Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk

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Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk
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Studio album by Jeff Buckley
Released May 26, 1998
Recorded Summer 1996/Spring 97; New York /Memphis
Genre Alternative
Length 91:46
Label Columbia
Producer(s) Nicholas Hill
Tom Verlaine
Professional reviews
Jeff Buckley chronology
Live from the Batacan
(1996)		 Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk
(1998)		 Mystery White Boy
(2000)


Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk, is a collection of both a complete album and four-track demos recorded by Jeff Buckley. Not being completely satisfied with an album recorded in the summer of 1996, and early in 1997, he had begun work on many demos and had been reworking the already finished material to gain the sound he was hoping to achieve. To be titled My Sweetheart, the Drunk, the album was never finished, as the rest of the band were traveling to meet Buckley at the time of his death. It was released posthumously on 26 May 1998 (see 1998 in music). Despite its unfinished state, the album garnered many positive reviews; The Onion's AV Club called it "frustratingly incomplete, but mostly remarkable". The production of this album was overseen by Chris Cornell.

"My Sweetheart the Drunk" was the working title that Jeff Buckley was using while writing and recording the album; the title was intended by his mother and sole heir of his estate, Mary Guibert, to be rendered with parentheses, as Sketches (for My Sweetheart the Drunk), because Jeff's work was not finished, and therefore was just an outline, or "sketch", of what would have been released, had Jeff been able to complete this project.

Unauthorized recordings have surfaced of other material Jeff considered for the album, including a 4-track demo of "Witches' Rave", A previously unheard track called "Let's Bomb the Moonlight", and an original song called "You and I" that bears no relation to the released song of the same title. Other tracks, including a song called "Sky Blue Skin" (which has been confirmed to exist by Michael Tighe), have not yet surfaced.

Q placed it at #3 on their list of '10 Albums You Will Never Get Around to Playing Ever Again. Ever.'

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Jeff Buckley, except where noted

  • Disc One
  1. "The Sky Is a Landfill" (Jeff Buckley, Michael Tighe) – 5:09
  2. "Everybody Here Wants You" – 4:46
  3. "Opened Once" – 3:29
  4. "Nightmares by the Sea" – 3:53
  5. "Yard of Blonde Girls" (Audrey Clark, Lori Kramer, Inger Lorre) – 4:07
  6. "Witches' Rave" – 4:40
  7. "New Year's Prayer" – 4:40
  8. "Morning Theft" – 3:39
  9. "Vancouver" (Jeff Buckley, Mick Grondahl, Michael Tighe) – 3:12
  10. "You and I" – 5:39

Hidden Tracks:Gunshot Glitter, and Thousand Fold.

  • Disc Two
  1. "Nightmares by the Sea" (Unmixed) – 3:49
  2. "New Year's Prayer" (Unmixed) – 4:10
  3. "Haven't You Heard" – 4:07
  4. "I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby (If We Wanted to Be)" – 4:27
  5. "Murder Suicide Meteor Slave" – 5:55
  6. "Back in N.Y.C." (Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, Mike Rutherford) – 7:37
  7. "Demon John" (Jeff Buckley, Michael Tighe) – 5:13
  8. "Your Flesh Is So Nice" – 3:37
  9. "Jewel Box" – 3:37
  10. "Satisfied Mind" (Red Hayes, Jack Rhodes) – 6:00

[edit] Samples

[edit] Personnel

  • Jeff Buckley - guitar, vocals
  • Eric Eidel - drums
  • Benjamin Goldstein -
  • Mick Grondahl - bass
  • Parker Kindred - drums
  • Chris Theodore -
  • Michael Tighe - guitar
  • Producers: Nicholas Hill, Tom Verlaine
  • Engineers: Jeff Buckley, Michael J. Clouse, Ray Martin, Irene Trudel
  • Assistant engineers: Jim Caruana, Joe Lizzi, David Seitz
  • Mixing: Tom Cadley, Michael J. Clouse, Mary Guibert, Tom Verlaine, Andy Wallace
  • Mixing assistant: Steve Sisco
  • Art direction: Nicky Lindeman, Gail Marowitz
  • Design: Nicky Lindeman, Gail Marowitz
  • Photography: Merri Cyr
  • Liner notes: Bill Flanagan, Mary Guibert

[edit] Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year Chart Position
1998 The Billboard 200 64

[edit] Miscellaneous

  • Swedish Gothic Rock band Katatonia recorded a cover of "Nightmares by the Sea", which appeared on the "Tonight's Decision" album and then later on "The Black Sessions" compilation.
Jeff Buckley
Discography
Studio albums: Grace | Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk | Songs to No One 1991-1992
Live albums & Eps: Live at Sin-é | Live from the Bataclan | Mystery White Boy | Live a L'Olympia | The Grace EPs | Live at Sin-é (Legacy Edition) | Live in Chicago
Singles: Grace | Last Goodbye | So Real | Everybody Here Wants You | Forget Her
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