When I was in college, Jeff came and played at my college. His band didn’t show up, and so he just sung solo, outside, in a little grove in front of our library. It was the most amazing vocal performance I’ve ever seen. A month or so later, he was gone.

@Debbie338

3 жыл бұрын

Wow. What a wonderful/sad memory.

@rknighton2005

3 жыл бұрын

Where was this

@konstantinpobedonotsev5589

3 жыл бұрын

@@rknighton2005 Hendrix College, a small school in Arkansas

@212mochaman

3 жыл бұрын

😭😭😭. I didnt become a music fan until 1999. Jeff Buckley, to me, is teaching god how to sing in heaven

@lasthope3237

2 жыл бұрын

What song did he sing

"I don't want to be remembered, I hope music is remembered" - Jeff Buckley

@lucy45397

3 жыл бұрын

🙏🏻

@ashleydixon4613

Жыл бұрын

It will be, Jeff. It damn sure will be.

I tried singing this song to my dog; he tilted his head and left the room in a hurry. I yelled after him "Beth told me to embrace the ugliness of singing!"

@HIMfn20

4 жыл бұрын

lol love this comment

@WhatIsDeafIsDead76

3 жыл бұрын

I laughed loudly with this comment.

@phoenixzohar

3 жыл бұрын

@@WhatIsDeafIsDead76 I'm glad I could add some humor to your day. :)

@WhatIsDeafIsDead76

3 жыл бұрын

@@phoenixzohar I just did the same to my cat, she didn't like it one bit :)

@phoenixzohar

3 жыл бұрын

@@WhatIsDeafIsDead76 that's hilarious!

This is one of those songs that remains immortal.

@growingmelancholy8374

3 жыл бұрын

RIP

"It's like someone inbetween heaven and hell". That sounds like the perfect artistic interpretation of this song, of what love can sometimes be.

It's not meant to be beautiful, it's meant to make you feel something!

It's always hard to listen to Jeff, especially this song, after countless time seeing him like this at a tiny place here in New York. But it's so beautiful and I'm so glad to see you reacting to him.

@MojoPin1983

4 жыл бұрын

@Gale Miller You mean this place?: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iqCor7NpipSfdrg.html

@paulascorner

4 жыл бұрын

You are so lucky! I was born the year he passed, and I absolutely love him! He's my favorite artist, the only one that follows in his sweetness and softness yet feral music is Hozier. Much love darling 🌹

@gfmiller

4 жыл бұрын

@@MojoPin1983 Yes! I can see that was in 1992 and it's more than likely that if that was a Monday night I was there. It was just an assumption that that's where we would be on Mondays.

@bruzie900

3 жыл бұрын

Live at Sin-é (the Legacy edition) is one of my most favourite albums. So good to hear him so raw.

I feel pain flows frequently through his songs and it hits that small part of your soul you don't let anyone else see!

Jeff's voice is akin to the blues... it's like laughing and crying at the same time... ✌💙

Your reaction and analysis of this song did it perfect justice. Just pure, raw beauty!

Being a singer that uses "vocal gymnastics" is walking a fine line between sounding talented or pretentious. Jeff 's live performance of his song "Mojo Pin" at the Glastonbury Festival proves he's just plain talented. Look it up here on youtube.

Oh my. Jeff and Beth in one video? I think my heart might burst.

He did some very odd things in this version that none of the bajillion artists who covered his original, more traditional take did. He had that sustained flat note in the third chorus, then the growling HALLELUJAHs, and they were ugly. (Gosh, I swear I just heard someone mention that he had a beautiful voice and technique, but he wasn’t afraid to sound ugly at times to reflect an emotion. Genius, whoever that was). What I noticed after listening to this is that the first two verses were the singer recounting to himself how he fell for this girl, and how he was different for it (tied to the kitchen chair (life together) and she cut his hair (as Delilah did, taking away Samson’s great strength (ie, the narrator’s previous unattached freedom)). At the end of the second chorus is where he takes off on that long, beautiful swooping line of high notes. The third verse, he shifts from reliving how they met and were together, and now he’s singing to her, sort of an “I’ll be just fine without you, because ‘I’ve been here before’ and I was good, and your flag on my marble arch is gone, but love isn’t some stupid victory march, so go on, and see if I care.” That’s the chorus with the long dissonant flat note. That’s also where he goes from “I’ll be fine without you” to being more aggressive toward her memory. “All I ever learned from love was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you”=dump them before they hurt you.” But his real anger is in those rougher parts. The rest of the time, the love in his voice belies the spiteful things he’s saying to her. At the end, when he adds that “it’s not her ____” it’s in the beautiful voice, and I couldn’t hear what he was playing on the guitar, but he was moving up the neck, presumably playing something beautiful in tribute to this woman he had to admit to still loving. That’s just my take, but I’d never noticed the changes in narrative before. You were right (as always) in that he isn’t afraid to break out the ugly to emphasize a point. I think he wrung more emotion out of this song than anyone else I’ve heard. (Sorry this is so long! Your analysis was spot-on, though)

