Goodbye and Hello [Import]

Tim Buckley//Goodbye and Hello [Import]

Track Listings

1. I Cant See You

2. Wings

3. Song Of The Magician

4. Strange Street Affair Under Blue

5. Valentine Melody

6. Arent You The Girl

7. Song Slowly Song

8. It Happens Every Time

9. Song For Janie

10. Grief In My Soul

11. She Is

12. Understand Your Man

13. No Man Can Find The War

14. Carnival Song

15. Pleasant Street

16. Hallucinations

17. I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
UK remastered two-on-one combines the late folk singer/songwriter's first two albums, 'Tim Buckley' (1966) & 'Goodbye & Hello' (1967). Includes new liner notes & rarely seen photos. 2001.

Tracks:

No Man Can Find The War
Carnival Song
Pleasant Street
Hallucinations
I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain
Once I Was
Phantasmagoria In Two
Knight-Errant
Goodbye And Hello
Morning Glory

Amazon.com

Before Tim Buckley got carried away with jazz rhythms in the '70s, he made profoundly moving folk-rock albums that showcased his stunning vocal range, thoughtful lyrics, and penchant for occasionally imbuing tracks with surprisingly soulful, non-blue-eyed grooves and infectious jangle-pop melodies. Goodbye and Hello, his second album (recorded in 1967 when he was only 20), runs the gamut. Here Buckley hints at the sensual howl that would blossom in the '70s ("I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain," "Pleasant Street," "Hallucinations"). While he goes into hippie-poet-deep-thinker mode on a few songs, the excellent folk-soul tracks win out. --Lorry Fleming

Customer Reviews:

A great disc.......2006-03-19

A great disc from Buckley's folksie period. "Once I Was," one of Buckley's best songs, is worth the price of admission by itself. Pure angst. Musically, this is a five-star disc. Downrated to four stars because of sound quality. Although never the world's greatest sounding disc even on LP, this disc sounds like it may be a generation or two removed from the master tapes, and would DEFINITELY benefit from a remastering job by one of the boutique audiophile lables like Audio Fidelity or Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs. Don't let that deter you though; this is a great disc, and a great introduction to Buckley for anyone who isn't already a convert.

You reel you feel you kneel down.......2005-11-13

Tim Buckley recorded quite a few albums and even his live recordings can't capture what it was like to actually see him perform live. Goodbye and Hello is in my estimation his finest studio album because it highlights his extraordinary vocal talent. His voice was like no other artist, at times powerful, sexy and angelic it defied the usual labels and stood alone.
This album would be worth owning just for the song Pleasant Street, but most of the songs are first rate and Once I Was is a heartbreaker.

so overrated.......2005-03-29

Is it me? Critics and now you lot give this album praise it simply doesn`t deserve. I love Tim Buckley, but this - in spite of two of his loveliest songs, Once I Was and Morning Glory, which represent two stars of my three-star rating - is mostly pseudo-poetic, musically angular stuff.
I`d suggest getting the mid-priced two-in-one of this and his wonderful debut album, and then look for Blue Afternoon, Happy Sad, Lorca - well, all the rest, really. Yes, even the much-maligned Sefronia and underrated Look at the Fool.

A LIGHT FROM THE 60s THAT STILL SHINES BRIGHTLY..........2004-01-25

There's no denying that some of the lyrics on this album apply specifically to the incredible era that was the 1960s - but have the values and beliefs they espoused so vibrantly faded into nonexistence? I don't think so. Emphasis shifts, forms of expression change - but the things about which Tim Buckley sang so eloquently on this recording are eternal: war and peace (both internal and external); love and loneliness; the strife that is born between generations. The 60s era was full of bands and songwriters wrestling with these subjects, striving to help us all deal with them - and more than a few who tagged along for the ride with the hope of making a buck out of the movements that arose around them. Buckley - and his (then-) lyricist Larry Beckett were, as artists, reaching desperately and honestly for something higher, not for any accolades that might come their way as a result, but to latch onto something they could use to pull themselves (and the rest of us) up to a higher level. Tim Buckley succeeded in this more than most of his contemporaries.

The musicianship on the album is superb. Buckley has moved to a 12-string acoustic guitar, the instrument which was soon to become his main choice. Lee Underwood is along on lead guitar - and I can't say too much about Lee's contributions to Tim's music (and his life - he was one of Buckley's closest friends). Carter C. C. Collins makes his first recorded appearance on congas - another musician who would become a close friend to Buckley, as well as a frequent, welcome accompanist. Jim Fielder is along on bass on some of the tracks. Most of the rest of the musicians, while talented, are studio players brought into the recording by producer Jerry Yester - Elektra recognized Tim's potential, and wanted a fairly slick, commercial recording. It turned out pretty good from all angles - but it would be the last bow to commerciality that Buckley would make.

The album begins with a song dealing with the horrors of war - it was, after all, the era of Vietnam - but in the case of `No man can find the war', the lyrics suggest that the real war is not in the jungle, but in the minds of men and women: `Is the war across the sea? Is the war behind the sky? Have you each and all gone blind? Is the war inside your mind?' It is only when we fight - or at least make an attempt to do so - the battles that rage within us that real peace will come. `Carnival song', the next track (written by Buckley alone) speaks to hypocrisy and truth, and does so more directly than many of the more popular tunes of the day that addressed this subject. `Pleasant Street' (also written by Buckley alone) is one of his finest tunes - `Hallucinations' is just that - the melody, lyrics and arrangement combine to produce a gently swirling maelstrom that draws the listener into the images spun by the singer.

