Tim Buckley - Song to the Siren
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- (Monkees TV Show 1968)
Long afloat on shipless oceans
I did all my best to smile
'Til your singing eyes and fingers
Drew me loving to your isle
And you sang
Sail to me, sail to me
Let me enfold you
Here I am, here I am
Waiting to hold you
Did I dream you dreamed about me ?
Were you hare when I was fox ?
Now my foolish boat is leaning
Broken lovelorn on your rocks
For you sing
'Touch me not, touch me not
Come back tomorrow
Oh my heart, oh my heart
Shies from the sorrow'
I am puzzled as the oyster
I am troubled as the tide
Should I stand amid your breakers ?
Or should I lie with death my bride ?
Hear me sing
'Swim to me, swim to me
Let me enfold you
Here I am, here I am
Waiting to hold you'
"Did I dream you dreamed about me?"
I think that's one of the most deeply emotional lines ever written.
Tim didn’t write that line or the song. Larry Beckett did.
@@4Naturalgreen I don't think that is being questioned in any way
@@erniesings6855 it’s Tim Buckley performing the song here, not Jeff Buckley
@@thaumaston7 It's brain damage responding to my comment, not schliesmann
Messiah - Temple of Dreams (1992) That's were I first heard that line.
Robert Plant described this song as the most beautiful ever written
oh I'm so agree with him !
He's right.
Robert plant has great taste!
TOTALLY AGREÈ, WITH ROBERT PLANT, TOO.
A MAGNIFICENT, SENTIMENT, OF A SONG, BRAVO.
Sad jeff died drowning yet his dads last words in this song is hear me say swim to me waiting to hold you 😢
I was thinking the same.
This is another reason why Jeff's drowning haunts me . 😢
The sirens of greek mythology drew men out to sea where they would drown. I think of his son, Jeff, in this song, who drowned while swimming in a river. That's what makes this song hard to hear.
That is eerie.
Tim also drowned which is extra wierd. Also the version of this sung by this mortal coil is second to none
I love Jeff and now his Father. Loved this song in the 80s by mortal coil
@@chrishawkins4289 his dad died by drowning too that is weird
I did not know this. Thank you. I am buying a farm in the West of Ireland on the Atlantic and the local Druid told me you can hear the mermaids singing from our land. I thought I would learn this for them. Perhaps I can honor Jeff someway on my land.
“The only thing I stole from my father was a fleeting glimpse.”, Jeff Buckley.
Dude, second time I shed a tear today... Jeff's fault this time, I guess.
My 2-year old child has stolen way more things from her father than Jeff ever did from his.
Tim was genius, so sad drugs took him ,he'd have created so many more intensely beautiful songs like this.
Jeff must have missed his dad .so so so sad ,the world lost 2 amazing guys.
@@alvinjensen3303 fear and be sad not, they're never gone for long.
"You pick up where you left off, its always a going forwards, never a going backwards."
Avatar Meher Baba
Love Personified
💖🙏🌻
@@alvinjensen3303 I'm pretty sure Jeff has a documented disdain for Tim
Agony.
This is still the most stunningly unadorned and beautiful version of his song. Mortal Coil's cover was a more layered yet brilliant extension of Tim's magic. This is not just a song. It is a spell. One that is embedded in deep mythos. And like many songs that seem to stick with us, it is bittersweet, haunting...and timeless.
Explain?
Have you checked out Robert Plant's version? One of his most exquisite vocal performances. On the Dreamland album, an excellent album overall.
Yes, I can't help thinking there is something timeless and universal hidden in this myth, something that itself calls out to us and draws us in.
100% accurate description
@@victorwilburn8588 i didnt know he did one!
This song is 4 chords. Combined with the incredible vocals and timing, is one of the best pieces I've heard.
It actually has 5 chords
@@mihanich And those 5 chords are played on 12 strings. Not to be underestimated... ;O)
@@mihanich what is the progression?
I can see the shapes just not sure how they are changed by the capo
@@anotherworld8841 What do you mean? It's pretty straightforward. Slap on a capo on the 2nd fret, play your song in C and it sounds in D. Put the capo on the 3rd fret, play a song in D and it sounds in F. Capo on 5th fret, play in G and it sounds in C. Transposing made easy.