@dannyj2571

4 жыл бұрын

He had just sang a full set so his voice was probably a bit tired too. This was the last song he performed that night

@Studio44B

4 жыл бұрын

Daniel James He had a gift. I imagine this song is emotionally powerful for an artist to sing normally, but to do this interpretation at the end of a set is miraculous. I hadn’t known that it was last. Thanks for pointing it out.

"..take the audience on a journey..." Simply brilliant.

Such a thoughtful reaction to Jeff Buckley, thank you.

@SuperDflower

3 жыл бұрын

Who knew a sound could express so much? Beautifully put but to be honest, you did, you do! Your take on music is so valuable and interesting...Thank you so much for your wonderful work. I can’t tell you how enjoyable it is to watch videos like yours during this dark and insecure time. Music transcends everything

Jeff was such a lovely, talented person.

He died in my hometown Memphis. May 29, 1997. Was totally heartbroken. He was such a talent

@mackeydirk8643

Жыл бұрын

I discovered his music after he was already gone.....he was one the rare artists that I felt truly devastated by his death....I knew we lost so much great music when he left us.....what a talent.

Jeff seemed to find a different meaning in this each version I have heard of his. It's also one of the reasons I keep coming back to this song. His weren't performances, they were emotional avalanches. This one is pure desperation- trying to hold on to the beauty in a relationship that has been destroyed, likely at least partially by himself- or at least that's what it sounds like to me. Interestingly, It's been reported that Leonard Cohen had dozens of verses to this song, ones that changed with his mood, before the set we commonly hear became the settled song. Maybe it can be interpreted in so many ways because the lyrics were derived from so many different moods?

Jeff was one of those incredible talents that left us too soon...

There's a definite Samson-and-Delilah reference in there. The pain of betrayal, of loss.

@Pulpfictionbuff

4 жыл бұрын

It’s about King David giving in to temptation and falling in love with a married woman - Bathsheba.

Buckley meant a lot to Chris Cornell, and Cornell wrote "Wave Goodbye" after Buckley's death and dedicated it to him. I'd love to see you react to it, or anything from Cornell's first solo album, Euphoria Morning.

Even though Jeff tried as hard as he could to distance himself from the shadow of, and comparisons with his father, it was from him that he inherited what is probably the most remarkable part of his genius - the uncanny ability to bend and shape his voice beyond the humanly possible for the purposes of artistic expression. He never knew him, yet he was haunted by his specter relentlessly - and it amply showed in his unique and timeless art.

@george474747

3 жыл бұрын

I would LOVE to hear Beth do a Tim Buckley video... There's a great live version of Song to The Siren that would work perfectly. I'm not sure Tim Buckley isn't the greatest singer in the history of popular music.

@elkevinski

3 жыл бұрын

He did met his father once, though. His father didn't seemed to care much for him, instead he wanted more his career... that's why Jeff grew up with a lot of resentment towards his memory. I don't think Tim ever thought what would become of Jeff. Such a legendary singer just like him lol It's such a strange story this one of Father & Son...

"playing with the quiet is so important" You're absolutely right, but dynamics are dead nowadays in pop music. The beat has to be a droning sound, and even old records are remastered with less dynamic range. But you can't appreciate the sound without the silence.

@el34glo59

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Dynamics were back in the 90s. Big time. Now gave way to morons

@phacus

3 жыл бұрын

The so called "Loudness War" has been around for a long time: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war "Going quiet is so important" as so "Going quiet requires talent". I haven't read about this in a while but it kinda feels like engineers, producers - looking at you, Rick Rubin - are pushing this to - in some degree - test the limits. As soon as people start to complain, maybe they can change this view. Fun fact: "Audiophiles" use Rage Against The Machine self titled album, the song "Take The Power Back", to test high end stereos. medium.com/@russellprosound/take-the-power-back-deep-analysis-a50c4bc9ede3

@jail2634

3 жыл бұрын

Isn't there a quote by Mozart that the one of the most important thing in music is silence. Holds so true after hundreds of years

Jeff was such an amazing artist, his open d tunings inspired so many guitarist that I listen to today. So good🙌🏻🤘🏻

His duet with Elizabeth Fraser, All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun, is beautiful. Never officially released, but the demo was leaked. And it's amazing.

