Tim Buckley - Greetings from L.A.
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Artist: Tim BuckleyBrand: BUCKLEY,TIM
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1999-05-31
Music Label: Warner Bros UK
Soundtracks:
- Move with Me
- Get on Top
- Sweet Surrender
- Nighthawkin'
- Devil Eyes
- Hong Kong Bar
- Make It Right
Free Music Notes for Greetings from L.A.
Free Music Review: Classic
Hit: 5 Stars
Forget two things: everything you think you know about Tim Buckley, and everything the critics have told you about this album.
Actually, let me take that first comment back, or at least qualify it: you probably know Buckley had one of the best voices in rock. He could lilt babies to sleep with his early folk, but once he got into the avant-gaurd, he could wale and fly into deep space in octives only Robert Plant could then compete with. Here, this has not changed a bit. His soaring voice adds to the subject matter here--in fact it is taylor cut for this.
But on Greetings From LA, Buckley is not lighting any purest candle for any vagabond. This is the 1970s, and the bard has cut his curls and is on the strip, on the hunt. Morning Glory? Who cares.
Greetings from LA is about the night. About when 1960s free love became 1970s pleasure hunt. He is only lighting the candle for the "b*i-t-c---h dog in heat" described on "Get On Top." (And I am being conservitive in the lyric qoutes, just to get this published.)
All this is done to a deep, exotic, popping funk, provided by the best in the business: Chuck Rainey and many other funky associates. These were THE guys to get if making jazz or funk or both in the 70s. (It seems every fourth or fifth album I love, Rainey is on it. A good penny.)
These songs are long, girating canvases, played perefectly by these amazing musicians. This is funk, not disco, but it is amazing how hard the beat is driven, yet how musically it is played. The opener is blues funk. "Get On Top" works as proto-dance music. "Sweet Surrender" is exotic, middle eastern, a slow naughty satin burn--the stuff of your knuckle rapping top-bottoned school teacher's most pleasent dreams.
Buckely had of course dealt with intimacy before: "Gypsy Women" for example. But this was the stuff of the kids bathing in creeks at Woodstock in 1969, not in the 1974 key clubs. The mileu is ENTIERLY different. What is Buckley up to?
Is he exploring the freedom those kids at Woodstock faught for? Is he documenting what was then current behavior--a failed 1967 utopia turned into a 1974 free for all, armed with a gas mask? Or is he just being as naughty as he wants because he wants to? Because he now can and its fun?
Well,its hard to tell, but no doubt that the music is sure as hell great--some of the best funk out there.
That alone makes this worth getting
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Greetings from L.A. Poster
1996 reissue on Warner Brothers of th late singer- songwriter's 1972 live album for the label, recorded in Los Angeles in 1971. Features seven tracks, including 'Move WithMe' and 'Nighthawkin''.Folk Music CDs
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