This is a discography for the American singer-songwriter and guitarist Jeff Buckley.
| Jeff Buckley discography | |
|---|---|
| Studio albums | 1 |
| EPs | 3 |
| Live albums | 8 |
| Compilation albums | 10 |
| Box sets | 1 |
Albums
editStudio album
edit| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [1] |
US Heat [1] |
AUS [2] |
BEL [3] |
CAN [4] |
FRA [5] |
IRL [6] |
NLD [7] |
NOR [8] |
UK [9] | |||
| Grace |
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149 | 5 | 9 | 39 | 67 | 47 | 14 | 84 | 38 | 31 | |
Compilation albums
edit| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [1] |
AUS [2] |
BEL [3] |
FRA [5] |
GER [15] |
IRL [6] |
NLD [7] |
NOR [8] |
NZL [16] |
UK [9] | |||
| Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk |
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64 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 93 | — | 62 | 10 | 7 | 7 | |
| Songs to No One 1991–1992 |
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— | — | — | 34 | — | — | — | — | — | 191 [18] |
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| So Real: Songs from Jeff Buckley |
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— | 26 | 29 | 14 | — | 1 | 52 | — | 25 | 16 | |
| Grace + EPs 1996–1997 |
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| The Jeff Buckley Collection |
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| Original Album Classics |
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| Jeff Buckley: Music & Photos |
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| Playlist: The Very Best of Jeff Buckley |
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| You and I[21] |
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58 | 2 | 16 | 17 | 85 | 22 | 12 | — | 15 | 16 | |
| In Transition |
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Live albums
edit| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [1] |
AUS [2] |
BEL [3] |
FRA [5] |
GER [15] |
IRL [6] |
ITA [22] |
NLD [7] |
SWI [23] |
UK [9] | |||
| Mystery White Boy |
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133 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 87 | 13 | 14 | 88 | 95 | 8 | |
| Live À L'Olympia |
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— | 26 | — | 22 | — | — | 37 | — | — | — | |
| Live at Sin-é (Legacy Edition) | — | — | — | 65 | — | 58 | 66 | — | — | 101 [18] |
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| Grace Around the World |
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125 | — | 83 | 187 | — | — | 41 | — | — | — | |
| Live from King Theater, Seattle, WA, May 7, 1995 |
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| Live at Cabaret Metro, Chicago, IL, May 13, 1995 |
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| Live at Wetlands, New York, NY, August 16, 1994 |
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| Live at Columbia Records Radio Hour, New York, NY, June 4, 1995 |
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Box sets
edit| Title | Details | Peak chart positions |
|---|---|---|
| UK [18] | ||
| The Grace EPs |
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194 |
EPs
edit| Title | Details | Peak chart positions |
|---|---|---|
| AUS [2] | ||
| Live at Sin-é |
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53 |
| Eternal Life |
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44 |
| Live from the Bataclan |
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Singles
edit| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Alt [26] |
US Dig [26] |
AUS [2] |
AUT [27] |
IRL [6] |
NLD [7] |
NOR [8] |
NZL [16] |
SWE [28] |
UK [9] | ||||
| "Grace" | 1994 | — | — | 91 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Grace | |
| "Last Goodbye" | 19 | — | 88 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 54 | |||
| "So Real" | 1995 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Eternal Life" | — | — | 44 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Everybody Here Wants You" | 1998 | — | — | 35 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 43 | Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk | |
| "Forget Her" | 2004 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Grace (Legacy Edition) | |
| "Hallelujah" | 2007 | — | 1 | 70 | 38 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 22 | 5 | 2 | Grace | |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||
Promotional singles
edit| Title | Year | Album |
|---|---|---|
| "She Is Free" | 2002 | Songs to No One 1991–1992 |
| "Everyday People" | 2015 | You and I |
| "The Boy with the Thorn in His Side" | 2016 | |
| "Lover, You Should've Come Over" | 2018 | Grace |
| "Sky Blue Skin" | 2019 | — |
Video
edit| Year | Title | Release date | Certification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Live in Chicago | May 9, 2000 |
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| 2000 | Jeff Buckley: Goodbye and Hello[31] | October 12, 2000 | |
| 2002 | Everybody Here Wants You | 2002 | |
| 2009 | Grace Around the World | June 2, 2009 |
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| 2009 | Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley | June 2, 2009 |
Music videos
edit- "Grace" (1994)
- "Last Goodbye" (1994)
