Morning Glory: The Tim Buckley Anthology

Artist: Tim Buckley
Label: Elektra / Wea
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2

UPC: 081227672225
EAN: 0081227672225
ASIN: B000059RJR

Release Date: 2001-03-20

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Tracks:

Wings
She Is
Song Slowly Song
It Happens Every Time
Aren't You The Girl
Pleasant Street
Hallucinations
No Man Can Find The War
Once I Was
Morning Glory
Goodbye And Hello
Buzzin' Fly
Strange Feelin'
Sing A Song For You
Phantasmagoria In Two (Live)
I've Been Out Walking (Live)
Troubadour (Live)

Tracks:

Happy Time
Chase The Blues Away
I Must Have Been Blind
The River
So Lonely
Blue Melody
I Had A Talk With My Woman (Live)
Moulin Rouge
Song To The Siren
Monterey
Sweet Surrender
Hong Kong Bar
Make It Right
Sally Go 'Round The Roses
Who Could Deny You
Song To The Siren (From The Monkees TV Show)

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Customer Reviews:

el autentico canto del cisne............2007-03-12

alguna vez lei que la voz de TIM BUCKLEY podia llenar los espacios entre las moleculas de aire..y creo que es asi, realmente....una voz unica que tambaleo desde el folk universitario a la demencia experimental, sin limites...caotica, autentica, introvertida, bella, esta coleccion de canciones te llevan directamente al lugar donde tim no pudo llegar....

I Can't Help but Notice Jeff.......2005-05-21

I came to listen to Tim Buckley as a Jeff Buckley fan. Although some consider it blasphemy to even mention the two in a sentence together, the fact of the matter is that their styles undeniably resemble each other. Still, their voices are (unfortunately for me) very different.

Because I am not a fan of the era, I knew that I would have to be very objective when first listening to the music so I could ease my way into appreciating it. The early materials on the albums are very folkie and are hard for me to listen to. "Wings" is a great example; I hate the way Tim pronounces the words so properly like a choral singer.

Tim's voice does resemble someone, or a group of people, but it is hard to put my finger on who they are because of my lack of knowledge from the era.

As I got to the later stuff, I was kind of impressed. The booklet included in this collection says that Tim's later music is hard to categorize, which is exactly right. "Buzzin Fly" is happy and carefree in the opening. "Who Could Deny You" has a beautiful shift in tone in the middle of the song. "Song To the Siren" has a haunting screaming noise in the background. The songs seem to be experimental but they're decent accomplishments.

I still couldn't ignore the similarities between Tim and Jeff. Both were excellent in concert because they were freely personal and experimental. Both allowed themselves to be imperfect and feminine when necessary. Both made use of simple melodies, meaningful lyrics, falsetto, and soaring vibratos. Both even used be-bop in their live shows. In "Blue Melody", Tim moans identically to the way Jeff did. In "I've Been Out Walking", Tim's "Ain't got no time" has a strain similar to those Jeff used for effect in live performances. In "Strange Feelin'", Tim's voice seems to echo Jeff's from "I got this strange" which sounds like Jeff's opening to "Mojo Pin" and "feeling" which sounds like the sarcasm in Jeff's "Moodswing Whiskey". Their taste even seems to be similar; Tim's version of "Sally Go Round the Roses" sounds like a song that Jeff would have covered. Sadly, it seems that Tim did not have the same ability to affect a wide variety of audiences that Jeff did.

Talented folkie and experimental genius.......2004-06-06

Tim Buckley started out as a folk-rocker but ended up as a musical explorer whose sound would extend the boundaries of popular music and defy categorisation. The billowing beauty of his later work, on Starsailor in particular, would only begin to be appreciated after his death in 1975.

His first album Tim Buckley was released in October 1966 when he was only 19 years old. Buckley's passionate voice exquisitely wrapped itself around lyricist Larry Becket's romantic songs like Song Slowly Sung and the lovely Valentine Melody which is absent here.

During the hippy year of 1967 Buckley was doing the folk club circuit in New York City where he recorded his first masterpiece, the accessible Goodbye And Hello which was his breakthrough album and largest seller ever. Classic tracks included the impressive I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain, the moving Once I Was, omitted here, and of course the Dylan-influenced title track.

But instead of consolidating his success Buckley veered off into the most experimental of directions, rather too unusual for his 1960s folk audience to appreciate. Initially he moved into minimalism on the album Happy/Sad (1968), co-produced with ex-Loving Spoonful guitarist Zal Yanofsky. The wistful Blue Afternoon (1969) and Lorca (1970) are jazz-folk fusions.

The next album, Starsailor, was even weirder. It is a strange journey into the realms of avant-garde jazz where Buckley applies his voice as an instrument to spectacular effect. Scott Walker in his weirder moments comes to mind. But it did include two very accessible masterpieces: The poignant Moulin Rouge (sung partly in French) and the exquisite Song To The Siren, which was beautifully covered by This Mortal Coil in 1984.