@missstorrm

4 жыл бұрын

I love this song!

@TheAstronomyFloyd

3 жыл бұрын

Nice to know that, she’s from my hometown. Nice to see we have some popular culture 😊

@TheColdrush22

2 жыл бұрын

Soooooo true.

@indierockyhockey

Жыл бұрын

Yes!!

11:13 when he said " Hallelujah baby, until you are nothing" ...I felt that...its like when you hate the fact that you love someone because its not the right person to love...like toxic love you can't control

His emotions always out there, not afraid to show them. What a contrast here, just him & guitar with Last Goodbye and it's buildup soaring to his first note. My favorite.

Jeff passed away swimming in the Mississippi river. I wish someone had warned him that many have perished in those muddy waters. Several have died this year in fact. Perhaps, thinking it is a way to beat the heat whilst having a bit of fun. I remember him each time I look at this mighty river. Thanks for letting more people know about his unique talent.

Great! Jeff Buckley was such an amazing musician. You should react to his father Tim Buckley, he's actually my favourite artist.

It's a small thing but I love whenever he says "cold" , it sounds so powerful but somehow broken

This was my grandma's favorite song and it played during her funeral, this went from beautiful to emotional song... it's been 10 years soon I was 16 and I still miss her, I would've love to have her nowadays and not only as a child as I could've had more important conversations with her. Care about your grandparents folks, just a call will cheer them up so they don't feel abandonned and useless. RIP Jeff B.

@indierockyhockey

Жыл бұрын

I'm sorry for your loss. You are blessed to have had such a beautiful person in your life 💚💚💚

This is taken from the Live in Chicago DVD which is an amazing document of an artist taking full flight. He does everything from Hallelujah to a great (and loud) cover of Kick Out the Jams (with Brother Angry Dave) and everything in between. Highly, highly recommended.

Now you have to do the 'Myles Kennedy performs "Hallelujah" with Jeff Buckley's Fender Telecaster' reaction! Jeff was the biggest inspiration for Myles, his version of Buckley's Hallelujah is remarkable!

Wonderful reaction, Beth! As always your explanations and the way you share your interpretation are very welcome.

I did see him way, way back in 94" In Austin, Tx @ a record store. I had never heard of him and was walking with my buddy a little commotion outside with some rather beautiful. That being said, wow man, I have never heard anyone like him before or since. It's hard to pick who's your favorite singer or musician, however I was completely impressed with his singing, like she says he was not afraid to use his voice and I, myself just surrendered to this new dude on the scene, like when I saw SRV one time in the 80's and Jaco Pastorious one time in the early 80's. You never forget seeing these people your whole life cause they're extraordinary.

@lasthope3237

2 жыл бұрын

What was he singing

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3 жыл бұрын

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3 жыл бұрын

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3 жыл бұрын

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3 жыл бұрын

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Myles Kennedy covers this frequently. He has some similar sounds to Jeff. He recently sang this song and actually played Jeff Buckley's guitar!

He was a genius.

I needed this, thank you!, I love Jeff

Love your videos!!! You're the best!

This my favorite til now. Thank you Beth. Love from Argentina 🇦🇷 💛

I could listen to this song on repeat for ever

Lover, You Should Have Come Over, and What Will You Say have always been my favorite 2 recordings from this concert. The whole show is brilliant. Maybe you should do a watch party of the whole concert and talk about the different things he does?

Beautiful performance by Jeff, one of his best lives. So raw

I just started watching your videos and wow. You actually say so much and it makes so much sense and means so much. So many "react" youtubers just talk and talk but never truly SAY anything. You do. Seriously impressed.

That DVD was the bonus disc on Grace, and it used to get so much rotation, I swear I wore it out

I enjoy your reactions and explanation of techniques for my own personal use Beth.

