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r/LetsTalkMusic · u/AlarmedKale899Jul 31, 2026, 8:38 PM

Jeff Buckley's "Forget her" is so hauntingly beautiful and gut wrenchingly painful and people don't give it enough credit it deserves.

You guys I was looking at various posts and comments and i found almost no comments praising this song. It is truly gut wrenching and breath taking it is one of my favourite songs of all time. Especially the bridge omg. To me, it captures the feeling of being in love with someone who would never feel the same, and like you kind of knew from the start but was delusional, yfm?

Please tell me what you guys think! Oh and if you haven't listen to it yet please do!

Comments

u/No-Government33581Jul 31, 2026, 9:00 PM
I almost wish that Jeff Buckley never covered Hallelujah. While he did a phenomenal job in doing so, it overshadowed all of his other amazing material.
- u/BigYellowPraxis1Jul 31, 2026, 10:29 PM
  Nah, his best songs were all covers. He wasn't as good as song writer as he was a singer. Not by a long shot
  - u/curious1playing1Aug 1, 2026, 7:06 AM1 reply
- u/quiblitz1Aug 1, 2026, 12:50 AM
  Hot take: I like Buckley and his Hallelujah is beautiful but there's none of the sardonic quality that makes (both versions of) Cohen's classic great. I used to love it, but over the years I've come to regard it as a very lovely miss, partly for the fact that it is too lovely.
  - u/MexicanWarMachine1Aug 1, 2026, 5:27 AM
- u/Unlikely-Database-271Aug 1, 2026, 3:53 PM
  This is very true. In general though I find that song very overrated, so maybe I'm biased.
u/Unlikely-Database-271Jul 31, 2026, 9:01 PM
This sub is a very small corner of the music world. Jeff has gotten quite a bit of praise over the decades, did you only look here or something? Not to say you're wrong maybe this song does deserve more. But he's pretty highly regarded at the same time.
- u/halfofwhat1Aug 1, 2026, 1:54 PM
  I think OP is talking about the song Forget Her specifically, not Jeff Buckley overall.
- u/Kurta_7111Aug 1, 2026, 3:50 PM
  Notoriously obscure and underrated figure, Jeff Buckley
  - u/Unlikely-Database-271Aug 1, 2026, 3:51 PM
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u/catnapwhisper1Aug 1, 2026, 3:22 AM
What I don't like is that he didn't want that to be on his album and it originally wasnt, but when he passed they put it on there at the end against his wishes
u/Sugar_Fine1Aug 1, 2026, 5:48 AM
Forget Her was written for Grace, he replaced it with So Real. The record execs and team were pushing HARD for it to stay on the album because it was much more radio friendly, they wanted it to be the second single and a hit ballad, but Jeff hated it (possibly because it was too personal, too raw at the time, out of respect etc), and when they kept pushing it he said “if I ever hear that song again I’m going to throw up”. And that was that.
u/OwlsNotWhatTheySeem71Aug 1, 2026, 1:01 PM
CANNOT agree more this song was an immediate favourite of mine after hearing it, some of his best vocals for sure. i feel like this is true of any pre-2000s artist though- eventually their most popular songs will resurface again thanks to tiktok & insta listeners, and leave the good stuff with less attention. That being said, there are definitely plenty of his fans out there who appreciate the less well-known ones.
u/halfofwhat1Aug 1, 2026, 1:56 PM
Funnily I think this is the only song from Grace that I don't like. For me it encapsulates all of the bits and pieces of cheesiness from the rest of the album and crams it into one package. I think Grace is a fantastic album but Forget Her is not the sound of it that I love.