i remember when i discovered buckley and this music--about 5 years ago. for the first 2 months that i played this i would ball my eyes out. even now, it evokes in me, a melancholy of unrequited love. katie melua does a good job on this music, too.
i like to listen to this song really early in the morning when the sun rises or on rainy sundays...god i wish he was still alive...he takes my breathe away <3 REST IN PEACE JEFF
not sure why comparing the two is inappropriate... rather inevitable, i would think. two drastically different versions of the same song. of course it's appropriate.
Jeff Buckley's voice was sublime. To compare his version to other artists isn't appropriate. Listen to Jeff - or not - but leave comparisons out of it. To lose Jeff was to lose an artist who is irreplaceable.
Over fifteen years later and I still cannot get over this recording. It's so sweetly, purely devastating. Jeff Buckley was one of the greatest musical interpreters who ever lived, and that voice....unique, haunting, unforgettable. His death was a tragedy.
It's Jeff Buckley's haunting version all the way that is memorable and classic. Easily triumphs Elkie Brooks's powerful but in the end less emotional and ultimately forgettable pop version.(For me at least)
this version is perfect... no offense to elkie brooks fans but her version is about as sensitive and tender as bloody goldfinger. so give up on the comparisons. apart from the melody and lyrics, there simply is no comparison. what have you people been drinking? certainly not lilac wine.
@gregory317 You are obviously TONE deaf. This version is liked because the singer died young nothing but pure sentiment. Elkie Brooks nails this song . END OF !!
@MrSloppy1991... i repeat... you don't know what you're talking about. and your grammar and spelling need work. try to avoid that yankee beer next time you post, little boy.
@MrSloppy1991 ... i think it's risible, sonny... did you go to school? if you understand anything about music, which i doubt VERY MUCH, lilac wine is a lament. a sorrowful, whimsical sob scene where the narrator gets slowly pissed, like you perhaps, in memory of a lost love. it's not a blaring orchestral show-stopper. try to understand music a little bit. you may, perhaps, once you're over the effects of puberty.
@gregory317 Well I guess it is softer on your OLD ears Grandad !!! I though risible woud send you rushing to you dictionary. Keep warm .catching a chill at your age may be fatal. Still having trouble with capital letters.. Must be senile.His voice is boring . Just because he died younger than you, he gets the sympathy vote.
@MrSloppy1991 ... sorry kid. masters in english. and i managed record stores back when your parents were kids and when vinegar joe records were fresh and new. you can't win. see what you can do with this. nina simone did it correctly, but jeff buckley did it better. (and with great respect to simone's arrangement.) i love elkie... great voice. just a bad choice of arrangements. c'est la vie.
@gregory317 Buckley the Nina Simone version, in my opinion , badly. Elkie Brooks took this song and put her own stamp on it. Elkie could have taken the easy route and done a version like Simone's. It 's for sure it would have been better than this.
@MrSloppy1991 ... you can put your "stamp" on anything. that doesn't necessarily make it good or better or even intersting. to say buckley's take is done "badly" suggests to me that you don't know what you're talking about.
Ive just listened to the Brooks version and it really doesn't even closely compare to Buckley's rendition. Just a fact. The two voices are very different but its clear which is the more vocally skilled. Buckley for Pres.
In my opinion the best version of this song. Way better than Elkie Brooks. And anyone here who doesn't agree with me, I don't care. This is one of the best songs ever made, in this version.
@zinesilol88 that's a great accomplishment! im suprised though, to be honest with you. I think jeff buckley's version is better, but it's all a matter of opinion.
@zinesilol88 Jeff did it his way, too ... singing like an angel while playing virtuoso guitar. Heavenly vocals AND guitar work ... works for me. Nothing against your fav, however.
I return to this song every time that I hear another "hip hop" song that is just the same regurgitated shit, and hope that one day a genius like this will rise again. I am hypnotised by this song.