Not surprising this guy made Jeff Buckley. Don't think there's ever been a more talented father-son pair in music.
he didn’t make jeff buckley he had sex with his mother and then left. They’re not a pair. They’re separate people with basically no connection. Jeff Buckley hated that people made this connection between him and his biological father. To think of them in that pairing is to misunderstand the being that was Jeff Buckley.
@@Ssv714 While you're not wrong, it's beside the point.
There are very few father-son pairings with similar traits.
I happily stand corrected, kindly provide similarly gifted pairings, apart from the Austrian Strauss family.
@@Athena621
Eddie Levert (O'Jays) and Gerald Levert.❤ Bob Marley and Ziggy Marley and at least 10 more of his children and now grandchildren 😊
@@Ssv714 do you know what MADE means? Jeff inherited the talent from his dad, it was in his DNA
Ringo and Zak.
I'll get my hat.
Tim Buckley's songs (especially this one) speak to me of lost love, lost opportunity, lost time, lost loved ones, faded beauty, and the painful, precious brevity of life. The words and melodies haunt me.
Same
That is beautifully written, thank you.
Same 😥
Oui
Well said Richard
Tim Buckley's songs don't have a traditional chorus/verse structure, rather they are poems put to music.
+Charles Black well put man!
It's obvious that Jeff and Tim had different styles, but Jeff definitely had a large influence from his father lol, the vocal acrobatics, vibrato, and most significantly like what you mentioned, of not having a traditional verse, bridge, al coda, etc. Jeff in an interview admitted he tried to approach his music like so, to make it different than the common music one would hear
+Red Ribbon Cell Project I saw Jeff in Bristol. Good gig. Both died too young, a waste of talent.
Lİke a father like a son man :)
Like Leonard Cohen, in that sense
This absolutely destroys the studio recorded version, it's not even close. What a wonderful performance.
Yes, the soul in a live performance can never be equalled. We are lucky that the Monkees guys invited him in to the studio to perform this.
👏👏👏 i love all kinds of music. What a beautiful song . Gave me goose bumps 😌
@@bmcgoo6027'Live' performance?
This one is better, but the studio version has a very different, very raw energy to it.
No one seems to note the co-writer of this song, poet Larry Beckett, who was responsible for most of the lyrics of Buckley's finest songs. The song is the lyrics as well. Elton John was at his best when Bernie Taupin created the images, rhythms, and phrasing of the songs.
Thank you
Right on..
Damn
Yes, Larry Beckett remains constantly obscured in this. Both Buckley and Beckett co-wrote it.
Elton john sucks balls...
Strangely his estranged son would be lost to the sea thirty years later. This is
almost an epitaph for him.
Oh wow! ! I never thought of it like that before ! Now it's a even more meaningful, Plus Jeff always sung about what seemed to be at his father, and said writes through dreams sometimes. Songs about death, so only spent like a week or two ever before Tim's death, so it's kinda like they sang to each other! Poor guys!
thats why he walked into the water. to shy from the sorrow. Youve got it there.
+Tim Tipton Well, the Mississippi River actually, but lovely thought.
2 lost hearts without each other, Big guy should've hung around and stayed with his pregnant wife . Then raised his son. We might very well have had 2 phenomenal artist around for a long time.... but we make the plans he makes the changes! Jeff may have not had such passion in his voice.? It's gone and done! Sadly! 💕
+Tim Tipton So true! But also, when Jeff Buckley played I know it's over" and somowhere on the lyric he song (...)the sea wants to take me.
"Did I dream you dreamed about me?"
Best line
I wrote that on the front of my binder as an angst-filled college student.
@@jerrythebarman lmaooo
@@jerrythebarman Was about to write it on mine haha
Were you hare when I was fox?
This song is a testament to what four chords and a beautiful melody can create.
“Now my foolish boat is leaning broken lovelorn on your rocks” symbolism and absolute agony of this line is pure genius and heartbreaking at the same time.
Anyone who ever had a heart, wouldn't turn around and break it? Ever loved a human so completely, insanely, unconditionally and that human just went ahead and did what all humans do, betrayed your love in some way? And did your entire reality collapse? Did your soul become an empty desolate place? Did your faith die? If so, I am with you, and I am not sure that we'll ever get it back.
i can't just hear this masterpiece without leaving a comment as a reminder that one day i was here and then I was gone.
majid alramada
Aw that's somehow beautiful 😊
Brilliant
What a great comment
Plitzkaya !!! That’s a nice sentiment, but I hope you get to make or do something to be remembered by that’s more prominent, and positive than a RUclips comment
One of the most beautiful songs that have been written. Ever.
