Started writing new album

In 1996, Buckley started writing a new album with the working title My Sweetheart the Drunk . While working with Patti Smith on her 1996 album Gone Again , he met Tom Verlaine , lead singer of the punk- new wave band Television . Buckley asked Verlaine to be producer on the new album and he agreed. In mid-1996, Buckley and his band began recording sessions in Manhattan with Verlaine, recording “Sky Is a Landfill”, “Vancouver”, “Morning Theft”, and “You and I”. Eric Eidel played the drums through these sessions as a stop-gap after Matt Johnson’s departure, before Parker Kindred joined as full-time drummer. Around this time, Buckley met Inger Lorre of the Nymphs in an East Village bar and struck up a fast and close friendship. Together, they contributed a track to Kerouac: Kicks Joy Darkness , a Jack Kerouac tribute album. After Lorre’s backup guitarist for an upcoming album quit the project, Buckley offered to fill in. He became attached to one of the songs from the album, ” Yard of Blonde Girls ” and recorded a cover. Another recording session in Manhattan followed in early 1997, but Buckley and the band were unsatisfied with the material.