Thanks for posting this incredible Leonard Cohen song. Even though we shared the same city (Montréal) Jeff Buckley's version is the one I discovered first. Through this song I discovered Jeff as a musician singer/songwriter. I was so moved by the tapestry of the way he sang this song. He really had a knack of taking the listener in his personal journey throughout the song. We lost him way too soon. You're really cool Beth. I love everything you do. I have learned plenty by listening to your comments. You're always spot on. All the best. 😁 💜 🇨🇦

@Studio44B

4 жыл бұрын

christian pomrenski A couple of years before Leonard Cohen left us, he performed “Hallelujah” live. It was so odd seeing the composer performing a song somebody else had made well-known. It was odder still because Jeff Buckley’s version is so simple: an incredible first tenor playing a a Telecaster and singing. Cohen had a good sized ensemble with him, and his voice is about three octaves deeper than God’s. The contrast was beautiful.

He does such an amazing job at this hauntingly beautiful song and he has such a unique story that I can't beat to hear anyone else but him cover this. There was a tone-deaf person who was aggressively over the top in his karaoke holding us all hostage when we went out and he cruelly insisted on butchering this song every time we went out to sing.

Everyone needs to listen to Malcolm Gladwell's podcast 'Revisionist History' - the episode titled 'Hallelujah' It's about the history of this song - and it is absolutely positively ABSURD. The song, originally written by Leonard Cohen, was never actually "finished", yet multiple artists "covered" it(essentially "finishing" it as necessary), including John Cale, who's cover was the inspiration for Buckley's cover, so Buckley was sort of covering Cale, not Cohen who struggled immensely with trying to write this... I'm sure you're getting an idea of how much of a cluster the history behind it is lol, it's absolutely unbelievable for what is such an utterly iconic song. And, yet, NO ONE knows about it.

I hadn't heard this version before. What an awesome interpretation. He is pushing boundaries and keeping it simple at the same time and conveying so much emotion. He really did own this song.

PAIN OF SALVATION - Hallelujah. You need to see this :-)

6:47 feel like Jeff could bend the universe, it was all about the music.

Love his dad singing Once I was. Two unreal singers

always goosebumps with Buckley!

I love his version of this song the very best. This is a song of disillusion, and lost love. The emotion comes through

Thank you, Beth!

Woow.. can’t hold back my tears

Hey Beth! Hugs from Brasil. Love your work

This version is so visceral and potent!

You did Jeff justice here

Jeff Buckley was Sia's idol - yes, and this is me finding a way to ask you to react again to SIA! Somersault - live at KCRW 2008, please!

I'm getting chills all the song

No one was interested in this song until Buckley covered it, and now it's murdered in every Karaoke bar and TV singing show.

Love your reviews. haunting song 🎵

I thought that the original performance could not become any better but , surprisingly , watching it from the eyes of a bright , compassionate , respectful and loving soul like Beth's is really adding more to it . It becomes a connection of two , an understanding . Jeff opening up his soul , all his fragility and vulnerability and a compassionate person responding to it with an almost equal openness and vulnerability . Becoming love . Beautiful !!! So many things are happening underneath Jeff's emotions and singing that is beautiful when analised respectfully and with love

I would love to hear you (Beth) cover this song or Sound of Silence. Your light angelic voice mixed with the melancholy lyrics would be absolutely brilliant.

Beth gets it. She gets it all. ❤️

Love the fact that you actually know what you're talking about, compositionally speaking.

this song, to me, is a song about the phases of a relationship in ts failing. you feel the rise of the relationship, at the beginning, but as the song goes on, you feel more desperation. feelings of grasping onto anything that's left. then you have acceptance of failure, but refusal to let it go. finally, you have the real acceptance of finality and having to let it go. this relationship has gone past the point of no return, and it's sad, but you know it's over. and the end is trying to understand how it was a profound experience, but that you have to lie through it and move on, as reticent as you might be to that letting go, now you are left with the healing process of moving on

Bruh. The intro with the "roar" whispering is golden🤣

Tear inducing

I LOVE this version and also the incredibly different KD Lang version. Both of them bleed on the stage but in totally different ways

Even Leonard Cohen rates this! Thats all the encouragement you need. P.S RIP Jeff.

Love both Tim and Jeff. ❤

He's certainly opened her eyes/ears to what the human voice can do. She's very good at describing how the singing voice and physiology works, but with Jeff Buckley you just revel in the emotion, beauty and his ability to express himself. When I was told that he drowned I was devastated.

