Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk
by Jeff Buckley
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Jeff Buckley bestography
Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk is ranked 2nd best out of 16 albums by Jeff Buckley on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Jeff Buckley is Grace which is ranked number 54 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 17,499.
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Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 1998 | 76/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Romanelli | My Overall Chart: 2701-2789 | 63/89 | - |
| 2026 |  Rhyner | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 49/100 | 10 |
| 2026 |  sszwalbenest | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 94/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 72 Music Albums of 1998 | 49/72 | 2 |
| 2026 |  craola | Top 20 Music Albums of 1998 | 3/20 | 5 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Q magazine Recordings Of The Year 1998 | 10/50 | - |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 80 Music Albums of 1998 | 28/80 | 3 |
| 2026 |  seb7 | Top 99 Music Albums of the 1990s | 4/99 | 19 |
| 2026 | Juneof44 | Top 50 Music Albums of 1998 | 4/50 | 5 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 154 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 726 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/01/2026 04:18 | Rivera | 2,053 | 82/100 |
| ! | 05/30/2026 02:14 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,080 | 70/100 |
| ! | 04/29/2026 08:03 | Juneof44 | 2,631 | 69/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.3/100, a mean average of 75.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.8.
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Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 07/12/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5371): By seb7 Romanelli 09/12/2024 22:24 in The Romanelli Music Diary: The Greatest Hits Romanelli 07/19/2024 16:35 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk comments
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Despite its incompletion, 'Sketches of My Sweetheart the Drunk' is a very worthy follow-up to 'Grace'. It's bold, daring, and yet somehow, still maintains that wonderful, beautiful quality that was always a constant throughout his music. Tim, his father, would've been very proud.
Testament of an absolute genius of Nineties. I wonder what he could create if still alive...
Jasperjames 02/20/2014 19:40 | #103756 | TOP COMMENT
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He didn't want to release it but it's all we got following his death. It stands up despite this. I haven't listened to this album in 13 years ..... It just makes me sad still !
The Sky Is A Landfill may be the best song he ever wrote, or at least my personal favorite. Based on the first ten songs it sounds like Jeff was about to eclipse Grace and pass it by; carrying on with his wondrous musical evolution. The fact that these songs were considered unfinished or inferior recordings to Jeff astounds me. He was definitely a perfectionist. The second disc veers into more experimental demo-tape territory, but even then it's better than a lot of music out today. The final track ends with one of his live performances of "Satisfied Mind"; another cover that he completely makes his own and is even better than the famous Hallelujah cover, in my mind.
RockyRaccoon TOP 100 COMMENTER 07/14/2013 22:12 | #81438 | TOP COMMENT
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It's not "Grace", but there's a lot of really cool stuff going on on this album.
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