So Real: Songs from Jeff Buckley
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So Real: Songs from Jeff Buckley is a 'best of' compilation album
of Jeff Buckley
material, released on May 22, 2007.
It reached #1 in the Irish Albums Chart
and has also reached #26 in Australia. The album peaked at #16 in the UK, becoming Buckley's 3rd consecutive top 20 album and since the success of the top 3 single "Hallelujah" has seen sales increase dramatically in the early part of 2009.
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
of Jeff Buckley
Jeff Buckley
Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley , raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician...
material, released on May 22, 2007.
It reached #1 in the Irish Albums Chart
Irish Albums Chart
The Irish Albums Chart is the Irish music industry standard albums popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on its behalf by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured electronically...
and has also reached #26 in Australia. The album peaked at #16 in the UK, becoming Buckley's 3rd consecutive top 20 album and since the success of the top 3 single "Hallelujah" has seen sales increase dramatically in the early part of 2009.
Track listing
- "Last Goodbye" (Grace) – 4:36
- "Lover, You Should've Come OverLover, You Should've Come Over"Lover, You Should've Come Over" is the seventh track on Jeff Buckley's album Grace. Inspired by the ending of the relationship between Buckley and Rebecca Moore, it concerns the despondency of a young man growing older, finding that his actions represent a perspective he feels that he should have...
" (Grace) – 6:42 - "Forget HerForget Her"Forget Her" is a song by Jeff Buckley. The song was recorded during sessions for Buckley's only completed studio album Grace, but remained unofficially released until it was featured as the opening track on the bonus disc of Grace: Legacy Edition, a 2004 remastered reissue of the album...
" (Grace Legacy Edition) – 5:10 - "Eternal Life" (Road Version) (Grace Legacy Edition) – 4:47
- "Dream BrotherDream Brother"Dream Brother", written by Jeff Buckley, Mick Grondahl and Matt Johnson, is the last track on Buckley's album Grace but is the penultimate track on later releases of the album...
" (Alternate Take) (Grace Legacy Edition) – 4:54 - "The Sky Is a LandfillThe Sky Is a Landfill"The Sky Is a Landfill" is the first track on the posthumous Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk album release by Jeff Buckley. Two live recordings from performances at the New York's The Knitting Factory and Arlene's Grocery in 1997 can be found online and feature different lyrics.Written by...
" (SketchesSketches for My Sweetheart the DrunkSketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk is a collection of polished studio tracks and four-track demos recorded by Jeff Buckley. Being dissatisfied with material recorded in the summer of 1996 and early in 1997, Buckley worked on many demos to reach the sound he was hoping to achieve...
) – 5:05 - "Everybody Here Wants YouEverybody 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...
" (Sketches) – 4:45 - "So RealSo Real (Jeff Buckley song)"So Real" is the third single from Jeff Buckley's 1994 album Grace, and also had an accompanying video.Michael Tighe, a guitarist who joined Buckley late in the recording of Grace, brought with him what was to become the main riff on "So Real" that is played during the verses."Forget Her" was...
" (Acoustic in JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
)1 – 4:22 - "Mojo PinMojo Pin"Mojo Pin" is the first song on Jeff Buckley's 1994 album Grace. It was written by Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas, and was first introduced on his EP, Live at Sin-é. Buckley stated that the song was about a dream of a black woman. Through a wash of bizarre images, the lyrics convey a feeling of...
" (Live at Sin-éLive at Sin-éLive at Sin-é is a live EP by Jeff Buckley. The four-song EP was Buckley's first commercial recording and was released in December 1993 on Columbia Records. The EP captured Buckley, accompanying himself on a Fender Telecaster, in the Sin-é coffeehouse in New York City's East Village, the...
) – 5:19 - "Vancouver" (Sketches) – 3:10
- "Je n'en connais pas la fin" (Live at Sin-é) – 4:57
- "Grace" (Grace) – 5:22
- "Hallelujah" (Grace) – 6:55
- "I Know It's OverThe Queen Is DeadThe Queen Is Dead is the third studio album by the English alternative rock band The Smiths. It was released on 16 June 1986 in the United Kingdom by Rough Trade Records and released in the United States on 23 June 1986 through Sire Records. The album reached #2 on the UK Albums Chart, maintaining...
" (Live)2 – 6:28 - "Lilac WineLilac Wine"Lilac Wine" is a song written by James Shelton in 1950. It was introduced by Hope Foye in the short-lived theater musical revue, "Dance Me a Song." It was covered by Eartha Kitt , by Judy Henske on her first, self-named album , by Nina Simone on her album Wild Is The Wind , was a solo hit by...
" (Live)3 - 5:31 (iTunes exclusive bonus track) - "Lover, You Should've Come OverLover, You Should've Come Over"Lover, You Should've Come Over" is the seventh track on Jeff Buckley's album Grace. Inspired by the ending of the relationship between Buckley and Rebecca Moore, it concerns the despondency of a young man growing older, finding that his actions represent a perspective he feels that he should have...
" (Live)4 – 6:53 (AmazonMP3 exclusive bonus track)
- 1 Non-album version and previously available only as promotional single
- 2 Previously unavailable. A live rendition of "I Know It's Over" from The SmithsThe SmithsThe Smiths were an English alternative rock band, formed in Manchester in 1982. Based on the song writing partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr , the band also included Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce...
' 1986 album The Queen Is DeadThe Queen Is DeadThe Queen Is Dead is the third studio album by the English alternative rock band The Smiths. It was released on 16 June 1986 in the United Kingdom by Rough Trade Records and released in the United States on 23 June 1986 through Sire Records. The album reached #2 on the UK Albums Chart, maintaining...
, recorded at Sony Studios in New YorkNew YorkNew York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, April, 1995. - 3 Available with full album download only.
- 4 AmazonMP3 lists this track as "previously unreleased".
Charts
| Chart (2007) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Irish Albums Chart | 1 |
| iTunes Ireland | 1 |
| iTunes Australia | 3 |
| UK Albums Chart | 16 |
| Australian Albums Chart | 26 |
| Italian Albums Chart | 78 |