Jeff Buckley: Grace

When a coworker's suggestion becomes a musical obsession, you know there's magic in the notes. That's what happened with Jeff Buckley's "Grace," an album that grabbed hold of my soul and refused to let go. Tim and I strap in for a deep dive into the haunting allure of Buckley's lone studio album, examining his eclectic influences from Led Zeppelin to the drumming prowess of Matt Johnson. We're peeling back the layers of tracks that didn't hit the charts like "Hallelujah" did, but still resonate with the force of a thousand heartbreaks.

There's no resisting the pull of a good anecdote, and we've got plenty, from Elaine's (Seinfeld) sidesplitting breakup yarns to our own personal narratives intertwined with Buckley's melodies. It's not just about the music; it's about the culture, the connections, and those unexpectedly hilarious technical snafus that keep the conversation as vibrant as the tunes themselves. Alongside the laughter, we pay our dues to the production maestro Andy Wallace, whose touch turned Buckley's vision into an auditory masterpiece that continues to captivate.

Capping off our tribute to Buckley's "Grace," we venture into his unique and special rendition of "Hallelujah," dissecting the complexity that makes it a timeless classic. But even as we honor Buckley's artistry, we're not all solemn reverence—there's room for some Mountaineer college pride, a cheeky nod to "Charlie's Angels," and a whimsical discussion about belief in fairies. Through the emotional journey of Buckley's music, we're reminded of the power of a song to touch the soul, and just maybe, you'll discover a new resonance within yourself.

Transcript

Mojo Pin

Speaker 1 0:01

Mojo.

Speaker 2 0:02

Mojo, mojo.

Speaker 1 0:05

The libido, the life force, the essence, the right stuff, what the French call a certain I don't know what.

Speaker 3 0:23

All right, thank you for listening to the Greatest Non-Hits. I'm Chris and playing Hallelujah from Jeff Buckley's Grace album is my co-host, tim. We want to thank you for listening, as always, continue to download us wherever you get your podcasts and we have a great album to share with you today and to rank the greatest non-hits of, again, jeff buckley, who died in June 29th of 1975. And you know well, within his prime his son was Jeff Buckley. That stage name, jeff Buckley, I guess a real name is Scott Scott Moorhead and he gets the Moorhead from, among other sources, his, his stepfather. That was his last, his stepfather's last name and he was a big Zeppelin fan and he followed in his father's footsteps, had a great interest in music and followed that as a career path. A talented songwriter, guitar player, and he plays a number of other instruments on this album. This was technically his second release. Prior to this he had, it's my understanding, he released a live EP in 93, and then from there went to a recording studio. I can't remember where it is. You can look it up on Wikipedia. It's got all those details, I think, on his Wikipedia site that explains him as a person, his early life, his career, etc. During his career.

Speaker 3 2:40

It was very short, it was brief, because Jeff Buckley himself passed away at an early age, much like his father. So, um, you know, there's a little bit of nepotism in that respect as well, but unlike his father, I think, who died of a I think it was of an overdose or after an overdose Jeff, I think, died in like a, a swimming accident, actually, I think, like before a recording or a performance of some sort, he went for like a leisurely swim in in a body of water, and I think there was a I don't know there was another like a watercraft that was involved. Somehow, I don't really know, we were really just focusing on the album, but there's an interesting story behind that. It was during the recording of a follow-up album that he was going to release. This was in 1997 when his uh passing occurred.

Speaker 3 3:46

So, um, but there are a number of songs on this album that are excellent and he's you can hear a wide range of influences, particularly led zeppelin, and that mojo clip at the beginning was really, I guess, referenced based off of the very first song on the album called Mojo Pin, which I have an affinity to, and, incidentally, before I forget, I should probably mention that this album came to me by way of a co-worker about two and a half or three weeks ago. He gave me the backstory, I listened to it and I loved it. Uh. So j jp shout out to jp thanks a bunch, man. Uh, keep them coming. Uh, with that in mind.

Speaker 3 4:36

Um, yeah, we're gonna listen to all the songs, as we always do, rank or non-hits. We probably have to define what the hits are on this album, because he's also known for his rendition of Hallelujah, which is the sixth track on this song. It's widely considered one of the best recordings of all time of that particular Leonard Cohen song, particular Leonard Cohen song, so I think that Tim and I agreed that we would consider that to be a hit. The rest of them, I mean for me are fair game. I realize that, at the time particularly, there were a number of a few other songs that were named or released as singles, I should say Among them. If I look at again, this is from Wikipedia the singles Forget Her, I think, is what they're saying, was a single. Oh, wow, oh no, this is the Legacy Edition. Yeah, there was a Legacy Edition that was re-released in 2004. And what else? Oh, yeah, grace, the song Grace. There's a song called Last Goodbye, another one called so Real and then another one called Eternal Life. Those are all listed as singles. I think, though, I mean, we have a loose interpretation of what is and what isn't a hit, so I think we're going to consider all the songs non-hits from our point of view, because since we're coming in relatively cold with the songs on this album I mean I've heard it a few times, I've heard the beginning of it more times than the end, so we're going to listen to all of them. Then we're going to rank our three songs at the end. You know we realize it's all subjective and my three are sometimes the overlap Tim's, but you know it's just something to just. You know it's just a fun thing to do. So sit back, relax, listen. You know, if you're commuting to work or just on the road in general, shout out to you Enjoy the show. Tim's going to join me in a moment. He's going to give me his thoughts.

Speaker 3 6:55

I can go over some of the personnel because he obviously didn't play all the instruments. There's, of course, jeff Buckley. He does vocals on this. He does guitar harmonium on the song lover you should come over on the uh uh Oregon dulcimer and the tabla on dream brother and he produced the song so real. But there are other guys. There's Mick uh grown doll that played bass on this. Uh. Matt Johnson does drums, percussion. He does the vibraphone on Dream Brother. Michael Teague plays some guitar. Gary Lucas plays magical guitar-ness on Mojo Penn, and Grace Loris Holland plays organ on Lover. You Should have Come Over. That's kind of a trippy song. That's also one of the songs that has some of the most listens, aside from hallelujah.

