EPISODE · Aug 3, 2020 · 22 MIN
261 Tim Buckley - Greetings From LA
from 1001 Album Club · host Birch
Buckley fans are split on this album but we aren't. There are plenty of soul/ funk albums that would seem to be more appropriate than another Tim Buckley album that want's to be a Blaxploitation soundtrack. but that is what the book has. "Tim Buckley: Greetings from L.A. (Warner Bros., 1972) Perverse as it may seem, Buckley's mannered, androgynous moan has real erotic appeal for some, and here it turns a trick. This is rock pornography if anything is, complete with whips, foot fetishes, meat racks, and salacious gasps, and while I wouldn't call the band hard-core, it definitely fills the groove." - Robert Christgau
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Buckley fans are split on this album but we aren't. There are plenty of soul/ funk albums that would seem to be more appropriate than another Tim Buckley album that want's to be a Blaxploitation soundtrack. but that is what the book has. "Tim Buckley: Greetings from L.A. (Warner Bros., 1972) Perverse as it may seem, Buckley's mannered, androgynous moan has real erotic appeal for some, and here it turns a trick. This is rock pornography if anything is, complete with whips, foot fetishes, meat racks, and salacious gasps, and while I wouldn't call the band hard-core, it definitely fills the groove." - Robert Christgau
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