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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 11:28 AM
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Anyone remember 90's band "Screaming Trees"?
Edited on Wed May-19-04 11:33 AM by VolcanoJen
I'm jammin' out to "Dime Western" from the album "Dust" right now... I was in the mood for a little no-worries 90's Seattle-sound nostalgia.

Someday I'll tell my children how much fun the 90's were... and I'll play this album for them. :D

The most popular Screaming Trees song was "Nearly Lost You" from the "Sweet Oblivion" album. Does that ring a bell for anyone?
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 11:30 AM
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1. Nearly Lost You
From the "Singles" soundtrack. I have to confess my ignorance on the rest of their stuff, but I liked that tune.
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southpaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 05:25 PM
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15. Were it not for the legendary 'Singles' soundtrack...
the Screaming Trees would have passed me by.

Singer did a decent "Morrison goes grunge" thing.
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SheepyMcSheepster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 11:33 AM
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2. of course i remember!
who can forget the twin guitar players!

screaming trees, not my favorite at the time, but they sure put most of this crap put out today to shame.
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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 11:35 AM
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3. Sweet Oblivion
A masterwork.
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felonious thunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 11:37 AM
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4. Sweet Oblivion was a great album
Better grunge than the grunge bands that made it big.
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 11:39 AM
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6. Ahhh.... "Julie Paradise."
I agree, Loonman. "Sweet Oblivion" is one of those great overlooked albums, start to finish. The kind of album that you go back to, again, and again, and again, especially during large cultural and musical gaps.
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 11:37 AM
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5. I had Dust. It's a fine record.
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Donkeyboy75 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 11:47 AM
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7. I owned "Sweet Oblivion"
Didn't like it much. :shrug:
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TheBlob Donating Member (805 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 12:11 PM
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8. Hell, I remember when they were an 80's band! n/t
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 12:29 PM
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9. They are named after an old guitar pedal.
http://www.vintaxe.com/cgi-bin/vintaxe_viewer.pl?effects_eh_screamingtree&effects_eh_screamingtree
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 05:25 PM
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16. The band was FAR better than the pedal
An awful awful box
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 05:45 PM
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18. Electro-Harmonix is back!
http://www.electro-harmonix.com

They've actually come out with a few all-new pedals in addition to the re-issues.
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 12:33 PM
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10. Great Band
Very underrated in terms of the so-called "grunge" groups. Their early albums are fantastic, as well as "oblivion" and "Dust". Lanegan's solo stuff and his work with Queens of the Stone Age are great too. "hanging Tree" on the latest QOTSA disc sounds like classic Trees.
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 12:40 PM
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11. I loved them - one of their best shows was New Years Eve 1989
At the old Backstage in Ballard (Seattle neighborhood where I grew up). Ah, memories! :D

:hi:Jen!!
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 05:06 PM
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12. Saw 'em in a Portland, '96
Right up front, and the bruises on my legs lasted for months. I was pushed right up against those barricades, relentlessly, from the beginning to end-of-show.

How I long for those days... good times, amazing people and music...
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 06:56 PM
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26. I miss the Backstage!
They lost their liquor license! THAT is the stupid reason they crapped out. Saw so many great shows there...

Do you remember The Off Ramp? Pearl Jam played a $5 cover charge show there about the time "Ten" came out in '91... you had to be there!
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Adenoid_Hynkel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 05:23 PM
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13. yes, and i still play them often
in my continuing efforts to make sure that my house remains frozen in 1992 forever. check out the excellent documentary on the seattle scene, 'hype', for some great interviews and footage of the band from 1992-5

marc lanegan is in queens of the stone age now, btw
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 05:27 PM
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17. Lanegan is still out there???
Edited on Wed May-19-04 05:28 PM by VolcanoJen
Great to hear, ann_coulter. (aside: snicker at your screenname) Queens of the Stone Age is a great band, and I'm happy to hear Lanegan, one of the best baritones in the history of rock, didn't join his friend Layne Staley (Alice in Chains) in the "Talented Rock Stars Meet Early Death" category...
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Adenoid_Hynkel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 06:34 PM
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22. he joined them w/ the last album
and is alive and well
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Adenoid_Hynkel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 06:47 PM
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24. he has a few solo cds, too
info here;
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=B3tkzu3y5an1k
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Donkeyboy75 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 05:47 PM
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19. Thought you were gone for the summer.
Nice to still have you around.
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Adenoid_Hynkel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 06:35 PM
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23. one more week
rescheduled my departure so someone can tag along with me
probably leaving next tuesday
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 05:24 PM
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14. An old college friend married one of the "heavy" brothers
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aquaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 05:49 PM
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20. That's weird............
I was listening to "Dust" in the car today. I have been on a recent Screaming Trees kick. I saw them in the early 90's. The show was amazing and we partied with the band afterwords. On a down note, Mark Lanegan was the biggest prick I have ever met. The rest of the guys were great and told us to ignore Mark cause that was just the way he is. Great, Great, band though. I also have all of Mark Lanegan's solo stuff. I don't think his voice would be as good if he didn't smoke like a freight train.
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 05:55 PM
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21. good dish, aquaman!!
Weird that we were both listening to "Dust" today... small world...
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 06:53 PM
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25. they were from Ellensburg WA
Where I went to college... CWU. "Dust" is fantastic, got to love the sitar in the mix! Pearl Jam's Mike McCready lays some guitar down on "Dying Days" too. Mark Lanegan did some worthwhile solo work, but it may be hard to find. They are among the best of the Northwest music explosion of the late 80's/early 90's. :thumbsup:

Ah, those were some times...
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 07:03 PM
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27. The best of times, in my narrow scope.
I remember attending those mass concerts, some sponsered by Peter Gabriel (W.O.M.A.D.); some sponsered by Perry Farrell (Lollapallooza). Each of them good. Each of them fun. Each of them carefree, and rockin'...

I guess the '90's are the new '60's...
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 07:48 PM
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29. " "I guess the '90's are the new '60's..."
Sigh...looking back in retrospect I think you're right...we had a certain optimism going on back then. Something quite terrible happened between then and now, I'm afraid...
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 07:51 PM
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30. Nothing wrong with it, really.
The '90s represented so much to my generation ('70s-80s kids, younger than 40).

There was some amazing music coming out in the 90's.... as good as the music of the 60's, for my money. Now... who will write the songs about today...? So much more to say, now.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 07:38 PM
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28. ME ME ME ME
They were awesome, and Mark Lanegan had a style that was part Morrison, part Pixies...

Love all their stuff, especially Sweet Oblivion
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