This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard. The shimmering guitars, the vulnerability in Jeff's voice are so compelling. I do not drink, but this is intoxicating. I think the video with its repetitive footage of a train on a track actually works very well with the music and subtly conveys his desolation and the relentlessness of his heartbreak as life goes on regardless. A You Tube gem.
@TruthCommissioner this music by buckley has hypnotized me for over three years this song is so beautiful, and so sad, and so very, very intimate. the music was mean't for jeff's voice, which has that exquisitely intimate quality. i love your referring to the guitars as shimmering. you have pretty well expressed my feelings about this music and video. it's nice to see this site (and jeff) being recognized by ardent devotees.
@zinesilol88 don't get your shirt tail in a knot. i never said JB wrote it. i, too, researched this music several years ago. my comment was regarding JB's voice and how intimate it feels in this music. this is a very melancholy (a deep, pensive, and long-lasting sadness) song. And, Elkie Brooks is a phenomenal chanteuse--really great. but i love this music by JB---i love his voice. btw, JB has sung some music that i do not care for.. music appreciation is somewhat subjective taste.
I actually more than love that song. It makes you feel deezy.
Makes you feel high, and down in the same time... And the movie Ne le dis à Personne is so great too...
This song, it's just the rise and fall, the up and down, the happiness and the gloom... the fragile and vulnerable balance everyone is trying to keep...
I've heard Nina Simone's, Katie Melua, Elkie Brookes' versions, but I Ilike Jeff's the best because it is the most vulnerable of all the versions I've heard. The lyrics, by James Shelton (1950), are very "weak" and vulnerable. Jeff's version is the purest to me and closest to the writers intent.
@Gwynne56 Personally I prefere the version by Elkie Brooks, I don't presume to know the writers intensions,Elkie Brooks has lived these lyrics. Elkie's version is the only version to have chart sucess. A great singer.
Inredibly beautiful. I've had it on repeat for 24 hours and it's still managing to evoke tears. Powerful, haunting and captivating. To summarise- I think it's rather good.
@cheifess21 man, no offense...but if you've had that song on repeat for 24 hours and haven't lost it/are crying......i don't know. lol seems a little odd, don't ya think?
@eaman11 WTF are you talking about? U dont like this song? U must be on some sort of drug yourself and having a bad trip. This song is beautiful. Almost as good as Nina Simone's version. If you are gonna trash music... go listen to Hanna Montana... its an easy target. Leave Jeff Buckley alone, he was a Master!
walking home from my girlfriends at eight in the morning with this in my headphones constantley going up little hallam lane... weird when things just take you back
Goosebumping rendition. I have the original 'Grace' Cd and Lilac Wine is the most beautiful moment of it. I think Jeff was not of this earth, maybe by that he gone too soon... RIP JB.
A cover of a band from Canada "Mother Lode" written by our friend the late William "Smitty" Smith and Smitty would have been honored that Jeff Buckley thought his composition worthy of covering.
i love the way that jeff buckley's words doesn't ends in a second. he keeps singing with his wonderful voice. but i don't see that performance in nina simone's,katie melua's etc.
Chill out, people. This isn't a contest to see whose knowledge of music history is the best. The correction is well-noted. I'm sure Nina and James Shelton forgive me. Bottom line is, Jeff's version is the best. That's the point I was trying to make and I made it. The end.
this version has a hypnotising effect on me unlike the other versions. I can chill out 2 it and get drunk. I just think all his music is superb but its not as easily accessable as other artists it takes real musical and poetic appreciation to fully understand what a brilliant artist he was. And I don't mean a Leona Lewis or mariah carrey Artist I mean 'an Artist'
I think Jeff's version is by far the best, even better than Nina's. Yes, credit must be given to her for writing and performing the song in the first place. But Jeff gives it emotion that even Nina doesn't bring. I think Elkie Brooks' version is fairly disappointing. There's no emotion. Just because she scrunches her face up as if in deep inner turmoil & emotion while singing, that doesn't make it a good song. She ends her words too sharply & abruptly & doesn't let it flow like Jeff does.
