Everybody Here Wants You

"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".[4] 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.

"Everybody Here Wants You"
Single by Jeff Buckley
from the album Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk
ReleasedMay 18, 1998
Recorded1996
Genre
Length4:47
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Jeff Buckley
Producer(s)
Jeff Buckley singles chronology
"Eternal Life"
(1995)
"Everybody Here Wants You"
(1998)
"Forget Her"
(2004)

Track listing edit

  1. "Everybody Here Wants You"
  2. "Thousand Fold"
  3. "Eternal Life" (Road Version)
  4. "Hallelujah" (live from the Bataclan)
  5. "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)

Charts edit

Chart performance for "Everybody Here Wants You"
Chart (1998) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[5] 35
UK Singles (OCC)[6] 43

References edit

  1. ^ Hochman, Steve (May 25, 1998). "Buckley's Restless Spirit, Rich Music Preserved". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on May 10, 2018. Retrieved February 28, 2022.
  2. ^ "The 50 Best Albums of 1998". Pitchfork. February 12, 2018. Retrieved February 28, 2022.
  3. ^ Dombal, Ryan (December 11, 2016). "Jeff Buckley: Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk". Pitchfork. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  4. ^ Schiller, Rebecca (October 6, 2011). "150 Best Tracks Of The Past 15 Years". NME. Retrieved December 8, 2021.
  5. ^ "Jeff Buckley – Everybody Here Wants You". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  6. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 10 October 2023.

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