quote:Originally posted by Flux = One More For Philly Boy Roy:
You know what? I really dislike both Buckleys. I think they both are crap middle of the road songwriters, and the only good thing Jeff ever did was sing a Shudder To Think song that Craig Wedren would have sang a lot better, and with a great deal more personality.
Their influence, particularly that of Jeff, has inflicted a great many crap bands on the general public, and we can probably be quite grateful that Jeff died young so that we never really had to deal with the guy having any more of his sap ballads released to the public.
Fuck yes! Amen to that, Flux! I haven't heard enough of Tim Buckley to have an opinion other than "boring white-boy-tries-to-get-funky-muso-wank", but as far as I'm concerned, Jeff Buckley is the fucking antichrist.
Seriously, no amount of over the top, emotional button pushing, wailing attempts at being deep and soulful can disguise the fact that Jeff Buckley was just a posing pretty boy with too many buttons undone playing excrutiatingly awful muso crap that sounded like something a Led Zeppelin covers band would come up with if you forced them at gunpoint to write a "soulful" original tune in less than ten minutes.
However, I don't think we should be grateful that he died young, because, with his death, he immediately went from being some guy no one (save for a few critics) gave half a toss about, to being The Late Great Jeff Buckley, whose talent will be unsurpassed in our time.
I think we should start an anti-Buckley club. Who's with me? |
