The Best of Tim Buckley

Infobox Album | Name = The Best of Tim Buckley
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Tim Buckley


Released = 1983
Recorded = 1967 - 1969
Genre = Folk
Length =
Label = Rhino/Bizarre
Producer = Jerry Yester, Zal Yanovsky, Tim Buckley, Denny Randall, Paul A. Rothchild, Jac Holzman
Reviews =
Last album = "The Late Great Tim Buckley" (1978)
This album = "The Best of Tim Buckley" (1983)
Next album = "" (1990)
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"The Best of Tim Buckley" is a compilation LP by Tim Buckley. It presents Buckley as a folk artist with all of the songs having been written between 1966 and 1970. The album features material from the studio albums "Tim Buckley", "Goodbye and Hello", "Happy Sad" and "Blue Afternoon", in addition to "Song to the Siren" from avant garde album "Starsailor". This was the first new release, outside of Australia after Buckley's death. The album provides an overview of Buckley's folk beginnings, excluding material from his later albums.

On October 2, 2006, the album was re-released, recompiled and remastered for a new retrospective. The new release featured a greater breadth of material from Buckley's career, including tracks from all of Buckley's studio albums. Reviews have been mixed, largely due to the problem of trying to give a retrospective of the artist while at the same time trying to include his most critically praised works. [cite web |url=http://www.tower.com/details/details.cfm?wapi=106729242 |title=The Best of Tim Buckley Review: Tower.com |accessdate=2008-04-28 ]

Track listing

Original Track ListingAll Songs By Tim Buckley unless noted otherwise:

ide one

#"Aren't You The Girl"
#"Song For Janie"
#"I Can't See You" (Larry Beckett/Buckley)
#"Carnival Song"
#"Goodbye and Hello" (Beckett/Buckley)
#"Dolphins" (Fred Neil)

ide two

#"Happy Time"
#"I Must Have Been Blind"
#"The River"
#"Strange Feelin'"
#"Song to the Siren"

2006 Rerelease

Infobox Album | Name = The Best of Tim Buckley: 2006 Rerelease
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Tim Buckley


Released = 2006
Recorded = 1967 - 1974
Genre = Folk, Jazz, Funk, Soul
Length =
Label = Rhino
Producer = Bill Inglot
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3ifoxqq5ldfe link]
Last album = "" (2001)
This album = "The Best of Tim Buckley: 2006 Rerelease" (2006)
Next album = "" (2007)

#"Aren't You the Girl" - 2:05
#"Song for Janie" - 2:46
#"I Can't See You" (Beckett/Buckley) - 2:42
#"Carnival Song" - 3:12
#"Morning Glory" (Beckett/Buckley) - 2:52
#"Goodbye and Hello" (Beckett/Buckley) - 8:40
#"Sing a Song for You" [Take 11] - 5:44
#"Once I Was" - 3:24
#"Strange Feelin'" - 7:38
#"I Had a Talk With My Woman" - 5:59
#"Happy Time" - 3:14
#"I Must Have Been Blind" - 3:45
#"The River" - 5:47
#"Song to the Siren" - 3:28
#"Dolphins" (Fred Neil) - 3:13
#"Martha" (Tom Waits) - 3:18
#"Move With Me" (Buckley/Jerry Goldstein) - 4:52
#"Look at the Fool" - 5:10