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Post by Stranger on Jan 17, 2013 17:12:36 GMT -5
So I wonder: Which song did it for you, got you hooked on ML?
For me it was Stay. It’s such an emotional song. It grabbed me 'cause this song portrayed how I felt at the moment (and still kinda do). It’s the way he sings it. When I first heard it I could almost cry. (On a side note, how he sings O Holy Night that almost makes me cry too.) Later I thought I was a bit fooled 'cause it’s a trick, trembling his voice. But later again I revised that thought. (He’s got more tricks! No...) He’s one of the most deepest and genuine singers out there.
I often wondered why he hasn’t sing this song anymore since it came out. I read somewhere in an interview, but I can't be sure, that Scraps is one of his albums he cannot listen to (anymore). I guess it rather has to do with the fact that it reminds him of things he doesn’t want to be reminded of than that it is a question of quality. If this is a cheesy song I’m going to doubt my musical taste which is a lot cause it’s pretty damn good!
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Post by caitlin on Jan 17, 2013 18:15:10 GMT -5
Well I found out about him thanks to Isobel (before BBS he was just the scary guy Queens rolled out for the songs where Nick and Josh were too clean cut ) and the one which really hooked me was Carry Home live.
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Post by silence on Jan 17, 2013 18:23:00 GMT -5
Probably Time Speaks Her Golden Tongue for me. I was buying a lot of (at the time) new Sub Pop records, and this changed my view of whatever scene was going on there at the time from general youthful shoutiness to something a bit stranger.
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Post by LPTrees on Jan 17, 2013 21:48:13 GMT -5
It was a combination of Halo of Ashes, Dollar Bill, and Butterfly for me..
Lanegan solo wise, it was One Way Street and then Borracho..
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Post by inthefade on Jan 17, 2013 22:21:11 GMT -5
I got the Singles soundtrack for Drown and the two Pearl Jam songs. Nearly Lost You got me into Screaming Trees.
I didn't get into Mark's solo stuff until after I acquired QOTSA's Secret Acoustic Show. Mark is so good on that, that I immediately began getting his solo albums, and filling the holes in my Trees collection...
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Post by wheels132 on Jan 17, 2013 22:45:22 GMT -5
Shadow of the Season got me into Trees, Troubled Times sealed the deal.
At first I wasn't into his solo work, I mean it was good but didn't grab me right away (WTF was I thinking??), until I got sick one day at work. I came home to crash and couldn't sleep, was fucking pouring rain all day. I threw on Whiskey again (my 3rd spin I think) and got totally lost in it as I laid on the couch exhausted but restless. By the time Riding the Nightingale was over (which in turn is the song that chilled me to the bone), I was hooked for life. Such a vivid memory, but a great one.
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Post by trench on Jan 18, 2013 1:45:59 GMT -5
I was introduced to Mark's music accidentally. Twice. The first time was in 1992. I was a fan of Curve and I'd asked a friend to record me a copy of their Fait Accompli ep. He did so and gave me the tape. I listened to the A-side, loved it and thought,"I wonder if he's put anything on the B-side? Maybe more Curve, fast-forward, see what's going on" So I did, I fast-forwarded.
On the b-side of that tape was Sweet Oblivion. I didn't know that at the time, all I knew was, "Fuck, this guy's voice is amazing! I wonder who he is?" Because that's all that the Screaming Trees were to me then: That band with THAT voice. I never really investigated further.
Cut to 2001. I was working in a record shop. Fan of Nick Cave and Conor Oberst (not so much Conor Oberst anymore), I was developing a taste for Will Oldham. One of the guys that worked with me loaned me 'Viva Last Blues' by Palace Music.
At the same time he loaned me 'Field Songs'.
I listened to 'Viva Last Blues' and loved it. Still do. Then I put on 'Field Songs'. I was fucking mesmerised.
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Post by trench on Jan 18, 2013 1:49:55 GMT -5
So 'One Way Street' got me hooked, sorry.
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Post by stardog on Jan 18, 2013 3:47:57 GMT -5
Definitely"Wild Flowers". I discovered Seattle music through Mother Love Bone in 1992 and with Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains already being my favourite bands I listened to everything from Seattle and was totally blown away by The Winding Sheet...
