Ned, thanks for posting my piece.
― jaywbabcock, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 19:37 (two years ago) link
Yeah that Jay Babcock tribute was lovely. I had no idea that Bubblegum era EP even existed! Dean Ween! Given how much I love the album, I need to track that thing down.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 19:40 (two years ago) link
the last time I saw him live was this session in a radio studio, on (checks that date twice... yes...) February 22 2012.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJz5c2f4ERQ
― StanM, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 21:07 (two years ago) link
this is a really beautiful remembrance… am unfamiliar w the writer (Neill Jameson) but i love how personal it ishttps://www.invisibleoranges.com/the-gravediggers-song-rip-mark-lanegan/
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 22:03 (two years ago) link
xpost - that was very moving Jay, excellent writing and perspective
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 22:21 (two years ago) link
Lovely blog post jay. Thanks for sharing Ned.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 22:34 (two years ago) link
Yeah, thanks for sharing Jay. I hadn't caught that you'd just posted right before me.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 22:37 (two years ago) link
Also a lovely post VegemiteGirl. Damn, this is hitting really hard.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 22:40 (two years ago) link
someone mentioned Bubblegum by Mark Lanegan Band upthread and this is a fantastic album! perfect mix of his moody thing with heavier stuffnot many could get PJ Harvey and Izzy Stradlin on the same album
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 23:40 (two years ago) link
unearthing all of his collaborations i havent heard has been a bittersweet positiveturns out Mark also understood that PINK FLOYD RULES - killer cover of nobody’s home w Alain Johannes from 2018 “The Wall (redux)” comphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a458vn1J1n0
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 23:44 (two years ago) link
xpost yeah bubblegum is excellent
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 23:45 (two years ago) link
Saw him with the Queens in 2001 (R tour) and as the Mark Lanegan Band in 2004 (Bubblegum tour), he was never less than amazing to watch, a point of stillness at the centre of things is a great way to put it. Bubblegum and esp. the preceding EP, Here Comes That Weird Chill (which I eluded to back up here in 2004) are some of my favourite origingal Lanegan releases. I especially loved the production on the EP, there’s a rawness to it that I often miss in other releases, which are sometimes sounding a bit hermetic, imo. There’s so much collaborative stuff I haven’t heard though, catching up on those. His 2019 collaboration, Downwelling, with Not Waving (as Dark Mark (now that’s an alias) is a personal favourite.
― willem, Thursday, 24 February 2022 09:54 (two years ago) link
I remember him at that LSE show moving his fingers at the mic stand like he was playing double bass. Wonder if that was something he made a habit of.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 24 February 2022 10:23 (two years ago) link
i know i have posted re my love re this production crew here and there on ilm, however, when the results end up like this, then i have no regrets.in my world, mark provided the best vocals they ever had.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErmJa3MBI10
― mark e, Friday, 25 February 2022 00:19 (two years ago) link
I never got to see him with the Trees (iirc), but I got to see him with Isobel Campbell, with the QOTSA, with Greg Dulli, and that really says it all. His voice worked wonders in lots of contexts.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 25 February 2022 00:38 (two years ago) link
mark e. — YES. I've had that one on repeat more than anything else. Open arms.
