Everybody Here Wants You
Jeff Buckley
Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk, 2005
This is pretty off the beaten path from my usual soul/hip hop posts but I’ve been listening to this song all week and why limit myself, right? Jeff Buckley is a pretty known quantity and I don’t know that much about him so this will be a short.
My good friend dale put me onto Jeff Buckley’s heart-breaking live version of “Last Goodbye” (”kiss me out of desire not consolation” gets me every time) four or five years ago. I eventually picked up Grace and Mystery White Boy but i didn’t realize he had a posthumous album until I saw it at another friend’s house last week. Then I realized that I used to own it before I knew who he was…and I gave it away while trying to clear out a glut non-essential free cds from when I used to work at Sony. I guess I always figured there might be something in there that I would regret…
Well, I’ve listened through it once and I don’t love every song (as is the case with his other albums) but it contains this jewel which is plenty to make me wonder what else I’ve given away without listening to over the years.
>> right-click to download “Everybody Here Wants You” [6.7 MB].