And neither version is anywhere near the mournful naked expression of Nina Simone's original version.
The other versions sound like a one-person pity party compared to Nina's, which sounds like she is on her last nerve and there is no hope left to cling on to. Look it up....but be warned....it gon break your heart!
i remember when i discovered buckley and this music--about 5 years ago. for the first 2 months that i played this i would ball my eyes out. even now, it evokes in me, a melancholy of unrequited love. katie melua does a good job on this music, too.
chibinski 2 months ago
When I think more than I want to think
I do things I never should do
I drink much more than I ought to drink
Because it brings me back you...
Nabolandia 5 months ago
Love the version by Elkie Brooks !!!
Eamonn20a 6 months ago
Impressing and Moving. It almost breaks my heart.
Geert.
britnel11 7 months ago
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i like to listen to this song really early in the morning when the sun rises or on rainy sundays...god i wish he was still alive...he takes my breathe away <3 REST IN PEACE JEFF
rachel70s 2 months ago
this version is in the french film "tell no one"......brilliant movie
bluewonder136 7 months ago 4
Love the version by Elkie Brooks.
zinesilol88 7 months ago
i didn't know that a song about wine could be so charming
treadstoneoperation 7 months ago
Deeply moving. Purest version ever made.
Mllefreeze 7 months ago
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Mllefreeze 7 months ago
wow. the entire video is the same one second on repeat. but somehow i'm mesmerized.
reginafromrio 8 months ago
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reginafromrio 8 months ago
REVERB!!!
skat479 8 months ago
not sure why comparing the two is inappropriate... rather inevitable, i would think. two drastically different versions of the same song. of course it's appropriate.
317gregory 8 months ago
I LIKE THIS SONG..:)
thecomedygang 8 months ago
La version la plus touchante qui soit ..... sublime et vibrante .... j'adore ...
Samaedanol 8 months ago in playlist Ma musique 2
Jeff Buckley's voice was sublime. To compare his version to other artists isn't appropriate. Listen to Jeff - or not - but leave comparisons out of it. To lose Jeff was to lose an artist who is irreplaceable.
Azulabel 9 months ago 23
@Azulabel losing anyone is irreplaceable.
lennybruce8 6 months ago
@lennybruce8 : true - you're right - yet there are souls we resonate with, and for me, Jeff was one, and there are so many others. May they RIP...
Azulabel 2 months ago
Over fifteen years later and I still cannot get over this recording. It's so sweetly, purely devastating. Jeff Buckley was one of the greatest musical interpreters who ever lived, and that voice....unique, haunting, unforgettable. His death was a tragedy.
IrishRedRose 9 months ago
@IrishRedRose Heard Elkie Brooks sing this in concert, AMAZING. After more than 30 years.
zinesilol88 9 months ago
It's Jeff Buckley's haunting version all the way that is memorable and classic. Easily triumphs Elkie Brooks's powerful but in the end less emotional and ultimately forgettable pop version.(For me at least)
tyong 9 months ago
@tyong Elkie Brooks voice is soooooo much better. To hear her sing this in concert is AMAZING.
zinesilol88 9 months ago
j'adore ce film et cet chanson
princetongrl13 10 months ago
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gregory317 10 months ago
this version is perfect... no offense to elkie brooks fans but her version is about as sensitive and tender as bloody goldfinger. so give up on the comparisons. apart from the melody and lyrics, there simply is no comparison. what have you people been drinking? certainly not lilac wine.
gregory317 10 months ago
@gregory317 You are obviously TONE deaf. This version is liked because the singer died young nothing but pure sentiment. Elkie Brooks nails this song . END OF !!
zinesilol88 10 months ago
@zinesilol88 ... and since you decided to get personal... you're an idiot.
gregory317 10 months ago
@gregory317 Maybe at YOUR age ,your hearing gets a little on the weak side. Maybe you need an aid.
zinesilol88 10 months ago
@zinesilol88 nice try on the age thing, child. it's called maturity... and when you get some, we'll talk.
gregory317 10 months ago
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MrSloppy1991 10 months ago
@MrSloppy1991... i repeat... you don't know what you're talking about. and your grammar and spelling need work. try to avoid that yankee beer next time you post, little boy.
gregory317 10 months ago
@gregory317 MY grammar and spelling. Coming from somebody that does NOT know ,how to to use capital letters. Is at best, risable. Pompous OLD MAN.
