Screaming Trees

Mark Lanegan, Vocals
Gary Lee Conner, Guitar
Van Conner, Bass
Barrett Martin, Drums  (1991-2000)
 Mark Pickerel, Drums  (1985-1991)

Formed in 1985, Ellensburg/Seattle

Mark Lanegan and brothers Gary Lee and Van Conner grew up and attended the same high school together in Ellensburg, 90 miles outside of Seattle.  After a few years apart, the trio settled their differences and invited Mark Pickeral to join them on drums, finalizing the band.

Screaming Trees took their name from a guitar distortion pedal.  They recorded their first EP demo in 1985, and their first full-length, Clairvoyance, in 1986, both on Velvetone Records.  Subsequent albums appeared on SST Records, Sub Pop and by the end of 1990, they signed a major label deal with Epic Records. 

  Prior to signing with Epic, the band members spent 1990 working on their own solo projects.  Mark Lanegan recorded his solo "The Winding Sheet" with the help of Nirvana members Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic.  By the end of the year, with their Epic contract in hand, the band came back together and with Soundgarden's Chris Cornell, recorded their first major label release, "Uncle Anesthesia".  Following that project, which was released in 1991, Mark Pickerel left the band and Barrett Martin was brought in as their new drummer. 

  The first song that Barrett Martin joined the band on, Nearly Lost You, was also their first, and most well known hit, appearing on both the "Singles" soundtrack and their next album, 1992's "Sweet Oblivion".  After that project, the band once again took a hiatus from each other.  During that period, Lanegan recorded his second solo album, "Whiskey for the Holy Ghost ", released in 1994.  As Lanegan was doing that, Barrett Martin played drums with the side project of Layne Staley and Mike McCready called Mad Season, of which Lanegan also lended vocals on two tracks of that one-shot album.

Screaming Trees continued their on/off hiatus and tour syndrome, until after a Summer 2000 concert for the opening Seattle's Experience Music Project, they officially announced their breakup

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Other Worlds  (EP)

    • Released in 1985

      Originally available only on cassette, the album was re-released on CD by SST records in 1987.               Click To Buy It!
    • Like I Said
    • Pictures in My Mind
    • The Turning
    • Other Worlds
    • Barriers
    • Now Your Mind Is Next to Mine


Clairvoyance

    • Released in 1986

      Produced by Steve Fisk, the project helped land them on contract with SST Records Click To Buy It!
    • Orange Airplane
    • You Tell Me All These Things
    • Standing on The Edge
    • Forever
    • Seeing and Believing
    • I See Stars
    • Lonely Girl
    • Strange Out Here
    • The Turning
    • Clairvoyance



Even If And Especially When

    • Released in 1987

      The first project on the same label as pioneers Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr, SST Records, produced by Fisk.  Click To Buy it!
    • Transfiguration
    • Straight Out to Any Place
    • World Painted
    • Don't Look Down
    • Girl Behind the Mask
    • Flying
    • Cold Rain
    • Other Days and Different Planets
    • Pathway
    • You Know Where It's At
    • Back Together
    • In the Forest




Invisible Lantern

    • Released in 1988

      The band continues to grow with it's third studio album, still however missing airplay. Click To Buy It!
    • Ivy
    • Walk Through to This Side
    • Lines & Circles
    • She Knows
    • Shadow Song
    • Grey Diamond Desert
    • Smoke Rings
    • The Second I Awake
    • Invisible Lantern
    • Even If
    • Direction of the Sun
    • Night Comes Creeping




Beat Happening/Screaming Trees  (EP)

    • Released in 1988

      Sharing a common producer in Steve Fisk, they team up with Beat Happening for a four track super EP.       Click To Buy It!
    • Sea Babies
    • Tales of Brave Aphrodite
    • Polly Pereguin
    • I Dig You

 
Buzz Factory

    • Released in 1989

      As the eighties winded down, the band released their fiinal project for the SST label.  Click To Buy It!
    • Where the Twain Shall Meet
    • Windows
    • Black Sun Morning
    • Too Far Away
    • Subtle Poison
    • Yard Trip #7
    • Flower Web
    • Wish Bringer
    • Revelation Revolution
    • The Looking Glass Cracked
    • End of the Universe




Change Has Come  (EP)

    • Released 1990

      Between the labels of SST Records and Epic, they put out this EP on Sub Pop.  Click To Buy It!
    • Change Has Come
    • Days
    • Flashes
    • Time Speaks Her Golden Tongue
    • I've Seen You Before


Something About Today  (EP)

    • Released 1990

      Now signed with Epic Records, the band puts out an EP prior to it's major label full-length. Click To Buy It!
    • Uncle Anesthesia
    • Who Lies in Darkness
    • Ocean of Confusion
    • Something About Today  [Numb Inversion Version]


Uncle Anesthesia

    • Released 1991

      Their first major label full-length also gives them their first taste of radio airplay with Bed of Roses. Click To Buy It!
    • Beyond This Horizon
    • Bed of Roses
    • Uncle Anesthesia
    • Story of Her Fate
    • Caught Between
    • Lay Your Head Down
    • Before We Arise
    • Something About Today
    • Alice Said
    • Time for Light
    • Disappearing
    • Ocean of Confusion
    • Closer




Anthology:  SST Years 1985-1989

    • Released in 1991

      Compilation of music from their albums and EP's while with SST Records 1985-89. Click To Buy It!
    • 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









Sweet Oblivion

    • Released in 1992

      The breakout album with the hit Nearly Lost You that also appeared on the "Singles" soundtrack. Click To Buy It!
    • Shadow of the Season
    • Nearly Lost You
    • Dollar Bill
    • More or Less
    • Butterfly
    • For Celebrations Past
    • The Secret Kind
    • Winter Song
    • Troubled Times
    • No One Knows
    • Julie Paradise



Dust

    • Released in 1996

      Their final release after a four-year hiatus, then breaking up.  "All I Know" received some attention.  Click To Buy It!
    • Halo of Ashes
    • All I Know
    • Look at You
    • Dying Days
    • Make My Mind
    • Sworn and Broken
    • Witness
    • Traveler
    • Dime Western
    • Gospel Plow



Nearly Lost You

    • Released in 2001

      After breaking up in 2000, two more Greatest Hits packages were released. Click To Buy It!
    • Halo of Ashes
    • Nearly Lost You
    • Butterfly
    • Alice Said 
    • Dying Days
    • Shadow of the Season
    • All I Know
    • Something About Today
    • Uncle Anesthesia
    • Ocean of Confusion



Ocean Of Confusion:  Songs of Screaming Trees 1989-1996

    • Released in 2005

      Oddly incomplete with "Bed of Roses" and "All I Know" not included on this.       Click To Buy DVD
    • Who Lies in Darkness
    • