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The Best of Tim Buckley [Original recording remastered]

~ Tim Buckley
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  • Audio CD (2 Oct 2006)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: Rhino
  • ASIN: B000H30B5Y
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Listen  2. Song For Janie (2006 Remastered LP Version) 2:46£0.69
Listen  3. I Can't See You 2006 (Remastered LP Version) 2:42£0.69
Listen  4. Carnival Song (2006 Remastered LP Version) 3:10£0.69
Listen  5. Morning Glory (2006 Remastered LP Version) 2:52£0.69
Listen  6. Goodbye And Hello (2006 Remastered LP Version) 8:39£0.69
Listen  7. Sing A Song For You (Take 11) (2006 Remastered LP Version) 5:42£0.69
Listen  8. Once I Was (2006 Remastered LP Version) 3:24£0.69
Listen  9. Strange Feelin' (2006 Remastered LP Version) 7:37£0.69
Listen10. I Had A Talk With My Woman (2006 Remastered LP Version) 5:59£0.69
Listen11. Happy Time (2006 Remastered LP Version) 3:14£0.69
Listen12. I Must Have Been Blind (2006 Remastered Album Version) 3:43£0.69
Listen13. The River (2006 Remastered Album Version) 5:47£0.69
Listen14. Song To The Siren (2006 Remastered Album Version) 3:26£0.69
Listen15. Dophins (2006 Remastered LP Version) 3:13£0.69
Listen16. Martha (2006 Remastered LP Version) 3:17£0.69
Listen17. Move With Me (2006 Remastered Album Version) 4:51£0.69
Listen18. Look At The Fool (2006 Remastered LP Version 5:10£0.69

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For an artist like Tim Buckley, compiling a Best Of may be a Herculean task. Like all musical visionaries, Buckley consistently changed his own rules for how to define his best, so a collection may do only cursory justice to such an extraordinary career. Of course, Buckley's unearthly gifted voice,with its multi-octave pyrotechnic range, remains a constantin all of his work, and BEST OF TIM BUCKLEY compiles some of his most memorable performances in one place.
The disc highlights everything from his baroque folk-rock records of the late 1960s to his more experimental jazz and soul records of the '70s, including, from the former, such gems as "Strange Feelin'" and "Morning Glory" and, from the latter, "Song to the Siren" and a fantastic cover of Fred Neil's epic "Dolphins", a song Buckley was born to sing. While not for Buckley completists, this collection is a great start for the uninitiated.

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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Songs from the Magician who once was , 5 Oct 2006
By jayhikkss - See all my reviews
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This new single CD Rhino compilation of Tim Buckley's music is a beautiful testimony to his incomparable talents.
The remastered material featured here is excerpted from the nine studio albums issued before Buckley's death in 1975. Track 10 is, however, an alternate take already issued on posthumous CD releases.
These nine albums were originally issued on four labels: Elektra (4), Straight (2), Bizarre/Warner (1) Bros and Discreet/Bizarre (2) during the 1966-1974 period.

I have worshipped all aspects of Buckley's music (the singing, the compositions, the arrangements, the musicians' backing) since I bought his "Goodbye and Hello" Elektra LP in 1967. Contrary to some fans, I love (to varying degrees) all of the original Buckley albums (his last three LP's received a lot of, IMO, unfounded criticism from some quarters). To me, Buckley was an extraordinarily gifted singer-songwriter, one of my favourites indeed. The material gathered here ranks from good (and I mean: good!) to truly exceptional. .

Buckey was definitely a LP orientated recording artist. During the course of his career, his music kept evolving at a fast pace and in often wildly different directions. Therefore, any collection is always going to be the subject of some debate. But there is certainly not one track here that I wish Rhino had left out.

I will also add that, in 2001, Rhino issued a remastered, lavishly packaged, 2-CD, 33- track anthology under the title of "Morning Glory". Seven out of the eighteen titles featured on the single CD under review did NOT appear on the earlier set. Moreover, besides the alternate take mentioned above, this CD uses the original studio version of "I Had a Talk with My Woman" which appeared in a live version on the 2-CD set. The scope of this 2-CD set is, of course, broader. It is also more expensive.

Therefore, if you are relatively new to Buckley's oeuvre, and are interested in just the one CD, this compilation will offer you definitely more than a glimpse of the musical treasures he left behind. Prepare yourself for a sheer aural delight!
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2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Career-spanning collection from golden-age troubadour - but his best work is under-represented, 9 Aug 2007
By C. O'Brien (Scotland, UK) - See all my reviews
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With the success of everyone from James Yorkston to James Blunt, it's plain that the acoustic troubadour is back in style. That alone may be the reason for this new collection of remastered tracks. However, Buckley was a complex artist who was little understood in his own era, so perhaps the time is simply ripe for the kind of reappraisal which 2001's double-disc set Morning Glory failed to spark.

Unlike his celebrated but doomed son Jeff, Buckley Snr was a prolific artist who put out no less than nine albums in an eight-year career. The first two - 1966's Tim Buckley and 1967's Goodbye and Hello - presented him as a folk-rock artist. They showcased his rich, flexible Irish tenor in songs of love and disappointment, although as with much of Scott Walker's early solo work, the arrangements have dated badly. Seven out of the eighteen tracks collected here are from these two albums, with only one (Strange Feelin') from the third, jazz-inflected outing Happy Sad. That album's famous track Sing A Song For You is also here - but in an alternative take previously included on rarities album Works In Progress.
The somewhat lacklustre Blue Afternoon from 1969 is better represented, but arguably Buckley's masterpieces - the soaring avant-garde outings Lorca and Starsailor on which much of his restored reputation now rests - are represented by just one track apiece, I Had A Talk With My Woman and the sublime Song To The Siren. This is inexplicable, especially as the compilation peters out depressingly with four tracks from his last three R&B albums - deliberately commercial work which many of his fans prefer to forget.

Although the cover of Tom Waits' Martha is interesting, the title track from final album Look At The Fool which ends this collection sounds like an artist in agony. Here, Buckley seems to be snatching desperately at straws, such as the ill-digested influence of early Bowie. Buckley died the following year aged 28: a sad end to what might have been.
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8 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Not exactly a best of!, 6 Oct 2006
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I was hoping this would do what it says on the tin, but it's not my idea of a Best of TB. No Buzzin'Fly, no Blue Melody, no Hong Kong Bar, no Sweet Surrender for a start, and it seems odd to prefer tracks off his pretty average final albums Sefronia and Look at the Fool over Starsailor. A weedy portrait of a major talent.
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