MrSloppy1991 10 months ago
@MrSloppy1991 ... i think it's risible, sonny... did you go to school? if you understand anything about music, which i doubt VERY MUCH, lilac wine is a lament. a sorrowful, whimsical sob scene where the narrator gets slowly pissed, like you perhaps, in memory of a lost love. it's not a blaring orchestral show-stopper. try to understand music a little bit. you may, perhaps, once you're over the effects of puberty.
gregory317 10 months ago
@gregory317 Well I guess it is softer on your OLD ears Grandad !!! I though risible woud send you rushing to you dictionary. Keep warm .catching a chill at your age may be fatal. Still having trouble with capital letters.. Must be senile.His voice is boring . Just because he died younger than you, he gets the sympathy vote.
MrSloppy1991 10 months ago
@MrSloppy1991 ... sorry kid. masters in english. and i managed record stores back when your parents were kids and when vinegar joe records were fresh and new. you can't win. see what you can do with this. nina simone did it correctly, but jeff buckley did it better. (and with great respect to simone's arrangement.) i love elkie... great voice. just a bad choice of arrangements. c'est la vie.
317gregory 10 months ago 2
@317gregory Elkie Brooks owns this song. Great voice.
zinesilol88 9 months ago
@317gregory exactly what i would have said. so true.
dmr74 9 months ago
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MrSloppy1991 10 months ago
@MrSloppy1991 .... not sure what risable means, but good luck with your drinking problem.
gregory317 10 months ago
@gregory317 Buckley the Nina Simone version, in my opinion , badly. Elkie Brooks took this song and put her own stamp on it. Elkie could have taken the easy route and done a version like Simone's. It 's for sure it would have been better than this.
MrSloppy1991 10 months ago
@MrSloppy1991 ... you can put your "stamp" on anything. that doesn't necessarily make it good or better or even intersting. to say buckley's take is done "badly" suggests to me that you don't know what you're talking about.
gregory317 10 months ago
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MrSloppy1991 10 months ago
Awesomeeee!!!! QQ
BIu3boy 11 months ago
i feel travel sick
Mozzerella100 11 months ago
Ive just listened to the Brooks version and it really doesn't even closely compare to Buckley's rendition. Just a fact. The two voices are very different but its clear which is the more vocally skilled. Buckley for Pres.
333nosleep 11 months ago
@333nosleep Elkie Brooks is FAR better skilled vocally
zinesilol88 11 months ago
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@333nosleep Elkie Brooks is soooooo much better vocally.
zinesilol88 11 months ago
this man was my LOVE!
syllegrrl 11 months ago
No offense to Elkie Brooks, but I'll always prefer Buckley's cover over every other version that may come.
CivlDX 11 months ago 2
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zinesilol88 11 months ago
katy perry lost her virginity to this song. :P
tamtamLOVESkaty 11 months ago
...An Angel..
paolito777 11 months ago
Katy Perry said she lost her "v-card" to this song! =P
Smackin321 11 months ago
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chalkslippers 1 year ago
@chalkslippers no
seheart 1 year ago
Well, I don't care if you disagree with me so please don't post it :)
This is, in my opinion, the best version. and if you like Elkie Brooks better you should listen to her version and not to Jeff Buckley's.
