10 Best Songs Released After The Singer Passed Away

5. Jeff Buckley – ‘Everybody Here Wants You’ (1998)

On 29 May 1997, Jeff Buckley died after going for a spontaneous swim in the river. The death was ruled an accidental drowning after his body was found upstream in Memphis a few days later. Another musician took in the prime of their career, he was only 30 at the time.

‘Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk’, the only posthumous Buckley album, was released the following year. It was made up of refined studio tracks and demos that Buckley recorded before his death. Never fully completed though, hence ‘sketches’ in the title.

Buckley’s band were actually traveling to meet Buckley at the time of his death to complete the record. Even though it was unfinished it got much acclaim from fans and critics.

‘Everybody Here Wants You’ is the highlight from the album, written as a love song for Joan Wasser, his girlfriend at the time. It’s a subdued vocal performance from Buckley throughout, who was known to be more impassioned with emotion in his earlier work. It grabs you with a spirit of love and lust, being one of his most personal and penetrating songs, intimately taking a hold of you.

In October 2011, NME placed it at number 88 on its list ‘150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years’.