Jeff Buckley means so much to me. I would much appreciate it if you did William it was really nothing by the smiths as they where his idol

@jameslaskowski9542

4 жыл бұрын

Mr. Marr idolized him perhaps

@erindaniel2310

4 жыл бұрын

So did Morrissey

@erindaniel2310

4 жыл бұрын

Jeff Buckley and the smiths was a very two way thing jeff idolise them and they did him (the smiths would have separated but yea) until his passing which put great sorrow on this world as I was a music icon

I am crying.

You gotta watch Jeff’s father, Tim Buckley, on performing “Dolphins” in 1974 on the Old Grey Whistle Test show. Amazing talent as well.

Love these Lena Paul reactions

I would love an analysis of John Garcia, no one sounds like him, he has a really unique voice. Songs like Thumb, Supa Scoopa and Mighty Scoop (Kyuss), or If Only Two (Unida) are great examples of his skils

I think that he actually achieves an amazing thing by singing/sculpting exactly what the lyrics is saying "Love is not a Victory March Its a call and broken Hallelujah" In the last 4th of this amazing song i hear his Hallelujahs sung in a broken manner thus giving melody and colour almost to love itself, pure poetry ⭐️

This song: I lived in nyc on 9-11. Through the island everyone was hurt. The evening I walked home on 9-11 after attending to my friends - I walked to my apartment. There were people sitting in their cars - doors open. Literally in dispair. The local radio station kept replaying this song. btw, Jeff and my brother were at the same school - GIT

Please do so real!!! a unique hook and beautiful song ") love when you react to jeff

You nailed his style

Beth you are amazing! I love your analysis and your positive attitude towards all kinds of singers. I would like you to react to Brittany Howard performing "Stay High" (or anything, really.) If you are not familiar with her, Brittany Howard is a fantastic modern soul singer who will knock your socks off!

@gamwisesamgee7400

2 жыл бұрын

Great song.

I dont remember watching this version before, cool change up. His version off the mystery white boy tour album was amazing as well and well worth checking out.

You should react to the K D Lang live version of this

@incensejunkie7516

3 жыл бұрын

I much prefer hers.

If you want to see another take on this song, check out KD Lang at the 2005 Juno awards in Winnipeg. I was there in the audience and it gave me the chills.

✨🕊✨ Exquisite. Immortal. Just as Trent Reznor’s Hurt became Johnny Cash’s song as soon as he’d sung it, this Leonard Cohen song’s already magnificent beauty became transcendent in Jeff’s hands. It became his song.

hi Beth! A sister ginger loves your show!

Every so often...this song somehow pops up on my radar (like now) and my world stops for 7mins or so... only song that has that power... not the cleanest song and isn't consistantly in my top 10 but somehow.... it does things to me... mentally... i think its the sheer rawness or something that am hardwired to ve hypnotized by.

Please react to tamino, he has the same vibes to jeff buckley..🙏🙏

@lyricaldelirium5448

3 жыл бұрын

Tamino does way less vocal gymnastics than he could. I think the most I have seen him do vocally is in the Ancienne Belgique live version of 'So It Goes', which is pretty spectacular. Plus as a bonus, in the second half of the song, suddenly Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood pops up out of nowhere, playing an awesome bassline. 😍 Love that video and performance.

Hi Beth, I've become a huge fan! I just subscribed. You are such a great teacher. If I had a teacher like you in school I would have had straight A's. Though I only sing in my car and when I'm playing guitar in my living room, I've already become a better singer from the first video I watched. Since then I have watched many more. How you break down a song and point out all the different techniques and how to get there is so clear and easily understood. I would love to get your opinion of the vocal style of simple minds lead singer Jim Kerr singing "Don't You forget about me". I think my vocal range and style is very close to his. I look forward to hearing your thoughts.

This is amazing version, by 2 kids from a brazilian TV show, they were ask to sing together and they improvise this duet. Jotta A got fame after this show

I love JB, obrigado guria! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

thank you

I heard the most gentle rain. It was BEAUTIFUL. 7.14

Everytime I listen to that version, i feel even more that Buckley's version is by far the superior one. In my opinion it is better than the original and every version after. He literally captivates the audience from the first note to end. In this almost eerie silence, you can hear a needle drop. One also never quite knows which sound he will produce next. It seems, that Jeff Buckley experiments with his voice live on stage! Even when the sound of is feels "ugly", it also gets obvious, that he does everything on purpose. Another great singer and even better performer, who sadly died way before his time. He never got the fame he well deserved.

You should react to Andrew Bird, I think you’d like him