And please do not spam about it! D:
JopieLK 1 year ago
@cirquexduxsoleil still a beautiful song, but I am no longer crying, or trying to sound pretentious on youtube videos. S'a good song :)
cheifess21 1 year ago
@cheifess21 hahaha, you didn't! it's a great song!
cirquexduxsoleil 1 year ago
In my opinion the best version of this song. Way better than Elkie Brooks. And anyone here who doesn't agree with me, I don't care. This is one of the best songs ever made, in this version.
JopieLK 1 year ago 2
@JopieLK does Elkie Brooks do the original?
cirquexduxsoleil 1 year ago
@cirquexduxsoleil Elkie Brooks a U.K. this in 1978. The only version to have chart success !!Best female singer from the U.K.
zinesilol88 1 year ago
@zinesilol88 that's a great accomplishment! im suprised though, to be honest with you. I think jeff buckley's version is better, but it's all a matter of opinion.
cirquexduxsoleil 1 year ago 2
@cirquexduxsoleil Not really a great accomplishment !!! Elkie Brooks has a great voice.Buckley copied the Nina Simone version. Elkie done it her way.
zinesilol88 1 year ago
@zinesilol88 Jeff did it his way, too ... singing like an angel while playing virtuoso guitar. Heavenly vocals AND guitar work ... works for me. Nothing against your fav, however.
imkeylime 11 months ago
@JopieLK He copied the version by Nina Simone ( badly ) Elkie Brooks version is sooooooooo good. I don't care if you disagree !!
zinesilol88 1 year ago
It's ELKIE BROOKS for me.
slickwillie1947 1 year ago
Video fits the song.
Gonzo82883 1 year ago
This is amazing.
mrnexify 1 year ago 2
Elkie Brooks does it for me !!
dizzi0000 1 year ago 2
I return to this song every time that I hear another "hip hop" song that is just the same regurgitated shit, and hope that one day a genius like this will rise again. I am hypnotised by this song.
meehore 1 year ago
the video loop on this is so perfect
quietthunder 1 year ago
This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard. The shimmering guitars, the vulnerability in Jeff's voice are so compelling. I do not drink, but this is intoxicating. I think the video with its repetitive footage of a train on a track actually works very well with the music and subtly conveys his desolation and the relentlessness of his heartbreak as life goes on regardless. A You Tube gem.
TruthCommissioner 1 year ago
@TruthCommissioner this music by buckley has hypnotized me for over three years this song is so beautiful, and so sad, and so very, very intimate. the music was mean't for jeff's voice, which has that exquisitely intimate quality. i love your referring to the guitars as shimmering. you have pretty well expressed my feelings about this music and video. it's nice to see this site (and jeff) being recognized by ardent devotees.
chibinski 1 year ago 2
@chibinski This music by Buckley wtf !! It was written by James Shelton. Best version and the only hit version is by Elkie Brooks. 1978
zinesilol88 1 year ago
@zinesilol88 don't get your shirt tail in a knot. i never said JB wrote it. i, too, researched this music several years ago. my comment was regarding JB's voice and how intimate it feels in this music. this is a very melancholy (a deep, pensive, and long-lasting sadness) song. And, Elkie Brooks is a phenomenal chanteuse--really great. but i love this music by JB---i love his voice. btw, JB has sung some music that i do not care for.. music appreciation is somewhat subjective taste.
chibinski 1 year ago
@TruthCommissioner Yessssssss!
TahlinaySam 1 year ago
Elkie Brooks does a great version
farttart00000 1 year ago
I actually more than love that song. It makes you feel deezy.
Makes you feel high, and down in the same time... And the movie Ne le dis à Personne is so great too...
This song, it's just the rise and fall, the up and down, the happiness and the gloom... the fragile and vulnerable balance everyone is trying to keep...
Happypianiste 1 year ago 3
Splendido!!
Annnamamouge 1 year ago
I've heard Nina Simone's, Katie Melua, Elkie Brookes' versions, but I Ilike Jeff's the best because it is the most vulnerable of all the versions I've heard. The lyrics, by James Shelton (1950), are very "weak" and vulnerable. Jeff's version is the purest to me and closest to the writers intent.
