Blue Afternoon

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

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 081227035624
EAN: 0081227035624
ASIN: B000008DUM

Release Date: 1991-11-05

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My Tim Buckley Collection.
soundtrack to my virginia road trip
Out of Print !?
Best Tim Buckley ablums
Jazz Rock Intersections
Folk/Jazz/Rock Fusion
Tim Buckley (1947-1975)

Tracks:

Happy Time
Chase the Blues Away
I Must Have Been Blind
River
So Lonely
Cafe
Blue Melody
Train

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Customer Reviews:

Number One of My "Desert Island Discs".......2006-10-03

When I lived in England, Radio 4 had a series called "Desert Island Discs" where celebrities would talk about the 10 albums they would want to have if they were stranded on a desert island. Tim Buckley's "Blue Afternoon" would be my #1.

Around 1970 Warner/Reprise issued a compilation album of "Loss Leaders" called The Big Ball, featuring its little-known or up-and-coming artists. I actually purchased it to hear another artist's contribution, but then I heard "Happy Time". Buckley's voice grabbed me and wrapped itself around my soul, and over 35 years and a lot of music later, he remains the artist against whom i measure all others.

Blue Afternoon is one of the best albums ever made and my favorite Tim Buckley album. I was actually old enough to purchase a copy when it was released, and throughout the years, as the vinyl wore out, i KEPT purchasing copies....because it is so incredible. I played it constantly. Probably one of the reasons the album is so hard to find is that I personally wore out 4 copies.

And I still listen to it today. Buckley was so unique that most of his stuff doesn't sound dated. From the subltly sorrowful "Happy Time", the drowsy sexiness of "So Lonely", the manic "The Train", and the aching beauty of "Blue Melody" and "I Must Have Been Blind", the album never gets old, never seems repetitious. I'm probably preaching to the choir, but if you can get your hands on a copy, do it. I still have 2 copies in reasonable shape. But notwithstanding my pathetic financial circumstances, I wouldn't sell them --- or any of my Buckley albums --- for any amount of money. He's that good.

I second the best.......2006-07-05

This is my favorite Tim Buckley record. Could be that it was the first one I heard, but I think it balances the jazz influence with the folk/blues and the songwriting and voice are in fine form. I didn't intend to write a long review, just to note that as of the time of this writing the album is available on iTunes - a word to the wise given the price-gouging resellers listed here.

Best Tim Buckley Album Out There.......2006-05-30

This is hands down my favorite Tim Buckley album. This is really when Buckley hit his peak and made this amazin album. It took me a long time and cost me to much money to find this album on vinyl (it sounds amazing on vinyl). I have always wanted to get it on CD but did not want to have to sell a kidney on the black market to afford it so when itunes released it for digital download at a cost of like $10 I jumped at the chance. I have it on my ipod and listen to it on a dialy basis. Go to itunes and buy this album, whether your new to Tim Buckley or a big fan, you will not be disappointed by this album. Once your download it from itunes you can also burn a copy and listen to it in your car. Heads up, itunes also released the hard to find Tim Buckley albums Starsailor and Greetings From L.A.

Amazing, as expected........2006-05-18

Tim Buckley never released a bad album. In fact, he never released a bad song or even a bad note. This album is pure beauty. Tim's voice is so smooth yet full of sould and emotion that is so genuine.

This album is not available on CD anymore. I suggest downloading it off of iTunes for about 8$, as well as the also unavailable Starsailor. I would pay 100 times that for this magnificent album.

Take a chance on this one, you won't regret it.

Hard to find nugget.......2006-01-20

Following the release of the classic album Happy Sad in 1969, Tim Buckley signed to Straight Records and recorded two albums of extraordinary quality the following year, Blue Afternoon, released in February 1970, and Starsailor, which came out in January 1971. 1970 also saw the release of a third album, the experimental Lorca, which contained five pieces recorded in November 1969 for Elektra, his former label. Blue Afternoon was the most accessible of the three though none was a commercial success.
Happy Sad had seen Tim Buckley throw off the shackles of the folk-rock tag and move for awhile into an area of free-form jazz-blues and avant garde exploration. One track in particular, Dream Letter, presages the thematic content and introspection of much of Blue Afternoon. This was his first self-produced album and used the same musicians as on Happy Sad, including Lee Underwood, who had played on all his records, on second guitar and piano, but adding drummer Jimmy Madison.
The whole album is led by Buckley's incredible performances in which his voice becomes an instrument, at one with his own twelve-string guitar accompaniment. The use of exclusively real instruments, subtly amplified to create a spacey feel, adds to the overall mood of languorous melancholy that pervades the record.
Surprisingly, given its overall homogeneity, the album consisted of a number of previously unfinished songs, leftovers from his first three, and, as with Happy Sad, were written by Tim Buckley alone. At the time of release he claimed to have written the songs for Marlene Dietrich, an aspiration he must have acknowledged to be doomed to failure, but which may have been an inspiration in their conception.
The album opens with Happy Time, which was simultaneously released as a single with the very beautiful and soulful I Must Have Been Blind on the B-side, reaches a peak with the magisterial Blue Melody and closes with an extended jazzy workout called The Train, perhaps most closely deriving from his work on Lorca, and demonstrating the state of constant flux in which he conducted his artistry. The Train led the way logically towards Starsailor, his next album, which largely abandoned set songs in favour of more extemporised pieces.
I hate to be elitist about this, since this important album, like Starsailor, has not been available on CD since its limited 1989 edition via Rhino, due to the collapse of Herb Cohen and Frank Zappa's Straight/Bizarre labels, and badly needs to be re-mastered and re-released. Although CD copies are hard to find, second-hand vinyl and cassette copies are still relatively easy to track down. He was a major artist, in the true sense of the word, and should be heard.

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