Grace
by Jeff Buckley

Grace by Jeff Buckley
Year: 1994
Release date: 1994-08-23
Overall rank: 54th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
84/100 (from 1,986 votes)
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Award Best album of 1994 (1st)
Award Top 10 albums of the 1990s (8th)
Award Top 100 albums of all time (54th)

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Overall rank: 54th | 1990s rank: 8th | 1994 rank: 1st
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2026 RasmVMost listened albums since I joined BEA61/100 -
2026matterhornriderTop 100 Music Albums of the 1990s41/10012
2026 PurplepashTop 88 Music Albums of 199425/884
2026fabm0All Time Pt 286/100 -
2026leniadTop 101-200 Greatest Music Albums31/100 -
2026Johnnyo100 / 100 songs59/59 -
2026lanadeleswiftTop 44 Music Albums of 199411/444
2026wizardalienTop 100 Music Albums of the 1990s26/10015
2026JohnnyoIndie albums of the year 1994 by Radio X17/25 -
2026JoshN125Top 100 Greatest Music Albums5/10096
2026 eclabTop 100 Greatest Music Albums70/10031
2026Musicbuff123Top 100 Greatest Music Albums59/10041
2026 sszwalbenestTop 100 Music Albums of the 1990s1/10020
2026FlapJackJoeyTop 29 Music Albums of the 1990s15/2910
2026chavaloricardinTop 100 Greatest Music Albums6/10092
2026 RomanelliTop 100 Music Albums of the 1990s77/1005
2026 MW19704UTop 100 Greatest Music Albums14/10084
2026tim0505Top 89 Music Albums of the 1990s8/8918
2026Johnnyomale solo artists (2 B deleted)30/99 -
2026JoshN125Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s2/10020
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 1,751
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 17,760
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84/100 (from 1,986 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 83.8/100, a mean average of 82.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.1.

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From 05/23/2026 06:14 | #314563
Sorry, but a dude covering Nina Simone is as wimpy as it gets. And the less said about his falsetto on "Corpus Christi", the better. But when he reigns in the excess, Buckley does have something special going with his vocals, quite unique. The covers were unnecessary, he should have been doing his own thing. This leads to another problem with the album: his songwriting was still a work in progress - though there are some fine moments which showed a lot of promise (but too few). It would have been great to see where Buckley could have gone from here.

Overall it's an okay album. I like a lot of the instrumentation, the arrangements are pretty good, and even the strings are all right. Best: "Last Goodbye", "Lover".
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From 11/07/2025 14:24 | #311590
TBC...

Album Rating:

Jeff Buckley (Grace - USA - Aug 94) - Grace

23.08.1994

The Paul Scholes of 90s music (underrated, it then became slightly overrated, before being re-evaluated). Haunts at times, like Bill Crouse.

1.Jeff Buckley (Grace - USA - Aug 94) - Mojo Pin 90
2.Jeff Buckley (Grace - USA - Aug 94) - Grace 94
3.Jeff Buckley (Grace - USA - Aug 94) - Last Goodbye 97
4.Jeff Buckley (Grace - USA - Aug 94) - Lilac Wine 78
5.Jeff Buckley (Grace - USA - Aug 94) - So Real 76
6.Jeff Buckley (Grace - USA - Aug 94) - Hallelujah 81
7.Jeff Buckley (Grace - USA - Aug 94) - Lover, You Should've Come Over 92
8.Jeff Buckley (Grace - USA - Aug 94) - Corpus Christi Carol 80
9.Jeff Buckley (Grace - USA - Aug 94) - Eternal Life 98
10.Jeff Buckley (Grace - USA - Aug 94) - Dream Brother 84

Bonus Tracks:

11.Jeff Buckley (Grace (Bonus) - USA - Aug 94) - Forget Her 91
12.Jeff Buckley (Grace (Bonus) - USA - Aug 94) - Dream Brother (Alternate Take) 83
13.Jeff Buckley (Grace (Bonus) - USA - Aug 94) - Lost Highway 70
14.Jeff Buckley (Grace (Bonus) - USA - Aug 94) - Alligator Wine 60
15.Jeff Buckley (Grace (Bonus) - USA - Aug 94) - Mama, You Been On My Mind 78
16.Jeff Buckley (Grace (Bonus) - USA - Aug 94) - Parchman Farm Blues / Preachin' Blues 70
17.Jeff Buckley (Grace (Bonus) - USA - Aug 94) - The Other Woman 78
18.Jeff Buckley (Grace (Bonus) - USA - Aug 94) - Kanga-Roo
19.Jeff Buckley (Grace (Bonus) - USA - Aug 94) - Shudder To Think - I Want Someone Badly
20.Jeff Buckley (Grace (Bonus) - USA - Aug 94) - Eternal Life (Road version)
21.Jeff Buckley (Grace (Bonus) - USA - Aug 94) - Kick Out The Jams (Live at Columbia Records)
22.Jeff Buckley (Grace (Bonus) - USA - Aug 94) - Dream Brother (Nag Champa Mix)
23.Jeff Buckley (Grace (Bonus) - USA - Aug 94) - Strawberry Street (Live at Knitting Factory)

