Posted on 02/22/2022 3:47:04 PM PST by nickcarraway
Grunge pioneer Mark Lanegan has died at the age of 57, according to a tweet from his personal Twitter account.
Lanegan, whose 1985-formed Screaming Trees – along with The Melvins, Mudhoney, Soundgarden and others – laid the foundation for Seattle’s grunge movement of the 1990s, died at his home in Killarney, Ireland, KIRO-TV reported.
The Screaming Trees released seven albums, five EPs and three compilation albums throughout their career, growing in prominence alongside Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam and Nirvana, the TV station reported.
According to Variety, Lanegan followed his stint as the Screaming Trees lead vocalist with a prolific solo career, featuring repeated collaborations with Queens of the Stone Age and others.
Lanegan’s cause of death has not been released publicly, although 2021 reports indicated that he suffered from both COVID-19 and kidney disease, the entertainment news outlet reported.
“I wanted excitement, adventure, decadence, depravity, anything, everything,” he wrote in his 2020 memoir, “Sing Backwards and Weep.”
“I would never find any of it in this dusty, isolated cow town. If the band could get me out, could get me into that life I so craved, it was worth any indignity, any hardship, any torture,” the Ellensburg, Washington, native wrote.
He certainly got his wish.
The Screaming Trees’ 1990 debut album for Epic Records, co-produced by the late Chris Cornell of Soundgarden, yielded the single “Nearly Lost You,” which was featured prominently in Cameron Crowe’s seminal tribute to the Seattle grunge scene, “Singles,” catapulting the track to alternative-radio fame. In turn, the Trees’ follow-up album, “Sweet Oblivion,” propelled the band to national prominence, Variety reported.
Meanwhile, Lanegan spent five years with Queens of the Stone Age, parting ways with the rock band in 2005. He also released 12 solo albums, the most recent of which, “Straight Songs of Sorrow,” dropped in 2020, KIRO-TV reported.
He is survived by his second wife, Shelley Brien, Variety reported.
This is even more upsetting as I just recently re-discovered them on Apple Music and was really enjoying them. I sorta passed them by during the band's heyday.
RIP Mark. He had a rough couple of years recently but I thought he would pull through. 57 is too young.
The Melvins were pretty cool, here comes sickness from Mudhoney was a great party tune back in the day.
The Melvins albums with Biafra are kick ass.
Likely had the vax, got covid and shot him up with Remdesivir.
suffered from both COVID-19 and kidney disease,
Likely had the vax, got covid and shot
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...that was my first thought, too.
Now I know who to blame. RIP, anyway.
RIP.
For instance, I listen to many different genres despite my preference for numerous types of metal (Symphonic Metal like the band Within Temptation is one of my favorites) and hard rock, from classical to swing (fast and slow), American folk, blues (I love me some Leonard Cohen), Rat Pack, Electronica (Daft Punk comes to mind), punk (and oi!) and limited dubstep (Lindsey Stirling namely, but she's on the mild end and is an amazing violin composer).
Bear in mind, I'm a dreaded Milennial.
Maybe you should start listening to Pandora Radio and broaden your horizons. It's free, and it opened me up to a lot of bands and artists I would otherwise have never heard of. It plays a song based on an artist, genre or song you tell it you want to hear similar music from, and you tell it whether or not you like the songs it chooses. It then provides you with a random playlist based on the components of your preferred music, and it's more complicated than simply choosing by genre.
“Best QOTSA song... No One Knows”
I like that one too. Another QOTSA favorite song of mine is... The lost Art of Keeping a Secret.
I enjoy all genres of music, from rock to pop, from classic to country, from oldies to opera, most jazz, etc etc etc. But I draw the line at what gives me a headache thru dissonance and pure volume. Grunge, heavy metal, blowout jazz noise etc... that’s why there are “off” and “change channel” button and dials.
I will try Pandora, at your suggestion; thanks.
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