Goodbye and Hello

With each listen I liked this one a little more. Some standout songs for me were Pleasant Street, I Never Asked to be Your Mountain, and the title track.

60's psychedelic music is to songs as bitters or Malort are to cocktails. They are to be used extremely sparingly otherwise they will overpower the entire thing and absolutely destroy the palette.

Most of this album is just fine (tm), but when it's bad (Such as on Carnival Song), it's because the whole song is 100% in on psychedelic (bitters). I don't understand why bands/artists in the 60's thought slow as mud ren faire music where they drunkenly wail and slur their words over the whole song was good. And every band had one. Or meandering songs that go absolutely nowhere (Hallucinations).

The 60's had great music, for sure, but short of the 80's (Which I used to think was the worst, but have come to appreciate more with this project), I can't think of a decade that had a higher concentration of music that is god awful, yet still is considered influential and good. IMO, 60's psychedelic music was not all that often good, and often absolute trash (Robert Plant, I like you, but your love of The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter is inexcusable). Why is it highly revered? I get it's experimental, but experimentalism by itself is not necessarily good.

Additionally, I don't know what instrument it is, but it sounds like a sitar (Despite me not being able to find a sitar used in the album in the liner notes). So I can only assume it's a guitar used to imitate a sitar (Maybe a slide guitar?). Either way, another sin of 60's psychedelia is all the Americans and Brits having to bring in eastern instruments into their music (With no experience in the culture of those instruments), and it always comes off as cringe and appropriating to me. We need to take those instruments away from them, Jesus Christ.

ANYWAYS. That's my giant rant on 60's psychedelic music. I know I've complained a lot before, but never really this in depth. Carnival Song kinda forced me.

But like I said, overall, most of this album is just fine. In fact, it has some pretty great tracks as well. Pleasant Street (Even if the crescendo choruses do dip into a little too much of the psychedelic sound I can't stand). Pantasmagoria in Two is great too. Basically when the album sticks to it's lane as a folk album, it's great. When it decides it wants to sound like a Monty Python skit such as in Knight-Errant, it sucks, and it sucks hard.

Goodbye and Hello is one of the few ren faire-y songs that somewhat works due to how folksy it is, until you get to the higher energy verses, similar to Pleasant Street.

So yeah. This is an album that's very back and forth. A couple pretty great tracks. A couple fine tracks. And some truly awful examples of shitty 60's psychedelia. As good as Pleasant Street is (Might actually playlist it, shockingly), I don't think it's good enough to escape getting a 2 from me.

I didn’t think this was very good.

Feels weird enjoying this medieval-ass music so much considering I'm nigh certain music in the medieval era sounded nothing like this in any of the countries I hail from.

Not my thing

This album has a pretty different vibe than the last Tim Buckley album that was generated. Where Happy Sad was a maudlin folk and jazz fusion, Goodbye and Hello has a lot more psychedelic and fantasy/renaissance influence and feels a bit happier. Overall, enjoyed this one quite a bit. Probably a little more than Happy Sad even.

Yo creo que ya hice este chiste con otro disco de él, pero en mi opinión y para mi gusto lo mejor que hizo fue su hijo. Y ya.

Why did so many folk singers in the 60’s decide that singing as pretentiously as possible was a good thing? The style of music often reminds me of a Ren faire. Not one I ever want to listen to again.

I like this one more than the earlier albums. The psychedelia elements are really cool and his vocals really shine here.