T/S: Tim Buckley vs. Lord Buckley

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Tim Buckley's reputation here seems pretty firmly established and rightfully so. But where's the love for fellow Bizarre/Straight labelmate Lord Buckley?

Lord Buckley's flowing hipster spiel heavily influenced Captain Beefheart's stream-of-consciousness wordplay. His "Nazz" routine provided a name for Todd Rundgren's first band. He experimented with psychedelic drugs and was at the center of LA's drug scene long before the hippies came around. And Lenny Bruce probably wouldn't have been possible without Buckley.

Now obviously the two can't be compared musically but I'm curious to see what ILM thinks of the immaculately hip aristocrat.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 14 April 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

Nice. I like how Alex in NYC's joke Buckcherry thread got more comments than this one. Nobody here has any thoughts on Lord Buckley? I can't believe there's never been a Lord Buckley thread on ILM.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 14 April 2005 04:18 (twenty years ago)

DRUNK!!!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 April 2005 07:10 (twenty years ago)

Who, me or Lord Buckley?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 14 April 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

Lord Buckley is awesome. I have a CD of some of his routines, including "The Nazz" and the one about Gandhi. Classic stuff. His hepcat slang naturally sounds a bit dated now, but I imagine he sounded like he was coming from an alternate dimension even in his heyday. Funny and inimitable.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

(God's own drunk)

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

I thought maybe he would be off-topic since what he did wasn't technically music. But when I listen to his albums I tend to absorb them more as pure sound than as a comedy routine. I mean his stories are funny if you follow them but it's also easy to just get lost in the sound and cadence of his speech.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

That's true. His voice is like a musical instrument - he seems to be almost improvising like a scat singer at times. You can listen to them as pure cadence and intonation - I guess that's how I'd hear them if I didn't speak English.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

or hip

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Check out the CD that comes with the Biography Dig Infinity!

I felt I had found a sort of skeleton key to what was being referenced by artists like Zappa, Beefheart, Bowie, Beatles, etc. after hearing his routines and reading the bio.

"He already had a gig, he was a carpenter kitty, dig."

― theophilus jones (theophilus), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

So are the band The Nazz, the Yardbirds song "Nazz Are Blue" and the Bowie line "He was the Nazz / With god given azz" all Lord Buckley references or does the word have another meaning?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

^ I would like to know this too

― immer wieder, ralf & günther (NickB), Thursday, 12 May 2011 19:46 (fourteen years ago)

Why does ilxors never want to talk Lord Buckley?

― geir was right (wk), Thursday, 12 May 2011 20:24 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

OK who can recommend the best Lord Buckley records? I want to get in.

― stop torturing me ethel (broom air), Saturday, 9 May 2015 02:20 (ten years ago)

"In concert at Carnegie hall' has "The Nazz" and "Gods own drunk"

After that, pick any, really.

― Mark G, Sunday, 10 May 2015 09:21 (ten years ago)

Thanks!

― stop torturing me ethel (broom air), Sunday, 10 May 2015 16:38 (ten years ago)

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