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For those of you who don't know, Jeff Buckley made one record in his lifetime, Grace. Just as his career was picking up he drowned in 1997, in the Mississippi River. He was 30. Some say he was pulled down by the wake of a passing boat, others say it was a planned suicide. In the song, "Nightmares by the Sea," (on "Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk", a record released posthumously) Buckley exhibits the haunting foreshadowing of his death. On the track you can hear Buckley eerily sing "Stay with me under these waves tonight / Be free for once in your life tonight." Jeff Buckley means everything to me. Eventhough I listen to bands like Falling Sickness, Anti-Flag, the Ramones, and MxPx, Jeff Buckley's Grace knocked all of that out of the water. Sure I love those bands, and will remain a fan of punk rock for as long as I live. Grace is a record unlike anything else. Looking for comparison is hard to do. People who are into bands like The Smiths a