Speaker 3 7:50

I was considering maybe making that a hit, since it seems more popular than the others, but we'll still include it. Um, there's Misha sued on the tabla and dream, but there's two tabla players on dream, brother, okay, and then Carll burger on string arrangements. Oh yeah, so that's yeah. There's a ton of things. So this guy's all over the place. There's a lot of music. He's got a ton of fans, among them me and my co-host, tim tim. How you doing, man?

Speaker 2 8:20

oh quarters wrapped around the chair doing well, wow, getting settled in there, huh this album just opens my bandwidth for some kind of emotional uh window into another dimension, I suppose oh yeah, okay, yeah, that's interesting.

Speaker 3 8:42

I like your choice of words. Opens up a dimension, oh, yeah, what kind?

Speaker 2 8:46

Yeah, that's interesting. I like your choice of words, opens up a dimension. Each time I listen to it, like most albums that we do, it becomes better, but I did find it challenging to listen to it first.

Speaker 3 8:56

Okay, Well what was challenging about it.

Speaker 2 9:01

The up and down vocals, the just yeah, the no structure to the song. A little bit out there it was just out there. It was like nothing I've ever listened to before or heard. I mean, I know Tim Buckley's music, but that's a little bit more whimsical, it's more folky.

Speaker 3 9:27

This is more rock you can hear a lot of zeppelin in this. I like when I was listening to it I was thinking, okay, there's like on mojo pin the first song you'll. I mean I heard it. I you hear wisps of sound garden, because chris cornell, um, his voice goes up and down like that a lot as well. I think that that was more of a popular thing in the 90s particularly the early to mid-90s it was okay, it was a part of a grunge sound.

Speaker 3 9:54

For sure, robert Plant did it a lot, but very few people can pull it off, and I think that that's one of the things that makes this special.

Speaker 2 10:01

Yeah, I feel like it's got a lot of Nina Simone qualities with Robert Plant or like you know I can't quite pin it down. He's got a certain je ne sais quoi, a certain I don't know what he does. Have mojo, we'll give it to him. I mean honestly.

Speaker 1 10:23

Mojo, mojo.

Speaker 2 10:27

It's a lot of mojo.

Speaker 3 10:28

That's true, and mojo pin is the very first song.

Speaker 2 10:33

Yeah, we haven't saved up our mojo for this episode. I have your mojo.

Speaker 4 10:34

It't saved up our mojo for this episode. I have your mojo.

Speaker 2 10:36

We have a lot of mojo for this episode. We also have special guest Daria. Oh, I know, we have Daria, absolutely.

Speaker 3 10:48

She's going to be on the show. Right, she's going to join us.

Speaker 2 10:51

She's going to have a tidbit.

Speaker 3 10:53

Okay, yeah, I would like to hear you know maybe some of her ideas, what she's hearing. That cartoon kind of came out around the time that this came out, like around 94, was the were the Daria years, I think, yeah.

Speaker 2 11:18

Jingly janglies yeah, it's a little harsh. Oh Jingly janglies, yeah it's a little harsh.

Musical Analysis and Appreciation

Speaker 1 11:29

It's an acquired taste. It Blanket is worn. This body will never be Saved from harm. I still feel your hair. Black ribbons are cold, touch my skin. The key led me home.

Speaker 2 11:46

Yeah, it's like a movie soundtrack, something or other.

Speaker 3 11:50

Yeah that part, that little transition sounded a little bit like Stairway to Heaven too for me. I like the backwards drumming you hear the.

Speaker 2 11:58

Going like. Yeah, I mean. Indie drum beat, to say the least. Yeah, shout out to Matt Johnson, he drums in person yeah this part.

Speaker 3 12:11

Johnson Drums in person.

Speaker 1 12:19

Yeah, this part Sound like.

Speaker 2 12:21

Steward of Heaven.

Speaker 3 12:22

Yeah, I hear it A little bit and in this part for me, sounds sounds a little little Pearl Jam. Yeah, I'm to sound garden. Pretty soon there's going to be this part where you hear physical graffiti with a tempo that accelerates.

Speaker 2 13:00

My Beauty, is that a horse? Oh, you had some horse references on this one the White Horse.

Speaker 3 13:07

White Horse Flow. The White Horse Flow. What is that?

Speaker 1 13:11

Oh, precious, precious silver and gold and pearls and oysters flesh. Drop down weep to the serve and pray to love.

Speaker 2 13:28

Born again from the rhythm Screaming down and home.

Speaker 3 13:37

Age of last breath.

Speaker 1 13:37

On the rhythm Shout out to Reverend Brown no arms for you. I don't want to know. I'm blind and tortured. The white horses flow, the memories fire, the rhythms fall slow.

Speaker 2 14:11

Yeah, like Zeppelin's all over us. Yeah, it does sound like Zeppelin.

Speaker 3 14:15

I think we were reading somewhere yeah, zeppelin's all over us. Yeah, it does sound like Zeppelin. I think we were reading somewhere what's his name? J Page, about one of his favorite albums. This is the part I'm talking about. This is physical graffiti, cashmere. But the tempo accelerates. You know there are a lot of Zeppelin knockoffs, but if you want to think of this as a Zeppelin knockoff, he's knocking it off in a way nobody else has ever done it, like with the Robert Plant part of it.

Speaker 2 14:57

Wow yeah, you're right.

Speaker 1 14:59

Oh, whips.

Speaker 3 15:14

Is this real life?

Speaker 2 15:20

Thank you, Daniel Dentist Wow.

Speaker 3 15:43

That's some sound card right there. Chris Corley, loud noises.

Speaker 1 15:49

Loud noises, sound, black, black, black beauty, meatloaf, meatloaf. All right. All right, Wow look at the reverb there.

Speaker 2 16:13

That's like some.

Speaker 3 16:14

Yeah, for like eight or nine seconds my mojo right.

Speaker 1 16:17

So you can't do that mojo. We've got cross-mojination.

