Jeff Buckley - So Real: Songs from Jeff Buckley
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Free Music Notes for So Real: Songs from Jeff Buckley
Free Music Review: Save your money and buy the albums!
Hit: 1 Stars
Buying all the albums that these tracks come from is SO much more worth the investment than buying a "best of" album that barely showcases the talent this guy possessed. It doesn't even scratch the surface! Do yourself a favor, get the albums (Grace, Mystery White Boy, Sketches...,and Sin-e) and enjoy ALL the tunes rather than just a slim few that while great songs, are only a fraction of what can be found in the released discography. Free Music Review: Not a Buckley Fan
Hit: 1 Stars
Never heard of Jeff Buckely until the song Halleluiah and purchased the CD thinking I would get a handful of songs with a similar sound. This collection reminds me of an improv or jam night done off the cuff. Was not a Buckley fan then and am not a Buckley fan now. All of the songs sound the same. Didn't like it at all.Free Music Review: Rolling Stones Magazine explains...
Hit: 4 Stars
From "The Death of High Fidelity" by Robert Levin:
In 2004, Jeff Buckley's mom, Mary Guibert, listened to the original three-quarter-inch tape of her son's recordings as she was preparing the tenth-anniversary reissue of Grace. "We were hearing instruments you've never heard on that album, like finger cymbals and the sound of viola strings being plucked," she remembers. "It blew me away because it was exactly what he heard in the studio."
To Guibert's disappointment, the remastered 2004 version failed to capture these details. So last year, when Guibert assembled the best-of collection So Real: Songs From Jeff Buckley, she insisted on an independent A&R consultant to oversee the reissue process and a mastering engineer who would reproduce the sound Buckley made in the studio. "You can hear the distinct instruments and the sound of the room," she says of the new release. "Compression smudges things together."
Free Music Review: A Very Confusing Collection
Hit: 3 Stars
As a serious Buckley collector, I find this collection bewildering. Sure, it was released to commemorate Jeff Buckley's 10th Death Anniversary, but still, it leaves you feeling rather incomplete.
Perhaps its the collector in me, and since I've heard the songs here a million times, but I suppose this would be a good starting place for any new convert. On its' own though, its no 'Grace', and in fact, I would tell any new fan to pick up the Legacy Edition of 'Grace' instead. Its about $25 on Amazon, but you get the expanded 2-Disc Version + the DVD with the 'Making of Grace' and all the Music Videos from that era as well.
I would say - skip this, and invest in getting these three Jeff Buckley albums - "Grace (Legacy Edition), "Live at Sin E (Legacy Edition)," and "Sketches for My Sweetheart The Drunk" - I can't think of a better way to kick off a love affair with Buckley.
Note to Jeff's Mom : Where are all those rarities you keep promising us? And when are you going to get off the advertising and money-making bandwagon to give Jeff's legacy the TRUE respect it deserves?
Free Music Review: More of the same while Buckley's fresher material still hasn't been released
Hit: 1 Stars
Jeff Buckley was a man of immense talent snuffed out by his tragic early death. The only major effort he saw released during his life, 1994's Grace, is one of the greatest albums of all time and continues to sound fresh and exciting after more than a decade.
If Buckley is so great, why do I review this compilation so low? You see, ever since Buckley's death, a stream of CDs have come out that just regurgitate the same several songs from GRACE, while certain great recordings languish in obscurity. His performances at the 1991 concert in memory of his father Tim and his collaboration with Liz Fraser have been passed around between fans for years, and yet they are still denied a commercial release. LIVE AT L'OLYMPIA, a live recording from two Paris dates which Buckley considered his finest performances, is available in the U.S. only as an import. The only new material on this compilation, a live version of "So Real" and a cover of a Smiths tune, seem minor indeed compared to the material fans have long been waiting for.
And not only does this recording offer little new, but being marketed as a sort of introduction to Jeff Buckley means that people new to the artist will experience these tracks different than Buckley intended when recording GRACE. When artists like Radiohead have emphasized the importance of the album as a whole and have resisted issuing tracks separate from the full album, it is a pity that Buckley's estate issues GRACE tracks all jumbled up here.
I love Jeff Buckley, but frankly his legacy is being diminished by this endless stream of rehashes. If you have never heard his music before, get GRACE and prepare for a life-changing experience. But with this compilation, it's a good time even for completists to start giving up.