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Post by marco on Jan 18, 2013 16:27:17 GMT -5
Alice Said & Mockingbirds
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Post by frauleinkül on Jan 18, 2013 17:35:34 GMT -5
I was listening to the Desert Sessions albums a lot, and one night when I had absolutely nothing to do and was bored out of my mind, I started googling everyone who had appeared on those records, finding interesting links bewteen those musicians and others bands and artists that I knew/liked. If I didn't know anything about them, I'd see if I could them on youtube. "Hit the City" was the first one I heard, and I loved it. But for som inexplicable reason, I didn't go any further into his music. Hit the City just sort of lingered in the back of my mind for about a years or so when, I don't know why, I returned to that name - Lanegan - and heard I'll Take Care of You. I was sold and hardly listened to anything else for a few years. His music took hold of me in a way that I thought music only could when you're a teenager and the notion of who you are seems so scattered and impossible that you immerse all of it into that one band or artist. That you sort of feel you have a place in the music, and it has a place in you.
So, technically Hit the City, but it really was I'll Take Care of You
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Post by Stranger on Jan 18, 2013 18:16:00 GMT -5
Great to read all these introductions and the moments when the spark flew.  The first song I heard was Ugly Sunday. My sister posted me a link (with a picture, I thought how does she know that, a thing we never discussed, this is my type of man hehehe anyway) she probably thought that I would like his music, eventhough she hadn't listened to it herself, attached to the link was the song Ugly Sunday. I liked what I heard but didn't go further until a couple of days later I saw his name again popping up through PJ Harvey, I already was a fan of hers. So then Hit the City and Come to Me, loved it so clicked further in youtube to Sleep with Me and Stay, and with Stay I stayed, foor good  I know what you mean frauleinkül, there's only one other band that I was just as obsessed with as I am now with Lanegan, and that was in my teenage years. Listening for a couple of years nothing else but back then The Doors, and now Mark Lanegan (and Screaming Trees). by the way I like the term youthfull shoutiness, if this isn't an official term it should be  . |
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Post by calm ocean on Jan 18, 2013 19:04:46 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2013 23:03:07 GMT -5
It was Long Gone Day for me. His voice instantly captivated me & I discovered Screaming Trees after that. They're still my favourite band.
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Post by solitude on Jan 19, 2013 11:19:19 GMT -5
It was Long Gone Day for me. His voice instantly captivated me & I discovered Screaming Trees after that. They're still my favourite band. So much blood, I'm starting to drown.... I had a good friend who DJed at a radio station when I lived in Manhattan, KS. He kept bugging me--- you HAVE to hear this album!!(Sweet Oblivion)....I remember being blown away. I could never understand how someone could dislike Screaming Trees. Can't. relate. at ALL.....I have been a fan for 21 years!! ;D |
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Post by demetrij on Jan 19, 2013 12:07:56 GMT -5
For me it started with Nearly Lost You and the whole Sweet Oblivion album I loved a ton in 1992, from there started exploring their catalog and then discovered Mark's solo stuff in the late 90s or so and loved it all.
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Post by ken on Jan 19, 2013 12:21:27 GMT -5
Bubblegum. I realise it's not a song, but I'd never heard of Lanegan until end of 2004 when this appeared in many lists of "best of 2004", so I duly paid my 25p to borrow from the library and loaded on my ipod. At this point most things disappear, because there's too much stuff on my ipod and I don't get around to much of it. However, for some reason I kept going back to Bubblegum, great variety, songs and that voice! Nothing else has really capitvated like that since I was a student (sadly long long ago!).
I can empathise with Caitlin, those first concerts with Isobel were great, because they didn't have a full set so filled up with songs from I'll Take Care and Carry Home was a stand out, absolutely captivating.
