Sony
2005
Ocean Of Confusion
About This Album
Of all the Seattle-based alternative rock bands of the late '80s and early '90s, Screaming Trees arguably were the best at capturing the dank, heavy gloom of their hometown -- the mix of punk and '70s hard rock that became known as grunge -- but they had the least amount of success of any of their peers. Nirvana changed the world, Pearl Jam conquered stadiums across America, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains reshaped heavy metal, while Mudhoney carved out a cult for their knowingly sleazy update on '60s garage punk and the Stooges. Screaming Trees had a cult, not just among fans but musicians -- Kurt Cobain was particularly taken with the band's vocalist, Mark Lanegan, whose American gothic spin on folk can be clearly heard as an influence on Nirvana's spookier work -- but they never managed to break to a larger audience, even when they had a radio and MTV hit in 1992 with the surging "Nearly Lost You," pulled from the Singles soundtrack. Part of the problem was that Screaming Trees not only didn't look like rock stars -- as the cliché goes, brothers Gary Lee and Van Conner looked like lumberjacks, while Lanegan struck an intimidating presence -- but they looked large, hairy, and scary and made thick psychedelic music that matched.
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