Album Club
01-04-2013, 23:15
Album Club: 02.04.2013: Screaming Trees - 'Dust' (1996)
Album nominated by Chris (The Grand Wazoo).
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Screaming Trees - 'Dust' on Grooveshark (http://grooveshark.com/#!/album/Dust/129331)
Wikipedia entries:
Album: Screaming Trees - 'Dust' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_(Screaming_Trees_album))
Band: Screaming Trees (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screaming_Trees)
This was the seventh album that the Screaming Trees made and, apart from the 2011 release of a 'lost album', it proved to be their final offering. 'Dust' is also widely held to be their best as well, although its predecessor, 'Sweet Oblivion' comes close.
Shying away from the grunge label that the band had acquired because of the time and place that they came from, the influences here are clearly rooted in blues based rock from the turn of the 60's/70's.
Mark Lanegan:
“I’ve always wanted to make records that had the feeling and the spirit of the blues without being traditional 12 bar blues, which is boring and outdated. I’m not interested in it. I am however interested in the feelings behind it.”
There are great melodies and harmonies, one of the most characterful voices in music and a great ability to just craft a good rock song. They also boasted one of those not unheard of things - a pair of brothers (Van and Gary Lee Conner, bass and guitar) who could play together in the most phenomenal way, but sometimes, when things went slightly wrong, they could turn it on its head and try to beat the living crap out of each other....and if they were on-stage at the time, then so be it!
Maybe that, and drugs, was one of the things that stopped the band from having any sense of a need for creative momentum. When they delivered the goods with 'Sweet Oblivion' there was no follow through because they recorded and scrapped an entire albums worth of songs. It was a full four years later that eventually 'Dust' (a completely different set of songs) appeared.
'Dust' has been described as mature and majestic heavy rock with tinges of folk, psychedelia, topped and tailed with Eastern influences. For myself, I think it's just an example of excellently played and conceived rock music & I hope you'll like it.
Go on then, give it a whirl!
Album nominated by Chris (The Grand Wazoo).
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KWS7E5GGL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0YW9Qke0AfzNVISsPQ7KoF
Screaming Trees - 'Dust' on Grooveshark (http://grooveshark.com/#!/album/Dust/129331)
Wikipedia entries:
Album: Screaming Trees - 'Dust' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_(Screaming_Trees_album))
Band: Screaming Trees (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screaming_Trees)
This was the seventh album that the Screaming Trees made and, apart from the 2011 release of a 'lost album', it proved to be their final offering. 'Dust' is also widely held to be their best as well, although its predecessor, 'Sweet Oblivion' comes close.
Shying away from the grunge label that the band had acquired because of the time and place that they came from, the influences here are clearly rooted in blues based rock from the turn of the 60's/70's.
Mark Lanegan:
“I’ve always wanted to make records that had the feeling and the spirit of the blues without being traditional 12 bar blues, which is boring and outdated. I’m not interested in it. I am however interested in the feelings behind it.”
There are great melodies and harmonies, one of the most characterful voices in music and a great ability to just craft a good rock song. They also boasted one of those not unheard of things - a pair of brothers (Van and Gary Lee Conner, bass and guitar) who could play together in the most phenomenal way, but sometimes, when things went slightly wrong, they could turn it on its head and try to beat the living crap out of each other....and if they were on-stage at the time, then so be it!
Maybe that, and drugs, was one of the things that stopped the band from having any sense of a need for creative momentum. When they delivered the goods with 'Sweet Oblivion' there was no follow through because they recorded and scrapped an entire albums worth of songs. It was a full four years later that eventually 'Dust' (a completely different set of songs) appeared.
'Dust' has been described as mature and majestic heavy rock with tinges of folk, psychedelia, topped and tailed with Eastern influences. For myself, I think it's just an example of excellently played and conceived rock music & I hope you'll like it.
Go on then, give it a whirl!