Jeff Buckley's Grace
For those of you who don't know, Jeff Buckley made one record in his lifetime, Grace. Just as his career was picking up he drowned in 1997, in the Mississippi River. He was 30. Some say he was pulled down by the wake of a passing boat, others say it was a planned suicide. In the song, "Nightmares by the Sea," (on "Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk", a record released posthumously) Buckley exhibits the haunting foreshadowing of his death. On the track you can hear Buckley eerily sing "Stay with me under these waves tonight / Be free for once in your life tonight." Jeff Buckley means everything to me. Eventhough I listen to bands like Falling Sickness, Anti-Flag, the Ramones, and MxPx, Jeff Buckley's Grace knocked all of that out of the water. Sure I love those bands, and will remain a fan of punk rock for as long as I live. Grace is a record unlike anything else. Looking for comparison is hard to do. People who are into bands like The Smiths a
Jeff Buckley is emotion. His voice will rip out your heart and make you cry and his rightly placed chords will tear down the walls of your soul. His high pitched vocals on the title track are so chilling, you will instantly cry when you remember he is no longer alive to belt out these songs. The one song you might have heard is "Last Goodbye." It received some airplay on alternative rock stations a few years back. When you listen to this song all that will pass through your mind is his unfortunate and tragic death. Each song on this record can some way be traced to his untimely death, making it almost too much to handle on top of his awe-inspiring vocals. On "Lover You Should Have Come Over" he states, "Sometimes a man gets carried away,/When he feels like he should be having his fun/And much too blind to see the damage he's done/Sometimes a man must awake to find that, really,/He has no-one..." later he belts out the most emotional part of the reco
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