| "The Sky Is a Landfill" | ||||
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| Song by Jeff Buckley from the album Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk | ||||
| Released | May 26th, 1998 | |||
| Recorded | 1996, 1997 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Length | 5:09 | |||
| Label | Sony Music/Columbia | |||
| Writer | Jeff Buckley | |||
| Producer | Tom Verlaine | |||
| Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk track listing | ||||
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"The Sky Is a Landfill" is the first track on the posthumous Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk album release by Jeff Buckley. Two live recordings from performances at the New York's The Knitting Factory and Arlene's Grocery in 1997 can be found online and feature different lyrics.
Written by Buckley and bandmate Michael Tighe, who he had worked with on "So Real", the track has a different tone to many songs from his début album Grace, taking on a heavier, rocky tone.
Buckley was friends with the American political reporter Al Giordano. Unhappy with what he saw as the decline of journalism in the U.S., Giordano wrote an essay to that effect called "The Medium Is the Middleman", which Buckley adapted into "The Sky Is a Landfill". Shortly after that, Giordano moved to Mexico, where he initiated the series of narco/politico/economic blogs most currently represented by "The Field", http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/.