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| Jeff Buckley – Murder Suicide Meteor Slave Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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Absolutely agree that this album was set to shake a generation in the way that Sgt. Peppers did. The raging, kaleidoscope fever dream vision of a still budding musical genius. |
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| Jeff Buckley – I Woke Up in a Strange Place Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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It’s a song about a man who’s given into his pleasure-seeking instinct. He’s meandering through the night, wandering the city by cab for experiences and thrills that keep him from a life and a lover at home. He’s completely uninhibited...the drugs, the sex for money, the blurry eyed blackout reckonings between travels. Definitely a diary entry for Jeff Buckley at this point in his life. |
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| Jeff Buckley – Gunshot Glitter Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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This song would have paved the path for bands like the Strokes but set the bar extremely high in terms of musicality and dynamics. Way ahead of it’s time. It’s probably one that excited the band the most when he sent the demo tape to NYC prior to their trip to Memphis. It’s downright heartbreaking to think about what could have been here. |
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| Jeff Buckley – Everybody Here Wants You Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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I think is one of those songs that had a former life that took a completely different path in the studio. In NYC when he played this one before he left, it was more of a cathartic conversation with a lover. “As I talk to you, you look down and notice I’ve lost some fingers in the machinery”. He was hurting and reeling from the pressure and losing himself. When he got to Easley with the band, the song took on more of a Memphis soul soaked feel as I’m guessing Jeff stumbled onto a treatment that he felt could be successful. Little did he know it would garner a Grammy nomination. He probably never appreciated it because as he stepped away from what he’d done, he probably realized quickly that it was a grand deviation from his vision for the album. |
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| Jeff Buckley – Demon John Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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He was definitely using light and stars as a recurring focus in his writing for sketches. This song always seems like an ode to drugs or some sort of irresistible demon. He’s briefly set free by the light of a lover or an angel or someone pure and good but it’s quickly snuffed out and he’s pulled back down into the promise of a dark seduction. |
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| Jeff Buckley – Back in N.Y.C. Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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An incredible rendition even in its demo form. It would have been an amazing song finished in a studio. Definitely captured the sound he was going for with sketches - dark, gritty and foreboding. The last 45 second or so with the guitar flourishes snaking out from that bass dirge was perfect. The way the last riff cuts out abruptly to end the song...the whole thing is chills. |
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| Jeff Buckley – Moodswing Whiskey Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[happyphantom:25848] @[happyphantom:25848] Very small correction - it’s the “lemon peeler” his eyes are trained on, wishing it were a gun.
Love this song. I don’t think he ever used consistent lyrics from the very first time he played a rough sketch of it at the Mercury Lounge on NYE in 95. He even used to fiddle around with some of the core guitar melody between songs on the Sin-é tour in 94. This one and “Woke Up In A Strange Place” definitely became outlets for some of the insanity that had become parts of his life at the time. I love it when he comes out of the bridge in the “Mystery White Boy” version “your prodigal son has returned” and lays into that gritty, despondent guitar solo. |
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