Jeff Buckley "Grace" [2004]

Answers the unasked question: What would Led Zeppelin sound like if they were a bunch of homosexuals? Every thunderous beat is manicured, every soaring wail a sobbing lament. Buckley approaches Robert Plant via Judy Garland -- not an easy trick, but one which anyone with ears would do well to avoid for all eternity. That Buckley was able to do something with Leonard Cohen's ghastly, punny "Hallelujia" (only Jackson Browne could find more stinky ways to rhyme the name of his song) speaks volumes: there is no "there" there. It's all phony ghosts and ginned-up emotion from the saddest clown of the undeservedly depressed circus that was mid-90s rock.