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Dream Brother: The Songs of Tim & Jeff Buckley [Import]

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Track Listings

1. Sing a Song for You - The Magic Numbers
2. Yard of Blonde Girls - Micah P. Hinson
3. She Is - Sufjan Stevens
4. Grace - King Creosote
5. I Must Have Been Blind - The Earlies
6. Dream Brother - Bitmap
7. Song to the Siren - Engineers
8. Mojo Pin - Adem
9. No Man Can Find the War - Tunng
10. Morning Theft - Stephen Fretwell
11. Buzzin' Fly - Kathryn Williams
12. Everybody Here Wants You - Matthew Herbert, Dani Siciliano
13. River - Clayhill

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Amazon.co.uk Review
Reinterpreting the music of ‘60s troubadour Tim Buckley and his prodigiously talented son is a daunting prospect, so great is the legend that’s sprung up around them both since their freak untimely deaths (the former, a drug overdose; the latter, drowning in the Mississippi). Dream Brother succeeds not through radical reinterpretations or flamboyant histrionics--after all, who could compete with Jeff on that front?--but by virtue of a set of quiet, unfussy interpretations that sidestep melodrama or excess gravitas and let the good songs shine through.

The Magic Numbers contribute a delicate, harmony-laden take on Buckley elder’s "Sing A Song For You", while Fence Collective mainstay King Creosote envisages the title track from Jeff Buckley’s Grace using acoustic guitar and quiet wheezes of accordion. Two highlights come from the American contingent, Texas troubadour Micah P Hinson and Michigan’s Sufjan Stephens, who turn out mesmerising takes on "Yard Of Blondes" and "She Is" respectively. Meanwhile, Tunng turn the album’s one modern interpretation, infusing "No Man Can Find The War" with the warm tick of folk-inflected electronica.--Louis Pattison

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Dream Brother: The Songs Of Tim & Jeff Buckley features 13 cover versions of well-known tracks by the father & son including "Sing A Song For You" (The Magic Numbers), "She Is" (Sufjan Stevens), "Grace" (King Creosote) & "Song To The Siren" (Engineers) to name a few. Also includes a picture booklet with exclusive liner notes written by acclaimed author and Entertainment Weekly journalist David Browne.

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Get over it, 29 Jun 2006
This review is from: Dream Brother - The Songs of Tim and Jeff Buckley (Audio CD)
This album is covers not the originals, not its not Tim and Jeff so if you are so blinkered that even the thought of someone covering them brings you out in hives, then this is not for you. This is particularly the case as unlike lots of dull cover albums the versions on here are quite different to the originals. As for comments like `when you cover a pair of artists who were as talented as Jeff & Tim, you be asking for trouble' get over it. Nothing is so sacred that it cannot be touched, people who like music (I not talking about the bed wetter who pulls out the old `tortured soul' line), real music fans like music because it pushes forward with the odd nod to what came before.

In summary if you love Tim and/or Jeff because your a music fan always searching for something new and existing this is a worthwhile investment, some outings stronger than others but on the whole a good CD.

Now if you love Tim and/or Jeff with some sort of weird serial killer like obsession or if you cannot accept that music is music (as the Jessie Jackson quote goes) then save your money and at the next opportunity attempt to look yourself in the mirror and ask why do I continue with this `I like music' façade. Find something that you genuinely like and leave the music to someone else, your just kidding yourself.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful!, 7 Jul 2006
This review is from: Dream Brother - The Songs of Tim and Jeff Buckley (Audio CD)
I think it is far to dismissive to say these are 'dismal approximations of the originals.' If you put stubborn-mindedness aside and take these covers as a new peice of material and approached them with an open mind you will find many great tracks here. It includes some talented emerging artists.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars best tribute album yet, 3 Nov 2005
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This review is from: Dream Brother - The Songs of Tim and Jeff Buckley (Audio CD)
usually tribute albums are naff..two good artists and the rest made up of artists you've never heard of or a well passed it..
this is a lovely exception, the earlies give a towering version of 'i must have been blind' and tunng's folky spastic 'no man can find a war' is wonderful , there are delights from adem,sufjan stevens,micah p. hinson and the magic numbers..but the standout is king creosote's heartbreaking accordian lead 'grace'
buckley fans will proberbly recoil in horror at someone touching 'their' songs ..but this version is one of the best thing i've heard this year.
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2.0 out of 5 stars a bit off
when you cover a pair of artists who were as talented as Jeff & tim, you be asking for trouble. Of course, the covers are all rather dismal approximations of the originals... Read more
Published on 2 Feb 2006 by nixon_fiend

1.0 out of 5 stars An Absolute Disgrace
Compare stories between Jeff and Tim Buckley. Tim; self-satisfied, uncaring father. A cult figure. Jeff; a bipolar (manic-depressive), tortured soul, permanently scarred by... Read more
Published on 15 Jan 2006 by N Hall

4.0 out of 5 stars hidden gems
tracks by sufjan stevens, king creosote,adem and stephen fretwell are superb. i love the music of both jeff and tim (less so) and are familiar also with the above artists and... Read more
Published on 1 Dec 2005 by challengechappers

2.0 out of 5 stars Disapointing
I found this album to be disapointing. The artists have tried to do different things with the songs which I applaud. Read more
Published on 30 Nov 2005

2.0 out of 5 stars No, no, no.
Ignore that person 'in a box'. The only half decent tracks on here are those from Adem and the one from The Magic Numbers (these two tracks are the only reason I dished out an... Read more
Published on 28 Oct 2005 by S. King

5.0 out of 5 stars Dream Brother....it is a dream
Get it if only for Fretwell's contribution. A must buy album.
Published on 2 Oct 2005

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