I agrEE!
1000000%
INDEED!!! RjB
A highpoint for humanity.
Yes, and its The Divine, the Ocean of Infinitude speaking to its little ones.
The lyrics tell us this.
That is the way of most all great songs & poetry.
💖🙏🌻
Credit should go to the Monkees as well, who introduced Tim Buckley and this masterpiece of a song on their TV show!
Just saw that episode and I never knew who Tim Buckley was.
Rather it was Micky Dolenz who introduced Tim Buckley to TV screens everywhere on that final episode of "The Monkees". Davy Jones got Charlie Smalls on the show and Mike Nesmith was responsible for getting Frank Zappa to perform a 5-minute skit on the episode "The Monkees Blow Their Minds". The Monkees were tired of the same old plotlines they were doing since September 1966, and wanted to do something different by inviting these performers they admired.
@@robertorick6383 Apparently the four of them, if Season 3 was made, wanted to turn into more of a music/variety show. Still with Monkee-hyjinks, largely through sketches, but they wanted to have more opportunities to bring musicians on and have group performances and discussions. Wasn't green-lit. Wouldn't that have just been an absolutely gorgeous piece of television?
This is tim buckley
- The last known words spoken in the show
Jeff and Tim don't get enough recognition. They were both incredibly talented and barely get mentioned
Oh, they got plenty!
@@Mandrake591 no they don't sorry but a bitter truth
Jeff was extremely successful for the very small time his career existed
Tim on the other hand is vastly overshadowed by a bunch of musicians inferior to his music and inspired by his music, he's foreshadowed by his own son
Jeff had good recognition thru his era, although he was in a grunge era with other big heads at the time like Cobain Cornell or Staley, with Tim I guess the change or music path that he does in Hello/Goodbye, Happy Sad and Greetings from LA made that few people stay in a certain line, maybe he had a better recognition that his contemporary Jackson C Frank, he became more aware for the public eye for his song Carnival in the movie Joker, and Tim has a bigger identification that Jackson for example...
i think jeff got the recognition that he deserved, i mean a lot of great great musicians recognized his talent
Saddest song ever. So raw, fragile and honest. Some of the most beautiful lyrics ever written. Breaks my heart and mends it back together simultaneously.
Megan O'Brien Nicely put.
I've always found 'Morning Glory' to be a tad sadder.
Megan O'Brien oh yes!... what she said!
"So raw, fragile and honest. Breaks my heart and mends it back together simultaneously"... Poetry describing poetry.. Thanks Megan O'Brien
Well said. I feel the same way. It's such a heavy song.
" Long afloat on shipless oceans
I did all my best to smile
'Til your singing eyes and fingers
Drew me loving to your isle
And you sang
Sail to me
Sail to me
Let me enfold you
Here I am
Here I am
Waiting to hold you
Did I dream you dreamed about me?
Were you hare when I was fox
Now my foolish boat is leaning
Broken lovelorn on your rocks,
For you sing, "Touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow:
O my heart, O my heart shies from the sorrow"
0
Thanks .👍👍👍
Few pop songs make me cry!
I had not heard this song in over 30 years, but after a dream last night, I woke up with the line "Did I dream you dreamed about me?" playing over and over in my head. I am so glad to have found this here and to hear this song again after so many years. Thank-you.
What a beautiful story
I had mortal coil play this song once in a dream.
I bought my first guitar because of this song
Amazing
Wow, muy bonita historia.
Cada vez que escucho esta canción, siento a la música partise en el verbo más bello.
Tim Buckley restauraba almas a través del arte. Maravilloso por donde se le escuche. Espero verlo en mi paso al nunca jamás.
Thank you for sharing this. :)
Kinda weird - like hearing hendrix and saying "I should get singing lessons"
David Drake exactly
I love Jeff Buckley and didnt know he had a dad that was a musician. This might be the most beautiful song ive ever heard.