Ranked in order of preference:

* Jeff Buckley (Grace - USA - Aug 94) - Eternal Life 98
* Jeff Buckley (Grace - USA - Aug 94) - Last Goodbye 97
* Jeff Buckley (Grace - USA - Aug 94) - Grace 94
* Jeff Buckley (Grace - USA - Aug 94) - Lover, You Should've Come Over 92
* Jeff Buckley (Grace (Bonus) - USA - Aug 94) - Forget Her 91
* Jeff Buckley (Grace - USA - Aug 94) - Mojo Pin 90
* Jeff Buckley (Grace - USA - Aug 94) - Dream Brother 84
* Jeff Buckley (Grace (Bonus) - USA - Aug 94) - Dream Brother (Alternate Take) 83
* Jeff Buckley (Grace - USA - Aug 94) - Hallelujah 81
* Jeff Buckley (Grace - USA - Aug 94) - Corpus Christi Carol 80
* Jeff Buckley (Grace - USA - Aug 94) - Lilac Wine 78
* Jeff Buckley (Grace (Bonus) - USA - Aug 94) - Mama, You Been On My Mind 78
* Jeff Buckley (Grace (Bonus) - USA - Aug 94) - The Other Woman 78
* Jeff Buckley (Grace - USA - Aug 94) - So Real 76
* Jeff Buckley (Grace (Bonus) - USA - Aug 94) - Parchman Farm Blues / Preachin' Blues 70
* Jeff Buckley (Grace (Bonus) - USA - Aug 94) - Kanga-Roo
* Jeff Buckley (Grace (Bonus) - USA - Aug 94) - Shudder To Think - I Want Someone Badly
* Jeff Buckley (Grace (Bonus) - USA - Aug 94) - Eternal Life (Road version)
* Jeff Buckley (Grace (Bonus) - USA - Aug 94) - Kick Out The Jams (Live at Columbia Records)
* Jeff Buckley (Grace (Bonus) - USA - Aug 94) - Dream Brother (Nag Champa Mix)
* Jeff Buckley (Grace (Bonus) - USA - Aug 94) - Strawberry Street (Live at Knitting Factory)
* Jeff Buckley (Grace (Bonus) - USA - Aug 94) - Lost Highway 70
* Jeff Buckley (Grace (Bonus) - USA - Aug 94) - Alligator Wine 60
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Rating:  
90/100
From 06/01/2025 20:08 | #309193
A hauntingly beautiful recording that on several occasions feels spiritual. An angelic voice leaving its testimony before leaving us far too soon. I only skip "eternal life" as it's so out of place and IMO isn't consistent with the rest of the album.
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90/100
From 12/05/2024 05:58 | #306374
An amazing album. Only drawback is tracks 8-10 feel disconnected and not very well tied in to the rest. "Lover, You Should Have Come Over" is an amazing emotional peak. "Eternal Life" is a stampeding, grunge-esque testimony against hate and murder, albeit not quite fitting the album's narrative. Jeff Buckley hits it out of the park with his first and regrettably only release.
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90/100
From 11/19/2023 00:04 | #300027
Beautiful voice, some production risks have been taken and most of them paid off, wonderful mixture of post-rock with folk and singer-songwriter music. Hallelujah is a stunning cover, better than original. my favorites also include Grace, Last Goodbye, Dream Brother and Lover You Should've Come Over. Corpus Christi Carol and Eternal Life feel like they're out of place here, but overall amazing album (also additional track Forget Her is really worth checking out).
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Rating:  
95/100
From 11/16/2023 22:50 | #300004
Il disco del MIGLIOR CANTANTE che la musica rock abbia mai visto, una voce che anche stando a basso regime è in grado di far tremare i muri. Difficilmente un disco che contiene tre cover viene considerato così, ma questo non è il caso di Grace...queste tre tracce sono state completamente ridisegnate da Jeff e la sua fantastica band per diventare brani suoi a tutti gli effetti. Per non parlare della Telecaster...quel maledetto suono di Telecaster che mai più nella storia si fonderà con una voce così unica.
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Rating:  
85/100
From 08/31/2022 03:37 | #289093
Solid album
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95/100
From 06/16/2022 22:07 | #286443
Undeniably one of the best of all time 9/10
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90/100
From 04/13/2022 15:34 | #284175
Stunning. Stark. Heartbreaking. It is unbelievable that Grace is a debut album as Buckley sounds so mature and cultured as if he had been around for decades plying his trade. The album takes huge risks too and they always pay off. One of the greatest.
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85/100
From 03/14/2022 18:18 | #282832
A beautiful album but some of the songs have some compositions choices that are not my favorite style choices, sudden changes in volume and tone. Buckley's voice is fantastic but in some songs the vocal acrobatics are a bit baffling and almost go over the top. The album also is not totally consistent in mood (eg Eternal Life is a song like from a different album)
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