"Listen to Buckley's extraordinary voice, his sometimes wordless barrage of whoops, cries, cackles, shouts, melismas and moans, and find a communication way beyond the limitations of dictionary or thesaurus. Yes, Buckley's words were volatile, thunderously drenched in blood, sex, sugar, magic, but it's what he says when the words fail that makes Buckley a giant."
Mike Gee
1966: Tim Buckley, Elektra
1967: Goodbye and Hello, Elektra
1969: Happy/Sad, Elektra
1970: Lorca, Elektra
1971: Blue Afternoon, Elektra
1971: Starsailor, Straight
1972: Greetings From LA, Straight
1973: Sefronia, Discreet
1974: Look at the Fool, Discreet
He did not always sing remarkable songs - at least a quarter were dull, dire or downright
self-indulgent - but Tim Buckley's voice was incendiary. And just as his voice could
explode from a grumble to a falsetto shriek, stylistically he was forever bewildering his
audience and record company - album after album presented new directions. For
Buckley, songs were springboards for risk-taking, but at some point in his life he took to
understudying oblivion too strenuously for comfort. Eventually he forfeited his life.
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