Speaker 3 16:20

There was a lot of cross-mojination.

Speaker 2 16:23

Lots of cross-mojination.

Speaker 3 16:27

Yeah, I kind of got myself and my knickers all crossed up, or whatever he was saying, I have no idea.

Speaker 2 16:39

That was Mojo pin. Yeah, no, mojo pin was solid. Now, now they give it a third listen. Yeah, no third listen ever, right there I was digging it the first two I skipped through.

Speaker 3 16:48

We'll have to say yeah, daria, are you smiling? What's going on? I don't like to smile unless I have a reason. Oh Jesus, okay, fuck I'm sorry, she does not like the mojo. No, yeah, okay, daria, we'll come back to you, okay. So this is the next song. It's Grace. Alright, we're off to a good start.

Speaker 1 17:20

Okay, this is kind of.

Speaker 2 17:28

Oh shout out to Principal Rooney. Mr Ed Rooney, mr Ed Rooney, it's not fading. It's definitely not fading, it's all it's.

Speaker 3 18:07

I'm glad he wasn't afraid to die. Seeing the, it's kind of like I don't know how to approach this see it, it's kind of like I don't know how to approach this.

Speaker 1 18:37

I'm not afraid anymore. Okay.

Speaker 2 18:43

This is a great guitar line right there.

Speaker 1 18:51

This is I. Like the sound. It's uplifting isn't it?

Speaker 2 19:14

It's indie, it's very like, I don't know, oh my love.

Speaker 1 19:22

What am I supposed to say? And the rain is falling and I believe my time has come. It reminds me of the pain, I believe, the pain, the pain. Leave it behind Fire.

Speaker 3 19:58

She had to Frank the Tank. Didn't he try to jump through that ring of fire? Yeah, His costume caught on. He's like oh, fire this was out of control.

Speaker 2 20:14

Sorry guys, I lost my composure out there. This is like out there for me. Oh yeah, the string section on this. Yeah, I'm digging it.

Speaker 3 20:28

It's too much for you. I like it.

Speaker 2 20:31

I don't know that I like it. I like parts of it. Okay, yeah, we were talking about that earlier.

Speaker 1 20:46

I can send you a duke Aye. Give you a little time alone. Give you a little time alone.

Speaker 3 21:00

Yeah, I like. Yeah. What we were saying is we like the parts in it, but we don't like the I don't like this part yeah, that's, that's my issue I don't have an issue.

Speaker 2 21:10

I like am I? Am I Grace Surley, or am I Grace Yell Grace?

Speaker 1 21:21

What's your name?

Speaker 3 21:30

That's the Yell. You sound like Chris Cornell right now. Yeah, the drums are rocking. Matt johnson's going crazy wow the carl burgers. Just from hell, out of those strings. This is scary. Hey, let's not sleep on. Andy Wallace, the producer. Oh no, no, no, I couldn't even get in a word edgewise.

Speaker 1 22:28

Who do you?

Speaker 3 22:28

guys think they are, don't they know we're doing a podcast here.

Speaker 2 22:34

Oh, that's good. Are you smiling yet? I don't like to smile.

Musical Analysis of Album Songs

Speaker 3 22:41

Okay. Yeah, thanks for being on the show. Okay, we can go to the next one now. Okay, this is Last Goodbye. Are we on the right order?

Speaker 1 22:58

I'm all broken up, boy.

Speaker 2 23:02

I think so we're in good shape here.

Speaker 3 23:06

Okay, yeah, this is our track number three, last Goodbye. Yeah.

Speaker 1 23:11

Are you crying?

Speaker 3 23:27

You know I keep going back to like Mick Rondahl is great. They're all good musicians in their own right. The bass is great. Yeah, yeah, the bass is great, mick. Yeah, in their own right, bass is great. Yeah, yeah, the bass is great, nick, I think, yeah, and I love the drums too, and now on this song they're playing in sync. It must have been a good like environment.

Speaker 1 23:53

It's kind of a sad song.

Speaker 3 23:54

About a breakup kind of thing I'm thinking. He's a bad breaker-upper.

Speaker 2 24:16

Put down the phone, just break up, come on yeah it's the last time, that's it.

Speaker 3 24:21

They didn't have cell phones back then. Oh yeah, it's true. No, this is the last page, that's it. Put your pager down. They had pagers in 1994.

Speaker 2 24:34

Love pagers Pay Love pagers Payphones shout out yeah 8008.

Speaker 1 24:50

Kiss my green, kiss my green. Shout out to Flo from.

Speaker 3 24:56

Alice, kiss my grace.

Speaker 1 25:03

Shout out to Flo from.

Speaker 2 25:04

Alice, the strings are echoing his voice a little bit. Oh okay, same intonation there. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 25:16

Now, all you have to learn is how to say goodbye.

Speaker 2 25:28

Every song is like Stairway to Heaven a little bit. It's okay Trying to be that over-the top kind of ballad, rock ballad. Right wait, this sounds like doodoo dolls.

Speaker 3 25:46

Yeah, now oh they're, they're cover of give a little bit, give a Little Bit by it's a Peter Crampton original. He made me do it. That was very good. Oh, no, no, super Tramp, give a Little Bit by Super Tramp. The breakfast in America, yeah, okay, but yeah, I know what you're saying. The Googie Bells remade it a really good version of it. It just sounds a little bit like that, but it's twisted, it's a sewn song it is.

Speaker 2 26:22

Oh, you were right.

Speaker 3 26:26

I like this part a lot. You know I understand why people a ton of musicians, famous people love David Bowie. Yeah, David Bowie said that if you were on a deserted island, this would be the album that he would have on. I mean, his ego must have been so huge.

Speaker 1 26:42

I was kind of beginning my work in the world.

Speaker 3 26:45

I was just immersed in work. I didn't know about this album, right, neither did I, fucking bitch. That was a very nice part of it. I love being with him.

Speaker 1 27:16

I it, I love being with him. I mean, I like being with him. It's okay being with him.

