Worth checking out in Music: Jeff Buckley

November 24, 2009 2:10 PM

Jeff Buckley sings on a song in Music. I kid you not. And it is awesome.

Wanted to point it out, as otherwise people might miss it, even though I know this makes everything I have ever contributed to Music seem pale and small like a wet and lonely child.

posted by Astro Zombie to MetaFilter-related at 2:10 PM (15 comments total)

This is going to make my wife so very happy. She is a huge Jeff Buckley fan.
posted by quin at 2:21 PM on November 24, 2009

Oh my god, that's so great.
posted by rtha at 2:21 PM on November 24, 2009

There's a party in the barn and Metafilter is invited!
posted by mannequito at 2:30 PM on November 24, 2009

"worth checking out" ... to say the least.

So awesome.
posted by Lutoslawski at 2:34 PM on November 24, 2009

holy shit
posted by Optimus Chyme at 2:36 PM on November 24, 2009

Oh please, yet another posthumously-released Jeff Buckley hillbilly hootenanny about alien abduction? If I had a nickel for every time I've heard one of those. . . .
posted by FelliniBlank at 3:06 PM on November 24, 2009 [2 favorites]

But this one is different because it has Jeff Buckley on fake theremin.
posted by Jaltcoh at 3:10 PM on November 24, 2009 [2 favorites]

That is, believe it or not, exactly what I needed to hear. Not that I expected somebody to say, "Yo hey, you look like you really could do with hearing a dead famous singer who's the son of another dead famous singer do a piss-take on alien abductions and mountain music all in one go," but as it turns out apparently I did.
posted by ardgedee at 3:12 PM on November 24, 2009 [2 favorites]

Hallelujah! So can we call him MeFi's own Jeff Buckley now?
posted by Effigy2000 at 5:01 PM on November 24, 2009

So who is this Buckley dude?
posted by blue_beetle at 7:11 PM on November 24, 2009

In case you're not kidding, blue_beetle, he's this guy's son, and you've probably heard his cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" in an indie movie somewhere. The tragic accidental drowning just as his talent was being widely recognized cemented the heartbreakingness that accompanies pretty much anything related to him online.
posted by mediareport at 8:13 PM on November 24, 2009

It's pretty much the definitive Hallelujah, better that the shmarmy 80's Cohen version.

I was absolutely gutted when I heard about Jeff Buckley's death. We were parking the car in the underground lot on the way to our whatever-month maternity checkup for our first kid Olivia, and Kim Hughes on CFNY here in Toronto was going on and on about this drowning in the Mississippi and I just froze when she said Jeff, because we were all over his music at that point in our lives. Still cassettes, over and over and over we would play the one we were into at the time. We were lucky enough to have seen him a few times; the best was at Trinity St. Paul Church on Bloor, down the street from where we are now. A spectacular show. His death was a tragedy, for me, in the 90's. So much more so than any Cobain suicide cop-out.
posted by chococat at 9:47 PM on November 24, 2009

It's pretty much the definitive Hallelujah, better that the shmarmy 80's Cohen version.

YOU TAKE THAT BACK RIGHT NOW
posted by Rangeboy at 12:01 PM on November 25, 2009 [2 favorites]

Yeah, take that back, chococat. Everyone knows this is the definitive version.
posted by umbú at 1:03 PM on November 25, 2009 [3 favorites]

Everyone knows this is the definitive version.

Ha! I can't believe I missed this one!
posted by ageispolis at 7:07 PM on November 27, 2009