I had a bad trip once...this song started randomly playing on my tv and comforted me during a shroom induced anxiety attack, and for that I thank you mr Buckley.
A Beautiful fate.
I was very moved by this and glad that this song was there to save the day.
Buckley solving problems he didn't know existed
😂🤍✨
You should tie your shoe laces up properly, prevents tripping.
We need this kind of music in this weird time....
@Anne O'Nymous yeah. And the music 😊
Agreed.
Tim didn't like performing on tv. He was generally rude to the people who hosted the shows, and wasn't invited back. He had a stubborn, uncompromising personality, like a lot of very talented people, which made his life hard but his music timeless, and like a lot of those people he was gone before people realized how good he was.
12inchvertical I would clarify stubbornness and being uncompromising is not a characteristic of people because or related to being talented. His father was unstable, angry and occasionally violently as a result of a head wound he suffered in WWI, which would have affected Jeff. Jeff suffered from addiction, which eventually, tragically killed him. I am moved by his music, the timbre of his voice is truly remarkable. Thank you 12, I didn't know that about him.
Dusty Rhodes You do mean Tim, don't you? not Jeff! Jeff didn't die from addiction, he accidentily drowned,
12inchvertical Tim was absolutely not "generally rude to the people who hosted the shows" :/ sorry. The rest of your comment is spot on, however. Uncompromising is the key character trait in play here, inevitably resulting in not suffering fools gladly or at all. This is presumably what you meant.
John Arundell Agreed. He was on Steve Allen and other shows. He didn't pussyfoot, but he was a charming guy, with a real vision. And a huge musical gift. I'm sorry about Jeff, but his vocals always seemed too overblown for my taste. Tim was the one. And....he got away.
+Peter Gerstenzang You think Jeff' vocials were over blown??? I disagree completely Jeff's voice was pure angelic. Jeff's vocial range was incredable. I do love Tim's voice and his writing, beautiful in everyway. I never heard of either one of them, until the Movie came out. Glad I saw the movie and it led me to father and son's music. Maybe it's Jeff came from a different generation of music, so I do get it.
Like Father Like Son, Both Equally talented, both gorgeous, both gone too soon.. RIP Tim and Jeff
Tim was way more talented than Jeff
@@moonchildtheking5008 I love love LOVE Jeff, but I also agree with you. Jeff was more of a immensely gifted mimic. He could sing just like Nina Simone, or Ella Fitzgerald, or Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, but Tim sang like Tim, like nobody else, and nobody else has sounded anything like him since.
@@summercoat that's not a contest guys. And to say Tim was more talented than Jeff is bullshit. Both are equally talented and gifted artists.
@@halloweenjack95 I meant Tim was more original, Jeff more of an amazing mimic. I don't mean that in any way as an insult to Jeff.
he hated being put in comparison with him tho
This exact film is from the last episode of The Monkees tv show, that's Mickey Dolenz introducing him. A soul shattering performance 😭😭😭
I was only 14 when I saw this episode of the Monkees. I was far too young to understand its beauty.
This was the direction the Monkees wanted to go for the 3rd season. More of a variety show with guest stars.
They should have had their way. I've heard that Janis Joplin would have made a guest appearance on their show had it continued. Shame their show got cancelled and we were deprived of a 3rd season considering they were a foursome until the end of 1968 when Peter Tork left the group.
We desperately need more song writers of that caliber.
HortonKansas Recomended: Joanna Newsom
Cristian García literally the greatest of all time
HortonKansas where did all the good songs go
It's more that we just need more people of that caliber. Unfortunately the mediocre in our society tend to be the ones that more often gain the spotlight, most likely because they're more likely to conform to what is expected of them. Musicians that think and feel deeply like Dylan, Waits, Buckley, Elliott Smith, Joni Mitchell, Mark Koczelek, Nick Drake, Brian and Dennis Wilson ect. are the types that generally get shunned by society even in times like this where we need them now more than ever.
Nick Drake, Elliot Smith
Long afloat on shipless oceans
I did all my best to smile
'Til your singing eyes and fingers
Drew me loving to your isle
And you sang
Sail to me, sail to me
Let me enfold you
Here I am, here I am
Waiting to hold you
Did I dream you dreamed about me ?
Were you hare when I was fox ?