― jaywbabcock, Friday, 25 February 2022 00:41 (two years ago) link
unearthing all of his collaborations i havent heard has been a bittersweet positive
A compilation -- no, a full box set -- of all the astounding one-offs and tribute comp appearances and everything else would be so welcome. Hell I was reminded of this the other day -- he takes a Marc Almond song that was originally a duet with Nico (her last formal recording IIRC), sings it with Beth Orton and while keeping all the melodrama of the original heightens it by default into a Lee and Nancy song from hell:
https://soundcloud.com/heavenlyrecordings/your-kisses-burn-mark-lanegan-beth-orton
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 February 2022 00:49 (two years ago) link
i made a youtube playlist of some of my favorite stuff plus tons of stuff i discovered these past couple of dayshttps://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLHnyDe_1GTvcILl3Z2MTTUBXigxer4gx
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 February 2022 00:54 (two years ago) link
there’s no reason for this “November Rain” cover w Nicole Atkins to work but lord i believe it doeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee6eI1P7IvY
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 February 2022 00:55 (two years ago) link
vegemite — I've been making a playlist too, I'll check out yours soon. Just came across this now. He looks like a man truly at the end of his tether but he somehow goes all the way on the vocal. Beautiful/heartbreaking to hear the final refrain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvQ5FgcLveo
― jaywbabcock, Friday, 25 February 2022 01:15 (two years ago) link
heartbreakinghttps://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/feb/24/you-were-my-heathcliff-isobel-campbell-pays-tribute-to-collaborator-mark-lanegan
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 February 2022 06:08 (two years ago) link
Apologies if somebody else has posted this already. I think this is the way I want to sit with his music, and his spirit, for a while. For whatever reason, here he seems calm and bemused while being asked the usual interview questions, live on the air, and then completely focused on singing the most lovely/loving songs — especially the closer which is essentially Lanegan doing a lullaby of the standard Reaching for the Moon. This is the rare event where Lanegan has his eyes open (sometimes, just a bit) while singing. I swear he is close to tears.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwKzkAYZtCE
― jaywbabcock, Friday, 25 February 2022 15:21 (two years ago) link
Reaching for the Moon, only
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPf8B2FBWmc
― jaywbabcock, Friday, 25 February 2022 15:48 (two years ago) link
One Mr. Cave
Lovely tribute to Mark Lanegan from Nick Cave on his Red Hand Files email today (definitely worth subscribing to). pic.twitter.com/ulv6Vl8Da3— Ted Kessler (@TedKessler1) February 25, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 February 2022 18:02 (two years ago) link
<3that Brompton Oratory cover he mentions is really something . The original is one of my favorite alltime Cave tracks, Lanegan sings it so beautifully
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 February 2022 18:28 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obrG7t2kgM0
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 26 February 2022 09:38 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvtRyyhvOtQ
Lovely words from the other week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNfiYwbhFyw
Meantime, I took my piece on seven interpretations of others' songs he did from behind the Patreon paywall. They're all amazing.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/seven-by-mark-63087735
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 20:06 (two years ago) link
hey, I don't know if there are any screaming trees megafanz here, but I found this press photo earlier when I was digging through my stacks - yell if you want it! think it was in a review copy of 'Even If...' which I don't have anymore
https://i.ibb.co/LJCJRmn/PXL-20220302-210055371-2.jpg
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 21:08 (two years ago) link
aw that is so sweetthank you for posting!!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 21:17 (two years ago) link
yeah, they're pretty young there - van conner must be about 20 or something like that? btw my ilx-mail doesn't work, so if anyone does want it just shout at me here
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 21:34 (two years ago) link
A few days ago I downloaded a sample of ML's memoir because unfortunately I had snoozed on his excellent writing. I am reading about the early days of the band and it's fun to put a face to a name.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 21:36 (two years ago) link
i think that's mark pickerel on the left then van conner at the front and gary lee behind him
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 21:39 (two years ago) link
The baby has to be Pickerel
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 21:44 (two years ago) link
i went back & re-listened to the early Trees albums, they are really great. I think my favorite is Clairvoyance. First three or four albums definitely have a heavy throwback psychedelia/garage vibe. First album is that in its purest form imo, very Sonics, at times reminds me of Electric Prunes, just a bunch of 20 year olds making music & having fun. It’s cool & they are fucking great. Intersting the different quality to Lanegan’s voice, he’s in a Jim Morrison lane here & hasn’t yet plumbed down into the baritonal depths of later Trees & solo career. More energetic YAYUH stuff, he sounds so good but its exciting in that unformed, “doesn’t know what he is yet” kinda way. Youthful, obviously, too which is also fun to hear from a guy who has sounded older than his years for a long time.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 21:46 (two years ago) link
Intersting the different quality to Lanegan’s voice, he’s in a Jim Morrison lane here & hasn’t yet plumbed down into the baritonal depths of later Trees & solo career.
