It’s a frankly unbelievable 25 years since the late, great Jeff Buckley released his debut album Grace.
In fact, on the day it came out Jeff played an unforgettable show (top) in Whelan’s of Wexford Street, Dublin 2.
To mark the occasion there will be a special tribute show in the same venue featuring the same house band who recently played a blinder at the Elliott Smith tribute gig.
To be in with a chance of winning my free TWO tickets to I Heart Jeff Buckley on Friday August 23, simply tell me below what your favourite Jeff Buckley song or memory is.
The winner will be chosen by my talking rabbit.
Lines close at 5.15pm EXTENDED until 10.45pm.
Nick says: Good luck!
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Love so many of them, but my favourite has to be The Last Goodbye.
I love the heavier, live version he used to do of Eternal Life. Worth checking out.
I was quite a sensitive soul at school, so one of my teachers gave me a lend of ‘Live A L’Olympia’ to tape onto cassette. At one point Jeff sings ‘manger beaucoup de fromaaaaaaaage’ into the mic between songs.
The favourite was always ‘Dream Brother’…my mam yelled up the stairs at me to turn it down.
God but Jeff was beautiful.
Ps please give me the tix. I want to ask a cute boy out.
^^^^^ WINNER !!!!
She said a cute boy….
I’m cute
Well this is our last embraaaaa-a-a–ce
Must I dream and always see your face
Why can’t we overcome this wall?
Baby, maybe its just because you didn’t know me at all
I’d like the tickets because I’d like to give them to Niamh- she should win anyway, no-one’s gonna top that ;)
My actual favourite track of Jeff is the Way Young Lovers Do from Live at Sin é though
I mean who even attempts a Van Morrison cover?
Only someone with balls, love and talent to burn, Jeff had it all, in spades, RIP
You are very sweet!
I love this
https://youtu.be/hXe1jpHPnUs
for a million reasons not for sharing :)
haha
great choice
it’s 100% – Lover, You Should Have Come Over.
There’s a section near the end, about 2/3 through, where it goes full motown-blues, that has some of his best lyrics:
“It’s never over, my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder
It’s never over, all my riches for her smiles when I slept so soft against her
It’s never over, all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter
It’s never over, she is the tear that hangs inside my soul forever…”
absolute genius.
+1
That’s the goose bumps moment right there. Good choice Bertie oul son.
+1 Thats my favourite part out of all his songs. I used to listen to it over and over.
My favourite Jeff Buckley song is all flowers in time with Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins. Even though it is just a demo, it is beautiful – the music, their voices, the lyrics. And there is someone out there for everyone.
His version of ‘Satisfied Mind’ is the just purest. Just voice and that cream toploader telecaster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCU3HXNGaAw
the cough at the start is class
A girl and I made love listening to Grace on repeat and I will never forget it. hallelujah and nakedness. Amazing. There was a moment when the the band comes in to Eternal Life at the beginning and my stomach butterflies even to this day. It was summer and it was raining and it was the day after a party. If I ever loose some parts of my memory, I will fight to keep that one.
Amateur.
Come back when you have made love listening to “Agadoo”.
and when you think about it:
to the left
to the right
jump up and down
and to the knees
is pretty much all the instruction you need
Well, that and a pair of dog sized tights….
Actually his version of Hallelujah is an important character of sorts – albeit small, in that book I wrote back back back
and to think he died not knowing
Jaysus you’re a right sachet of sodium chloride today bb
brimming with chutzpah, i’ll take it you mean
My favorite Jeff Buckley song is What Will You Say from the Mystery White Boy album, though it could be any live recording of that song tbh. It’s about him wondering what meeting his father would be like and, much like how conversations of that sort go, the song reflects that by starting very politely and steadily building to pure emotion towards the end that there’s no question as to how he feels on the subject, lyrics aside. The song taught me how experiential music can be and that you can’t simply “skip” to the good parts because it’s as much the lead-up that makes the good bits what they are as much as the simply being good. They have to be earned for proper catharsis, otherwise it’s just a bunch of wailing
Who?
Jeff Buckley
This is Our Last Goodbye. Really reminds me of a friend I lost this year.
Too young to die and I think about him everyday. I can’t understand it.
Lilac Wine is beautiful too.
I love every note on Grace, but Lover You Should Have Come Over is heartbreaking in its beauty.
Oh, and Niamh should win the tickets!! Any cute boy I might ask only wants to be friends…
As much as I love his cover of Dylan’s “If You See Her, Say Hello”, I have to give it to #1 off of Grace, Mojo Pin.
In fact I’m surprised not to have seen it mentioned in the comments so far, I thought it’d be unanimous.
Still remember the first time listening to it for the first time so many years ago, in the dead of night, and getting those shivers. Greatest voice in modern music.
Now every time I hear it, I’m reminded of my wife, who I’ll definitely be taking with me if I get to go to this event, and her “black ribbons of coal’.
Shout-out to “Flowers in Time”, and another one I haven’t seen mentioned, the moody “Forget Her”.
It’d be a difficult choice if Mojo Pin weren’t the masterpiece it is!
My favorite Jeff Buckley song is Hallelujah