Grace

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Fans certainly think so, but I won't cop to listening very beyond his lone completed record these days. Worst of all I've noticed on quiet tracks that I can also hear a faint, distorted echo of the music from around 1.

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Columbia started throwing around potential producers to try to get the album on track, radio-friendly names like Butch Vig, Brendan O’Brien, Steve Lillywhite, or even Brian Eno. From the opening whiskery drum intro of ‘Mojo Pin’ to the last reverberant chord of ‘Dream Brother’, you’re subjected to an incredible journey that seamlessly straddles a devastating range of emotions and styles. I have this amazing album on vinyl (poor Simply Vinyl pressing) and the SACD but can no longer play SACDs. It’s clear, punchy when it’s needs to be, and Jeff’s vocals sound pretty good…but this pressing isn’t the best. Disc Two features perviously unreleased live recordings and material recorded during the Grace sessions, including the highly sought-after track “Forget Her.

In his 30 years, he lived a head-spinning number of musical lives, as chronicled in David Browne’s essential biography, Dream Brother. According to Discogs database this pressing use the same stampers from the now legendary Dutch original LP release.

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Still, I like and appreciate the balance and consistency of the overall sound and that the sonics seem anything but too hyped or too jacked up.

Mojo named it the “best album of 1994” – it also made annual best-of lists from Entertainment Weekly, NME, Melody Maker and Q Magazine. In fact, Piaf as the "Little Sparrow" was the most obvious blueprint for Buckley's flighty, unabashedly emotional expression; in both cases, whether your reaction was to adore or abhor the often raw (but never adolescent) bouts of melo- and other kinds of drama, no one could say they held their hearts in check. Meanwhile, the music is stark and fuzzed out, like a post-hardcore version of the Smashing Pumpkins. It's nice that I don't feel like I'm being hit over the head with some of the more jarring and heavy 90's alt sounds, or masterings, but fwiw to me this edition seems on the quite mellow side, which I'm ok with, fwiw lol, but I find Jeff's voice not especially best served imo on the 2010 re of the 1994 date, which is to say his voice sounds OK to me.

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But around the same time they were touching down at the airport, Buckley decided to take a spontaneous dip into the nearby Wolf River in black boots and an “Altamont” T-shirt, singing Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” while doing the backstroke. It's a good pressing and I must have gotten lucky because mine is very quiet with little surface noise. Opener “Sky Is a Landfill” is the closest Buckley ever came to agitprop, a denunciation of capitalist and media systems that now reads prophetic, if a bit overwritten. Featuring Buckley’s definitive cover of "Hallelujah" and frequently cited by critics as one of the greatest albums of all time. Buckley was in a privileged position, and he undoubtedly enjoyed the runway he was being offered, but being associated with a global conglomerate weighed on him.In Buckley's case, it was a steady stream of collaborators, girls, gigs and an impressive reserve of torch songs from way back when. And, as this reissue proves, for every bit of lightning trapped in a jar, Buckley was willing to try his hand at many songs with which he held a weaker grasp. So under increased pressure from his label, Buckley began nursing a contrarian streak and attempted to trade in Grace’s gorgeous softness for something spikier and confrontational with his second album. I haven't revisited the album in a noticeable amount of time, I just wish the vocal tonality here had a little more depth to it than it does. Sketches ends with a solo performance of the standard “Satisfied Mind” that Buckley sang on the radio in 1992.