Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk

Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk
Studio album by Jeff Buckley
Released May 26, 1998
Recorded Summer 1996, New York; Spring 1997, Memphis
Genre
Length 91:46
Label Columbia
Producer
Jeff Buckley chronology
Live from the Bataclan
(1996)
Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk
(1998)
Mystery White Boy
(2000)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The A.V. Club(Favorable)[2]
Pitchfork Media(8.9/10)[3]
Rolling Stone[4]
Slant Magazine[5]

Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk is a collection of polished studio tracks and four-track demos recorded by Jeff Buckley. Buckley was dissatisfied with material recorded in the summer of 1996 and early in 1997 and continued working on demo recordings to refine his sound. The album was to be titled My Sweetheart, the Drunk, but was never finished, as the rest of the band were traveling to meet Buckley at the time of his death. The album was released posthumously on May 26, 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 album's original sessions were produced by Television frontman Tom Verlaine.

"My Sweetheart the Drunk" was the working title that Buckley used 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). This was because Jeff's work was not finished, and therefore was just an outline, or "sketch," of what would have been released.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Jeff Buckley; except where indicated

  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 Grøndahl, Michael Tighe) – 3:12
  10. "You & I" – 5:39
  1. "Nightmares by the Sea" [Original Mix] – 3:49
  2. "New Year's Prayer" [Original Mix] – 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) (recorded 1992.10.11 WFMU) – 6:00

International (non-US) editions of Disc 2 include the bonus track "Gunshot Glitter" (Jeff Buckley) as Track 7 for a total of 21 tracks. The Japanese edition of Disc 2 also includes the bonus track "Thousand Fold" (Jeff Buckley) as Track 11 for a total of 22 tracks.[6]

Personnel

Charts

Album

Chart Position
US[7] 64
Australia[8] 1
Belgium[9] 13
France[10] 6
Netherlands[11] 62
New Zealand[12] 7
Norway[13] 10
Sweden[14] 29
UK[15] 7

Singles

Year Single Chart Position
1998 "Everybody Here Wants You" Australian Top 100[16] 35
UK Singles Chart[15] 43

Miscellaneous

References

  1. AllMusic review
  2. The A.V. Club review
  3. "Jeff Buckley: Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk: Pitchfork Review". pitchforkmedia.com. Archived from the original on 22 January 2001.
  4. Fricke, David. "Album Review: Jeff Buckley - Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on March 6, 2007. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
  5. "Music - Slant Magazine". slantmagazine.com. Archived from the original on November 6, 2002.
  6. Kane, Rebecca (1999). "Kingdom For A Kiss - The JB F.A.Q.: Sketches". Retrieved 2007-05-24.
  7. "US: Albums". allmusic.com. Retrieved 28 December 2008.
  8. "Australia: Albums". australian-charts.com. Retrieved 28 December 2008.
  9. "Belgium: Albums". www.ultratop.be. Retrieved 28 December 2008.
  10. "France: Albums". lescharts.com. Retrieved 28 December 2008.
  11. "Netherlands: Albums". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 28 December 2008.
  12. "New Zealand: Albums". charts.org.nz. Retrieved 28 December 2008.
  13. "Norway: Albums". norwegiancharts.com. Retrieved 28 December 2008.
  14. "Sweden: Albums". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 28 December 2008.
  15. 1 2 "UK Chartlog". zobbel.de. Retrieved 28 December 2008.
  16. "Australia: Singles". Australian-charts.com. Retrieved 28 December 2008.
Preceded by
The Wedding Singer: Music from the Motion Picture
by Various artists
Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album
17–23 May 1998
Succeeded by
Yourself or Someone Like You
by Matchbox 20
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