Morning Glory: The Tim Buckley Anthology

Disc 1
1	Wings
2	She Is
3	Song Slowly Song
4	It Happens Every Time
5	Aren't You the Girl
6	Pleasant Street
7	Hallucinations
8	No Man Can Find the War
9	Once I Was
10	Morning Glory
11	Goodbye and Hello
12	Buzzin' Fly
13	Strange Feelin'
14	Sing a Song for You
15	Phantasmagoria in Two Live
16	I've Been Out Walking Live
17	Troubador Live
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Disc 2
1	Happy Time
2	Chase the Blues Away
3	I Must Have Been Blind
4	The River
5	So Lonely
6	Blue Melody
7	I Had a Talk With My Woman Live
8	Moulin Rouge
9	Song to the Siren
10	Monterey
11	Sweet Surrender
12	Hong Kong Bar
13	Make It Right
14	Sally Go 'Round the Roses
15	Who Could Deny You
16	Song to the Siren

Barnes & Noble

In his short but prolific recording career, Tim Buckley (who died of a heroin overdose in 1975 at the age of 28) built a highly personal and wholly original body of work. His music's conceptual leaps and stylistic progressions defied career logic but yielded a remarkably rich musical legacy. Beginning as an ambitious but relatively conventional baroque-folkie, Buckley grew increasingly more adventurous and eclectic, integrating an audacious array of jazz, rock, and avant-garde influences while twisting his limpid, airy voice into increasingly uncharted areas of phrasing and intonation. Though he never had a Top 40 single or a gold album in his lifetime, today Buckley is justifiably revered as an innovative visionary whose unforgettable voice and singular songwriting vision have been a crucial influence on a host of other artists, from the Monkees (who had the then-unknown singer perform on their network TV show, a recording that makes its first CD appearance on Morning Glory) to Radiohead and Buckley's own singer/songwriter son, the late Jeff Buckley. This sensitively assembled 2-CD, 33-song set does an excellent job of encapsulating Buckley's large and unruly catalogue, encompassing the haunting, impressionistic insights of such early tunes as "Once I Was" and the title track (later covered on the first Blood, Sweat and Tears album); more structurally and verbally ambitious material such as "Song to the Siren" (which became an alternative-rock staple after This Mortal Coil covered it) and "Phantasmagoria in Two"; and the thrillingly out-on-a-limb weirdness of such later work as "Hong Kong Bar" and "Sweet Surrender." The resulting package -- with insightful annotation from journalist Barry Alfonso and longtime Buckley guitarist Lee Underwood -- offers a uniquely compelling overview of the artist's one-of-a-kind genius. Scott Schinder

All Music Guide

Buckley whizzed through a bunch of different styles in his approximately decade-long career, and was always an album-oriented artist. That makes the assembly of a best-of collection a difficult task to fulfill without omitting much of the context of what made the singer special. Still, Morning Glory does a pretty good job of touching upon highlights of his work, aided by the generous running time, with two CDs and 33 songs that add up to about two-and-a-half hours of music. It does concentrate on his most accessible tunes, drawing most heavily from his earliest albums and shorter songs, pitching in four tracks from late-'60s live recordings that were not released until long after his death. There is nothing at all, in fact, from his least commercial effort, 1970's Lorca (although "I Had a Talk With My Woman" is identified as coming from Lorca in the track list, it in fact is taken from Live at the Troubadour 1969). As is proper, his final albums, in which both his material and voice were in decline, are lightly represented. There's just one previously unreleased track, though it's a goodie: the legendary solo version of "Song to the Siren" that Buckley performed on an episode of The Monkees, with a much sparer arrangement than was used when it was included on 1970's Starsailor, as well as a different lyric. Richie Unterberger

Rolling Stone

When he died in 1975 of a heroin overdose, Tim Buckley left behind nine albums in nine years, all of them commercial duds. Yet it's possible to trace a straight line from Buckley's soul-excavating excursions through the work of Patti Smith, U2, Radiohead and his own estranged son, the late Jeff Buckley. Greg Kot