Gwynne56 1 year ago 14
@Gwynne56 Personally I prefere the version by Elkie Brooks, I don't presume to know the writers intensions,Elkie Brooks has lived these lyrics. Elkie's version is the only version to have chart sucess. A great singer.
Eamonn20a 1 year ago
@Gwynne56 NAH !!! the best is by ELKIE Brooks. The only hit version.
slickwillie1947 1 year ago 4
Great song, Elkie Brooks had a U.K with this in 1978, a great version.
zinesilol88 1 year ago 3
I love his version!!! equally to Nina's...
JanMarie1007 1 year ago
La sua voce sa trasmettere emozioni incredibili, sembra davvero quella di un angelo e lui forse lo era.
TheGilbell 1 year ago
*sigh*
I love Jeff.
Nayamaus 1 year ago
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ThePeaceartiste 1 year ago
Elkie Brooks does a great version ..
Eamonn20a 1 year ago 2
His voice is pretty atrocious if you ask me. Nothing comes close to Nina's rendition of this.
OriginalBasaliskos 1 year ago
@OriginalBasaliskos >>>Elkie Brooks
Eamonn20a 1 year ago
@Eamonn20a Thanks for telling me about her. I just looked it up and I like it. Although, I'm still very partial to NIna's cover.
OriginalBasaliskos 1 year ago
how dosent like this ?
gogartyjames1980 1 year ago
jeff buckly is the closest to god of all humans
TheMahagoni 1 year ago
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I've heard them all and Eartha Kitt's studio version is still the benchmark for this spectacularly well-written song. !!
2consul 1 year ago
I've heard them all and Eartha Kitt's studio version is still the benchmark for this spectacularly well-written song.
2consul 1 year ago
Jeff Buckley ~ was such a passionate yet gentle performer
still am so moved to tears by this no matter how many times I listen
shesgonewiththesin 1 year ago
This version is pretty nice. I seem to like Nina Simone's version better though.
PaulinoAuyon 1 year ago
Perfect
BathoryRequiem 1 year ago
Great song - Very bad video
DanielleJamesful 1 year ago
Elkie Brooks does it for me !!!!
zinesilol88 1 year ago 3
he is so good..
sad story..
JessAss7 1 year ago
Has vibrations of Nina Simone...FABULOUS
engnrlady 1 year ago
Wow, haunting, mysterious, lovely! Never heard it before today and I'm very drawn to this song, so moving!
jfowles77 1 year ago
De Buckley.. Mais surtout de Nina Simone avant tout :)
TheAngelixir 1 year ago
j'ai vraiment aimé ce filme et avec cette voix intense...superbe.
et bien merci!
sofiacarvalho3 1 year ago
sweet.
AnEnemy100 1 year ago 2
An Angel that went back too fast.RIP ....
paolito777 1 year ago 2
Always thought the opening line was sadly so prophetic. What a waste of an enormous talent <3
10CPhil 1 year ago
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please check out my Hallelujah cover..I worked really hard for it :D
Put (without quotes) "s2UyQgZ4dWM" in the watch?v= part of the URL (since YouTube won't let me paste links)
mobugullu 1 year ago
Nice !!!! Love the version by ELKIE BROOKS ..
slickwillie1947 1 year ago
For UK viewers to date BBC iPlayer has the movie 'Tell No One' showing.
