Tim Buckley – The Complete Album Collection

This complete album collection does not include his last two albums.

Come on, Discogs, Digitum Extractum Est!

Why on earth has the 7 vinyl record box set been merged with the 8 CD box set?

Don't mix stuff up. It's very unprofessional.

Please sort out asap!

There might be an issue with the lps being warped in this box. It's been mention several times with this release, and all records in my box are warped in different degrees. Some slightly warped and others quite a lot. However, it doesn't seem to affect playback.

If you like your CDs pressed on vinyl, you're in for a treat...and you get a nice big box to keep them in...all the limitations and quirks of both formats in one location.

If you want to hear how great and restless an artist Tim Buckley really was, in analog, the way he recorded his albums at the time, and especially from the period of Goodbye & Hello through to Greetings From LA, then save your money and hunt down original era pressings. Most can be had fairly affordably, even the beguiling Starsailor doesn't command the type of prices it once did.

The Robert Ludwig original mastering of Lorca is utterly stunning, it's a knotty album full of dynamics and vocal twists and turns and Ludwig captured this on vinyl...the Rhino one sounds positively limp by comparison.

Happy Sad on either the original gold or second pressing red Elektra labels is so much better. I suspect even a Butterfly label third pressing'll sound better than this one.

Nice set with good reproduction of the original covers. Mastered by Ian Shefchik (most likely from hi-rez files), this sounds very good (Maybe just inches away from the OG pressings). A recurring issue is that the records have a slight warp and there is some non-fill here and there (I have the EU version). Not absolutely perfect, but a great set nonetheless.

Somewhat disappointed with the sound. Lots of detail but there's a grainy quality, especially on the vocals that doesn't seem apparent on the cd or even Spotify editions I've heard. The set is beautiful, lovely reproductions of the covers. However one record seems to have something like glue on it, only a small amount but it creates a pop on playback, and another record is not totally flat. I think I'll be returning it.

Is there anyone out there who has this set, who has got or heard any of the original pressings to give an opinion of the sound. I realise they will be different as I presume pressed from digital sources.
I am not impressed by most of the remastered vinyl I have heard and cannot afford to simply buy on spec. Thanks,

Gary4 - Totally agree. I haven’t got the Electric Theatre release (I have the Dream Letter one, which I like very much). It's weird - who gets attention and who gets less in terms of the “critical review system, by the music scholars / press who know the score” . . . (“weird” can mean unfair, biased, formulaic, lazy, populist, timely, useless, boring, cringeworthy and F****D).

Many artists associated with 4AD are well known for supporting Tim Buckley's work, praising him as a strong force in music or doing covers. Elisabeth Fraser, as well as covering Song to the Siren, also worked with Jeff Buckley. And of course the Buckley ‘club’ extends outside 4AD, particularly with covers of Song to the Siren. (Robert Plant probably doing my least favourite of them all and John Grant doing a very good / personal rendition.)

I was struck by the thought that, both Tim Buckley and Gene Clarke (apparently) were admired by Ivo Watts and significantly shaped his appreciation for music. At the end of 2019, both these artists had two mammoth representations of their work released (career defining releases). Recently 4AD produced a lavish boxset of Gene Clark’s No Other album: an in depth ‘study’ of a single album, including book, SACD, vinyl CD – everything you could hope for and a treatment hardly ever given to a singular album. Then, to compare, Tim Buckley’s box set (vinyl) where you get SEVEN albums so straight-forwardly, beautifully presented and at a cheaper price than the Gene Clark single album set. I don’t want to put the Clark set down (and you can’t really – it’s a labour of love), but when I look at them side by side, the Buckley set truly stands so monumentally, to have them all instantaneously like that . . .

Yes, I wrote that comment questioning Buckley needing a review in a hurry, all I meant was many of those purchasing the box will already know the music. I wasn’t thinking about reviews’ function of alerting the public of a product or attracting new listeners. I came across the Buckley set by chance – I would have been upset if I discovered it years later at an unaffordable price, difficult to get in new condition. It’s always rough, the marketing machine and what gets attention. And pretty strange this Buckley box has been so quietly submitted to the public.

What a lovely way to get these albums all at the same time.

The box, sleeves, and gatefolds for those albums which originally had them, look great. There are no extras, printed inners etc, so the whole package hits at a fair price - under a hundred quid for me. What is included is a none-fuss great collection of music and - can't be underestimated when so many 'lavish' sets come with cardboardabrasive sleeves - the records are properly sleeved in polywotsits!!!

Buzzin' like a fly . . . does Buckley's music need a review?

Any comments on the SQ? Is this AAA? Does Starsailor has the straight label?