:: Tim Buckley - The Best Of

Tim Buckley

‘The Best of Tim Buckley’ is an expansive collection, spanning two decades, so make sure you have time to sit back and enjoy the ride. Buckley’s endlessly versatile voice sounds familiar but also strangely out of place, stretching up through the octaves unencumbered by time, place or gender. Somehow, his famous vocal idiosyncrasies seem emblematic of the hopeful but also nihilistic 1970s. The Stones rolled on, but the best ones got left behind. This collection attempts to strip away the mythology of the tragic figure of Buckley, but it’s hard to escape while listening to the lyrics of ‘Song To The Siren’; “should I stand amidst the breakers/Or should I lie with death my bride”…