Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk (studio album) by Jeff Buckley

Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk by Jeff Buckley
Year: 1998
Overall rank: 2,414th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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76/100 (from 211 votes)
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Award Top albums of 1998 (50th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (431st)
Award Best albums of all time (2,414th)
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Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk is ranked 2nd best out of 14 albums by Jeff Buckley on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Jeff Buckley is Grace which is ranked number 59 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 18,650.

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This album is rated in the top 5% 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 76.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.1.

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95/100
From 06/30/2024 18:05
Pure and utter brilliance. Somehow its incomplete natures adds to its allure and wonder
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From 05/14/2017 21:14
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.
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85/100
From 09/01/2016 09:48
First disc is strong and shows a general direction in which Buckley's sound could have progressed post-Grace. However, the 2nd disc is quite underdeveloped.
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From 10/04/2015 15:06
This works great as a double album.
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From 07/18/2015 03:43
They should've made this album limited to Disk 1 only.

And made Disk 2 a separate B-sides album.
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75/100
From 04/09/2015 18:41
Testament of an absolute genius of Nineties. I wonder what he could create if still alive...
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From 01/26/2015 00:10
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.
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From 02/20/2014 19:40
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 !
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90/100
From 07/14/2013 22:12
It's not "Grace", but there's a lot of really cool stuff going on on this album.
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From 01/29/2013 08:46
The first disc is better than Grace!
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