- "So Real" (1995)
- "Everybody Here Wants You" (1997)
- "Forget Her" (2004)
- "Hallelujah" (2007)
- "I Know It's Over" (2016)
- "Everyday People" (2016)
- "Just Like a Woman" (2016)
- "Sky Blue Skin" (2019)
Guest appearances and collaborations
editBuckley was immersed in music and, when not working on his own material or with his band, he contributed numerous times to projects with his friends and musical peers. John Zorn regularly held collaborations at the Knitting Factory, and Buckley performed vocals on the tracks "Taipan" and "D.Popylepis" that appeared on 1992 album John Zorn's Cobra: Live at the Knitting Factory. Buckley contributed vocals on "Jolly Street" from The Jazz Passengers' 1994 album In Love, and he played six string bass and drums on tracks from his ex-girlfriend Rebecca Moore's album Admiral Charcoal's Song. Buckley also performed backup vocals and guitar on Brenda Kahn's "Faith Salons" which was released on her 1996 album Destination Anywhere. On Patti Smith's 1996 album Gone Again, Buckley provided vocals on "Beneath the Southern Cross" and played esraj on "Fireflies". He co-wrote "Despite the Tears" with Chris Dowd, then lead singer of The Seedy Arkhestra, for the album Puzzle, co-produced by Dan Siegler and also contributed vocals and guitar on two more tracks, "A Thousand Tears" and "Flog Your Dead Horse". Buckley's drummer Matt Johnson played on the album as well, along with Joan Wasser and Joseph "Amp" Fiddler. Dowd had previously co-written "What Will You Say" with Buckley and Carla Azar, which appeared on Mystery White Boy.
Buckley also collaborated with other musicians on different projects. He appeared on the soundtrack of First Love, Last Rites, performing vocals on "I Want Someone Badly" backed by the group Shudder to Think. This song later appeared on Grace (Legacy Edition). He performed two tributes to writers he admired: he read Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Ulalume" for the album Closed on Account of Rabies, and on Kerouac: Kicks Joy Darkness, a tribute to beat poet Jack Kerouac, Buckley performed "Angel Mine" with Inger Lorre. In Los Angeles, Buckley co-wrote and recorded the song "Hollywould" with Sandy Bell, which she released in 2000.
Unreleased recordings
editSince Jeff Buckley only completed one album, many posthumous releases, as well as bootlegged unreleased live recordings, have proved popular with fans. These recordings come from all periods of his career; in particular, Buckley made many soundboard recordings of the concerts from his 1995–1996 tours. Mary Guibert, his mother and head of his estate, expressed an interest in releasing these live concerts as a special subscription series, leaving the recordings uncut: "warts and all".[33] However, this project has yet to come to fruition.
A number of Buckley's 4 track demos for My Sweetheart the Drunk have been leaked over the internet but the majority of the demos from this period have remained out of the public domain. Michael Tighe has made reference in particular to one track, "Sky Blue Skin", that he personally feels is a very important song of Buckley's (the track was finally released in 2019).[34] Other names of unreleased songs from the demos have circulated amongst fans including: "The Morning After", "Open Up and Bleed", "Dendrils of Death", "Don't Listen to Anyone But Me", and "Pleasure Seeker". A version of "Dendrils of Death" has been recorded by Buckley's old bassist, Mick Grondahl, and his band Tongue.[35]
Certain live performances by Buckley have specifically been held in high regard. "Dido's Lament", an aria from Dido and Æneas by Henry Purcell, was performed live at the Meltdown festival in 1995, directed by Elvis Costello. The falsetto operatic piece is unusual in Buckley's catalogue, having similarities only with Buckley's version of "Corpus Christi Carol" featured on Grace. The Meltdown festival also featured a particularly beautiful version of "The Other Woman". Although unreleased, an excerpt of this version of "Dido's Lament" has appeared on the soundtrack of BBC documentary Everybody Here Wants You. "Edna Frau" was written with Mick Grondahl, Buckley's bassist and was performed live on at least one occasion on The Hard Luck Tour. Grondahl also sings on this song and it was the only occasion he did so during the time he was a member of Buckley's band. Other popular recordings are a performance of "We All Fall in Love Sometimes" by Elton John and Bernie Taupin recorded on October 11, 1992, for WFMU's "The Music Faucet" and "Three is The Magic Number", by Schoolhouse Rock, from Buckley's Mercury Lounge 1996 New Year's Eve concert.[36]
Michael Tighe also mentioned Buckley's collaboration with Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins, describing "All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun" as a beautiful piece worthy of release.[34] Buckley contributed to a piece of music about alien abduction called "Ozark Melody". The song was recorded in the middle of 1996, with lyrics written by Joe Tripician while the music was composed by Buckley and Frederick Reed.[37] This song is available to download on the internet with permission from the Estate of Jeff Buckley, but has not had an official release.
