''The Best of Tim Buckley'' is a compilation LP by

Tim Buckley Timothy Charles Buckley III (February 14, 1947 – June 29, 1975) was an American musician. His music and style changed considerably through the years. Buckley began his career based in folk music, but his subsequent albums experimented with ja ...

. It presents Buckley as a

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artist with songs written between 1966 and 1970. The album features material from the studio albums ''

'', '' Goodbye and Hello'', '' Happy Sad'' and ''

Blue Afternoon ''Blue Afternoon'' is the fourth studio album by Tim Buckley, released in November 1969. It is Tim Buckley's first self-produced record and his debut for Herb Cohen and Frank Zappa's Straight record label. This was Buckley's fourth album afte ...

'', in addition to "Song to the Siren" from his

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album '' Starsailor''. This was the first new release, outside of

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after Buckley's death. The album provides an overview of Buckley's folk beginnings, excluding material from his later albums. On October 2, 2006, the album was re-released, recompiled and remastered for a new retrospective. The new release featured a greater breadth of material from Buckley's career, including tracks from all of Buckley's studio albums. Reviews have been mixed, largely due to the problem of trying to give a retrospective of the artist while at the same time trying to include his most critically praised works.

Track listing

All songs by Tim Buckley unless noted otherwise:

Side one

#"Aren't You The Girl" #"Song for Janie" #"I Can't See You" (

Larry Beckett Larry Beckett (born April 4, 1947) is an American poet, songwriter, musician, and literary critic. As a songwriter and music arranger, Beckett collaborated with Tim Buckley in the late 1960s and early 1970s on several songs and albums, including ...

, Buckley) #"Carnival Song" #"Goodbye and Hello" (Beckett, Buckley) #"

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Fred Neil Fred Neil (March 16, 1936 – July 7, 2001) was an American folk singer-songwriter active in the 1960s and early 1970s. He did not achieve commercial success as a performer and is mainly known through other people's recordings of his material&n ...

)

Side two

#"Happy Time" #"I Must Have Been Blind" #"The River" #"Strange Feelin'" #"

Song to the Siren "Song to the Siren" is a song written by Tim Buckley to a poem by his writing partner Larry Beckett, released by Buckley on his 1970 album '' Starsailor''. It was also later released on '' Morning Glory: The Tim Buckley Anthology'', the album fea ...

2006 re-release

#"Aren't You the Girl" - 2:05 #"Song for Janie" - 2:46 #"I Can't See You" (Beckett, Buckley) - 2:42 #"Carnival Song" - 3:12 #"Morning Glory" (Beckett, Buckley) - 2:52 #"Goodbye and Hello" (Beckett, Buckley) - 8:40 #"Sing a Song for You" ake 11- 5:44 #"

Once I Was ''Once I Was'' is a compilation album by Tim Buckley. The album features the ''Peel Sessions (Tim Buckley album), Peel sessions'' recorded 1 April 1968, two tracks, "Honeyman" and "Dolphins", from a BBC broadcast of The Old Grey Whistle Test on 2 ...

" - 3:24 #"Strange Feelin'" - 7:38 #"I Had a Talk With My Woman" - 5:59 #"Happy Time" - 3:14 #"I Must Have Been Blind" - 3:45 #"The River" - 5:47 #"

" - 3:28 #"Dolphins" (

) - 3:13 #"Martha" (

Tom Waits Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American musician, composer, songwriter, and actor. His lyrics often focus on the underbelly of society and are delivered in his trademark deep, gravelly voice. He worked primarily in jazz during ...

) - 3:18 #"Move With Me" (Buckley, Jerry Goldstein) - 4:52 #"Look at the Fool" - 5:10

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Best Of Tim Buckley 1983 greatest hits albums Tim Buckley compilation albums Compilation albums published posthumously Albums produced by Paul A. Rothchild Rhino Entertainment compilation albums