Now my foolish boat is leaning
Broken lovelorn on your rocks
For you sing
'Touch me not, touch me not
Come back tomorrow
Oh my heart, oh my heart
Shies from the sorrow'
I am puzzled as the oyster
I am troubled as the tide
Should I stand amid your breakers ?
Or should I lie with death my bride ?
Hear me sing
'Swim to me, swim to me
Let me enfold you
Here I am, here I am
Waiting to hold you'
Love wrapped in melody
Grazie
Beautiful song! Should I lie with Death my Bride? Very strange, foreboding and telling lyric since he died by drowning in water. And his did too. Weird!
@@dynjarren7523 That would be his son Jeff. David died from a heroin overdose.
@@dougbennett8592 You mean Tim.
He and Nick Drake were both underrated in life; all but forgotten in death...
Too beautiful to listen to very often - this kills me
Waiting to hold you. That is literally the most heart wrenching lyric ever written.
The best songs are the ones with beauty and sadness within them, that express hard truths about life and the mysteries of love...
I agree. I wasn't born to lose you from Bob Dylan's I Want You gets me every time.
Exactly my relationship to Tim Buckley. In a way, I don't need to actually listen to him bc his music deep inside waiting to be remembered. But of course, then I do listen, and rendered speechless.
my good taste for music brought me here
Same!!
mine too!
Yep
'
Same
ClandestineOstrich I Agree With You Most Humans Are Not As Conscious and Open Minded As They Should Be. But No Help In Laughing At Them Mate, Better Yet Hold Out A Helping Hand And Help Others Learn. We Are All In This Together. Also Don't Give Full Credit To LSD For You Being A Smart Individual. I'm Sure Cid Opened Some Doors For You, Like It Has Me, But I Believe You Became Intellectual On Your Own.
When I feel like I don’t fit in even with my own friends, I always turn to good stuff like this. It reminds me that there is nothing wrong with me and everything will be alright
❤
This man is easily one of the most underrated artists’ of all time. Tim Buckley’s voice is totally unmatched. Jeff, obviously, was fantastic in his own way, but there’s a certain warmth and control in Tim’s voice that makes it stand out so much. He was an outstanding artist.
I think Jeff had a greater range but Tim had greater control of his range
Criminally under appreciated.
I SO agree! Very underrated. I've only just discovered him but the voice is like chocolate
Tim was a mesmerizing singer. It’s hard to think of singers who can compare.
@@richardhumberstonept622 you wouldnt say that if you heard come here, woman. Tim had complete control over a four octave range.
justice league snyder cut flash iris scene brought us here, amazing song
😂
same
Yesssss!
Beautiful song and scene
Hats Off to The Monkees for introducing an artist such as Tim Buckley to a teeny-popper audience!
That'd be teeny-bopper lol....
That Picasso pic, I believe, is the one that inspired Paul McCartney to write 'Picasso's Last Words'. Another brilliant, though very different type of tune...
The Monkees copped a hiding but were amazingly supportive of opening doors for others , giving respect which they also deserved
Tim Buckley caught up with Mike Nessmith a year after this performance:
Mike “I see you’re still wearing the same clothes”
Tim “I see you’re still singing other people’s songs”
I like how the Monkees did this sort of thing. They knew a lot of people watched their show, so they gave an occasional chance to people who didn't have a TV show.
Is that was this footage is from?
@@bobthompson8053
Yes, this is from an episode of _The Monkeees_ in 1968.
@@SailorBarsoom damn their name looks cool with 3 e's
@@JustineLaLoba
OK, normally I would edit that, if I ever noticed it, but now I'm going to leave it as it is.
@@bobthompson8053 It was from the final episode "The Frodis Caper".
I was shocked to see how much Jeff Buckley was like his father-in looks and mannerisms. It’s even weirder considering the fact that he wasn’t raised around him. It reminds me that genetics will show even if you never spent a day with someone. They were so much alike even down to the fact that they both died at such young ages. I cannot imagine the amazing music they could have each created had their young lives not ended so soon. 😔 🌸
There's so much beauty and tragedy in both their voices it's almost eerie. Breaks my heart to know that we lost them at such young ages.
Too good for this world the pair of them maybe.
Instead of wondering what could have been, lets appreciate what we have.
