tim buckley / Lorca

[KingKook]

I am a friend of the odd, the weird, the bizarre. I could be buddies with this tragic sad strange song. If I wasn't already married to Rammstein I'd be this song's roommate. There's a perfect word for the feeling this song creates: Dread.

Heroin did help compose this, just like it assisted Miles Davis with his best stuff.

[12inchvertical]

@KingKook from what i've read on Lee Underwood's website he wasn't really into heroin until after Starsailor flopped.

[Ghoopty]

I forgot to mention I enjoy the low-fi, out of focus shot of the record and decibel levels. It's appropriately creepy.

[Ghoopty]

Wide eyed, trance inducing & horrific avant-garde jazz.

[roballen2]

BEAUTY IS IN THE EARS OF THE LISTENER, CHOICE, PERFECTION & TRUTH.

THIS IS DIVINE SOUNDS, THIS IS THE REALITY OF A MAGIC VOICE.

[davidryle]

Anyone that likes Tim Buckley is okay in my book. A lost art, his style. Jeff Buckley's

"Grace" is the next best thing and yet still....

Buckley wasn't afraid of anything. His music speaks to the soul like no other. Good mojo.

[Babalon]

Tim was way ahead of his time. Very misunderstood.

[analfrost]

Buckley described it as an album that, "To this day, you can't put...on at a party without stopping things; it doesn't fit in."

[BlackKaweah]

@analfrost Unless it's an LSD party, then it is amazing how superbly it fits!

[123must]

padleynj: thanks, your comment is at all perferct!

[gordonmarcel]

Lorca,esp"anon prop"the first track is one of those-revelatory,can recall where you were,what was goin on in your life experiences.Magnificent!

[katfaery]

Agree totally! This was first Tim I heard and got me addicted

[BlackHoleSun1921]

Don't. Say. Addicted.

[HELLINMAN]

Greatest song ever.

[groenhvid]

I guess this is on the line of what Scott Walker is doing now....

Great artists both!!!

[sammyskaterFL18]

and at 8:40, 9:00. his voice is as much an instrument as anything going on in the back

[sammyskaterFL18]

5:40 onward, wow. the note at about 5:45 is amazing.

[qeimapa]

amazing avant-garde jazz arrangement, in 5/4 time. stunning voice with an interpretation full of desperate passion. the critics are just ridiculous.

[padleynj]

@qeimapa

Buckley was awarded five stars from downbeat magazine for Starsailor, which is only reserved for masters. Critic hailed him, he wasn't bending in the wind for the pop audience .

[3muimui]

Let the sun sing in your smile

Let the wind hold your desire

Let your womans voice run through your veins

Let her be your blood don't feel ashamed

She's your home when no one wants you

She'll give you life when you're so tired

She'll ease your fears ah when you're a stranger

[3muimui]

She's born to give faith to you

Oh, just to you

You're just a man on death's highways

It's life you owe you're here to praise it

If love flows your way then be a river

& when it dries just stand there & shiver

[3muimui]

Oh, let the sun sing in your smile

Let the wind hold your desire

And let your womans voice run through your veins

Let her be your blood don't feel ashamed

It's her life you owe

I owe you love

[3muimui]

stunning! *****!

[padleynj]

Bravissimo! Hypnotic splendor, there will never be another Tim!!! As I said in other comments: sadly murdered, sadly missed, dear beloved Tim.

[stevee989]

he wasnt murdered , he OD'd on heroin

[chibinski]

the gut who (a med student) gave tb the heroin did three or four months for his death, so the was some culpability.

[padleynj]

The other song that moves me on this albumn is Anonymous Proposition...what unearthly music tim created..such beauty!!! The critics are baffled.....

[hollowbullet]

I think Driftin' is another good song on the album, has a nice laidback feel.

[tantargirl]

incredible in every aspect.

[penypicker]

Tim at his craziest with out a doubt. Shame he died when he was actually "saning" out

[realnoid]

This sounds better now than when I first heard it. Think that Tim and Jeff toured and toured

and when they came back it turned out they

owed more money to the record companies

than when they started. Tim just toured

himself to death.

[imshadowynne]

Jeff who?  With what Jeff did Tim Buckley tour?

[meddle]

Lol, with their bands, silly.

[Aphexporn]

I think it shows a real bravery and dynamic approach to music.

[Aphexporn]

Kissing your ass solves nothing but your homosexuality. If you knew Tim personally and knew he was on a cocktail of drugs, still doesnt take away his musical dymanics.

Go chew some steak.

[steakmuncher]

I have all the albums, including starsailor, and I cannot stomach this album. sounds like the soundtrack of planet of the apes. i can see charlton heston running from the apes with lorca playing in the background. or maybe yet soylent green. i finally found some fresh meat.

[PunkCabaretDoll]

Lorca sure is a difficult album but this eponymous song, to me is such a beauty. It has to be one of the greatest songs out there; so scarily sensual that I find no words to describe this song. And I don't even know what genre (category) it falls into!

[padleynj]

You have to reach back in tim's music, there were never any musical cliches in his group and in whatever he wrote. The unbounded expressiveness of his soaring, haunting voice and with Larry Beckett's earlier lyical writings, are to this day untouched by anyone.. this had nothing to do with heroin....It had to due with creativity!

[bazzinfly33]

I also think so.

[boardux]

great tune, but he's off his tits

[Kagemusha22]

Hahaha.

[kawah88]

Good point! I totally agree! I am a huge fan of Tim Buckley. I need 3 more albums before I have them all on vinyl. My dad saw Tim Buckley live in 1969 as well during his "Happy Sad" album. Phenomenal jazz album. Easily one of the greatest albums ever.

[ncoachma75]

Please convince me and all the other fans to Bring this soul to life!! A movie with layers of confusion and song without disturbing the living!!!! Long Live Jeff and Tim, and the woman who brought them in this world!!!

[propwatch]

I don't think that it was one woman (That would be pretty twisted.) So, I think you mean women.

[starpier]

this song has no barriers, no boxes, it's just like a flow of music without any patterns, amazing.

[wayne763]

Heroin is "a helluva drug" for sure..you get this avant-garde weirdness and you also get Dee Dee Ramone's kindergarten guitar riffs..

[iimompii]

This album came out before Tim got heavy into heroin.

[kawah88]

You obviously don't know shit about Tim Buckley. He was not confined to one genre of music. He believed in experimenting. That is why this song and album exists. Not because of Heroin. Every album Tim Buckley did was completely different. Every album is brilliant. But it is a shame that that motherfucker said "Go head, take it all" (heroin).

[sonicfiction]

one of the best songs ever written

[pr00de]

Heroin -- it's a hell of a drug.

[gianpy58]

Song is fantastic...but what's the meaning of this video?