Mark Lanegan solo album recommendations... (RIP February 2022)

I haven't heard his last couple albums, but he seems to have some very, uh, interesting ideas these days

https://www.spin.com/2020/05/mark-lanegan-rails-against-technology-i-had-my-own-private-snowden-in-the-room-with-me/

His new memoir is pretty great (although it stops around 1998ish, so we need a sequel), but he's clearly gone off the deep end with the 5G nonsense.

dude is on a mission to do as many guest vocals as possible it seems like? The Armed and Moby this week alone

tbf Moby could actually be a member of The Armed

lol

if he lifts for 8 months maybe

RIP Mark

Our beloved friend Mark Lanegan passed away this morning at his home in Killarney, Ireland.  A beloved singer, songwriter, author and musician he was 57 and is survived by his wife Shelley.  No other information is available at this time. We ask Please respect the family privacy

— mark lanegan (@marklanegan) February 22, 2022

Fuck.

Oh no.

Jeez. RIP

Holy fuck! No, this is awful RIP.

Awful.

Mods, probably worth making this the canonical thread if you get a chance? Thx

aw jeez, the older I get the more I liked his work... RIP

Wonderful vocalist and writer... really sad to hear this, I saw him a few times years ago

ugh this sucks, 57 is very young

what the fuck! ugh, he was really great and i was only recently starting to dive into his massive discography

From the RIP thread:

perhaps the greatest singer of his generation.

One of them for sure. Which is high praise, as more than 99% of all singers wouldn't even be in the running.

Literally and angrily said "FUCK!" out loud when I learned this news.

:(

And to you who never need
Fuck yourselves
I need some more room to breathe

RIP

fuck fuck fuck :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjme8WrPRA0

I ordered his memoir on interlibrary loan so hope it is still coming. I know there wasa 2nd one about him going through Covid in Killarney.
JUst hope he don't join the devil's army or however that song goes.

really sad, he had a tough go of things.

great singer and songwriter, incredible presence on stage

had no idea what he'd gone through in the last year - fucking hell, poor guy:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/feb/22/mark-lanegan-screaming-trees-singer-dies

MESSAGE FROM IGGY:
Mark Lanegan, RIP, deepest respect for you. Your fan,
Iggy Pop

— Iggy Pop (@IggyPop) February 22, 2022

gutted

loved him since i was a teen, def one of my own personal mt rushmore artists. fuckin tragic loss

fuck. just finished his book. seemed invincible after surviving such a hellish covid experience, but sadly not.

Ah hell. Screaming Trees' Sub Pop singles club entry - Change Has Come - was a huge record for me when I was a kid.

A lot of sad endings among singers of that era/region/scene, it's really quite remarkable and ... unprecedented?

Blunt to think about but true. There are certainly other lifers -- Kim Warnick, Mark Arm, Dylan Carlson to name just three, and if you want to count Mr. Vedder you can though of course he replaced arguably the first great loss, Andrew Wood -- but it's a hard overall toll.

https://laluzdejesus.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Peterson_Mark-Lanegan.jpg

In my high school photography class, I did an oral report on Charles Peterson, which was basically me sitting in front of class ad-libbing about different photos from the copy of Screaming Life I grabbed off my bookshelf that morning. The above pic was one of the best received ones.

“I Nearly Lost You” always bring me back to the first time I was allowed to take the family car out. Went to pick up my girlfriend, who’d I’d got back together with after some dumb high school fight. She hops in the car and this song comes on the radio and I was like “goddamn what a perfect song.”

His cover of The Cure’s “close to me” that he did w The Separate a few years back
destroys me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xJBnS06st8

His cover of "The Man in the Long Black Coat" is one of the highlights of the I'm Not There "soundtrack." (Only a few cuts from that double-CD are actually in the movie, but I think it was never meant to be the actual music in its entirety, just a side project in conjunction with the film.) Dylan's recording was arguably the highlight of Oh Mercy, but Lanegan's is even better IMHO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-wsKBd6_9I

yeah god i love his version

His version of Rev. Gary Davis's "Death Don't Have No Mercy" is pretty awesome too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZflanL4zTJY

I may be in the minority on this, but I feel like the blues and folk songs served his voice better than anything else, simply for the spooky, forboding atmosphere and giving his voice complete, open space.

big co-sign on the "man in the long black coat" love, that song feels like it was written for him

i love his ability to do the first line of a verse in a growl & suddenly the next line he’ll fly up to the heavens on a high note

beautiful range

The first time that I ever truly 'heard' him, back in 1993, guesting on this Walkabouts cover of Charlie Rich (and thus also consciously introducing me to his work):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGZeVkAE16k

Been sitting with me all day since the news hit. As well as this -- from The Winding Sheet in 1990, with Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic, so no surprise where Nirvana got the idea to do this later:

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

Such a damn shame.

Good, honest tribute:

https://jaybabcock.substack.com/p/landline-in-the-fade

I liked Mark, I liked his music. And I liked him because he loved music so much. It wasn’t just psychedelic rock or garage-punk stuff, it was every category. Blues, soul, jazz, classic rock, reggae, underground rock, art rock, contemporary electronic music. He was omnivorous, wide-ranging. He was a huge Kinks fan! He’d done a record with Beat Happening! He had a collaboration in progress with Greg Dulli, another one with Isobel Campbell from Belle & Sebastian! And in those early ‘00s years, he was in what at that time was the best rock ‘n’ roll band in the world, a band he didn’t have to lead.

Which was important, because Lanegan was so unusual: he was a natural singer who was not a natural frontman. He seemed far from at ease onstage, usually just squinting and standing stockstill, holding onto the mic for dear life. He was not a showman. Didn't matter. His voice was so rich, and the material clearly meant so much to him, that it worked.

his covers are so so good, such a vast array of genres

this one sends me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbMbeG1jIQU

RIP

Love this

Mark Lanegan toured with Oasis once. It didn't go great... pic.twitter.com/NnSn4vJ4JO

— Phil Harrison (@MrPMHarrison) February 22, 2022

fuck this is awful :(

Looking forward to reading this when it arrives. Shame there isn't going to be a lot more coming. Could have been interesting to have around as a writer in his old age.
Glad i did getto see him fronting Screaming Trees at the LSE but do wish I had seen him more frequently.

Saw him twice. Once solo around 1995 and once with the Trees - the tour when Homme was playing guitar. Both times it was summer (such as it is in the UK) and both times he was in a hat and a jacket (and dark glasses obviously) and seemed not uncomfortable as such but something like it - a point of stillness at the centre of things, around which everything pivoted.

i think the piece that Ned linked upthread nails it, that he didnt like being a “frontman” or being on stage, but he truly loved to sing

There's some really great live stuff from the Bubblegum tour in 2004. I remember the Milan date and the video from Other Voices in Dingle, County Kerry both being brilliant. May have said that on here before but not managing to look back on thread cos on my phone and video and other images are messing up scrolling.

Great stuff Ned!

Thanks very kindly.

A new piece talking with many who knew/worked with him

https://www.vulture.com/2022/05/mark-lanegan-tribute-remembrance-screaming-trees.html

beautiful

Among other things, I hadn't realized the mid-90s MTV taxi guy in those spots was Donal Logue!

Interesting. This appears to be something of a general memoir?

https://moochinaboutltd.bandcamp.com/merch/confessions-of-the-night-porter-mark-lanegan-moochin666

Or rather some kind of interpretive work of his lyrics and words but with his participation? Whatever it is, potentially of interest.

One year. Miss him.