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- #1
- Posted: 04/24/2020 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#3417): Grace by Jeff Buckley
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Today's album of the day
Grace by Jeff Buckley (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1994.
Country: 
Overall rank: 60
Average rating: 84/100 (from 1675 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Mojo Pin
2. Grace
3. Last Goodbye
4. Lilac Wine
5. So Real
6. Hallelujah
7. Lover, You Should've Come Over
8. Corpus Christi Carol
9. Eternal Life
10. Dream Brother
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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craola
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- #2
- Posted: 04/24/2020 20:05
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this is a great album.
one question i have that i've never seen answered: what's the deal with the letter "a" in grace on the cover? almost looks like someone merged a "t" and an "m".
i guess it's just the font used (https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/solotype/brussels/normal/), but the a is knocked out, and it's kind of a trip.
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DommeDamian
Imperfect, sensitive Aspie with a melody addiction
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Age: 24
Location: where the flowers grow. 
- #3
- Posted: 04/24/2020 22:47
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| craola wrote: | this is a great album.
one question i have that i've never seen answered: what's the deal with the letter "a" in grace on the cover? almost looks like someone merged a "t" and an "m".
i guess it's just the font used (https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/solotype/brussels/normal/), but the a is knocked out, and it's kind of a trip. |
The a makes it unique, just like this album is; beautifully unique
My description on Grace, before Tim overtook it on my chart:
Grace is a lot of things, but one thing it isn't's colorful. The tight ten tracks, combines the same tone, which actually is fantastic. It wouldn't have worked that well, if it was more varied - so that's the point. Jeff really fits the tunes of hard and soft rock on Grace. You don't need to listen to more than the first 3 tracks, to know the rest of the album's tones. But it is worth of listening to it whole, as of many you'll still like some more than others. Grace is an audacious debut LP, filled with sweeping choruses, bombastic arrangements, searching lyrics, and above all, the richly textured voice of Buckley himself, which resembled a cross between Robert Plant, Van Morrison, and his father Tim. He's literally (and I mean literally) singing his soul out to you - that's the closest I can come to say anything about it, 'cause I'm speechless. Jeff was such a great musician, by hearing one of his original songs you can feel him, see his perfectionism, understand how a sensitive man he was. He reunited all that here in Grace.
Production, lyrics, the music itself is gold. He managed to make a record with something refreshing for a decade full of noise and Grunge everywhere. This album never gets old. 20 years passed and it feels it was released last month. If somebody asked me an album that defines rock (not like my favorite rock album, but the rock sound/as a genre), then Grace is by all means, one of the very first coming to mind. From the hard rhythms like the title track, and the melodic tear-weepers like the phenomenal cover of Hallelujah, to the gate bridge in So Real (you can also almost hear the inspiration that T. Yorke birthed The Bends with on here). Lilac Wine is a heart-cutting piece of genius (didn't wanna say heartbreaking, that sounds too thin), while Corpus Christi Carol is not far behind. An album that's as touching as it is atmospheric = timelessness. It does not lend itself to fad or fashion, it does not rely on social context or knowledge of the era in which it was produced to be appreciated. It is beyond all that. It will still be a classic album in 100 years time and its songs will still resonate with whoever hears it. When I think of Jeff Buckley's album, I think of how varied this album MIGHT be. Perhaps the most painful thing about my chart, is, that so many classic releases are ranked so low.. There's mainly/only because I still prefer ___(number of) albums. This is the type of LP's, that when I've listened to it, a blurred part of my intuition says, that it deserved a higher spot, like, the top forty or something. I would have felt much better, if the top 100 would be a top 10, where every spot was 10 albums... like tiers. That means this album would be #8th, which feels more real than #75th. That's how strong the sixth sense is for me 
One last notable thing; the fact that Dream Brother, as the song closing the LP, ends with 'dream asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over', you can interpret it as laying in the sand........at the bottom of the ocean. This was the only proper album, Jeff reached to make in lifetime, before he drowned in a river less than three years later. Man, coincidences about late artists' predicting their deaths sends just as many scary chills, as Jeff's vocal-performance on Grace does with emotional ones.
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HoldenM
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- #4
- Posted: 04/24/2020 23:34
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One of those legendary one-offs. Maybe Jeff Beck would've made better music. Maybe he would've disappointed. What we don't have to speculate is the quality of Grace, which is a masterpiece. Each track is haunting and huge, even in its most intimate moments. And while we almost never see covers on modern studio albums, Buckley doesn't need to further prove his cred as a writer. He does something pretty ballsy by recreating previously-written tracks. He's calling his shot as a musician, making them personal to his style and sensibilities. Moreover, the handful of covers he does choose are just as illustrative of himself as if he had come up with his own songs--think of the High Fidelity bit about creating mix tapes.
Anyway, great album. Glad it exists.
Track picks
1. Mojo Pin
2. Grace
4. Lilac Wine
5. So Real
6. Hallelujah
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CharlieBarley
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Age: 50
Location: Mount Olympus 
- #5
- Posted: 04/25/2020 02:53
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I agree with the above comments
Absolute classic album
Moody and magnificent yet really sensitive
Is Hallelujah the best cover of all time?
I think so
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Jimmy Dread
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Location: 555 Dub Street
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- #6
- Posted: 04/25/2020 06:33
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A ‘classic’ it may be, but it’s never, ever done anything for me. Remember when it came out and was keen to hear it, so took a trip down to Our Price to take full advantage of their listening facilities and couldn’t understand what all the fuss was about. And I still don’t, despite revisiting it on several occasions in the 25 years since.
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Marcfreak
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Location: Dorset
- #7
- Posted: 04/25/2020 08:59
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As per the poster above, for whatever reason, this one never really got me. Or I didn't get it.
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