people do not talk about this song/album enough
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the man might be a bit of a cornball, but this album is a certified classic. 10/10.
no notes, except that āGet It Right the First Timeā doesnāt get the shine it deserves compared to the rest of the track list.
Dec 28, 2023
A little overlooked and a little maligned as being part of that period in Bobās career (starting after the motorcycle incident) where he ended his streak of revolutionary albums (that had his contemporaries in a constant chokehold from ā63-ā66), and instead began turning inwards; a little more pastoral, a little more run-down and homey. Whatever, he couldāve stopped after Visions of Johanna, anything after is a blessing. It pains me when people treat this as pedestrian or unessential music. Close to John Wesley Harding in sound and aesthetic but more honest and not as interested in folk-mythmaking. This is like his McCartney, total domestic bliss and joie de vivre. Sign On The Window is my favourite.
Hopefully gets some reappraisal after Timmy covered Three Angels on SNL.
Feb 10, 2025
The only studio recording he released while alive dropped 30 years ago today.
āSo Realā is, to my mind, everything thatās so iconic about that album; linked here.
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PS: Here's my funny Jeff Buckley story, in a nutshell: a bunch of us were out slumming it on the Lower East side and stumbling around drunk near St. Mark's when we barged into this place we'd never been before. A skinny kid in a t-shirt playing Dylan, Van Morrison and Edith Piaf (!) covers was by himself at the front of the small-ish room with a beat up Telecaster soaked in reverb. We grabbed some Rolling Rocks, wondered why a bunch of model-looking people were in attendance, and then split down the block to catch some random band at CBGBs. (This was 1993, ha) Turns out we had inadvertently wandered into Sin-E' where Jeff was recording tracks for the live EP that became "Live at Sin-E'." WTF did we know. We were idiots and had no clue.
Aug 23, 2024
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I am friendly :)
Nov 6, 2024
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Itās not a revolutionary recommendation but A) her writing is so clever and expansive/mapping the connections between characters is very enjoyable and B) the āfutureā chapters she wrote in 2011 are weirdly resonant and freaky in the same way that the Simpsons predictions can be.
Nov 6, 2024
say what you will about their perfumes but the playlist for The Carlyle went platinum in my studio apartment
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