Considered by many to be his opus magnum, the uncompromisingly erotic Greetings From LA (1973) was an enthusiastic embrace of all things funky, effusive and sensual. Move With Me deals with the wrath of a jealous husband, whilst Sweet Surrender is an explanation of his infidelity. There is great sadness in Hong Kong Bar, social commentary in Nighthawkin' (unfortunately not present on this compilation) and shades of sado-masochism in Make It Right, a song comparable in theme to Velvet Underground's Venus In Furs.

Greetings From LA was followed by the unremarkable Sefronia (1973) and Look At The Fool (1974), which proved to be his last album as he died on June 29, 1975 in Santa Monica, California of an overdose. Buckley left a memorable body of work that is being appreciated more and more with the passing time. Although not perfect (vide the omissions listed above) this compilation is a great introduction to the work of a unique musical genius. Like Nick Drake and Tim Hardin, Buckley's music has stood the test of time very well and his reputation continues to grow. I give the album only 4 stars because of the omissions.

it's only an introduction to the man..........2004-02-02

A great two discs, but I can't give it a straight up recommendation, just because, if you're not a huge fan of Tim Buckley after listening to these two discs, you'll feel like you wasted your money, and if you are a huge Tim Buckley fan after listening to these two discs, you'll only want to buy his original albums!
Still, it does have some great tracks which are not available on any other CD, or are from out of print albums which go for $90 used these days, (songs from Starsailor and Blue Afternoon, and the version of Song to the Siren performed live on The Monkees show, which is definitely a great addition). The only song I can complain about is "Goodbye and Hello"- maybe the only song on here I dislike- I listened to it once, but now, I press the skip button every time it starts. Makes me feel bad for people who own the vinyl version, who have to carefully lift up the needle every time it starts... They really should have put two shorter and better songs on instead.
Buying original Tim albums just MIGHT be a better purchase for some people, for several reasons. Like I already said, I wanted to buy all the albums after I heard this. Also, transitions between songs from different albums are not smooth, unlike compilation albums of musicians with more consistent styles. A lot of the tracks from different periods in his career sound awkward together, in my opinion. For this reason (and the inclusion of "goodbye and hello") I almost didn't give this five stars.
Also, it seems that most people prefer a particular period of Tim's career over others, and would probably be better off getting "Tim Buckley" if they like his early Elektra folk stylings, "Lorca" if they like his experimental stylings, etc.
I think anyone can appreciate his inconsistency more if they look at each album individually, not as a progression of his career. I think it's best just to look at each album as Tim doing whatever style he happened to be doing at the time, rather than hold each album up to the standards of a "Tim Buckley" album- whatever their definition of a Tim Buckley album may be. I think that being able to sing "she is the day of love" just as convincingly as he can sing "get on top of me woman" (why was that song not on here? as an incentive for you to buy "Greetings From LA," maybe) makes Tim even more impressive a singer than he would have been if he stuck with the same musical persona.
So, in conclusion- it's worth buying, especially for the out of print "Starsailor" and "Blue Afternoon" songs, but be prepared, it's a real tease, and as one reviewer said, it's not a "best of compilation," it's an introduction to and a sampler of Tim's music. It's function is to give you a reason to buy MORE of his albums, not less.

Marvelous introduction to an utterly unique performer.......2003-05-10

First, almost no one is going to like everything that Tim Buckley did. That is not a reflection of his talent, but of the extraordinary diversity of his musical output. Tim Buckley was one of rock's greatest experimentalists, and embraced such a vast number of styles during his tragically short career, that very few will find all of his attempts congenial. This collection does a great job of collecting the high points from each period in his career. Many will prefer the earlier songs, where he appears more as a folk troubadour. Myself, I am more of a fan of the later, more challenging songs. Best of all, this album features both the original version of the amazing "Song to the Siren" off STAR SAILOR, as well as the rare acoustic version of the same song from the Monkees TV show.

Buckley possessed one of the truly great voices in the history of rock, with a range that was surpassed possibly only by Roy Orbison. He not only had a remarkable range, but also could change the timbre of his voice. One listening to the two versions of "Song to the Siren" noted above, if he or she didn't know that Buckley was singing both, might find it hard to believe that both were by the same person. He was always a tenor, but he seemed to be able to kick into a high tenor that sounded almost female at times. At times his voice was thin, at times almost like a woodwind instrument as he would hold out a note.

Buckley was also a gifted songwriter, as this album amply demonstrates. Given all this, one might be led to ask, why wasn't he bigger than he was? The answer primarily lies in his diversity. He did too many things, sang in too many styles, and as a result was never able to really nail down a target audience.

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