Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk Jeff Buckley

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  • Release Date: 05/26/1998
  • 2 Disc Set
  • Sales Rank: 27,673
  • Label: SONY
  • UPC: 074646722824

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Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk

Disc 1
1LISTENThe Sky Is a Landfill 5:09
2LISTENEverybody Here Wants You 4:46
3LISTENOpened Once 3:29
4LISTENNightmares by the Sea 3:53
5LISTENYard of Blonde Girls 4:07
6LISTENWitches' Rave 4:40
7LISTENNew Year's Prayer 4:40
8LISTENMorning Theft 3:39
9LISTENVancouver 3:12
10LISTENYou and I 5:39

Disc 2
1LISTENNightmares by the Sea 3:49
2LISTENNew Year's Prayer 4:10
3LISTENHaven't You Heard 4:07
4LISTENI Know We Could Be So Happy Baby (If We Wanted to Be) 4:27
5LISTENMurder Suicide Meteor Slave 5:55
6LISTENBack in N.Y.C. 7:37
7LISTENDemon John 5:13
8LISTENYour Flesh Is So Nice 3:37
9LISTENJewel Box 3:37
10LISTENSatisfied Mind Live 6:00

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Jeff Buckley was a mess of contradictions: a perfectionist who believed in spontaneity, a man who was at once humble and vain, a musician who shunned his father's tumultuous legacy while creating one of his own. These are some of the reasons why he took his time writing and recording the material for his second album, laboring over many songs for months at a time. Given such painstaking methods, it shouldn't have been a surprise that recording was an equally fastidious process. Buckley recorded enough material for an album with producer Tom Verlaine, but deciding that the results weren't quite right, he scrapped them and moved to Memphis to record the album again. He reworked a few songs as home demos as he prepared to cut the album, but it was never made -- Buckley died in a tragic drowning accident before entering the studio. As a way to enlarge his legacy, his mother and record label rounded up the majority of the existing unreleased recordings, releasing them as the double-disc set Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk. Excepting a few awkward moments and middle-eights, it's hard to see why Buckley rejected the Verlaine productions that make up disc one. The material isn't necessarily a progression from Grace; it's more like a stripped-down, edgier take on the sweeping, jazz-tinged goth folk-rock that made the first album so distinctive. Neither the nearly finished first disc nor the homemade demos and re-recordings on the second disc offer any revelations, but that's not necessarily a disappointment. Sketches adds several wonderful songs to his catalog, offering further proof of his immense talent. And that, of course, is what makes the album as sad as it is exciting. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunkby Anonymous

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February 22, 2006: i'm gonna put 5 even though on average you hear of 4 cuz the project wasnt realised. but there's so much here, subtle or upfront-- lyrically or musically-- the 2nd disc being obvious drafts are a bit more difficult and slower to access-- but they are accesible. after a few listens to disk 2, you can hear implied structures for other arranging and i find it pretty damn inspiring-- also along a darker vain than the 1st disc's studio cuts. and the 1st speaks for itself-- perhaps the most ritualistic in rhythm, New Year's Prayer is one with such subtle nuance and the notes he painted with his voice are chilling-- i wonder if something was meant to fill the trancing drum interlude, but then it seems all the more raw and real with the pulsating rhythm alone.// jeff aranges-- and the guitar is a utility for that. there's care in the songs. i'll leave it at that though i wish to say more. listen-- take a break-- listen again-- there's not much like it-- jus the same as his Grace.

Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunkby Anonymous

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December 14, 2000: I discovered Jeff's music after learning that Christ Cornell's song Wave Goodbye was a tribute to Jeff. I bought Grace just for the hell of it, and it was only $8. Since then, I have listened to every Jeff Buckley song, studio and live and unreleased, many times. After all of these listening experiences, it is the 4-track demos on Disc 2 of this set that inspire me the most as a musician. The spirituality he found in music jumps off of these recordings. Disc 1 has some incredible moments, notably Vancouver, Witches Rave, Opened Once and And You & I. Obviously anyone who liked Grace should get this, but definitely any new listener should get Grace first, one of the top five albums, ever. Sketches is a haunting and beautiful album, but the feeling after Disc 1 is that Jeff was still presenting himself, still working towards his great epic, and still setting the stage for what could have been perhaps a concept album or grand epic masterpiece. Often Disc 1 seems more mainstream than I would have liked, but Disc 2 assures me of Jeff's originality. It doesn't get a 5th star for me, because I would reserve that for a completed Sweetheart. Questions? Comments?


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