Screaming Trees Best Album Poll

"new" album is fuckin awesome.

sweey obliv remains my favourite, love the sst stuff, but have always been cold on uncle anaesthesia

Surprised that "Dust" polled so low.

I am super gay for Lanegan.

Commute this morning was fueled by Invisible Lantern. what a great album, song after song of good material...even the terrible production job sounded good. Still love these dudes.

their SST stuff is so so rad.

Man. I fucking missed out on this band like crazy the first time around; recently bought Invisible Lantern (on SST) and it's so fucking good. Like you can hear that Pacific Northwest pre-grunge thing but they have such a cool sound, integrating 60s psych/garage influences so well.

yeah, amazing record. no fluke neither. even if and especially when & buzz factory are right up there with it. never liked the epic albums anywhere near so much as those 3.

great (& kinda silly) track from the beat happening split:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnZXEAGTA9I

lol i posted the exact same track 4 years ago. listen with new ears!

Awesome, kind of a 13th Floor Elevators pastiche (until the chorus).

troo. and i recant of what i said 4 years back: they suffered in my mind for being better than das damen, but 2nd to the likes of the meat puppets and dino jr.

bosh. they don't suffer at all in that comparison.

That entire Beat Happening/Screaming Trees EP is pretty great, though Polly is my favorite track from it. What a weird idea for a record.

I don't think they're anywhere near as idiosyncratic and as interesting as the Meat Puppets (80s)...Black Flag, maybe

90s Meat Pups maybe better...but not the 80s stuff

... Maybe a better comparison I mean xp

Change Has Come EP (1989) is an important record too, and how do you all rate Last Words, recorded around '98? I'm surprised the other lost album never surfaced. I'd be much more excited for a reunion of this band than say, Soundgarden.

Find it v weird that they couldn't get a deal after Dust tbh

Soundgarden are apparently recording a new album atm, news to me too

It seems really weird that Lanegan working with Queens of the Stone Age never seemed to bring people around to this band, cause a reunion, etc.

I think the no-reunion thing is down to them all finding it really hard to be in a band together without wanting to beat the crap out of each other. They did finally release the post-Dust recordings, though, and they were pretty ace.

There's a great radio session of early Trees out there where they cover The Doors' The End, The Stooges' No Fun and Cream's Tales Of Great Ulysses.

I've been trying to find that radio session and only found some dead links from 2007... anyone know where I can get it?

Whoa! That sounds cool. I hope someone turns it up.

Found it on soulseek. What a blast. ilx mail me if interested

Hey, willem, thanks for that radio stuff, it's great!

I just realized that Screaming Trees' first major label album came out like 7 months before Nevermind. Which kind of makes me wonder, yet more, why the hell Epic would've signed them.

Like I get that the majors were trying to suck up everything grungey and Seattitalian in the post-Nevermind rush, it's just weird that they'd hear this ragged, psychedelic rock band that clearly weren't going to engage with 99.97% of Americans and think, yeah, those guys are for us.

There was already some buzz on the Seattle scene--A&M had already signed up Soundgarden and Mother Love Bone. The Trees had a pretty good indie track record that might have looked attractive. In the HYPE! movie some of the interviewees mention that by '90 the majors had been sniffing around, picked up a couple bands and that seemed the end of it.

Oh shit I forgot about Soundgarden. But that all makes sense!

Buzz Factory was the first album I heard by the Screaming Trees and it is the one I still like the most. There is all sorts of awesome wah wah on that record, especially on Black Sun Morning.

Its the best of the SST albums for sure

These revives always makes me want to listen to a bunch of '87 SST albums

Well, 1986, but yeah, SST had some great stuff in the late 80s.

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A&M had already signed up Soundgarden and Mother Love Bone.

― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, June 11, 2016 5:23 PM (2 days ago)

This.

Plus Uncle Anasthesia was engineered by Terry Date (Louther Than Love & Apple) & Chris Cornell.

*Louder^^

Good forgotten band that was formed by ex-members of this era (85-90) Screaming Trees/Soundgarden:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLBC5n1o234

^^^ this has been going through my head and it's really, really good. Thx Mr. Broccoli.

'Invisible Lantern' and 'Even If and Especially When' have gotten some plays in the last few months. I really love the raunchy sound of these early Screaming Trees LPs. The production and guitar sounds gives it a sheen not unlike some psych/garage of the 60s.

Their later records were still psychedelic influenced but the sound was more contemporary.

Yeah, I was surprised when i was first listening to that Invisible Lantern SSt compi how much they sounded like a 60s band.
I think I saw them in '88 or '89 at the LSE. Probably 89.
& do really love taht early 70s stoner vibe of the 90s lps, great stuff.

have you heard Gary Lee Conner's solo stuff? It's still deeply rooted in the early Screaming Trees psych sound.

Even If is probs my favourite of the 80s LPs. Cold Rain!!

psych/garage of the 60s.

I love the way they definitely have that influence but they're not like slavish imitators. Found a copy of Invisible Lantern in a thrift store and by the end of the first listen I was in love.

there's a great bootleg of a radio show from the 80s out there where they cover Cream songs and The Doors' The End.

I bought Gary Conner's new album directly from him via bandcamp and he packed it like shit. It came looking like a potato chip. Come on man!

I realized I had never heard Last Words, was shocked to see the CD versions of it are going for over $71 on Discogs. It this still price-gouging after Lanegan's death? Or was this always pretty limited?

Price-gouging, but also it was on Barrett Martin's own label, so was a pretty limited release. It's good though.

This was cut for an aborted album between Sweet Oblivion and Dust but didn't get a release until a Trees comp on Sony that Mark and the band were involved in (following a cash-in Sony comp they weren't involved it that sucked). I think it's pretty great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkSpQPqfa44

Sucks how much of their stuff is OOP right now.

Van Conner has passed

https://www.facebook.com/garyleeconner/posts/pfbid0yibxbYgKW4zWysCMVBumDYNcMp9mg6RuwPzmEDXJJetDjzERXZDgM8YASpc4i6bnl

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/van-conner-screaming-trees-dead-dies-1235493452/

Damn, RIP.

Fuck.

fuck

A brutal year for the Trees. Rip.

This fucked me up a fair bit. I didn’t know he’d apparently been horribly ill for over a year.

Love the Trees. They could swing.