taken towards overkill, musically and vocally piling on top of things only to muddle their significance. In effect the most memorable songs occur when a less ambitious, more minimalist agenda is at stake (hence the ill-represented success of Hallelujah) but throughout many overreaching compositions Buckley hits many-a-stride in between.
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Summary: "It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah..."
Comment: A legendary album and justly so. Every song is a masterpiece in its own right: the title track, which gave Radiohead the basis for their Bends-era sound; "Mojo Pin," at once gorgeous and disturbing, "Heroin" for the '90s, the beautiful "Last Goodbye," with strings, a lovely falsetto, and a weirdly unresolved chord progression, the cabaret-esque "So Real," with a very heavy, very strange guitar solo and gasping vocals, the brokenhearted "Lover, You Should've Come Over," with Buckley overdubbing himself to create a gospel choir effect, the Zeppelin-esque heavy rocker "Eternal Life," the creepy, bongo-driven closer "Dream Brother." And the covers are just as good as the originals: "Lilac Wine" is jazz filtered through Pink Floyd, and his famous version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is a heartbreaking, beautiful, sensual reading. It's nothing more than a gentle electric guitar and Buckley's vocals, and those vocals are some of the best I've heard by anyone, ever. It gives me the chills, and out of the many versions of the song I've heard, I think it's the best. Of course, it was my introduction to Jeff Buckley's work - I'm in a band that plans to cover "Hallelujah," and I was searching the web for versions of the song a couple days ago. This one really jumped out at me. Still, I think it's unfair that it completely overshadows the other songs on this album. And "Corpus Christi Carol" is a stark, effective cover of an old hymn. The production is normally stripped-down, putting the emphasis where it belongs: on Jeff's voice, one of the best ever. This album is an excellent of jazz, rock, folk, blues, gospel, world music, and soul, and it works spectacularly well. It's a shame Buckley had to die so young. He was an amazing talent.
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Summary: Jeff Buckley's Graceful Debut.
Comment: Jeff Buckley's 1994 debut album, Grace, lives up to its title. Drawing its inspiration from Nina Simone, Van Morrison, Billie Holiday, Led Zeppelin, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Bob Dylan, Édith Piaf, The Smiths, and Leonard Cohen, Grace is definitive Jeff Buckley, whose life was cut short. Ironically, he accidentally drowned at age 30 in Graceland, (Memphis). Although the album initially sold poorly, it has since drawn the acclaim it deserves. (Jimmy Page considers Grace his "favorite album of the decade," David Bowie named Grace as one of the ten albums he would take with him to a desert island, and Dylan named Buckley "one of the great songwriters of this decade.")
"Mojo Pin" opens the album with a psychedelic, dreamlike quality leading up to the album's first single, "Grace," a song about "not feeling so bad about your own mortality when you have true love." Buckley covers the Nina Simone standard "Lilac Wine," a song that immerses itself in the "strange delight" of falling in love, as well as the 1984 Leonard Cohen classic, "Hallelujah." (Buckley has called his rendition of Cohen's frequently-cpvered song an homage to "the hallelujah of the orgasm.") The album ends with "Dream Brother," a song about Buckley's father (Tim Buckley) abandoning him as a child. "Don't be like the one who made me so old," he cautions a friend about to walk out on his pregnant girlfriend. The ten songs on this album are rich in authenticity and emotional depth. Complete album tracks include:
1. Mojo Pin 5:43
2. Grace 5:23
3. Last Goodbye 4:32
4. Lilac Wine 4:33
5. So Real 4:41
6. Hallelujah 6:53
7. Lover, You Should've Come Over 6:43
8. Corpus Christi Carol 2:58
9. Eternal Life 4:52
10. Dream Brother 5:26
G. Merritt
Customer Rating:
Summary: He's...
Comment: nothing compared to his father... listen to starsailor and lorca if you are really into music...
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