.Death, where is your sting?Your power is as dead as my sinThe cross has taught me to liveAnd mercy, my heart now to sing.The day and its trouble shall comeI know that Your strength is enoughThe scandal of grace, You died in my placeSo my soul will live.Oh to be like YouGive...
it was also a shining, beautiful moment plucked from the here and now. This lad, Jeff Buckley, son of folk-rock icon Tim Buckley, seemed to pledge no allegiance to the flannel-clad Nirvana wannabes of the day. Not only could the dude...
If there was, then throw your stash away — that shit’s been laced. After a quiet, wandering intro, Matt Pike’s tectonic guitar tone smashes through the speakers, sending out a riff-transmission to Black Sabbath that screams, “How’d you miss this one?” Oh, and how about the lyri...
During the fourth week of December of last year, two versions of Cohen’s “Hallelujah”—one by Jeff Buckley and one by Alexandra Burke, a winning contestant on the British talent show “X Factor”—occupied the No. 1 and No. 2 slots on the U.K. charts. Cohen’s lyrics stand up ...