Screaming Trees Vs Mark Lanegan Solo.

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I love both ,but i do wish lanegan would make a psychedelic album like the early trees,but with better production. Hes also very 1 dimensional live unlike on record.
Screaming Trees are always seen as the great lost band of the 'grunge' era. But they were better than that. and i cant think of anything better to listen to at late night than 'Whiskey For The Holy Ghost'
So its hard for me to choose whats best. What does everyone else think?

― Peter M, Thursday, 19 December 2002 02:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I think "Whiskey For the Holy Ghost" is the current peak of Lanegan's career as both a solo artist and a Screaming Tree. While I enjoyed the fuzzy psychedelia of the Trees early SST stuff, it didn't have the emotional heft of Lanegan's solo work.
Bot I agree - it would be interesting to hear Lanegan infuse his current aesthetic with some psychedelic flourishes.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Thursday, 19 December 2002 03:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Lanegan solo, don't personally know anyone else who does. Screaming Trees were good too, but I wonder if their worthy compositions would resonate as much without Lanegan's formidable vocals.

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 19 December 2002 05:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Fear not, Sean, you are not alone -- Lanegan solo is wonderful.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 December 2002 08:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Scraps at Midnight is my favourite.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 19 December 2002 09:48 (twenty-three years ago)

mark lanegan solo is awesome.
i used to love the treesas well, and i don't think they were the great lost band of the grunge era. they were there way before grunge started, weren't they?

― joan vich (joan vich), Thursday, 19 December 2002 11:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Lanegan is awesome! I enjoy him as the "part time" singer with QOTSA. I loved Scraps at Midnight too. I dont think of Screaming Trees as grunge though, just my opinion...

― mal2478 (mal2478), Thursday, 19 December 2002 14:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Is it just me, or is each Lanegan album since 'Whiskey', sounding more and more like Screaming Trees, and less solo-like? At least more like successors to 'Dust' than to 'Whiskey'?

― Curt (cgould), Friday, 20 December 2002 02:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Lanegan, to my ears, has been listening to country stuff.
I think Lanegans solo stuff is still very different to the trees albums. Which basically rocks that bit more. I'd like to see Lanegan solo add some of the earlier trees influences. As hes improved as a songwriter i think hes capable of a psychedelic rock masterpiece.

― Peter M, Friday, 20 December 2002 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

Clairvoyance is FINALLY being released on CD!! This is an 80s garage-psych masterpiece, people.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 22 January 2005 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 April 2009 19:11 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.onewhiskey.com/articles/magnet04.htm

Lanegan: I'm in the midst of recording my next one right now; that's partially what I was doing here in Antwerp. Actually, I'm recording a few. A double album of originals and a little record of covers.
Magnet: What can you tell me about them?
Lanegan: They kick ass like all the rest of my records.
Magnet: What are you thinking about for covers? Can you talk about that?
Lanegan: Yeah. I'm going to do crooner tunes. Andy Williams. Shit like that.
Magnet: Are you pulling my leg or are you serious?
Lanegan: This is dead serious. I've been wanting to do it for a long time and I'll call it Mr. Sophistication. That was the name of the guy in The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie (a 1976 film directed by John Cassavetes and starring Ben Gazzara) who was the kind of guy that told jokes in a strip club. I wanted it to be orchestrated and shit. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time because the singing on those songs is pretty damn great. If you're a younger singer, it's quite challenging. You don't know how great a fuckin' singer Sinatra was, you know?

Lanegan: When Johnny Cash made his first record with American, they asked a bunch of different guys to write songs for him. I was one of those guys. I had just seen him on a Billy Graham crusade on TV and I thought my songs were way too dark for Johnny Cash. So I sent him all these pussy songs that I had, and his record came out and it was all like Glenn Danzig. That was the last time I ever fuckin' questioned it.

I love this guy.

love this guy

― blue fescue (unregistered), Thursday, 23 April 2009 22:57 (seventeen years ago)

I love him twice, apparently.

― blue fescue (unregistered), Thursday, 23 April 2009 22:57 (seventeen years ago)

is that all?

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 April 2009 23:02 (seventeen years ago)

eleven years pass...

nothing i fear could touch me here

― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 26 April 2020 00:46 (six years ago)

grey diamond desert?

― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 26 April 2020 03:23 (six years ago)

ten months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6L5HF_Jwh0

― Oor Neechy, Friday, 12 March 2021 20:28 (five years ago)

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