He told me that during this era he'd walk offstage every night with a headache from trying to sing songs written in a register other than his. He was really sour on the early Trees stuff, and didn't sweeten on it when he wrote his memoir. But I love those records; they aren't the equal of Sweet Oblivion or Dust, but they are fantastic garage rock - In The Forest and Back Together have this excellent proto-punk energy, End Of The Universe has that thundercrack second riff towards the end that Jack White later half-inched, Cold Rain is just a fantastic pop song. And Grey Diamond Desert is just this majestic, slow, shimmering thing. That's the song where whatever Lanegan was going to become first surfaces.
― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 21:53 (two years ago) link
For those with an interest in young Screaming Trees, The Fertilichrome Cheerleader Massacre has been released on youtube since last I checked!
Trailers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwDD8f-LiCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIWDbWjuVu0
Full movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqghby05ImU
― peace, man, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 22:28 (two years ago) link
This whole session is great, they also cover The End and Tales Of Great Ulysseshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjzmOquIP8g
― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 22:50 (two years ago) link
So glad to see all these posts, photos, videos, links. ILM can be so wonderful.
Meanwhile, fwiw, I've written a very simple thing about discovering a deeper pattern in my mourning process involving musicians. Lanegan, Prince, Bowie, etc.
https://jaybabcock.substack.com/p/landline-in-love-with-the-love-that
― jaywbabcock, Thursday, 3 March 2022 14:54 (two years ago) link
Yes! I have that too - thank you :-)
― StanM, Thursday, 3 March 2022 16:28 (two years ago) link
Nice. I have already listened to that Bowie thing a few times just now.
― Gary Gets His Tonsure Out (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 March 2022 17:36 (two years ago) link
The first memoir is pretty good, very scathing though. Really didn't like himself much. Hope he wasa lot more comfortable with himself later on.I'm like 2/3s of the way through it.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 3 March 2022 18:16 (two years ago) link
Gary - The Bowie is just the best, isn't it? His joy in figuring out the puzzle of each vocalist's approach is a delight I never tire of.
― jaywbabcock, Friday, 4 March 2022 19:11 (two years ago) link
Thanks, Jay. Truth be told I couldn't totally figure out who each singer was until I looked at the comments. Think Lou was my favorite, Marc Bolan a close second. To me it was disingenous of him to say Iggy was "hard to do" since there is a lot of obvious overlap in their singing styles.Also, say hello to your brother for me. Finally, you may call me James.
― Gary Gets His Tonsure Out (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 March 2022 19:39 (two years ago) link
Just gonna put this here. Watch to the very end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9BPh6fBsEw
― jaywbabcock, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 21:45 (two years ago) link
Thanks. Will watch later. Also meant to come back and say I ended up listening to The Gutter Twins over the weekend and finally paid a little attention
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 21:49 (two years ago) link
Another gorgeous cover/interpretation I'd missed. I saw him joke/not-joke in a 2019 interview that it had become his signature song and now I hear why.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaGE_MsUmPA
― jaywbabcock, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 02:06 (two years ago) link
xp That KXLU session is awesome
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 02:09 (two years ago) link
Missed this at the time -- Barrett Martin's response to the news (there are various further posts)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CaTD40dvh4g/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 17:44 (two years ago) link
It was a real treat to do something long overdue here: an introductory guide to Lanegan’s work across all the decades and in numerous contexts.https://theshfl.com/guide/mark-laneganThe focus is on albums for Shfl so it’s not the true range given all the EPs, singles and one-offs, but I really think this gives him his real due.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 24 April 2022 16:28 (two years ago) link