Other Mixes By Rob Conroy
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You left some stars in my belly
| Artist | Song | |
| Jeff Buckley/Gary Lucas | She is Free | |
| Jeff Buckley | Satisfied Mind | |
| Jeff Buckley | Eternal Life [Live at Sin-e] | |
| Jeff Buckley | The Way Young Lovers Do (edit) [Live at Sin-e] | |
| Jeff Buckley | Grace | |
| Jeff Buckley | So Real | |
| Jeff Buckley | Hallelujah | |
| Jeff Buckley | Lover, You Should've Come Over | |
| Jeff Buckley | Kanga-Roo (edit) | |
| Jeff Buckley | Everybody Here Wants You | |
| Jeff Buckley | Yard of Blonde Girls | |
| Jeff Buckley | I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby (If We Wanted to Be) | |
| Jeff Buckley | Back in N.Y.C. | |
| Jeff Buckley | Jewel Box | |
Comment:
My favorite 80 minutes by a talented but unbelievably overrated artist (at least in the more diluted perimeters of record geek circles, anyway), pulled from Jen's complete Jeff discography. (Thanks to her for that, btw.) I think his greatest strength, actually, was as an interpreter rather than a songwriter, since (to me, anyway) "Hallelujah" towers over every song on this mix by a long shot. As almost every Jeff Buckley song runs on approximately a minute too long, I decided to edit all but 20 seconds of the nine-minute jam that ends his cover of "Kanga-Roo" and to ditch the nearly two minutes of navel-gazing vocalizations that begin his cover of "The Way Young Lovers Do" and the self-congratulatory minute of applause that ends the same song (thus enabling me to squeeze another track onto the CD). Last songs cut: "Lost Highway (live)", "The Sky is a Landfill", and "Mojo Pin [Live at Sin-e]".Feedback:
never heard jeff, not really eager to.
There are a more than a million less talented people to listen to, Alex, but you're not missing a *whole* lot. At his worst, I've always called Jeff "Whitney Houston trapped in the body of an alterna-pretty-boy"... but I think the songs on this mix are actually worth listening to.
i've really only heard bad things about him, at best kind of mediocre things. perhaps if the time comes and the moment is right. until then...by the way, merry christmas
"Whitney Houston..." sums it up for me.
Yeah, Jeff Buckley is actually my favorite singer in the world (or was.) In high school he could do no wrong (especially after his death.) But my roommmates in college used to call my livge bootlegs "hummingbird music." Once again, I wouldn't have chosen all these but I'm happy you think he's worthy of a disc, even if it is accompanied by not entirely positive remarks.
I like Jeff Buckley. I have to concur the songs tend to be a tad to long and he really shines as an interpreter and was a talented vocalist. I saw Jeff a few months before Grace came out based purely of hype of a friend who had saw him up in NYC. He was playing a weekday night at the Grape Street Pub in the Manyunk nieghborhood of Philadelphia. I was working late and around midnight, I dropped by the place and caught some of his solo act as he was playing to only a handful of folks. It was impressive and he seemed very shy to the point of pretention and was far more comfortable talking about other music rather than his own.
i like jeff buckley about as much as you do, i'd guess (maybe a little more), but it seems odd to make a single artist mix of him and then just complain about him for a while. i'm not yelling at you, i just think it's funny.
I'm glad to finally see someone on this site doing it for the love of the music.
To K.: I like these particular songs quite a bit, which is why I used my girlfriend's Jeff Buckley collection to put them all in one spot. There's a fair chance that he wouldn't bother me quite as much if I didn't have to see him referenced as some kind of tragic genius on this site and in various decent music magazines. To Ruby: If you like Jeff, then you really ought to check out either "Happy/Sad" or "Blue Afternoon" by his dad, Tim. They're way better (IMHO) and you'll like them, at the very least.
nice mix.