Speaker 3 27:22

All right, shout out to Elaine. That was her describing a guy that she was going to break up with. Well, I mean, she's being called out. Yeah, wasn't she being called out for just liking him for his looks? But not really liking his personality.

Speaker 2 27:36

He just had really big eyes.

Speaker 3 27:39

Also, you have like really big eyes and that big eyes. Where was that, was that from? I can't remember that mean girls. Yeah, something like that.

Speaker 2 27:50

Big eyes, next one's called with lilac wine. There's a little wine. Yeah, what?

Speaker 3 27:55

are we gonna do without wine?

Speaker 2 28:03

That was too good two of these, lost myself on a cool damn night.

Speaker 3 28:11

I gave myself in that misty light that was a cool lyric With his big eyes, heart and its recipe.

Speaker 1 28:21

That's a cool lyric. Makes me see what I want to see.

Speaker 2 28:25

With his big eyes. See what I want to be His brooding eyes.

Speaker 3 28:30

He does have big brooding eyes.

Speaker 2 28:32

Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 28:33

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, johnny Red Kne, neat, okay, okay, do it.

Speaker 2 29:08

No, we're drinking wine here. We're not drinking. We're not Lilac wine, lilac wine.

Speaker 1 29:17

Yeah not Johnny Redd, do it.

Speaker 3 29:20

Love it. This one's soft, it's soft, it's very delicate.

Speaker 1 29:25

This piece is called Lick my Love Pump.

Speaker 3 29:28

No, it's called.

Speaker 1 29:28

Lie Like One. That's an angel. I feel unsteady, like my love. Listen to me. I cannot see clearly.

Speaker 2 29:59

That stuff will make you blind, she's coming to me.

Speaker 3 30:05

Stuff will make you blind.

Speaker 1 30:11

I mean you gotta Nearly here.

Speaker 3 30:13

Gotta be careful of that lilac wine. Yeah, you don't like the yodeling. It's kind of like Tiptoe through the tulips. It's like Tim. What's the Tiny Tim? It's like Sweet. What's the Tiny Tim? It's like Sweet Lita, no relation, oh yes.

Speaker 2 30:28

Oh Sad, linda yeah Sad.

Speaker 3 30:29

Sad Linden would be a great one. You know what I mean by Sad.

Speaker 1 30:33

Linda, anyhow, if you think that I'm just sitting around waiting for you, you can forget it.

Speaker 3 30:36

Yeah, that's Sad, linda, right there from Fast Times.

Speaker 1 30:46

Is. Is that Doug or something I?

Speaker 3 30:48

don't know what is Lilac whining? Is that a funky cold medina? And I've got to be fair to myself, Lisa. Another Fast Times reference Brad speaking into the mirror at work as he's cleaning off something really crude drawn in black marker, practicing breaking up with his girlfriend who ends up breaking up with him.

Speaker 2 31:21

He's pissed Gotta, get to it first.

Speaker 3 31:24

But that's.

Speaker 2 31:25

Brad, you know, man, you crazy, jesus, you crazy. That's what my ex-wife said.

Speaker 1 31:38

Oh, the son of God, you sure are a son of a.

Speaker 2 31:42

Technical difficulties here.

Speaker 3 31:45

You should blame that one. If I were you, I would have been like Chris, what the hell are you doing, man? You're ruining? No, not you. That's the thing. You gotta go against the other person. That's what we're gonna do. We're playing a good game.

Speaker 1 31:59

That's what we're going to do. We're playing, we're going to attack, yeah.

Speaker 2 32:08

So the next couple plays out.

Speaker 3 32:09

Yeah, little Tiny Tim there. Okay, that was very sweet, alright, yeah. I need like a, not a palate cleanser, but a palate soiler Of some sort. This song is called so Real. This one's all over the place too, man. It's got good parts to it, but the sum of it is just. I don't know what is that?

Speaker 1 32:36

Love, let me sleep tonight on your couch, oh.

Speaker 2 33:07

Yeah, sing it oh wow it's. It's very wicked lyrics, it's kind of you know it's kind of surfy, it's like so pitted Like the.

Speaker 3 33:36

Beach Boys.

Speaker 2 33:38

Yeah, his lyrics are like we walked around till the moon Till the moon.

Speaker 1 33:46

Got full like okay Till the moon got full like a plane. Blue and invocation.

Speaker 2 33:50

Is this like poetry reading night? Mm-hmm. Yes, with the band going? Yes, but he plays guitar so that's yeah, this is like a poetry slam.

Speaker 3 34:03

This is like the or like a beatnik thing oh.

Speaker 2 34:26

This part could be like replicated for a song nowadays.

Speaker 3 34:33

You could probably insert it into any Beach Boys song oh you think nowadays I mean I like the chorus. Yeah, there's this weird thing.

Speaker 2 34:51

Ah, this is why I find it hard to listen to and I've got to be fair to myself.

Speaker 3 35:10

Gotta be fair to myself to just turn this off. That happened in the 90s, though, because the Weezer album had stuff like that in it too. Yeah, discord.

Speaker 2 35:21

Yeah, discord. Check out, tim. What the hell was that Discordant?

Speaker 3 35:24

Yeah, discordant, check out.

Speaker 2 35:26

Tim with the big words man, the big brain on Brad. Yeah, check out the big brain on Brad oh that was so real.

Speaker 3 35:48

Oh, that was so real. It's real, it's real. Oh, that was so real. Oh, that was so real. Oh, that was so real. Oh, that was so real, real, real, real. Oh, that was so real. I'm looking at the album cover now. I'll just I'll let them stop screaming and I'll finish my thought oh, that was so big. Oh, that was so big, all right.

Speaker 2 36:57

Okay, so this was from guitarist Michael Tite Tig or Tite Tig, yeah, yeah, whatever.

Speaker 3 37:04

Was from guitarist michael tight tig.

