Description
Tim Buckley – Goodbye and Hello – 180 Gram Vinyl Record
There is a strange quiet at the beginning of “No Man Can Find the War.” Tim Buckley gives each line room, and the arrangement makes the subject feel close even as the words keep asking where the violence can be found. It is a telling opening for a 1967 album that treats a folk song as something capable of holding unsettling sounds and images.
Buckley’s second album moves quickly into different territory. “Carnival Song” has the gait of a procession, while “Pleasant Street” pulls toward a darker, more insistent rhythm. His voice can stay in a narrow space and suddenly climb out of it, which makes the changes of mood feel like part of the performance rather than a change in scenery between songs.
“I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain” is the most forceful performance on the first side. The strumming builds pressure around the vocal, and Buckley sings as though he is trying to get the whole story out in one breath. On the other side, “Once I Was” finds a more restrained way to return to memory and regret.
The title song stretches the album’s interest in contrasting images into a long, carefully arranged piece. Its turns give Buckley enough room for something almost theatrical. “Morning Glory” then closes the record at a smaller scale, putting the listener back in a room with a voice and a story that can be grasped in a few minutes.
Brand new, never played and still sealed in the factory plastic
Track Listing
- A1 — No Man Can Find the War
- A2 — Carnival Song
- A3 — Pleasant Street
- A4 — Hallucinations
- A5 — I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain
- B1 — Once I Was
- B2 — Phantasmagoria in Two
- B3 — Knight-Errant
- B4 — Goodbye and Hello
- B5 — Morning Glory
