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Dirk Hanssens
Hi all, I'm from 1963 and live in Belgium and have been following music a long time. I have gone through many musical stages like the Beatles, Metal, classic guitar rock, punk music, Indie, Grunge etc but the main focus is still on guitar music: favourite bands are of course the Beatles, but also The Kinks, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, The Allman Brothers Band, Led Zeppelin, Husker Du, Pavement, Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, dEUS, Metallica, Guided by Voices, Sonic Youth, ...
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This is the 69th album of a thread of album reviews in which I'd like to guide you through my personal musical history based on my top100 Album list you can find in my profile: the previous album in the thread was "Palomine" by Bettie Serveert.
This is a difficult one: I discovered the Screaming Tree via this album (which is definitely not their first) and especially by the main track "Nearly Lost" which had a lot of airplay on the Belgian radio. But the fantastic (although with a sound quality which is less than average) compilation from their SST years I discovered later has many more good songs.
However I stuck with "Sweet Oblivion" where the voice of Mark Lanegan, who I kept following during his long solo career and cooperations with ao Greg Dulli and QOTSA, really excells.
There is one song of this album which appears in my personal songs top 1000 and 5 more on other albums:
- Nearly Lost ou (this album)
- The Turning (Anthology SST Years 1985-1989)
- Back Together (Anthology SST Years 1985-1989)
- Smokerings (Anthology SST Years 1985-1989)
- All I Know (Dust)
- Story of her Fate (Uncle Anesthesia)
Next album in this thread: "MTV Unplugged in New York" by Nirvana
This is a difficult one: I discovered the Screaming Tree via this album (which is definitely not their first) and especially by the main track "Nearly Lost" which had a lot of airplay on the Belgian radio. But the fantastic (although with a sound quality which is less than average) compilation from their SST years I discovered later has many more good songs.
However I stuck with "Sweet Oblivion" where the voice of Mark Lanegan, who I kept following during his long solo career and cooperations with ao Greg Dulli and QOTSA, really excells.
There is one song of this album which appears in my personal songs top 1000 and 5 more on other albums:
- Nearly Lost ou (this album)
- The Turning (Anthology SST Years 1985-1989)
- Back Together (Anthology SST Years 1985-1989)
- Smokerings (Anthology SST Years 1985-1989)
- All I Know (Dust)
- Story of her Fate (Uncle Anesthesia)
Next album in this thread: "MTV Unplugged in New York" by Nirvana
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