Speaker 2 37:05

Or tie, yeah, whatever he said he penned the, he composed the chord progression for that when he was for so real, when he was 15 or 16 years old and he met jeff and played it for him and really liked it. And then he said two years later, some of the rehearsals for the first tour. He was like remember that song you played on the bed a couple years ago at your parents place. So I started playing it and he got, I got behind the drums and came up with the beat and started singing the melody of the chorus.

Speaker 3 37:31

Oh, cool, yeah, cool story. Yeah, I know Michael T is the guitar player on this and he's credited all over this particular song. Yeah credited all over this particular song. Yeah, he was invited to tour and play, I guess, for his virtuosity on this song.

Musical Analysis of Jeff Buckley's Masterpiece

Speaker 3 37:51

So anyway, there we go, yeah, so, yeah the bore you don't. Thanks for the uh, thanks for dropping the knowledge hanging out. I'm like looking at the uh guitar or the the album cover. It's just a picture of him. He kind of looks like a cross between Luke Perry and Jared Leto, totally. Oh, here's Hallelujah. This is the next one. This is considered one of the best renditions of all time. You beat the judge, though, as a listener. Shout out to Leonard Cohen. Yeah, shout out to Leonard Cohen, masterpiece.

Speaker 2 38:31

Shout out to Jericho.

Speaker 3 38:34

Shout out to Reverend Brown For helping Jeff in the same way that he helped Joshua fight the Battle of Jericho.

Speaker 2 38:44

And the Jingle Jangle and the jingle jangle. Yeah, now that the jingle jangle's a Saving those lost souls, yeah, my man.

Speaker 3 38:55

What.

Speaker 2 38:58

He helped.

Speaker 3 39:02

Get off that island.

Speaker 1 39:14

Oh, he did what he did. His voice is like butter. Major, lift the baffled king, composing Hallelujah His voice is like butter.

Speaker 3 39:29

I'm feeling verklempt.

Speaker 1 39:31

Hallelujah.

Speaker 2 39:34

Hallelujah Special.

Speaker 1 39:38

It's special.

Speaker 3 39:44

I promise you, the listener, that we'll probably ruin this song for you.

Speaker 1 39:53

You might want to. It's good, beautiful, beautiful.

Speaker 2 40:05

It's not as easy as it sounds, to play it on guitar.

Speaker 1 40:11

It wasn't easy was it?

Speaker 2 40:12

No, it's a little tricky. There's chords that blend and you have to get those notes right. Really, give it that.

Speaker 3 40:29

Is Jeff playing?

Speaker 2 40:30

on this. I think so, I think so yeah.

Speaker 1 40:39

I mean, that's pretty good.

Speaker 2 40:41

It's a little bit of a buzz.

Speaker 3 40:51

Music's in this guy's blood. Yeah, this is listed number 303 of the 500 greatest albums from. Rolling Stones.

Speaker 1 40:59

It's a cold and it's a broken. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

Speaker 3 41:14

It was released as a 10th anniversary on August 23rd of 2004 and it peaked at number 44 in the UK. I vaguely remember this coming out.

Speaker 1 41:27

I was like I just wasn't too into the music at the time.

Speaker 3 41:32

To me. It was one of these things I missed.

Speaker 2 41:35

Cohen's rendition was released in Spain and Netherlands, but got little attention in the United States.

Speaker 1 41:42

Yeah, but remember when I moved in you and the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was hallelujah, hallelujah.

Speaker 3 41:57

Hallelujah. I think OJ was like sucking all the energy out of everything the coverage of it. You know Hallelujah.

Speaker 1 42:05

Yeah.

Speaker 2 42:11

Yeah, a lot of Bible. Notorious women Saw her bathing on the roof. Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you. Bath Sheba, whose husband was murdered by the king so he could have her he plays guitar for this too.

Speaker 3 42:54

It's amazing. You know what's weird is? You know there's a mojo magazine. I'm sorry, yeah, what were you saying about the guitar? No, go ahead. No, I was just gonna say the maybe from mojo magazine. This was ranked. They ranked Grace the number one modern rock classic of all time. Wow, modern rock. I mean, what is?

Speaker 1 43:18

I wouldn't go that far. It's not somebody who's seen the light, it's a cold and it's a broken. Hallelujah, the talent is undeniable. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

Speaker 2 43:43

Sing it with us, hallelujah.

Speaker 1 43:47

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

Speaker 3 44:16

Amen so who's harboring you? We kicked Aria out of here. We've got Reverend Brown Reverend, uh. What do you think of this?

Speaker 1 44:31

He helped Joshua fight the Battle of Jericho. Yes, he helped Daniel get out the lion's den. He helped Gilligan get off the island. No.

Speaker 3 44:45

Well, thank you.

Speaker 2 44:46

I really like that. I do too.

Speaker 1 44:49

I really like it.

Speaker 3 44:52

Really Okay. Well, thank you, mary Tyler Moore. We really liked it too. All right, maybe we can get James Brown's opinion on this at some point, I don't know. But onward and upward what.

Speaker 1 45:11

I heard was a jingle jangle of a thousand lost souls.

Speaker 3 45:16

All right, yeah, a jingle jangle, thank you. Thank you, sir, a jingle All right. So this next one is called a lover. You should have come over. I think this is that organ that jeff buckley is playing harmonium, song, harmonium. I think it's the harmonium. This is what I'm playing right now.

Speaker 2 45:47

Very harmonious.

Speaker 3 45:49

Okay, see, he's multi-talented, he can play this, he can croon, he can do the Zeppelin thing. It goes louder.

Speaker 2 46:01

Well, it's one louder isn't it. That's right, it's a loud organ. Thank you, nigel. This is good, interesting, unique intros.

Speaker 1 46:17

I will say that.

Speaker 3 46:32

Yeah, it's kind of cool.

Speaker 1 46:33

Is this sort of like a funeral? How do you do that? It's like fishing with dynamite. Maybe I'm too young To keep good love from going wrong, but tonight You're all on my mind, so yeah, this song, I think, got the second most streams on the album next to Hallelujah so this one I think this one was really well liked as well.

Speaker 3 47:16

Meet love.

Speaker 1 47:19

Are you not Child? You know how much I need it. Too young To hold on, Too old To just break Free and run.

