TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Tim Buckley
Tim Buckley
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.0038
Tim Buckley Album Rankings
1
This is the one; Tim Buckley’s finest hour, the most accomplished recording of his career.
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2
After his beginnings as a gentle, melodic baroque folk-rocker, Buckley gradually evolved into a downright experimental singer/songwriter who explored both jazz and avant-garde territory.
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3
Often cited as the ultimate Tim Buckley statement,Goodbye and Hellois indeed a fabulous album, but it's merely one side of Tim Buckley's enormous talent.
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4
This, like so many Enigma releases, was literally a dream project, and carries a lot of energy and love with it, in the music and the performance.
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5
Buckley's 1966 debut was the most straightforward and folk-rock-oriented of his albums. The material has a lyrical and melodic sophistication that was astounding for a 19-year-old.
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6
Stepping back from the swooping avant-garde touches ofStarsailorfor a fairly greasy, funky, honky tonk set of songs, the opening lines ofGreetings from L.A.
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7
Twenty-six years after his death, Tim Buckley 's name remains much better known than his actual music.
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8
Lorca was released during Tim Buckley’s most prolific period.
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9
Tim Buckley is a classic might-have-been. Born in 1947, the California singer only released a handful of LPs in his career stretching from 1966 to his death of an overdose in 1975.
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10
Honeymanis a previously unreleased live 1973 radio broadcast in excellent sound, that offers a valuable supplement to Tim Buckley's often disappointing final albums.
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11
More Than a Myth Tim Buckley died of a heroin overdose in 1975 at 28 years old, less than 10 years into a recording career that was anything but predictable.
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12
Originally released on Straight Records, his first for Frank Zappa 's fledgling label, this contains the memorable "Happy Time" and displays Buckley's jazz inclinations on the rise.
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19
The second of three rock 'n' rollish albums that capped Buckley's career, this mixes superb songs like the title track with occasionally questionable material such as "Peanut Man.
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20
For some artists, exposure of self inspires empathy or affection in the listener.
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