**Mark Lanegan appreciation thread**

PJGARDEN
PJGARDEN Posts: 1,484
edited September 2012 in Other Music
Pretty sure we had one on the old board but I haven't see a thread around here. We need one!!!
I think Mark Lanegan is brilliant. I have been listening to Field Songs for two days straight and that album hits me every time as much as is ever has. I don't know what's gotten into me the last couple of days but I think I like it :mrgreen:
I actually got quite irritated yesterday when a coworker came over to talk to me while Resurrection Song was playing. It was only about the 4th time I had heard it yesterday and it's not like I couldn't start over but it disrupted my zone.
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  • OffHeGoes132
    OffHeGoes132 Posts: 594
    Kudos to you for starting (or resurrecting) this thread!! I don't have much time to elaborate now, but Lanegan is for sure one of my fav singers ever. Everything the man touches turns to gold.
  • HeavyHands
    HeavyHands Posts: 2,131
    PJGARDEN wrote:
    I actually got quite irritated yesterday when a coworker came over to talk to me while Resurrection Song was playing. It was only about the 4th time I had heard it yesterday and it's not like I couldn't start over but it disrupted my zone.

    For me this always happens at the same point on the same record. Somebody always comes in or the phone rings or something. Who knows... maybe it's my fault for putting the record on at about the same time every day.

    Lanegan though? That guy's a genius.
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  • Abe Froman
    Abe Froman Posts: 5,384
    Wish You Well off Here Comes That Weird Chill is one of my favorite things he's done.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    im kicking myself for missing the soulsavers here in cleveland not long ago :( i had just moved and totally blanked on the date!
  • Architect and Builder
    Architect and Builder Posts: 237
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  • Kilgore_Trout
    Kilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    my favorite singer of all time... luckily hes also the busiest and most productive guy in the business :D

    i want another bubblegum-esque album NOW!

    GREAT THREAD

    how does this guy not get any of the attention he deserves??? (excluding us "grunge" groupies)
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  • Edved82
    Edved82 Ireland Posts: 1,279
    Not big into the Screaming Trees, but Bubblegum would have to be one of my favorite albums of all time. This guy is cruelly underrated in the music business. Absolute legend in my eyes, if only for his cameo appearances on the Mad Season album! :)
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  • Digital Twilight
    Digital Twilight Posts: 5,642
    VanquarTheGreat wrote:
    Wish You Well off Here Comes That Weird Chill is one of my favorite things he's done.

    Mine too :mrgreen:
  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,394
    Anyone heard of the band The Gutter Twins with him in it. Pretty rocking stuff :thumbup:
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  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    Gutter Twins are awesome. Lanegan is legend!

    The Winding Sheet is my favorite of his at the the moment...it's haunting, beautiful, fucking awesome.
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  • Brisk.
    Brisk. Posts: 11,581
    Saw him with Soulsavers, was great. I never really liked Screaming Trees much tbh.. Long Gone Day is sick though.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    eeriepadave wrote:
    Anyone heard of the band The Gutter Twins with him in it. Pretty rocking stuff :thumbup:

    heard of them??? as a fan of both greg dulli and mark lanegan this is the perfect partnership. i saw them in july when they came down here. it had been a few years since id last seen lanegan live and so was not going to miss this opportunity. he doesnt move much(if at all) but then again he doesnt have to. its all in the voice. lanegan sounds like a boulders rumbling in a landslide. i could listen to him all day. in fact i do do that when the mood strikes me. theres nothing he does that i dont like. anyhoo...

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  • PJSEMPRE
    PJSEMPRE Posts: 687
    Big fan of him! My second favourite singer (the first is E.V.).
    I love almost everything he has done...Screaming Trees, solo, Gutter Twins, Soulsavers etc.
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  • scottstappsucks
    scottstappsucks Posts: 991
    Huge Screaming Trees fan, most underrated band of the 90's. Shame they didn't get to release their last album which would have included the amazing Ash Grey Sunday and Anita Grey, two of the band's best songs that have only been heard by online downloaders. I think the Trees simply came out at the wrong time, if they came out today with retro bands like Wolfmother out there I think the Trees psychedelic classic rock sound would have gotten over big with today's rock crowd. Just in the 90's there were so many great bands that sadly the Trees were lost in the shuffle.

    I love Mark's solo stuff, namely Bubblegum. He needs to make another one asap. I also love the Soulsavers records and Mark's song with Queens of the Stone Age. I'd love to see Mark live, Soulsavers came here to LA recently but I couldn't go as I had put a lot of money into seeing U2. If Mark ever tours here solo again though I'll definitely make it out, would love to hear him play solo stuff and Trees stuff.
  • Yielded
    Yielded Posts: 839
    God, where do I start? I absolutely adore the man. As someone else said, everything he touches turns to gold!

    And how could anyone not like the Trees? ;)
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  • JordyWordy
    JordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    Saw him with QOTSA at Slane 2003, saw him on the Acoustic "Gutter Twins" tour last January, and that blew my mind so fucking much ive never recovered. Was delighted to catch that acoustic gig cos id missed 2 GutterTwins gigs in the previous 8 months!

    "One Hundred Days" is easily my favourite song of his: so smooth, so dark, so depressing and uplifting. Classic Lanegan.

    on top of that all, Soulsavers were just announced as support to a (sold out) Depeche Mode gig here in December....i have to find tickets to this show!
  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,824
    edited November 2009
    Great thread!

    Mark Lanegan is without a doubt one of my favourite singers of all time. I've been lucky enough to see him 9 times over the years:

    Screaming Trees
    The Mark Lanegan Band (Bubblegum tour)
    The Twilight Singers (Powder Burns tour)
    Gutter Twins
    Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan twice
    An Evening with Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan (acoustic show) twice
    Soulsavers

    I think we're kinda spoiled in the UK because (compared to certain other bands) it seems as though ML is always in town! The acoustic shows with Greg Dulli were amazing, especially at Union Chapel. Beautiful venue, great show and Greg and Mark came out to meet us after the show
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  • skippybrew
    skippybrew Posts: 283
    goldrush wrote:

    I think we're kinda spoiled in the UK because (compared to certain other bands) it seems as though ML is always in town! The acoustic shows with Greg Dulli were amazing, especially at Union Chapel. Beautiful venue, great show and Greg and Mark came out to meet us after the show

    They came through my way in the states and I FUCKING MISSED IT. God, I was pissed.

    I was just listening to Whiskey for the Holy Ghost tonight at work. One of my absolute favorite albums.
  • -Buru-
    -Buru- Santa Barbara, CA Posts: 1,292
    Love the man.
    Was lucky enough to see him live as The Gutter Twins. Amazing performance.
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  • PJGARDEN
    PJGARDEN Posts: 1,484
    I loved the acoustic shows with Dulli earlier this year. IThe stripped down shows really showcased his voice. I've been blessed to have seen Lanegan 3 times this year!

    Dollar Bill from the Athen show earlier this year.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hDQ-6WOw9Y

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