This version features.
bazbee 1 year ago
When youve heard jeffs voice theres no going back.
spiralisedcat 2 years ago 106
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bazbee 1 year ago
some people like coffee,some dont.I like coffee :)
spiralisedcat 1 year ago
@spiralisedcat
GOD yes.
suesjoy 1 year ago
Inredibly beautiful. I've had it on repeat for 24 hours and it's still managing to evoke tears. Powerful, haunting and captivating. To summarise- I think it's rather good.
cheifess21 2 years ago 41
@cheifess21
a piece of music jewel !!!
tinkerbellpap 1 year ago
@cheifess21 piece of music jewel
tinkerbellpap 1 year ago
@cheifess21 man, no offense...but if you've had that song on repeat for 24 hours and haven't lost it/are crying......i don't know. lol seems a little odd, don't ya think?
cirquexduxsoleil 1 year ago
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OMG, take Cristina Aguilera, get her drank and on drugs, make her boyfriend dump her, shake for a couple of days and you get staff like this.
eaman11 2 years ago
@eaman11 WTF are you talking about? U dont like this song? U must be on some sort of drug yourself and having a bad trip. This song is beautiful. Almost as good as Nina Simone's version. If you are gonna trash music... go listen to Hanna Montana... its an easy target. Leave Jeff Buckley alone, he was a Master!
larryoduncan 1 year ago
Wonderfull !!..BRAVO !! xxx
mentalmoomin 2 years ago 2
FUCK!
I have been listening to this song nearly to the end and I realise the loop!
FANTASTIC>
monkeymanrobot 2 years ago 2
melodie exeptionnellement romantique et la douceur de la voix --- un transort benefiqque pour le coeur - ---
alpha2mars1 2 years ago 3
walking home from my girlfriends at eight in the morning with this in my headphones constantley going up little hallam lane... weird when things just take you back
beawareofeverything 2 years ago 2
Elkie Brooks sings this with great passion !!!
dizzi0000 2 years ago
Goosebumping rendition. I have the original 'Grace' Cd and Lilac Wine is the most beautiful moment of it. I think Jeff was not of this earth, maybe by that he gone too soon... RIP JB.
tintoweno 2 years ago 5
i didnt even realise that was a loop until about 2:30 into the song, too into the music i geuss haha. truly lovely.
XknomeyX 2 years ago
:) I like so much
bingoblu 2 years ago
Love the hit version by ELKIE BROOKS !!!!
Eamonn20a 2 years ago
A cover of a band from Canada "Mother Lode" written by our friend the late William "Smitty" Smith and Smitty would have been honored that Jeff Buckley thought his composition worthy of covering.
ChronicXXX69 2 years ago
i love the way that jeff buckley's words doesn't ends in a second. he keeps singing with his wonderful voice. but i don't see that performance in nina simone's,katie melua's etc.
korn188 2 years ago
Try the Elkie Brooks version . A big hit for Elkie in the U.K. and Europe
dizzi0000 2 years ago
hij is en blijft prachtig
muziek voor de ziel
TheMagier11 2 years ago
@TheMagier11 ja he Buckley does it for me unless i feel unsteady
greets Walter A,dam
Husky701234 9 months ago
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this video sucks...
FeeDeeXxX 2 years ago
I love the song. Buckley's version is truly a wonderful performance, the sound and his voice is just wonderful. Thanks for posting!
havskatt88 2 years ago 4
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This version for ME drags. He tried to copy the Simone version and failed. Elkie does it better. !!
zinesilol88 2 years ago
Jeff gives this song its soul
TheAnandaXX 2 years ago 3
Thanks for uploading!!!! Just wonderful. I love that song so much...
roseofversailles24 2 years ago
Chill out, people. This isn't a contest to see whose knowledge of music history is the best. The correction is well-noted. I'm sure Nina and James Shelton forgive me. Bottom line is, Jeff's version is the best. That's the point I was trying to make and I made it. The end.
awishedforsong 2 years ago 13
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That's your opinion. For ME the version by Elkie Brooks IS the best. The end.
zinesilol88 2 years ago
Sarah...più passa il tempo e più mi manchi...
