Jeff Buckley's Grace (33 1/3)
by Daphne A. Brooks
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Author: Daphne A. BrooksEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-04-28
ISBN: 0826416357
Number of pages: 157
Publisher: Continuum
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Summary: 1 Stars
For those who already love Jeff Buckley's album, or simply wish to enhance an appreciation of a certain line of rock music, this book will surely ring true.
However, if you don't like Jeff Buckley, or if you believe that a lot of writing about rock music (and a lot of rock music, for that matter) is not much more than an immature exercise in self pity and self indulgence--teenage tears set to music--this book will either prove virtually intolerable for more than two paragraphs...or provide the perfect kindling for your desire to look down on people who don't share your taste. It will make you angry.
The writing is the most self-indugent, feeling-driven drivel imaginable. The analysis of the music itself rarely rises above the "swirling guitar anthems echo endlessly and wrap themselves like a big warm blanket around the dizzying vocal syrup as I touch myself tenderly in this dark corner of my lonely room" variety that one would hope to encounter only in a college newspaper or the diary of a 15-year old goth chick.
Brooks places Buckley's music in the context of rock history and traces his influences, much in the fashion one would with a legitimate author (here, Brooks's literary training is a bit more evident). Well, whoopty doo. Everything has a context within the history of something--that doesn't make it worth paying attention to.
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