Speaker 2 47:39

This is.

Speaker 1 47:41

Sometimes a man Gets carried away.

Speaker 2 47:45

Potentially about a breakup With Rebecca Moore. Oh really.

Speaker 3 47:50

That's interesting.

Speaker 2 47:54

Did it for a while After she came to the concerts.

Speaker 1 47:58

Okay.

Speaker 3 48:02

Yeah, this is written by Jeff Buckley. Sometimes a man must wait to find a million who has no one. This one, the Last Goodbye, written just by Jeff Buckley. He collaborated on the rest of them, with the exception of Hallelujah and my Life Wine was written by James Shelton.

Speaker 2 48:23

Shout out to him apparently, the day before he died, he left Rebecca a message that said think of me and smile. I'm gonna work my ass off. Baby, I'll see you on the other side.

Speaker 3 48:50

Maybe that's just what's it down. Was that his girlfriend? Who's, rebecca?

Speaker 2 48:56

Rebecca Moore yeah who's Rebecca Moore. She came to his shows. They started dating. Then they broke up.

Speaker 1 49:05

They actually broke up he died.

Speaker 3 49:08

Was she amused on some of these, I wonder?

Speaker 2 49:10

Yeah, subject matter that's what some of these song facts is speculating Got it.

Speaker 1 49:25

That puts a whole new page out on how you listen, kingdom for a kiss upon her. That's an interesting line All my riches for her smiles when I slept so soft against her. It's never over. All my blood for the sweetness of her laughter it's never over. Nobody makes me bleed my own blood, nobody. She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever. But maybe I'm just too young To keep good love from going wrong. Going wrong, going wrong. Are you crying? What's that? Are you crying? Am I crying? No, I'm not crying.

Musical Appreciation and Reflection

Speaker 1 50:39

This is kind of a touching song oh, oh, oh, oh oh oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Hold on A march to old and break free and run To the depth of the blind. The sea is the damage I've done, the sea is all mine. You should have come over. Our love will agree. Blinkin' Lover, love, love, love, love, love, Love, love, love. Well, this piece is called I Lick my Lap Pump. I lick my lap pump. Love, love, love. I'm going over. I should have gone over. It's not too late. I hit him with a burrito. I hit him with his foot and he kicked him. That's what he did. Someone punted him. No way, let me say something. Let me say something. All right, I really like it. Really.

Speaker 1 52:17

All right, yeah, so shout out to Ron it's touching.

Speaker 3 52:20

It's touching, yeah, touching song and a very painful moment for Ron Burgundy, all wrapped up in a nice little ball here. Is this real life? That is a good question. While we ponder that thought, this is Corpus Christi Carol.

Speaker 2 52:48

Shout out to those Corpus Christi residents.

Speaker 3 52:55

Yeah, shout out to the city of Corpus Christi. We love Corpus Christi. We're all drinking lilac wine and hanging out yeah hey, you know it's good times, let's go, let's get some sun.

Speaker 1 53:11

Loo-lee-loo-lay, lee-loo, lee-loo.

Speaker 3 53:17

Yeah, this is some Tiny Tim tip-toe to the tulips, kind of shit.

Speaker 2 53:20

Do you believe in fairies?

Speaker 3 53:25

Where was that from? Do you believe in fairies? Where was that?

Speaker 2 53:29

from Do you believe Peter Pan? That's right. Purple and gold. Shout out to the Mountaineers. Yeah, shout out to the Mountaineers, there we go.

Speaker 1 53:43

I mean WVU, you were talking West Virginia yeah. You were talking.

Speaker 3 53:49

VCU Commonwealth, virginia, commonwealth.

Speaker 2 53:52

Oh, shout out to them. Eastern Carolina, east Carolina. Oh, aren't they the pirates, or some shit? I think they're purple.

Speaker 3 53:58

Oh, that's their colors.

Speaker 2 53:59

Yeah, I'm just Purple and yellow. Yeah, purple and gold.

Speaker 3 54:02

Well, yeah, yeah, we got some Crossmogination going on here. You're talking colors. I'm talking mascot names.

Speaker 1 54:10

Yeah, nobody makes me bleed my own blood, nobody makes me bleed my own blood. She's weepus Chris. I've brought my marriage away by his bedside stand in the storm.

Speaker 3 54:55

You've got to give the guy credit, for I mean, it takes a ton of personal confidence to sing this.

Speaker 2 55:03

This is like Tom York's Naked Very difficult song to sing. It's a masterpiece but it's difficult to listen to. Difficult to listen to.

Speaker 3 55:18

Well, yeah it is. This is painful, but I'm trying to think he brought up Tom York and I mean Creep came out, or like Pablo Honey came out around this exact same time, but they weren't really doing a lot of the more experimental stuff. I'm talking about Right until later.

Speaker 3 55:38

Yeah, until later. I'm talking about what's the band Radiohead Radiohead? So I mean I could see how. What's the band Radiohead Radiohead? So I mean I could see how Tom York may have been influenced by this. I mean, if he Definitely I mean I haven't read this deeply into, you know who dug what, but uh, you can hear some of that and that that he influenced, maybe, instead of him being influenced by Zeppelin and all these other acts the same time he was in later works from other artists. You can hear some of those things as well. Whoa See, I can hear Pearl Jamming.

Speaker 2 56:27

Ace on this.

Speaker 3 56:30

It's very heavy. Oh wow, yeah, he's going to ask the question. You wonder if there's any red glitter in his actual car.

Speaker 2 56:57

I don't know why I'm thinking that, but I think his fans probably give him some red glitter.

Speaker 1 57:05

There's a flaming red horizon that screams our names. You fool, I'm happy. And as your fantasies are broken in two, you fool, I'm happy.

Speaker 2 57:32

Oh gosh, this is like Chili Peppers. Now, yeah, they're like.

Speaker 1 57:38

You saw the drums in the bass. They're so committed, they're insane.

Speaker 3 57:41

Yeah, they're insane and they're just like committed.

