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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. Disc One "The Sky Is a Landfill" (Jeff Buckley, Michael Tighe) – 5:09 "Everybody Here Wants You" – 4:46 "Opened Once" – 3:29 "Nightmares by the Sea" – 3:53 "Yard of Blonde Girls" (Audrey Clark, Lori Kramer, Inger Lorre) – 4:07 "Witches' Rave" – 4:40 "New Year's Prayer" – 4:40 "Morning Theft" – 3:39 "Vancouver" (Jeff Buckley, Mick Grøndahl, Michael Tighe) – 3:12 "You & I" – 5:39 Disc Two "Nightmares by the Sea" [Original Mix] – 3:49 "New Year's Prayer" [Original Mix] – 4:10 "Haven't You Heard" – 4:07 "I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby (If We Wanted to Be)" – 4:27 "Murder Suicide Meteor Slave" – 5:55 "Back in N.Y.C." (Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, Mike Rutherford) – 7:37 "Demon John" (Jeff Buckley, Michael Tighe) – 5:13 "Your Flesh Is So Nice" – 3:37 "Jewel Box" – 3:37 "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. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketches...