Come Here Woman/I Woke Up/Monterey/Moulin Rouge/Song To The Siren/Jungle Fire/Starsailor/The Healing Festival/Down By The Borderline
Starsailor was a commercial flop for the one time folk artist Tim Buckley, unsurprising as it consists mostly of free form jazz which must have alienated his fan base.
“For those unlucky ones unfamiliar with Tim's music and his incredible voice: this is one of the most stunning, amazing pieces of music ever recorded, containing some of the most unapologetically uncompromising and unyielding, dark, fiery, eruptive and profoundly spiritual poetic vision ever offered by any popular artist.”
“Buckley's vocals are stunning even when they cross the line from energetic and spontaneous to silly. While this has picked up a reputation for being notoriously ‘of its time’, I hear just the opposite: a ruthlessly inaccessible, untrendy work of art that's aged all the better for it.”
“Starsailor was more than a commercial failure; after listening to this album, there were probably some consumers that just stopped buying music forever. They wanted to hear folk songs and they got some sort of hazy, sadistic nightmare.”
“This is basically a free-form jazz album with Tim pouring his heart and soul and giving everything he's got into his vocals. I've never heard, and will never again hear anything even close to what lies on this album. His vocal acrobatics will make your jaw drop each and every time you hear them.”
“What makes a human being with so obvious a gift, want to stretch his natural abilities to their breaking point and create such challenging music when he could simply coast to glory on his honeyed vocal chords? It is this restless spirit that separates talent from genius.”
“Starsailor is an accomplishment which is respectable but also deeply inaccessible. Drifting away from his folk-rock moorings more or less completely, Buckley unleashes the most wildly experimental album of his career to date. I'm glad someone made this kind of album, but it isn't necessarily fun to listen to.”
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