Speaker 1 57:54

It's hard driving. Oh crown my fear. Your king at the point of a gun. All I want to do is love everyone.

Speaker 2 58:12

Shout out to the hippies out there.

Speaker 3 58:17

Shout out to Moara High School in Anaheim where he went to high school.

Speaker 1 58:26

Shout out to Southwest Anaheim.

Speaker 3 58:39

On his Wikipedia page while he was in high school. It says that he was into the prog rock.

Speaker 2 58:49

A lot of Russian guests.

Speaker 3 58:51

I can hear that I can hear it, that little part right there.

Speaker 1 58:59

Yeah, where is peace?

Speaker 3 59:22

Where is peace? Very sound garden right there. Buckley played in a band called the Wild Blue Yonder. That that included Future.

Speaker 1 59:35

Tool Drums yeah, yeah, that bass is kind of awesome.

Speaker 3 59:52

But on that album with Wild Blue Yonder, who used to be back in the 80s. Still, it's Charlie Angel Time to go to work. Ah, can't call me a player the guitar after the singing. With almighty God as my witness, I am not an angel dust dealer. It's Charlie Angel Time to go to work. All right, shout out to John Forsythe. Oh Jesus, okay, tim put a bow on that one. There. That was aptly played. Well, played, jeez yeah, it almost got a little too heavy at the end. There. It was aptly played, well, played, jeez yeah, it was like almost got a little too heavy at the end there. Jeez, jeez you need a palate cleanser.

Speaker 3 1:01:05

You need a break.

Speaker 2 1:01:07

I wouldn't marry Tyler Moore if I think of that song, she wouldn't dig it.

Speaker 3 1:01:12

I didn't even ask Daria what she thought.

Speaker 2 1:01:14

Is she smiling? Yet I don't know.

Speaker 3 1:01:17

No, no, she's not Okay. So this one. That was a little guitar.

Speaker 2 1:01:25

That was kind of cool.

Speaker 3 1:01:26

A little gas passing.

Speaker 2 1:01:30

The guitar farted on us.

Speaker 3 1:01:31

Yeah, that was like a guitar fart. It was like what I don't know. Okay, I think I cut it off before the song ended. This is Dream Brother.

Speaker 2 1:01:42

Dream. It's a dream, yes, it is. Who listens on this one?

Speaker 3 1:01:57

But that was Eternal Life. Was that last one Eternal Life that we listened to?

Speaker 2 1:02:00

Okay, I like this one I do too. That's him on the drums, the little mini drum there.

Speaker 3 1:02:10

Oh, there's the tabla.

Speaker 2 1:02:11

Yeah, yeah. This song goes out to Chris Dowd, formerly of Fishbone.

Speaker 3 1:02:22

Okay, why does it go?

Speaker 2 1:02:24

out to him he was considering leaving his pregnant girlfriend. Jeff didn't want his friend To become like his own father, tim Buckley, who divorced his mother about a month before Jeff was born, so he was Actually trying to coax him to stay with the gal he impregnated. Good guy.

Speaker 3 1:02:45

Good guy. Yeah, I don't know if I like that Good guy.

Speaker 2 1:02:53

Jeff is trying to convince his friend to stay, so he is a good guy, His other friend yeah he was telling him go back to your.

Speaker 3 1:03:04

It was a Cats in the Cradle kind of thing going on where he's just like Pre-Cats in the Cradle. Yeah, he was trying to avoid a Cats in the Cradle scenario for his friend.

Speaker 2 1:03:16

Butterscotch hair. I'm ready for dessert, I know yeah.

Speaker 3 1:03:23

Yeah, this song's making me hungry.

Speaker 2 1:03:32

It's a dream.

Speaker 3 1:03:38

Yeah, cool instruments on this Echo-y Awesome drums. This is something, danny Carey, I can hear.

Speaker 2 1:03:53

Yeah, great drums.

Speaker 3 1:04:06

Singer Tom York said that Buckley gave him the confidence to sing in falsetto. So he, you were right about the whole play, or the I'm sorry, the Radiohead Tom York observation. I'm sure yeah.

Speaker 2 1:04:44

Wow, I really like this song. A little Telecaster, action, yes. Oh, is it coming together now?

Speaker 1 1:05:04

Don't be like the one who left behind his name.

Speaker 2 1:05:07

It's direct man yeah, so direct.

Speaker 1 1:05:12

Yeah, this is it.

Speaker 3 1:05:18

Yes, you're nailing the deep stuff on this.

Speaker 2 1:05:20

He's got dad issues.

Speaker 3 1:05:22

Yeah, this is where all the dad issues are. Nobody ever came, nobody ever came. Hey, sometimes dad can't make it to the ball game. Yeah, I want to make the next one champ. That's what they all say. They never do. It's just one big disappointment after the other Dads.

Speaker 2 1:05:51

What happens if they have twins?

Speaker 1 1:05:54

Twin and twin twin.

Speaker 3 1:05:57

Twin and twin twin. Twinny twin twin.

Speaker 2 1:06:11

Yeah, buzz and Fly and Carnival Song. Tim Buckley check them out. Yeah, yeah. This is kind of folky, this is kind of psychedelic folk here.

Speaker 3 1:06:24

Yes, Tabla we got that going.

Speaker 2 1:06:28

I'm liking this one, this one's, this could be.

Speaker 3 1:06:37

Put a star there, me too.

Speaker 2 1:06:39

I don't know. There's a couple there's a couple of. There's more stars than. I thought there would be. It's tough.

Speaker 3 1:06:45

Asterisks yeah, risky, we're on the home stretch, forget her. This is the last one, I think.

Speaker 1 1:06:55

She's adorable Fucking bitch.

Speaker 3 1:07:02

Shout out to Paul Rudd.

Speaker 1 1:07:06

All the noises died away. I walked the streets to stop my weeping.

Speaker 3 1:07:25

That's kind of cool how they rhyme sleeping.

Speaker 1 1:07:27

She'll never change her ways.

Speaker 3 1:07:30

Rebecca, I think.

