I've always liked Jeff Buckley, but never loved him like many of my friends at the time (and still do). "Last Goodbye" is a fabulous song and his version of "Hallelujah" is great (although I think I like Rufus Wainwright's version better). I kind of feel, at least in the Boston area, that Buckley was more popular before he died ... I had a kind of "oh yeah, Jeff Buckley" reaction when I heard he died. Buckley is sort of an east coast Elliott Smith really, just with only 1 album and a bigger label.
Of course, I still blame Duncan Sheik. My friends and I had a running joke that Duncan Sheik was trying to take over Jeff Buckley's place in rock and his "assassination" was yet another piece in that puzzle...
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Erik Gonzalez said on May 29, 2007:
I've always liked Jeff Buckley, but never loved him like many of my friends at the time (and still do). "Last Goodbye" is a fabulous song and his version of "Hallelujah" is great (although I think I like Rufus Wainwright's version better). I kind of feel, at least in the Boston area, that Buckley was more popular before he died ... I had a kind of "oh yeah, Jeff Buckley" reaction when I heard he died. Buckley is sort of an east coast Elliott Smith really, just with only 1 album and a bigger label.
Of course, I still blame Duncan Sheik. My friends and I had a running joke that Duncan Sheik was trying to take over Jeff Buckley's place in rock and his "assassination" was yet another piece in that puzzle...