Gary LucasBest Gary Lucas Albums Ranked
5.3
Avg Score
3
Opinions
2
Albums
3
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Summary from 3 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Gary Lucas’s catalog across 2 albums from 3 opinions, with an overall average of 5.3/10. The top-rated Gary Lucas album is The Edge of Heaven (2009) with a 7.9/10 average from 1 rating, followed by Songs to No One 1991-1992. The discography on Rate.fm spans 2002 to 2009.
The Edge of Heaven
“It all comes back to a good melody, doesn't it? I don't want to come off like a bitter traditionalist, but I can hardly blame anyone who thinks the highest goal of the avant-garde composer is to disguise or avoid melody. Dismiss it if you will, but avoiding melody isn't actually very easy to do for long. Harmonies and rhythms will come and go, and differ between scenes, eras and cultures with no g”
Songs to No One 1991-1992
“As it turns out, Gary Lucas' contributions to many of Jeff Buckley's shining moments amounted to much more than just giving him an outlet to unleash his velvet-savage croon fronting the pre-*Grace* quartet Gods & Monsters, or helping him along with his songs. In fact, the music for some of Buckley's signature tunes like "Grace" and "Mojo Pin" was almost completely composed by Lucas. As the posthum”
Songs to No One 1991-1992
“In the early nineties, two restlessly inventive musicians, Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas, both haunted by phantoms from the Sixties, crossed a generation gap and made a ghostly sound together. Lucas had been a guitarist for blues freak Captain Beefheart; Buckley was the immensely talented singer-songwriter son of the late, great singer-songwriter Tim Buckley. These […]”