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Jeff Buckley Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
- ^ a b c d e Australian (ARIA Chart) peaks:
- Top 50 peaks: "Australian chart positions". australian-charts.com. Archived from the original on October 22, 2012. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
- Top 100 peaks to December 2010: Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.
- "Last Goodbye": "The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles Chart – Week Ending 29 Oct 1995". Retrieved July 12, 2017 – via Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA). N.B. The HP column displays the highest peak reached.
- "Grace" (single): "The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles Chart – Week Ending 14 Apr 1996". Retrieved August 4, 2017 – via Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA).
- ^ a b c "Belgian (Flanders) chart positions". Ultratop. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
- ^ "Canadian Grace position". RPM. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
- ^ a b c "French chart positions". lescharts.com. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
- ^ a b c d "Irish chart positions". irish-charts.com. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
- ^ a b c d "Dutch chart positions". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
- ^ a b c "Norwegian chart positions". norwegiancharts.com. Archived from the original on November 2, 2012. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
- ^ a b c d "Official Charts > Jeff Buckley". Official Charts Company. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
- ^ "Gold & Platinum". RIAA. Retrieved April 25, 2021.
- ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2022" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved February 7, 2022.
- ^ a b c d e "British certifications – Jeff Buckley". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved September 5, 2013. Type Jeff Buckley in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
- ^ "EU certificates: 2003". IFPI. Archived from the original on October 19, 2007. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
- ^ "French 'Double Or' certificates: 2000". disqueenfrance.com. Archived from the original on April 20, 2014. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
- ^ a b "German album positions". musicline.de. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
- ^ a b "New Zealand chart positions". charts.nz. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
- ^ a b c "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2016 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved March 8, 2016.
- ^ a b c "UK Chartlog: Darren B – David Byrne". zobbel.de. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
- ^ "Irish Gold certificates: 2007". irishcharts.ie. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
- ^ "French Gold certificates: 2008". disqueenfrance.com. Archived from the original on July 29, 2012. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
- ^ "Posthumous Jeff Buckley album, You and I, to be released next year". The Telegraph. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
- ^ "Italian chart positions". italiancharts.com. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
- ^ "Swiss chart positions". hitparade.ch. Archived from the original on November 10, 2012. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
- ^ Schoemer, Karen (October 8, 2003). "Live At Sin-E". Rolling Stone. Retrieved January 23, 2020.
- ^ Cinquemani, Sal (August 27, 2003). "Review: Jeff Buckley, Live at Sin-é". Slant Magazine. Retrieved January 23, 2020.
- ^ a b "Jeff Buckley Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
- ^ "Austrian chart positions". austriancharts.at. Archived from the original on January 23, 2011. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
- ^ "Swedish chart positions". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
- ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.
- ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2016 DVDs" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved December 11, 2021.
- ^ IMDB: "Jeff Buckley: Goodbye and Hello"
- ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2009 DVDs" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved December 11, 2021.
- ^ "It's a Mystery". Uncut. Archived from the original on May 19, 2008. Retrieved June 4, 2008.
- ^ a b "Michael Tighe interview by Hunting Bears". Archived from the original on April 10, 2008. Retrieved May 6, 2008.
- ^ "Dendrils of Death: MySpace page for Mick Grondahl's band Tongue". Archived from the original on November 17, 2007. Retrieved May 6, 2008.
- ^ Unreleased Songs
- ^ Ozark Melody
