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Grace | 
 enlarge | Artist: Jeff Buckley
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  562 reviews
Sales Rank: 808
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 57528
UPC: 074645752822
EAN: 0074645752822
ASIN: B0000029DD
Release Date: August 23, 1994
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| Tracks:
| • | Mojo Pin | | • | Grace | | • | Last Goodbye | | • | Lilac Wine | | • | So Real | | • | Hallelujah | | • | Lover, You Should`ve Come Over | | • | Corpus Christi Carol | | • | Eternal Life | | • | Dream Brother |
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Amazon.com
Resembling at times a soft-sung Robert Plant, Buckley was an intuitive vocalist capable of dizzying arabesques and choir-boy sweetness. He is joined here by a tight band for 10 tracks highlighting his stylistic range--Pearl Jam bluesy on "Eternal Life," impossibly serene on Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," art-school noisy on "So Real," Led Zep daring on "Mojo Pin." Unorthodox, this was the debut of '94. --Jeff Bateman
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 "It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah..." August 8, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
A legendary album and justly so. Every song is a masterpiece in its own right: the title track, which gave Radiohead the basis for their Bends-era sound; "Mojo Pin," at once gorgeous and disturbing, "Heroin" for the '90s, the beautiful "Last Goodbye," with strings, a lovely falsetto, and a weirdly unresolved chord progression, the cabaret-esque "So Real," with a very heavy, very strange guitar solo and gasping vocals, the brokenhearted "Lover, You Should've Come Over," with Buckley overdubbing himself to create a gospel choir effect, the Zeppelin-esque heavy rocker "Eternal Life," the creepy, bongo-driven closer "Dream Brother." And the covers are just as good as the originals: "Lilac Wine" is jazz filtered through Pink Floyd, and his famous version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is a heartbreaking, beautiful, sensual reading. It's nothing more than a gentle electric guitar and Buckley's vocals, and those vocals are some of the best I've heard by anyone, ever. It gives me the chills, and out of the many versions of the song I've heard, I think it's the best. Of course, it was my introduction to Jeff Buckley's work - I'm in a band that plans to cover "Hallelujah," and I was searching the web for versions of the song a couple days ago. This one really jumped out at me. Still, I think it's unfair that it completely overshadows the other songs on this album. And "Corpus Christi Carol" is a stark, effective cover of an old hymn. The production is normally stripped-down, putting the emphasis where it belongs: on Jeff's voice, one of the best ever. This album is an excellent of jazz, rock, folk, blues, gospel, world music, and soul, and it works spectacularly well. It's a shame Buckley had to die so young. He was an amazing talent.
Jeff Buckley's Graceful Debut. July 27, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Jeff Buckley's 1994 debut album, Grace, lives up to its title. Drawing its inspiration from Nina Simone, Van Morrison, Billie Holiday, Led Zeppelin, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Bob Dylan, Edith Piaf, The Smiths, and Leonard Cohen, Grace is definitive Jeff Buckley, whose life was cut short. Ironically, he accidentally drowned at age 30 in Graceland, (Memphis). Although the album initially sold poorly, it has since drawn the acclaim it deserves. (Jimmy Page considers Grace his "favorite album of the decade," David Bowie named Grace as one of the ten albums he would take with him to a desert island, and Dylan named Buckley "one of the great songwriters of this decade.")
"Mojo Pin" opens the album with a psychedelic, dreamlike quality leading up to the album's first single, "Grace," a song about "not feeling so bad about your own mortality when you have true love." Buckley covers the Nina Simone standard "Lilac Wine," a song that immerses itself in the "strange delight" of falling in love, as well as the 1984 Leonard Cohen classic, "Hallelujah." (Buckley has called his rendition of Cohen's frequently-cpvered song an homage to "the hallelujah of the orgasm.") The album ends with "Dream Brother," a song about Buckley's father (Tim Buckley) abandoning him as a child. "Don't be like the one who made me so old," he cautions a friend about to walk out on his pregnant girlfriend. The ten songs on this album are rich in authenticity and emotional depth. Complete album tracks include:
1. Mojo Pin 5:43
2. Grace 5:23
3. Last Goodbye 4:32
4. Lilac Wine 4:33
5. So Real 4:41
6. Hallelujah 6:53
7. Lover, You Should've Come Over 6:43
8. Corpus Christi Carol 2:58
9. Eternal Life 4:52
10. Dream Brother 5:26
G. Merritt
 He's... May 9, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
nothing compared to his father... listen to starsailor and lorca if you are really into music...
Wonderful CD April 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great cd to drive to or listen to in your home. Jeff Buckley's beautiful voice and guitar playing sweep you up and make you feel good all over.
Listen before you pay for it April 10, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
To my ear, this is one of the most overrated albums I have heard. Not that it's bad. It's just all right. There is simply nothing here that merits the gushing accolades many of Buckley's fans heap upon it. Or maybe I just don't connect with it. After repeated listenings. If you can get your hands on a copy, you'd do well to listen to it before buying your own based on its hype. You may becomes as enamored as many others have. You find find it so-so as I do. Or you may even fall into the category with several people I know who find it to be unbearably boring.
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