- Audio CD (23 April 2001)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Manifesto
- ASIN: B000005DE0
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 197,566 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Look at The Fool |
| 2. Bring It On Up |
| 3. Helpless |
| 4. Freeway Blues |
| 5. Tijuana Moon |
| 6. Ain't It Peculiar |
| 7. Who Could Deny You |
| 8. Mexicali Voodoo |
| 9. Down In The Street |
| 10. Wanda Lou |
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
When Look At The Fool was released in 1974 Tim Buckley's career reached a stalemate. Buckley's poorly conceived material suffered from weak soul-rock arrangements and more sadly, a deteriorated, thin voice. Some fans view all his later efforts from the funk, sex-driven Greetings From LA to the burnt-out soul of this album as aberrations. Others take the view that his last three albums celebrate the blue-eyed soul tradition. On the whole, Greetings From LA, Sefronia and Look At The Fool are inconsistent next to the glorious, Happy/Sad, the elegant Blue Afternoon and the far-in psychedelic cabaret blues of Starsailor. On his last album, Buckley goes even deeper into the funk and R&B he began to experiment with during the Greetings From LA sessions. His attempts to come over as a bad-ass Marvin Gaye clone fail miserably. The LA session musicians accompanying him don't have a clue about what made Gaye or Redding funk and come over as bad-ass and Buckley's voice just isn't suited to this libidinous loverman style. The material is pretty basic in an eccentric Tim Buckley style. Tijiuanan influenced; there are a few glimpses of the free-flowing reverie and adventurous spirit of old. But all too often, the song just doesn't hook you in. ---Reuben Dessay.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Looking at some of the reviews you might think this LP isn't worth it. I bought it after buying 'Greetings From LA' which I loved. It's style is consistent with that one and there are no duff songs on this LP. 'Freeway Blues' is amusing. 'Mexicali voodoo' and 'Down in the street' are really hot summery tunes.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I was managed by the same person in L.A. back in the day and had the pleasure of meeting Tim many times.
I always loved this new direction for him and was sad that he passed before really exploring it. To me it is a precursor to Boz Scaggs first album. It has the same R&B style and feel.. for me ..
I like the tunes , the background chicks, the production... the LP was better.
I wore mine out.
I am just glad to get another copy.
Yes it's commercial .. That's a good thing , it was beginning to get Tim a new audience.
I always loved this new direction for him and was sad that he passed before really exploring it. To me it is a precursor to Boz Scaggs first album. It has the same R&B style and feel.. for me ..
I like the tunes , the background chicks, the production... the LP was better.
I wore mine out.
I am just glad to get another copy.
Yes it's commercial .. That's a good thing , it was beginning to get Tim a new audience.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I was a Tim Buckley lover from the moment I first heard him in the 60s. Each time a new album came out I bought it, but I was always in a minority (so too with Nick Drake) as a perusal of the album charts told me, though his LPs would regularly top the Import chart. Look at the Fool was his 9th, and - like Beethoven, Schubert, Mahler & Vaughan Williams before him! - was sadly to be his last.
On release LATF was damned with very faint praise by most critics. All I can say now is: look at the fools.
It`s a sweat-drenched carnival of an album, Tim exuding his own brand of frenetic soul-funk from every dripping pore, swooping up into falsetto one moment, dipping deep into a low note the next. This is urban music, much as that made by the Four Tops, Mink de Ville or Marvin Gaye. It begs to be bopped to. It isn`t meant to be precious or perfect.
It`s a follow-on from the sex-fuelled Greetings From LA and the still soulful, if patchier, Sefronia. LATF makes one wonder where on earth Tim would have gone next. A collaboration with Miles Davis? Duets with Marvin or Al Green? Or would he have pulled all the strands of his musical career into a new path, combining soul, funk, balladry, wayward jazzy atonalism...? All benefiting from a uniquely fluid voice only equalled by - by his own son, who was to die far too young in his turn. Oh, the tragic irony.
My favourite moment on LATF is the opening of Tijuana Moon. One chord, then Tim`s falsetto sings the unforgettable line:
"The padre told me all the hymns were born
out of the saxophone..."
You have to hear it...
The final song on this underrated under-the-boardwalk under-the-skin album is a throwaway Louie Louie doppelganger called Wanda Lou. Tim sings this irrepressible nonsense just like he sang everything. With his heart and, especially, his soul.
"Look at the fool...that love brings me..."
On release LATF was damned with very faint praise by most critics. All I can say now is: look at the fools.
It`s a sweat-drenched carnival of an album, Tim exuding his own brand of frenetic soul-funk from every dripping pore, swooping up into falsetto one moment, dipping deep into a low note the next. This is urban music, much as that made by the Four Tops, Mink de Ville or Marvin Gaye. It begs to be bopped to. It isn`t meant to be precious or perfect.
It`s a follow-on from the sex-fuelled Greetings From LA and the still soulful, if patchier, Sefronia. LATF makes one wonder where on earth Tim would have gone next. A collaboration with Miles Davis? Duets with Marvin or Al Green? Or would he have pulled all the strands of his musical career into a new path, combining soul, funk, balladry, wayward jazzy atonalism...? All benefiting from a uniquely fluid voice only equalled by - by his own son, who was to die far too young in his turn. Oh, the tragic irony.
My favourite moment on LATF is the opening of Tijuana Moon. One chord, then Tim`s falsetto sings the unforgettable line:
"The padre told me all the hymns were born
out of the saxophone..."
You have to hear it...
The final song on this underrated under-the-boardwalk under-the-skin album is a throwaway Louie Louie doppelganger called Wanda Lou. Tim sings this irrepressible nonsense just like he sang everything. With his heart and, especially, his soul.
"Look at the fool...that love brings me..."
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