Yes, those of us who were adopted at birth and then later found our relatives can attest to the influence of genetics.
no DNA testing necessary, same love for music, same talent, same beauty
This piece was done at the end of one of The Monkees episodes. That was Mickey Dolenz introducing him. Sometimes at the end of their show they had time left over and would run outtakes. Sometimes they would have time for music from some other artist. I remember seeing this when it aired.
Me too! Was lucky enough to see Tim twice in London.
@@grigorisgirl
Lucky is the word. Good for you. Great memory.
@@robertacolarette1594 Indeed, until I realise it was 53 years ago!😱
@@grigorisgirl
Yeah, I hate hearing that number 53. It’s so unbelievable. 😳
@@robertacolarette1594 Just have to remember I was so lucky to hear such wonderful music back in those days.
1968...Jeff was two years old, then. He met his father when he was 8 years old, and he spent just two weeks with him, for all his life. Two months later Tim died at the age of 27... So tragic for Jeff. He hurt so much. But these two wonderful musical souls will be always a big loss for music.
Sofia Noiti 28
why u talking about his son on this video? who cares?
Because he was a greate musician too
They look so much alike
The relationship between Tim and Jeff - the latter the only one known to so many people of the the last 20years - is now one of the classic stories of rock history. They made an award winning movie, Greetings from Tim Buckley, about the effect of Tim's legacy on Jeff's ability to create, to get in front of an audience despite his own eerily similar talent, in an indie-90's context. So, while I grew up with Tim and his music, the Jeff story, the abandonment of mother and unborn child, the few beautiful but not-enough songs Tim wrote to them, aren't separable from the story of Tim anymore.
This live version, the way he sings it so clear with such emotion, never fails to give me goosebumps.
+brokenanklesarentfun True!
He is still giving goosebumps 45+ years on...
+Naseem Syed seriously underrated!!,
the best version of this song from the monkees t v series appearance
Thanks to Zack Snyder and his personal cut of JL many of us have been listened this lovely tune.
True
Oh, that's super weird. By happenstance, I just listened to Robert Plant's cover of this, then listened to a review of Snyder's Justice League, then decided to come and listen to Buckley's original and work out how to play it on the guitar. Then I discover it's actually in the Justice League film.
Yeah it was so nice decided to make also small cover for it
Check out John frusciantes cover of this - best version
@@littledaddi3 There are so many great versions out there. I also love Kitty MacFarlane's.
I found my way here vita Justice League. It rung my DNA and vibrated my soul.
Amen
That was way unexpected for a Monkees show, mystical and remarkable.
Micky Dolenz loved Buckley's music and internalized some of his singing style, I feel.
@@stu63 I never thought about that, but yeah, I can really hear it.
“Or should I lie with death my bride” Just beautiful writing
I never knew until recently that this was a Tim Buckley original. I always knew This Mortal Coil’s version and was a fan of Jeff Buckley’s but sadly over the years never really listened to Tim Buckley. Now, I cry every time I hear this song, as it’s as if he is singing in premonition of his son’s untimely death in water... aahh it’s heartbreaking.
same here man
And the only version I listen to
Why in the world did This Mortal Coil change the words...ie the bit about hare and fox...never understood that
@@colerche Not sure why those lyrics were changed but I read there are different versions of the lyrics that Tim Buckley wrote. This is from Wikipedia - The 1968 performance also features different lyrics with the phrase "I am puzzled as the oyster" later being changed to "I'm as puzzled as the newborn child" in the album version. This was reportedly because when Buckley played the song to Judy Henske, wife of then producer Jerry Yester, she responded to the line with laughter.
"Now, I cry every time I hear this song, as it’s as if he is singing in premonition of his son’s untimely death in water... '
I had never made that connection, Queensquish. That is indeed very moving and also frightening.
Why cant i listen anything that touches my soul but only those songs of the past? ... technology destroyed the soul?? Why ?... amazing song and video. 12string..melody...feeling.. lyrics... amazing.
One of the most beautifully written love-songs ever . Just the thought alone that Tim’s son last moments were among the sirens .
Now in my 80th year, I am still a fan of Tim. Equal to Dylan and on the heels of Lightfoot.
Lightfoot never truly gets the credit he rightfully deserves as a songwriter
We can't be forgetting Leonard cohen
At 46 years old, I have one question : Why have I known who Cardi B is for years (never listed to her), yet only just NOW discovered this man in November of 2023? That is damn near criminal.
