Grace Ep's [Import]

Jeff Buckley | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 29, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 5
• Format: Import
• Label: Sbme Import
• ASIN: B00006J4CV
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #203,329 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Mojo Pin

2. Dream Brother [Nag Champa Mix]

3. Kanga-Roo

Disc: 2

1. So Real [Live]

2. Grace [Live]

3. Dream Brother [Live]

Disc: 3

1. Dream Brother [Live]

2. The Way Young Lovers Do [Live]

3. Medley: Je N'en Connais Pas la Fin/Hymne a l'Amour [Live]

4. Hallelujah [Live]

Disc: 4

1. Grace [Album Edit]

2. Grace [Live]

3. Mojo Pin [Live]

4. Hallelujah [Live]

See all 5 tracks on this disc

Disc: 5

1. Last Goodbye [Grace Album Edit]

2. Mojo Pin [Chocolate Version][Live]

3. Kanga-Roo

4. Lost Highway [Live]

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

It was hard to imagine at the time of his untimely death in 1997 at age 30, but Jeff Buckley ended up one of the decade's most influential singer-songwriters. Buckley's posthumous legend was built on precious little more than his debut album, Grace, and the tracks he was working on at the time of his death, which makes this collection of five rare, mostly promo-only foreign EPs a welcome addition to his legacy. The two and a half hours of music here spans the three years before he died, a period when his muse--as boldly ambitious as it was haunting and mercurial--was coming into sharp focus. Buckley fans and collectors should welcome the two live shows excerpted here (So Real's February ‘95 Rotterdam gig, the Paris shows from later in the year on Live from the Bataclan, and three ‘96 Australian cuts), but will also delight in the set's rare covers: a live take of Van Morrison's "The Way Young Lovers Do," Hank Williams's "Lost Highway," and a frenetic and hypnotic 14-minute-plus work-up of Alex Chilton's droning "Kanga-Roo." The set's bonus unreleased track is the 11-minute "Tongue," an eerie, evocative instrumental improvisation captured during rehearsals for the Grace sessions. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars incredible,, August 6, 2003

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This review is from: Grace Eps (Audio CD)

I don't know what to write in order to explain the captivating, passionate music this disc contains. Through listening to this disc one can hear the great and amazing talent Jeff Buckley possessed. I highly recommend this disc and highly recommend listning to Jeff Buckley's music.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Compliments to an already brilliant experience., June 29, 2003

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Quentin Xavier "QX" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Grace Eps (Audio CD)

jeff Buckley was a brilliant man. He was passionate, spellbinding and talented beyond bounds. Grace is one of the very best albums I've ever heard. Incredible. These tracks shed a live or demo version of the mastered songs off of grace. they sound awesome. Live presence almost gives it a different feel. Brilliant. This is an essentail for any fan, rabid or casual.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The EPs and promos released during the GRACE tour now collected in a box, but nothing essential, November 8, 2007

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Christopher Culver - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grace Eps (Audio CD)

Although Jeff Buckley released only one album during his lamentably short career, 1994's GRACE, his recorded output is quite large. Part of this is due to the large amount of posthumous releases and re-releases of live material by his estate--which many are starting to feel only diminishes his legacy. But even while Buckley was still with us, Columbia Records released several EPs and promos to bring GRACE to greater attention. This 2002 box set collects five of this small releases together.

PEYOTE RADIO THEATRE was a promotional release directed mainly to Germany in the weeks leading up to the release of GRACE. "Mojo Pin" is the same version as on the album. "Dream Brother" is present in the so-called "Nag Champa mix", a curious ambient version of the song to which Buckley added tabla drums. "Kanga-Roo" is a cover of an old Alex Chilton song which Buckley was especially fond of--he may have first come across it on This Mortal Coil's album It'll End in Tears.

THE GRACE EP is a 1996 commercial release. It contained the album version of "Grace" and unfortunately limpid live performances from the final visit to Australia on tour. The ambient jam "Tongue" was added to this box set; taken from the same Bearsville sessions that produced GRACE, this shows Buckley and his three band members trying to reach a cohesive collaboration.

LAST GOODBYE was a 1995 Sony Japan commercial release. "Last Goodbye" is an edit of the album version. "Mojo Pin" appears in a remarkable 14-minute long live version from a New York City concert, and here Buckley begins with long vocalizations that show inspiration from Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. "Lost Highway" is a cover of the Hank Williams classic. There is fine photography by Hideo Okada on the sleeve, which comes as a nice contrast to the photos that adorn the box and make Buckley look like some kind of teen idol.

LIVE FROM THE BATACLAN was released in 1995, first as a promo and then commercially. It has four live tracks from a February 11, 1995 performance at the Bataclan in Paris. While we don't need an umpteenth live version of "Dream Brother" or "Hallelujah", there are two rare covers. This first is Van Morrison's "The Way Young Lovers Do", which is okay. The second is a medley of the Edith Piaf tunes "Je n'en connais pas la fin" and "Hymne a l'Amour", which are charming though one wishes Buckley had used the original French instead of the clunky English translations. All in all, this EP is more interesting as a document of how much French audiences adored Buckley--the crowd cheers and claps throughout--than for its music.

Finally, SO REAL a.k.a. LIVE AT NIGHTTOWN contains three live tracks from a February 25, 1995 performance in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Few live performances of "So Real" are out there, but we don't need yet another "Grace" or "Dream Brother".

I would recommend this box set only to Buckley completists. There is a lot of Buckley material out there, but in my opinion casual fans need only three items. These are Grace in its original version (the Legacy Edition sounds awful, a victim of the "loudness wars"), the Live in Chicago DVD which has Buckley blending good music with some fine humour, and the Live at L'Olympia import CD, which records the Paris concerts Buckley felt to be the finest performance of his career. You might also want to hear his collaborations with Liz Fraser, long passed around between fans but regrettably not yet released commercially.