The next track, `I never asked to be your mountain', is in my opinion one of the best things Buckley ever wrote. In it, he addresses his first wife, speaking openly and poetically of the forces that pull two people together and drive them apart. His 12-string guitar thunders out the rhythm on this track, drawing the other musicians along with him into one of the most powerful pieces he ever recorded. At the end of the song, the listener aches to hear Tim cry out `...please come home...' over and over - this is piercing music straight from the heart, which is where all of Tim's songs originated.

`Once I was' follows, a song that speaks gently of love and change - a beautiful song. `Phantasmagoria in two' (which Tim and Lee called `The fiddler'), is a deceptively progressive step in Tim's songwriting - giving free rein to the meaning at the heart of the song, Tim abandons completely attempting to force the words into rhyme. The effect is perfect - Tim's lyrics are so moving, combined with his amazing voice and the melody, that it almost goes unnoticed, form being overshadowed (as it should be) by substance. `Knight-errant' is next - a nod to the romantic attitudes of the era that uses the images of a knight and his lady nicely, if a bit naïvely.

`Goodbye and hello' is Larry Becket's magnum opus - at least among the songs he co-wrote with Tim. It's quite a piece of poetry, with two stanzas existing side-by-side in several places (and sung that way by Tim) - the fact that Tim was able to take this challenge up and write the melody for it says a lot about his skills as well as his determination. This is a tune that, due to its complexity, was only performed live on a couple of occasions. It borders on being overwrought - but it stands nevertheless as a valuable document.

`Morning glory' ends the set - this was covered more popularly by Blood Sweat and Tears - a gentle song that is deceptive in its depth, dealing with the romantic notion (held by the `character' who sings it) that simply by asking a hobo about his life, that life can be experienced by the questioner. The hobo makes his point by his refusal to tell his stories to the singer - and Beckett's lyrics make the point as well, that experience is the greatest teacher.

This is an amazingly good album - a wonderful example of Tim's most `accessible' work - and one which will shine for many years to come. Once you've dipped into the rich well that is Tim Buckley's voice, allow yourself to become adventurous and move on into his jazz explorations (on HAPPY SAD and BLUE AFTERNOON), then on to his more experimental works (LORCA and STARSAILOR, which he considered to be his greatest achievement). It's a journey you won't regret.

One of Buckley's best.......2003-07-01

This, of course, was Tim's second album for Elektra, and where his first seemed a bit tentative at times (though still good), Goodbye and Hello shows Buckley more in command of his songwriting and singing talents. Favourite tracks: "Phantasmagoria in Two," "Morning Glory" (an oft-covered classic, but few have done it as well as Tim did originally), "Hallucinations" and "I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain." The title cut itself seems a little overproduced or overarranged at times, but that in no way detracts from the overall excellence of the album. For a true masterpiece, however, Tim's next album, Happy Sad, comes highly recommended. Goodbye and Hello is, nonetheless, a fine companion piece. Get them both, as these are *the* Tim Buckley albums to have.

Average customer rating:

a little misleading

Tim Buckley/Goodbye and Hello
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Manufacturer: Wea/Elektra
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005OKOV
Release Date: 2001-10-29

Tracks:

I Can't See You
Wings
Song of the Magician
Strange Sweet Affair Under Blue
Valentine Melody
Aren't You the Girl
Song Slowly Song
It Happens Every Time
Song for Janie
Grief in My Soul
She Is
Understand Your Man
No Man Can Find the War
Carnival Song
Pleasant Street
Hallucinations
I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain
Once I Was
Phantasmagoria in Two
Knight-Errant
Goodbye and Hello
Morning Glory

Album Description

UK remastered two-on-one combines the late folk singer/songwriter's first two albums, 'Tim Buckley' (1966) & 'Goodbye & Hello' (1967). Includes new liner notes & rarely seen photos. 2001.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Edition of Two Original Albums from the Late Singer Songwriter Combined on a Single Compact Disc Edition.

Customer Reviews:

a little misleading.......2007-01-26

This is not really the "Goodbye and Hello" album, but one that combines that album and Buckley's self-titled debut. By now, when I listen to it, I always skip ahead to track 13, "No Man Can Find the War," which actually begins the "Goodbye and Hello" album. While I'm not a fan of the first album (the first 12 tracks here), I'm a huge Tim Buckley fan, and while "Goodbye and Hello" may not be his most adventurous work (that would begin with his next album, "Happy Sad"), and some of it, especially the title track and "Knight Errant," is more than a little dated and tiresome, his incredible voice carries the day, especially on the four best songs here, most of all "Pleasant Street" (an awesome song, powerfully rendered here), but also (in my order of preference) Once I Was," "Phantasmagoria" and "Hallucinations." "Morning Glory" and "I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain" are pretty damn good too! Tim Buckley was simply the best singer of the singer-songwriters of his day. I can't praise him enough. So I'll stop now.