Yes it is
Have you discovered his son yet?
Because Cardi B is dope, as Tim and Jeff were. Simple as that. ;)
because teenage girls make the charts.
🤢@@relmo
I’m a 58 year old bloke and my eyes are tearing up..what a great song
ME TOO (62!)
Me too (26)
Was this the first time you heard it ?
Yes the very first time, I've bought the album since..
Yes 55 there is a lifetime in it
One of the greatest songs ever written. A masterpiece.
Jeff was a spitting image of his dad, can see where he got his gift from
I saw/heard Tim Buckley at the Middle Earth club in London in Spring 1968. I was practically a baby but got up real close to the stage and gave myself up to his other-worldly, mesmerizing, gorgeous music. I'll never forget it, a true highlight of my life.
The big difference between music like this and music today, in case you wanted to know...
Is that these people *LIVED IT.* It wasnt just a song, but a way of life. Thats why its so beautiful.
back then there were plenty of people who didn't live their music, as there are now. i also think tim was unique in the way he performed his songs. not even then were there many people singing as heartfeltly as he did.
@@alexs5070 Thats a great point. Thank you.
@@alexs5070 100% agree
This is better than the recorded version, pure soul and talent.
It is not even close. The later studio version is clearly Tim trying to go over the top. Likely because he was too lost to drugs by that point. I actually can’t even listen to the later version.
If there was somehow we could take these soulful, pure vocals and set them to the ethereal music of the studio version...that'd be something else.
The recorded version is unbearable tbh
@@comeflynextome94 ruclips.net/video/02LoVSXkjWk/видео.html&ab_channel=TimBuckley-Topic
Here's a rare studio version that I think is about as good as this version. Way better than Starsailor's version.
imo
One of the few good things about being a geezer is having seen Buckley in person.
The man's music was great.
imo
he's singing the worlds most beautiful song sitting on a car that frank zappa smashed up with a sledgehammer. the monkees tv show contained multitudes
Still a hauntingly beautiful song in 2020.
I saw this on the monkees episode and loved it. His son was Jeff Buckley. He died around the same age as his dad. His son sounded like him and looked like him too. Rip 🙏 Sad.
Fuck you Tim Buckley you made me cry at work with this song. I can’t be with the person I think about 24/7 because they’re in a different country, I don’t know if I’m going to crazy or if the feeling is mutual but I’m almost to scared to find out. It rains all the time everyday and every night and now all I have is this beautiful song that makes me cry my heart out.
The Monkees TV Show helped me discover Tim Buckley and Frank Zappa.
I was just thinking, that looks like the set of the Monkees where Mike playing Zappa interviews Zappa playing Mike?
Tim Buckley had and gave two gifts, his music and son. Despite the tragedy of both Jeff and Tim, they gave the world a universal gift of music. Very beautiful and symbolic it is.
I can't hear this without crying. There's probably 5 songs that do that to me, this is one.
what are the others?
Me too and I'm 66....
Me too and I'm 26.
@@michelefrascella722
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
This is the most beautiful performance of any song by any artist on the internet. Prove me wrong.
Not that this is a contest, may I point you in this direction, in case you have missed it down the years. ruclips.net/video/69sLI4n674s/видео.html
John Frusciantes version of this amazing song
I heard This mortal coil's version first and thought it was brilliant, then I stumbled upon the original by Tim Buckley and my scale for brilliance has skyrocketed.
I just found out that this song that I’ve loved for 40 years on this mortal coil, was written by Tim Buckley. Amazing!
Did I dream you dreamed about me.
Stunning.
I've never heard this original version before. I'm literally in tears.
One of the most beautiful song ever written.
Still in love with this song in 2022. 💜
2023 here
"This is Tim Buckley"
Yes.
It's hard to put into words how good this song is...
It's good.
Durdurdur
I just can't believe that he brought this to the world when he was just 21, while I am 21 in a few days and my life is just about to start
Heartbreaking song...I can´t listen without the incredibly sad feeling that his son Jeff unconsciously followed Tim´s call to enfold him forever, swimming and sinking to him into eternity.
What a way for The Monkees to end their series...transition from Pop to thought provoking folk - Classic performance.