ngannl 2 years ago
is this just the same clip going over and over... thats a shame. although i came on here to listen to the song so enough of my bitching :)
beawareofeverything 2 years ago 2
dude ive been on that train-its a real bitch
tonbridgerunner 2 years ago
this is a killer song
what a voice
i drink much more than i orta drink
because it brings me back you
mojo pin is my fav though
inkedheadcase1 2 years ago
Mojo Pin is sensational
DarthtredII 2 years ago
j'adore j'adore j'adore pas d'autre mots
Petiitefer 2 years ago 3
amazing song
sistaspooky1013 2 years ago
Well I sung the Elkie version since I was 15. Now it´s for real.
francescatucker 2 years ago
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Elkie's version is STILL the best.
zinesilol88 2 years ago
this version has a hypnotising effect on me unlike the other versions. I can chill out 2 it and get drunk. I just think all his music is superb but its not as easily accessable as other artists it takes real musical and poetic appreciation to fully understand what a brilliant artist he was. And I don't mean a Leona Lewis or mariah carrey Artist I mean 'an Artist'
damo1979z 2 years ago
I think Jeff's version is by far the best, even better than Nina's. Yes, credit must be given to her for writing and performing the song in the first place. But Jeff gives it emotion that even Nina doesn't bring. I think Elkie Brooks' version is fairly disappointing. There's no emotion. Just because she scrunches her face up as if in deep inner turmoil & emotion while singing, that doesn't make it a good song. She ends her words too sharply & abruptly & doesn't let it flow like Jeff does.
awishedforsong 2 years ago
Indeed, the covers that Jeff did alway make the number so magical with a new, deeper dimension to it.
Amazing.
neildw 2 years ago 2
Ummm, Nina Simone didn't write it, she covered it 16 years after James Shelton composed it.
Agree with the rest though, this is beautiful, if anyone has seen it in the movie 'Tell No One' it will live with them forever...
paddyuk 2 years ago
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Simone did NOT write this.The versions by Nina Simone and Elkie Brooks are the BEST
zinesilol88 2 years ago
Not crazy about this version. Better done by, Nina Simone also Elkie Brooks.
farttart00000 2 years ago
So effortless...
martycollection 2 years ago
LP fantastico: acquistatelo, ne vale la pena!
lafebbraforever 2 years ago
Elkie Brooks version is stunning.
bluetit1991 2 years ago
yes, her rendition is stunning.
chibinski 2 years ago 2
what a voice; what a sad song; what a beautifull combination
chibinski 2 years ago
Everytime I listen to Lilac Wine I have to listen to So Real hhahaha Jeff's the greatest ;)
rafaelladc 2 years ago
where is my love
dogville27 2 years ago
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la mejor interpretacion...
felix2517 2 years ago
And neither version is anywhere near the mournful naked expression of Nina Simone's original version.
The other versions sound like a one-person pity party compared to Nina's, which sounds like she is on her last nerve and there is no hope left to cling on to. Look it up....but be warned....it gon break your heart!
DJDJANGO1 2 years ago
I love Jeff's version!!! It's my fav. One of my favs off " Grace".
italiagrl02 2 years ago
i love him
sofiammmmm 2 years ago 3
Mmm.. wine from a lilac tree. Nice. I'll take one cup please.
Simon0 2 years ago 3
elkie brokks version is crap it sounds like something off a james bond film. it has none of the stillness, sensitivity or sensuality of this version.
lids65 2 years ago
Your ability to write English, is like your ability to judge a good singerElkie Brooks IS a STUNNING singer. This IS her song.
bluetit1991 2 years ago
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Not a great version at all - Elkie Brooks does it much better
michaelleacy 2 years ago
underrated jam by mr buckley !! xoxo, rip
PinkDanger1 2 years ago 2
I prefer the Alan version
adamcj5 2 years ago
And I prefer the Eartha Kitt version, but I don't think anyone who actually took the time to look up this video give a crap about our preferences.
InvertedBass 2 years ago
this is the best 'lilac wine' i have ever heard.
eyedabbler 2 years ago 2
Nice, I prefere the Elkie Brooks version !!!!
farttart00000 2 years ago