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Post by Stranger on Jan 19, 2013 12:34:52 GMT -5
damn seriously? I thought I've seen every fucking post in this board by now.... :D well it can't hurt asking the same question again after 8 years :) |
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Post by heidi on Jan 19, 2013 16:11:40 GMT -5
In my case it wasn't one song. I happened to read an interview with Mark around the time Whiskey for the Holy Ghost was released. The article made me really curious so I went to a record store, looked at all the CDs they had, and - because I still didn't have a CD player - bought... the cheapest Screaming Trees cassette (didn't want to risk too much money :-)) And it happened to be Other Worlds. I listened to it over and over again, then got the CD player and some more of the albums. I was living in Seattle at the time and was exploring lots of local music - so I didn't realize what happened until a few months later. A concert of Soundgarden was announced - and I thought I'd want to go, but money was tight, etc. so I gave up the idea. But then a few weeks before the show Trees were added to the bill - and suddenly money was not an issue any more :-) And it is possible that it was actually during that very show (at Memorial Stadium, August 13, 1994 - damn it I shouldn't even remember that date!) that I realized how much I liked them. And Mark's albums came around the same time, but to me it was a part of the same thing... And, yes, still have that cassette :-)
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Post by downer on Jan 19, 2013 20:01:33 GMT -5
Nearly lost you single was the first thing i heard from him back in the ninetees and i was impressed, than i got to Winding sheet, cause Cobain mentioned it somewhere and i got seriously interested, especialy because of Wildflowers and Museum. But what "hooked" me was Here comes that weird chill, that record almost immediately got onto my daily playlist and after like 7 years it is still on it!!! If i should pick one song, i would say Message to mine or Sleep with me or Wish you well. Fuck, cant decide, amazing record. It is in my all time top 10 records, the only one done by Mark.
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Post by junkhead2012 on Jan 20, 2013 6:45:37 GMT -5
Wedding Dress
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Post by foriamtheway on Jan 20, 2013 10:39:24 GMT -5
It took me a while to get hooked; I have been a fan of PJ Harvey for years, so my first introduction to Mark's music was when she sung on Hit The City. I bought Bubblegum and liked it a lot. Then I lend it to a friend to have a listen, forgot about it and never got it back.
In 2006 I was at Lowlands Festival and Mark was there with The Twilight Singers. I remember being really impressed with his presence and of course his voice. Also that year I bought Balled Of The Broken Seas, but was to much preoccupied with other things to look further into his music.
Then his name popped up again when The Gutter Twins were going to play a festival in my city. I got really excited to see them play, but only hours before the show it got canceled. I was pissed because I had spend money on the festival ticket, while I was kind of broke at the time.
A few years ago I got into vinyl and while looking through the records at a record store I came across Bubblegum again and remembered how much I liked his voice. This time I did took the time to look into Mark's music a little further and I first listened to Field Songs. And when I got to Low... I broke... I was hooked ;D
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Post by doomed on Jan 20, 2013 21:32:55 GMT -5
I've probably mentioned before that I'm a newbie to Mark - I was introduced to him by a fellow member of another forum, who said I really needed to hear Mark Lanegan - this was before Blues Funeral was released. I trusted his judgement; downloaded what I could find, and fell in love - probably the song that clinched it for me was also "Wedding Dress." Then I went back and purchased all of his Screaming Trees releases, his solo releases, his QOTSA releases - all of the live concerts that I could find - I've spent a fortune so far, and I'm far from finished - what a wonderful trip it's been! Thanks, obi.
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Post by username2500 on Jan 21, 2013 0:51:01 GMT -5
happened to hear him sing w qotsa in 2005. bought bubblegum* that or the following week. been listening ever since ;D
(*note: persuaded to go ahead & buy the bubblegum album because there was a little sticker on it that said 'pj harvey sings' and i was already a fan of her music; vein of thinking: hey if she appears on it, it can't be that bad)
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Post by angela on Jan 21, 2013 17:05:29 GMT -5
Love reading all these stories! I first heard Mark in 2002, when Songs For The Deaf came out, but as I was new to QOTSA I was too busy checking out all the the other band members. It didn't help that Mark barely appeared on the accompanying DVD (other than dressed up as a deer ;D). Fast forward to 2005, I was checking out RTE's "Other Voices" web site, an Irish TV program I had followed since its inception, to see who was on in season 3, when I recognized Mark's name. I didn't even know he had a solo career then. It was 11:10 am when my curiosity led me to the first song of the set. My infatuation started with the first (dark) note of the bass line of Hit The City, but the lyric of Wedding Dress was what made me drop everything I was doing on the spot. (My downloaded Real Media file of the set bears a 11:20 time stamp ;D) |
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