the best songs ever

[Eric the Green]

Connections between artists and songs is always interesting, especially when founded on the fountain year of pop music, 1966. Besides Suzanne, Leonard Cohen's best-known song is also a candidate for "best-ever" according to most critics, and I like it too. But what date would one assign to it? He worked on it for many years of the late Awakening/2T, then released it in 1984, but it remained unknown until it was covered by other artists; eventually over 300 of them.




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallelujah...ohen_song)

The most popular and acclaimed version was apparently only released posthumously or became popular at the very start of the 4T in 2008. It has 74 million you tube views. It's by Jeff Buckley, who is the son of Tim Buckley, whose acclaimed 1967 work I sampled above. But typical boomer Tim abandoned this typical Gen Xer, who says he was treated like trash in childhood. But fortunately he was raised in a musical family. He was born on Nov.17, 1966, just a few days after the solar eclipse in which all planets formed the peace symbol, right during the peak of sixties creativity and recording I have mentioned. Both Buckleys died young, rather impulsively; Tim in a drug overdose and Jeff in a drowning. Both were exceptionally good-looking young guys too.





Tim recorded a highly-acclaimed album called "Grace" in 1994. So maybe there's some "good 3T music" on it. I have no opinion yet, never having heard it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Buckley