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Buckleys fall from Grace continues – Music – Entertainment – theage.com.au

In my eyes, Jeff Buckley could never fall from Grace. The fact remains that the only album he released is one of the most amazing albums, and in my opinion the most amazing album, that has ever existed. For a Jeff Buckley fan it’s kind of tough to read an article like this without having a highly torn attitude. Although positive and lovingly nostalgic about Jeff Buckley, the author of this article writes about the mass of Jeff Buckley releases since his passing in 1997. Numerous live albums, DVDs, and the release of his unfinished second album, which he was unhappy with (he wanted to start it again), followed his amazing album, Grace. For the Jeff Buckley fan, these releases are yet another bit of Jeff we can listen to, and cling to. Yet perhaps his memory has been marred by the numerous releases that were unplanned by him, and surely opposed by Jeff Buckley “purists” – and if Jeff was still living now, I doubt anything we have heard since Grace, would have been released as it has been. I hope when people who aren’t fans listen to music by Jeff Buckley that isn’tfrom Grace (the original – I’m not talking about the legacy version or any other altered version), that they remember that his only intentional album was Grace. People like Dicko from Aus Idol can criticise Grace for whatever reasons, but the linked article points out – from respectable sources – a few reasons why it is such an amazing album. Although I sometimes think that it would’ve been better for Grace to be the only released album, I still regard Live at Sin-e as such an amazing work.

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