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A little misleading

Peter Abbot | 01/26/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"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."