Tim Buckley
by Tim Buckley

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Tim Buckley by Tim Buckley
Year: 1966
Release date: 1966-10-00
Overall rank: 4,776th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 123 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1966 (41st)
Award Top albums of of the 1960s (381st)
Award Best albums of all time (4,776th)

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Tim Buckley bestography

Tim Buckley is ranked 6th best out of 15 albums by Tim Buckley on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Tim Buckley is Goodbye And Hello which is ranked number 882 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,966.

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Overall rank: 4,776th | 1960s rank: 381st | 1966 rank: 41st  Overall chart history
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73/100 (from 123 votes)
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 !		03/08/2026 20:51 ejiniestac  Ratings distribution  61666/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 25% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.3/100, a mean average of 72.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.2.


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From BestEverAlbums 07/06/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5365): By amirmishali
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From 12/12/2019 17:16 | #245629 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
A surprisingly good album. There are points where his youth shows but I thought it would be much more juvenile. Tim uses his accented voice like on Hello Goodbye and I prefer his more free vocals that started on Happy Sad but they're still fantastic vocals. He puts together some really nice melodies and you can occasionally get a glimpse at the vocal range that he would become known for. The songwriting is also pretty good, especially considering these are the words of a high-schooler. Buckley's 12-string sounds great ("Valentine Melody") but Beckett's electric guitars are superb on this. It's good enough to steal the show on some songs. "Strange Street Affair Under Blue" is my favorite. The first half is better than the second.
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From 01/13/2022 09:13 | #279243 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Phenomenal. This and his 2nd are so beautiful.
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From 08/08/2017 15:08 | #195701
An okay debut. Very Roy Orbison vocally but Buckley's best is definitely yet to come. (Edited)
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