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Screaming Trees

Buzz Factory - 2025 Repress

    Buzz Factory is the fourth studio album by Seattle-based band Screaming Trees, released in the spring of 1989. It was their final record for SST Records before they moved on to their major label debut.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Where The Twain Shall Meet
    2. Windows
    3. Black Sun Morning
    4. Too Far Away 
    5. Subtle Poison
    6. Yard Trip #7 
    7.. Flower Web 
    8. Wish Bringer 
    9. Revelation Revolution
    10. The Looking Glass Cracked
    11. End Of The Universe

    Screaming Trees

    Even If And Especially When - 2025 Repress

      Even If and Especially When is the second studio album by the Seattle band Screaming Trees, released in 1987. It was their first album released on SST Records.

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Transfiguration
      2. Straight Out To Any Place 
      3. World Painted 
      4. Don't Look Down
      5. Girl Behind The Mask
      6. Flying
      7. Cold Rain
      8. Other Days And Different Planets
      9. The Pathway
      10. You Know Where It's At
      11. Back Together
      12. In The Forest

      Screaming Trees

      Invisible Lantern - 2025 Repress

        Repress of 1988 album Invisible Lantern from Washington, USA Garage punk band Screaming Trees.



        TRACK LISTING

        1. Ivy
        2. Walk Through To This Side
        3. Lines & Circles
        4. She Knows
        5. Shadow Song
        6. Grey Diamond Desert
        7. Smokerings
        8. The Second I Awake
        9. Invisible Lantern
        10. Even If
        11. Direction Of The Sun
        12. Night Comes Creeping

        Screaming Trees

        Other Worlds - 2025 Repress

          Other Worlds is Screaming Trees' 1986 debut EP. It was produced by Steve Fisk and recorded in 1985 at his studio in Ellensburg, WA.

          TRACK LISTING

          1. Like I Said
          2. Pictures In My Mind
          3. The Turning
          4. Other Worlds
          5. Barriers
          6. Now Your Mind Is Next To Mine

          Screaming Trees

          Anthology - 2025 Repress

            Great 2LP compilation of tracks from their SST catalogue prior to signing to EPIC/SONY.

            TRACK LISTING

            Barriers
            The Turning
            Other Worlds
            Transfiguration
            Don't Look Down
            Cold Rain
            In The Forest
            Back Together
            Other Days And Different Planets
            Walk Through To This Side
            Smokerings
            Ivy
            Grey Diamond Desert
            Night Comes Creeping
            Invisible Lantern
            Subtle Poison
            Windows
            Black Sun Morning
            Flower Web
            End Of The Universe
            Where The Twain Shall Meet

            Screaming Trees

            Sweet Oblivion - Expanded Edition

              The history of the Screaming Trees goes back to 1985 when brothers Van Conner on bass and Gary Lee Conner on guitar teamed up singer Mark Lanegan in rural logging town Ellensburg, Washington State in 1985. After recording a handful of EPs and LPs for various US indie labels, including SST and Sub Pop, they signed to Sony imprint Epic Records for 1991's "Uncle Anaesthesia”, co-produced with Soundgarden's Chris Cornell.

              Geographically close enough to Seattle to benefit from the grunge scene that was about to explode with Nirvana in 1991, by the time they came to record “Sweet Oblivion” in 1992, they had been joined by Barrett Martin on drums (REM, Mad Season, Queens Of The Stoneage & Walking Papers). Whilst retaining the psychedelic elements that characterised much of their early output, their second major label album certainly leaned further towards a more commercial, hard rock sound.

              Probably the band's most successful record, this was no doubt helped by the inclusion of lead single 'Nearly Lost You' on the 2,000,000 selling soundtrack to Cameron Crowe's grunge-era movie, "Singles", thrusting the band into the limelight with the attention brought by the film, and an MTV-friendly video. Produced Don Fleming, the album was mixed by Andy Wallace, who had brought a commercial sheen to the previous year's "Nevermind" by Nirvana. 'Nearly Lost You' was followed by the release of the more introspective 'Dollar Bill' as a single, with 'Shadow Of the Season' and 'Butterfly' also released as singles in certain international territories.

              This edition now features a number of non-album bonus tracks. 'Maybe (Van's New One)' was sung by bassist Van Conner, whilst 'E.S.K.' is an outtake from the album sessions. Famed Seattle producer Jack Endino had previously worked with Screaming Trees on 1989's "Buzz Factory" for SST and the "Change Has Come" EP for Sub Pop before he came back on board to record an acoustic version of 'Winter Song', on which he guests on slide guitar. Prefiguring Americana, and to some degree a precursor to Mark Lanegan's solo album 'I'll Take Care Of You', their cover of Thomas A. Dorsey's '(There'll Be) Peace In the Valley (For Me)' was released a full two years before Johnny Cash's "American Recordings" comeback. Whilst their grunge-era peers hailed 70s punk and 70s metal as key influences, Screaming Trees' cover of Small Faces' 'Song of a Baker' ably demonstrates where the band's musical heart truly lay. Again produced by Jack Endino, their cover of Black Sabbath's 'Tomorrow's Dream', originally from the "Black Sabbath Vol 4" LP, rounds off this remastered 2CD collection in heavy style.

              Screaming Trees would release one further album, "Dust", in 1996, before splitting in 2000. The members continue to pursue various musical ventures, with the prolific Mark Lanegan having now released 10 solo albums, as well as finding time to collaborate with artists as diverse as Isobel Campbell, Duke Garwood, Twilight Singers, Queens Of the Stone Age, Unkle and Soulsavers, whilst Van Conner releases records regularly with Valis, and guitarist Gary Lee Conner recently released the highly psychedelic "Unicorn Curry".

              TRACK LISTING

              Disc 1:
              1. Shadow Of The Season
              2. Nearly Lost You
              3. Dollar Bill
              4. More Or Less
              5. Butterfly
              6. For Celebrations Past
              7. Secret Kind
              8. Winter Song
              9. Troubled Times
              10. No One Knows
              11. Julie Paradise

              Disc 2:
              1. Maybe (Van's New One)
              2. E.S.K.
              3. (There'll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me)
              4. Winter Song (Acoustic Version)
              5. Song Of A Baker
              6. Tomorrow's Dream

              Screaming Trees

              Uncle Anesthesia

                Their major debut was produced by Soundgarden's Chris Cornell and released during the grunge explosion but "Uncle Anesthsia" dowplays the Tree's hard rock tendencies in favour of a mellow psychedelic sound more reminiscent of the Byrds and REM. Powerful and soulful tracks sit alongside more out there pieces and produced the band's best album to that date.

                Screaming Trees

                Dust

                  On their swansong 1996 album, grunge legends the Screaming Trees unleashed one of the greatest rock albums of recent years. Led by Mark Lanegan (now with Queens of the Stone Age) and the Conner brothers, "Dust" is a stunning blend of punk, classic rock and raw, bluesey vocals that recalls Hendrix, The Byrds, Zeppelin, Sabbath, Howlin' Wolf but at the same time, as with all great music, totally transcends crude comparisons. The songs veer from blasting rock'n'roll workouts, bruised ballads and mellotron-led drone workouts. Along with Nirvana and Mudhoney, the Trees deserve to be remembered as leaders of the grunge scene, regardless of matters such as record sales and gimmicky music videos.


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