Jeff Buckley - Sketches (For My Sweetheart the Drunk)
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Artist: Jeff BuckleyEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-05-26
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- The Sky Is A Landfill
- Everybody Here Wants You
- Opened Once
- Nightmares By The Sea
- Yard Of Blonde Girls
- Witches' Rave
- New Year's Prayer
- Morning Theft
- Vancouver
- You & I
- Nightmares By The Sea
- New Year's Prayer
- Haven't You Heard
- I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby (If We Wanted To Be)
- Murder Suicide Meteor Slave
- Back In N.Y.C.
- Demon John
- Your Flesh Is So Nice
- Jewel Box
- Satisfied Mind
Free Music Notes for Sketches (For My Sweetheart the Drunk)
Free Music Review: A Two Disc Masterpiece : It just might be better than "Grace"...
Hit: 5 Stars
I cannot believe the negative and unfortunate reviews here for this album. Do so many people really feel cheated by this CD, calling it a bunch of rough demos? That is just insane!
Heres the thing - this is a very superior collection of songs that in no way can be called demos. Just because they aren't of the highly polished variety such as the ones on 'Grace' in no way makes these recordings inferior.
Take for instance the second track - 'Everybody here wants you' - is there a single more touching torch song in the entire Jeff Buckley catalog? I don't think so. What a song. What a melody. What a voice! That song alone is the worth the $15 asking price for this CD.
Needless to say, I am a huge Jeff Buckley fan, and consider 'Grace' to be the greatest male album ever recorded. However, repeated listening to this double disc might make you wonder if THIS isn't Jeff's best. It is much more musically versatile when compared to 'Grace', and its also very diverse in his vocal stylings. Theres rock (very Led Zep), alternative (very cold play), soul (very Maxwell), love-pop (very Barbra Streisand), and blues (very Nina Simone). Tell me of another album that does all these genres this well.
People, this is a masterpiece and a necessary addition to your collection. Get it today. Don't let this one slip you by.
Five Stars - A timeless classic.
Sketches (For My Sweetheart the Drunk) Poster
Culled both from studio sessions that his friends maintain he wasn't pleased with, and from four-track demo tapes never intended for public consumption, Sketches is an unfair representation of Jeff Buckley's musical world. At times quite touching ("Morning Theft, "Jewel Box"), the 2 CD set illustrates the stylistic struggle Buckley was confronting before he drowned last year at 30. His wiry voice was well- suited for gospel music, but his instincts were underdeveloped ("Satisfied Mind"). He couldn't rock without getting fancy, and the mellow material ("Everybody Here Wants You") touches on "lite" FM. The second disc features mostly home studio noodlings that might have been interesting on a box set looking over many years' output. As his last recordings, they point out a strong imagination that never had the time to grow into a unified vision. --Rob O'ConnorAlternative Rock Music CDs
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