When I was younger owning this album was almost demanded of any aspiring music fan. Even now, in the UK at least, there's a sizeable cult of Buckley who almost canonised the guy after his death. As such I've always been a little cold towards his albums and never really gave them the time they probably deserved. Anyway this years X-Factor winners initial song was a cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah and after playing Cohen's version a fair few times I decided to give Buckley's, insanely overused, famous cover of the song a go and with it Grace as an album.
Approaching the album on my own terms, and without a bundle of teen angst and rebelliousness, made me realise just why such a massive cult had grown up around him, such a phenomenal record. What gets me is that my memories of the album are of it being a sedate, Elliot Smith style, affair but Grace has thrust and momentum to spare and it carries this energy which is almost indescribable.
Is there anything else that Buckley did that is worth listening to, I can find a bunch of stuff on amazon but I'm always wary about buying post mortem because you tend to end up with shitloads of compiliations of 'previously unreleased' material floating around.
Approaching the album on my own terms, and without a bundle of teen angst and rebelliousness, made me realise just why such a massive cult had grown up around him, such a phenomenal record. What gets me is that my memories of the album are of it being a sedate, Elliot Smith style, affair but Grace has thrust and momentum to spare and it carries this energy which is almost indescribable.
Is there anything else that Buckley did that is worth listening to, I can find a bunch of stuff on amazon but I'm always wary about buying post mortem because you tend to end up with shitloads of compiliations of 'previously unreleased' material floating around.