Speaker 1 1:07:36

Don't fool yourself, don't fool yourself, don't fool. She was heartache from the moment that you met her.

Speaker 3 1:07:45

Oh, no, it always happens that way.

Speaker 1 1:07:52

My heart feels so sick.

Speaker 2 1:07:54

The crazy hot scale.

Speaker 1 1:07:56

Because I try to find the will. Yeah, the crazy hot scale, she's just. Yeah, she's too high.

Speaker 2 1:08:01

Yeah, on the Above, she was above the trajectory.

Speaker 3 1:08:06

Yeah, exactly On the top, the line of best fit Right exactly Nine on both the X and Y axis.

Speaker 1 1:08:16

That's ultimately what you're shooting for. Well, you want something on the inside, but Inside yeah, anything on the outside of the direct. It depends what your threshold for crazy is really.

Speaker 2 1:08:35

Yeah, If you like, the crazy go for it.

Speaker 1 1:08:39

Go for it.

Speaker 2 1:08:43

Yeah, you want just enough.

Speaker 3 1:08:45

You want at least an 8 on the X scale and a 5 on the Y scale. You don't want a 2 on the Y scale. You don't want them too grounded. Sometimes I don't know, you want to look like maybe a 5 crazy with a 9 high? I don't want them too grounded Sometimes I don't know. You want to look like maybe a five crazy with a nine hot.

Speaker 2 1:09:00

I don't know. We got eight Inside chance of the A-10 split.

Speaker 3 1:09:05

Yeah, the old 7-10. There you go, the 7-10 split. Yeah, perfect 10, with a crazy of seven. She was raised by her grandparents.

Speaker 2 1:09:28

It's a dream.

Speaker 3 1:09:35

She was raised by her stepfather. They ate at Sammy Hagar's restaurant at the airport quite a bit.

Speaker 2 1:09:46

I'm not afraid to eat at Sammy Hagar's. That's right. A joke, a joke, oliver man, and you're just one of them. What's going on here? Yeah, that is brutal. I mean, you're like half Luke. You smell the bed after you're done.

Speaker 3 1:10:33

Yeah, and then half Jared Leto you. You're a singer and then you're with a girl. That's with a lot of other guys like let's.

Speaker 2 1:10:42

She's got a thing for saying she must be a 710 split.

Speaker 1 1:10:45

Oh man, she's got that heartache, that's right, oh my heart is frozen still as I try to find the way To forget her so long. She's out there somewhere now. Oh, she was hard, I think, from the day.

Speaker 3 1:11:19

I thought you organ in this.

Speaker 1 1:11:31

Frozen To forget you somehow, cause I know you're somewhere out there right now and don't.

Speaker 3 1:11:44

I'm better At that organ. It was A little AC under it, a broken up boy.

Speaker 1 1:12:06

Sing me a love song you want to. Yeah, I was born to love you. I was born to love you. What about that?

Speaker 2 1:12:14

Daria, I was born to love you. I was born to love you. What?

Speaker 1 1:12:16

about that. Daria, I was born to love you, but you were born to love me first.

Speaker 3 1:12:22

Does this give you a smile. I don't like to smile unless I have a reason. You said it the last time, that was a great album.

Speaker 2 1:12:31

Yeah, good album. Hard to listen to at times if you're not in the right mental state. Yeah, good album. Hard to listen to at times If you're not in the right mental state, you know.

Speaker 3 1:12:39

Yeah, a little too much the crooning. I don't know. He could have tightened it up a little bit. He was coming out with a new album. Who knows how big that next album would be, because maybe he had gotten the feedback. Maybe he was like, yeah, I agree I could tighten it up a little, less crooning, but more of the good stuff.

Speaker 2 1:12:58

Grace is defined as seemingly effortless beauty or charm of movement, form or proportion or a characteristic or quality pleasing for its charm or refinement Interesting.

Speaker 3 1:13:18

Well, I'm on pins and needles of your top three. Do you have. I mean, are you straight on that?

Speaker 2 1:13:23

I guess what's your number I'm going to go Last Goodbye because the intro was good it was you know it was just all right. I mean it's a song, but there's they're like the whole album's a breakup song yeah, you're right. So exactly, I like that iteration of the album, that of the breakup trifecta of songs, I guess yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 1:13:52

Um, I'm gonna say my number three is going to be dream brother. I love the tabla. I love, uh, yeah, it was just a smooth, it was smooth stuff, it went down. Well, loved it, nice my number three spoonful of sugar.

Speaker 2 1:14:04

Mojo pin your number two. Number two all the way up, you know, just put a pin on that one.

Speaker 3 1:14:12

Yes, yes, I loved it. Yep, my number two is Grace. Oh, okay, you know I'm going to the moon, clouds, yeah exactly. It was beautiful. I mean I could have gone, lover, you should have come, but I'm going to go with this. Forget Her was good, that very last song at the end. But yeah, Grace. Shout out to Gary Lucas. He wrote Grace and Mojo pin with jeff buckley, so that should be noted, given the fact that we have two songs there that we rank so high.

Speaker 3 1:14:44

Yeah, shout out to him what's your number one I'm going dream, brother, yeah dream big brother yeah, you know what?

Speaker 2 1:14:51

uh, you know talent cut short. But uh, yeah, he exhibits all the different. What a talent Cut short.

Speaker 3 1:14:55

But yeah, he exhibits all the different attributes that you want from a creator in that song I agree.

Speaker 2 1:15:05

You wonder what could have yeah.

Speaker 3 1:15:06

Yeah, my number one is Mojo Pin. I liked what put it over the top was that I did like that Zeppelin thing where he speeds up the pitch Like da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Yeah, that was kind of cool and then it kind of comes back. Memory is a fire. It goes up and down in a good way. Some people, some songs don't do it well, but this one does. For that reason, mojo Penn's number one. Okay, yeah, excellent, this one does.

Speaker 2 1:15:34

For that reason, mojo pins Number one. Okay yeah, excellent song Awesome.

Speaker 3 1:15:36

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