Sweet Oblivion by Screaming Trees

Pros: A few gems, grunge sound
Cons: repetition, grunge sound

Let's return to the year 1992. Grunge was king on the radio and you weren't anybody unless you owned at least one flannel shirt (mine was red). The cool bands were from Seattle and tended to lean toward the brooding, angry music as characterized by the...

Pros: One rocking bluesy track after another.
Cons: Screaming Trees should have more fans.

Sweet Oblivion (1992) is mellifluous, yet a rocking groove permeates at the same time that will make heads bop and back heels stomp, again and again. Aching lyrics express a longing and sense of being lost by Mark Lanegan’s ...

Pros: A high-quality classic rock album
Cons: So well organized, might make you think you're dead in heaven (dead is not good)

Screaming Trees is a rock band that came from the Seattle music boom of the late 80s/early 90s, and is definitely one of the most unique and appealing to emerge from the Northwest. There are several reasons for this. For one, they are not what many ...

Pros: Good solid, melodic hard rock.
Cons: Never got the attention they deserved.

By now I'm sure every rocker from coast to coast remembers the beast that ate Seattle during the early 90's. You know, that crazy little thing called grunge. Now, I have to laugh when hear that word, because all it is, is a term the music press coined in...