Everybody Here Wants You
| "Everybody Here Wants You" | ||||
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| Single by Jeff Buckley | ||||
| from the album Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk | ||||
| Released | May 1998 | |||
| Recorded | 1996 | |||
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| Length | 4:47 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Jeff Buckley | |||
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| Jeff Buckley singles chronology | ||||
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"Everybody Here Wants You" is the second track on the posthumous Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk album release by Jeff Buckley. It was written as a love song for Joan Wasser, his girlfriend at the time. In October 2011, NME placed it at number 88 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".[1] Kylie Auldist recorded a cover version with The Bamboos for the album "Just Say" (TRUCD159) as did the French band MIG (vocalist: Djazia Satour) on their 2004 album Dhikrayat and Lewis Taylor on his 2000 album Lewis_II. The single was nominated for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance at 41st Annual Grammy Awards in 1999.
Track listing
- "Everybody Here Wants You"
- "Thousand Fold"
- "Eternal Life" (Road Version)
- "Hallelujah" (live from the Bataclan)
- "Last Goodbye" (live from Sydney)
The Australian version includes an interactive component (the same as that featured on other countries' versions of Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk)
References
- Browne, David. Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley. HarperEntertainment. 2001, 2002.