Hallelujah

[Banned Tosspot]

Buckley is just overhyped due to a young death, just like James Dean, Ian Curtis, Cobain etc and a lot of other people average artists whose myth grows once dead. Which suits the fact that his most famous track is a cover is the greatly over-hyped and over-covered songs since unchained melody.

Ian Curtis was not average, his greatness was there for all to see whilst still alive.

Another boring ****.

 

[squirtyflower]

Buckley is just overhyped due to a young death, just like James Dean, Ian Curtis, Cobain etc and a lot of other people average artists whose myth grows once dead. Which suits the fact that his most famous track is a cover is the greatly over-hyped and over-covered songs since unchained melody.

Ian Curtis was not average, his greatness was there for all to see whilst still alive.

Another boring ****.

You would know, you seem to know everything else.

 

[Corky]

Buckley is just overhyped due to a young death, just like James Dean, Ian Curtis, Cobain etc and a lot of other people average artists whose myth grows once dead. Which suits the fact that his most famous track is a cover is the greatly over-hyped and over-covered songs since unchained melody.

Ian Curtis was not average, his greatness was there for all to see whilst still alive.

Come off it. Unknown pleasures and closer would have been completely forgotten if it was not for his death. They were okay, not brilliant. New Order were far more successful.

 

[kinkladze96]

K.D Lang does the best version of hallelujah.

Leonard cohen may be a great songwriter but he is awful to listen to.

 

[squirtyflower]

Buckley is just overhyped due to a young death, just like James Dean, Ian Curtis, Cobain etc and a lot of other people average artists whose myth grows once dead. Which suits the fact that his most famous track is a cover is the greatly over-hyped and over-covered songs since unchained melody.

Ian Curtis was not average, his greatness was there for all to see whilst still alive.

Come off it. Unknown pleasures and closer would have been completely forgotten if it was not for his death. They were okay, not brilliant. New Order were far more successful.

Can't deny they were far more successful. But Joy Division were not average.

Size of sales doesn't make greatness, its a measure of popularity at that time. Using your logic all the shite-factor winners et al are greater artists as they sell more.

To me it just confirms there are more gullible morons around, than people with decent musical taste.

 

[Corky]

How many bands were as good at the time but would struggle to fill Academy 2 now?

If Lips out of Anvil or Mills out of Kula Shaker had died early in their careers they would have been much bigger and remembered. Instead a new dawn faded. If you have talent you still need luck, and JD/NO's came from tragic circustances, otherwise they could have been forgotten over 25 years ago.

 

[squirtyflower]

I'll have to disagree. We will never know what may have happened to JD, but the 2 albums they left, and a host of singles are excellent. I still maintain they are not average.