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* [[Break Up Song]] - "Last Goodbye" and "Lover You Should've Come Over"
* [[Calling the Old Man Out]] - "Dream Brother", in a roundabout way. The song itself is warning to a friend who was self-destructing, but Buckley makes reference to his own father (who walked out on Jeff and his mother when she was still pregnant and died of a drug overdose before Jeff turned 10).
** This is not to imply that his father was a failure of a person, though. His father was Tim Buckley (no, not [[Ctrl
*** Tim Buckley was a [[Disappeared Dad]] to Jeff. He met him only once and the lyric "don't be like the one who made me so old" is a subtle but clear [[Take That]].
**** Additionally, at at least one live performance of this song, he adds an additional few lines in just before one of the verses, one of which is "you're just like him" [[It Got Worse|several times]].
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* [[Celebrity Resemblance]]: Jeff has a pretty striking likeness to James Franco.
* [[The Cover Changes the Gender]] - Thoroughly and repeatedly averted.
* [[Cover Version]] - He had quite a few... "Lilac Wine", "Corpus Christi Carol", "Yard of Blonde Girls", [[Genesis (
* [[Dead Artists Are Better]] - Sadly, Buckley didn't achieve widespread success until after his drowning.
* [[Disppeared Dad]]: Sadly Jeff never got to know his father Tim who died in when he eight from drugs.
* [[Epic Rocking]] - There exists a 26 minute version of "Kanga Roo" that pretty much plays this to the letter.
** Also, Buckley's cover of "Back in N.Y.C.", originally written by [[
** Jeff had a couple of songs with special live remixes called "Chocolate" versions. The most famous of these are "Mojo Pin" and "Kanga Roo". The former can easily be found on [[YouTube]]. The latter not so much.
* [[Everything Sounds Sexier in French]] - Jeff's cover of "Je N'en Connais Pas La Fin", originally written by [[Edith Piaf]].
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** Also many of his songs of of "Sketches", with "I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby (If We Wanted To Be)" particularly standing out.
** Not to mention "Forget Her", which Buckley wrote after breaking up with his girlfriend. As a result, the song brought up such painful memories that he refused to include it on his first album (It was eventually released on the Legacy Edition of "Grace", however).
* [[Intercourse
* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]] - A lot of his [[E Ps]] and live albums have either gone out of print or are really hard to find.
** Fans like to collect bootlegs of his recorded concerts on DVD and CD. His mother doesn't do much to stop this as she thinks this helps to spread his name out there.
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* [[One-Hit Wonder]] - Technically: "Last Goodbye" was his only chart appearance in his lifetime, peaking at #19 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks (now Alternative Songs) chart. However, based on the song's fame, "Hallelujah."
* [[Real Song Theme Tune]] - "New Year's Prayer" was used as the theme to the first three seasons of ''[[The Dead Zone]]''.
* [[Sex, Drugs and Rock
** This doesn't mean he never did drugs though. In a few interviews he was quoted that he was a light drug user.
** This was played tragically straight for his Father Tim (Also a famous musician) who died of a Heroin Overdose when Jeff was eight.
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