What is the best Buck 65 record?

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I got talkin' honky blues off soul seek the other day. It's great. Is anything better?

― Mark Jasper, Monday, 26 July 2004 10:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a big fan of Vertex, myself.

― Maciej Kasperowicz (Maciej), Monday, 26 July 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Square is pretty good. Nothing else really sounds much like THB, which, I think, is easily his best work.

― Huck, Monday, 26 July 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

his nasally high pitched voice vs. his real voice vs. his old man voice

― La Monte (La Monte), Monday, 26 July 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Vertex is def. the best, wittiest lyrics, best storytelling, riskiest musically (I think I remember him "rapping" over some free jazz at one point).

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Monday, 26 July 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

he's got a new one coming out on V2, which i think includes a few overlaps from THB. i like Square too.

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Monday, 26 July 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I've heard three or four of them (including Vertex); Talking Honky Blues is by far the best, for its stories. I think Vertex was by far second best (Man Overboard never quite clicked with me), but I may be confused, since my copy of Vertex has a different cover (a blue one) than the copy on AMG. Maybe mine is the Canadian cover; I'm not sure. Both copies have covers Roxy Music's "In Every Dream Home a Heartache," however. Not to mention lots of words about baseball, I think.

― chuck, Monday, 26 July 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I know.... it has to be the (so-far unreleased unplanned) live album where Buck regales the audience with the tall tales from Nova Scotia and more recent stories of disillusionment within the industry, stopping now and then to turn over a beat-up reggae b-side when the groove runs out. That's the Buck album I want to hear.

― nick.K (nick.K), Monday, 26 July 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Check the Sebutones (Buck and Sixtoo) 50/50 Where It Counts

― superultramega (superultramarinated), Monday, 26 July 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha, his new *This Right Here is Buck 65* just arrived in the mail! But I have not listened to it yet. It looks like a compilation of previous tracks...plus a Woody Guthrie talking blues cover!

― chuck, Monday, 26 July 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I was just telling my mom about him yesterday, trying to get across that he's not really a good rapper, but that's okay, he doesn't need to be.

― Huck, Monday, 26 July 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Hot Indie Rapper

― La Monte (La Monte), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Vertex is the one for me but you MUST see him live if you get the chance.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

"463" is the best baseball song in eons.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 April 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

since my copy of Vertex has a different cover (a blue one) than the copy on AMG. Maybe mine is the Canadian cover;

When all the albums got reissued they got new covers and a couple of remixes. Made it hell trying to find the album that I wanted when I didn't even know the real name of the song I wanted to hear (Pants on Fire on Manoverboard it turns out).

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 8 April 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

new buck 65 is a really good one [but i'm prejudiced - he's my fave Nova Scotian (sorry Ellen Page and Sid Crosby)]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1G2qNhSJSA
"final approach"

― Marquis de Sade (outdoor_miner), Sunday, 10 April 2011 21:08 (fourteen years ago)

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