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Jeff Buckley compilation set for re-release

'So Real' to follow 'Hallelujah' chart showdown

December 17, 2008 | 10 Comments
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A collection of Jeff Buckley's songs is set for re-release next year.

The record, 'So Real: Songs From Jeff Buckley', features a selection of tracks from the late singer's brief career.

The album, out January 19, features a live acoustic version of 'So Real' that was only available as a promo single previously.

The full tracklisting of the collection is:

'Last Goodbye'
'Lover, You Should Have Come Over'
'Forget Her'
'Eternal Life' (Road Version)
'Dream Brother' (Alternate Take)
'The Sky Is A Landfill'
'Everybody Here Wants You'
'So Real' (Live and Acoustic In Japan)
'Mojo Pin' (Live at Sin-e)
'Vancouver'
'Je N’en Connais Pas La Fin' (Live at Sin-e)
'Grace'
'Hallelujah'
'I Know It's Over' (radio session)

Jeff Buckley, meanwhile, is set to reach the UK Top Ten for the first time this week (December 21) with his cover of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah'.

The singer's version has gained support after fans objected to the track being covered by the winner of this year's 'X Factor' competition, Alexandra Burke.

Buckley's version, which was originally released on his 1994 album 'Grace', features on the new compilation.

You can find out more about the history of 'Hallelujah' at NME.COM/PHOTOS - and debate which version of the song is the best on the NME Office Blog.

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ed2005

Dec 17, 2008

Buckley doing 'I Know It's Over' should be great. I saw Buckley perform this with Everything But The Girl' at Glastonbury in 1995 and it was great.

macky679

Dec 17, 2008

I can't believe they have omitted Lilac Wine from it again. It wasn't on the album when it was first released 2 years ago.Lilac Wine will be everyone's favorite Buckley track by this time next month once everybody has had too much 'Hallelujah' rammed down their throats over the festive season.

randomandy

Dec 17, 2008

erm...this compilation came out May 2007 already. Check any shop and you'll find this, so just a press release to cash in on the success of 'Hallelujah' again. Nice one Sony!!

Jimi1

Dec 17, 2008

So they're re-releasing the poor compilation from last year then? Just buy Grace, Sketches and Live at Sin-e.

randomandy

Dec 17, 2008

This album came out in May 2007 already.

drgonzo2012

Dec 17, 2008

wow, these record company fuckers don't miss an oppurtunity do they?

chrispaz

Dec 17, 2008

Jesus, looks like Jeff Buckley's mum is trying to get every penny she can out of her son's music. Almost all of these tracks have been issued several times before on various albums and compilations. I mean, she talks about respecting her son's memory and paying tribute to him, and then she does stuff like this? Jeff would be turing in his grave.

MIllaDumpsPaul

Dec 17, 2008

Why's this depress me so much ? OH Because the guy got pulled under a river by a vessel's wake that drowned his voice in a twig filled body of water which reaches across this nation.

DekLon3000

Dec 17, 2008

ChrisPaz, Mary Guibert has nothing to do with record companies re-releasing her son's material. The truth is they invested a lot of money in Jeff's album, it wasn't as successful as they hoped it would be, he passed away and they've been trying to make their money back ever since. Mary is very respectful about her son's legacy and has refused to provide any other material Jeff recorded to the label because she doesn't want them putting out anything Jeff didn't want to put out himself like a duet demo he did of "All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun". So before you start trying to slate his mum for exploiting her son, have a think, do some reading and educate yourself a bit.

bamusbatisbarns

Dec 18, 2008

DekLon3000 is absolutely right, his mum didn't want sketches done at all unless it was done with complete care, asking pretty much everyone that had worked with Buckley for what they thought he may have thought on each track. So yes, ChrisPaz, you're just wrong.