Tim Buckley
In the background is the 39' Chevy that Zappa took a sledgehammer to the previous week when he did a segment on the Monkees with Mike Nesmith. In the 1970s Buckley was on Zappa's Discreet record label.
I cry every time I hear this
This Mortal Coil version is a fine example of how to make a song sound like one of your own while still capturing the essence of the original and doing it justice.
Folk music is so pretty
I'm stunned. I honestly didn't realise that This Mortal Coils version was a cover, so this is way ahead of its time.
This is better than studio version amazing
pawel115 Agreed :) this is 3 years earlier believe it or not. November 1967.
Long afloat on shipless oceans, I did all my best to smile. Kinda sums up life, really...
If I ever got married, and I know I never will, this would be my song for my "entrance". I could care less about any of a wedding. But music is beautiful and makes me actually feel...
MONKEES WERE AHEAD OF THEIR TIME WITH THE LIKES OF TIM AND FRANK ZAPPA,etc. great show thanks for this performance
what is it about me that i love these melancholy songs so much?? sometimes i forget just how much i love this, as a song and as a performance and simply as a poem. no one can touch this version for the emotion... so funny because when i heard it as a girl, this mortal coil, i didn't realize it was truly the most beautiful in its simple sweetness. i may have seen this years earlier as a girl on monkees reruns without putting it together. tv was better then but i digress. at the same time, he's so unbelievably sad. tim's like a stray animal that you want to take home and give him food, shelter, rest and let him mend. i hope his sad poetic spirit finally found some peace.
I wish I'd written that. Thank you for expressing in words what many of us could not. Love and respect.
Joe Black +++100000000000000000
Tim buckley wrote this song in 1970 and passed away in 1975, years later his son Jeff Buckley died drowning in a river in 1995.
Its a love song but the last few lines cant help but make you think of how a father feels when he sings about his son's death.
"Hear me sing
Swim to me, swim to me Let me enfold you Here I am, here I am Waiting to hold you"
Jeff Buckley died in 97, not 95
This song aired on the very last episode of The Monkees TV Show in 1968.
Tim Buckley did not write the words. His friend Larry Becket wrote the words. Tim wrote the music.
please, play it at my funeral...
I chose this song for my father’s
funeral as he was a sailor/submariner, this was the contemplation music. Its ethereal
and brilliant
He was amazing and like many artists never gained fame until he died. He was so unique and had an amazing backup band. He was not into drugs either. His death was an over reaction to ingesting heroin maybe for the first time. Dang.
So sad
In some interviews they said the cause of his death was overdose of heroin with alcohol
karaokegang
Apart from "He was amazing" and "He was so unique" everything else you wrote is completely wrong :/ Tim was well known since coming out with his first album at the age of 20, he had various backing bands over the years through different phases of his career, he was most definitely into drugs (and suggesting he wasn't shows a serious lack of knowledge about him at all) and guessing that he died from his first taste of heroin is just ludicrous. Dang!
This version was played on s4 e2 of True Detective last sunday night.
As a young Buck i would have hated this....i called it "i gave my love a chicken it had no bones" type music.... now,with maturity,i can see hear nothing but Truth,Beauty and Deep,Deep yearning
This man was 21 years old when this was recorded...
It blows my mind when you compare it to men of the same age today
Both he and Jeff were a gift to this world.
Yes. No doubt they were talented.
But it blows my mind what a miserable comment you jus' made. Get out of your bedroom dreams and into the real world. You'll find talent even in 6 y.o girls and boys!
Ok boomer
RITURAJ SINGH so a “miserable” comment warrants another miserable comment?
Yeah. You’re so woke 🙄
@@wallflowerxoxo So two miserable comments warrant *you* leaving a miserable comment? I guess you're not really woke either.
Wait! I made a fourth miserable comment back to you. OH, GOD! WHAT HAVE I DONE!?!
Ok, who's next?
Wait.. for a minute..
The one who knows Jeff and Tim.
How in this world.... That one is not woke...
And miss Kristina when we comare today to our past..... Actually we are gladly trying motivate. That's all..
An old soul sings in modern times. Comfort to other souls on the journey.
I'll never understand how this song makes me feel something I haven't felt before. It is so beautiful, so haunting.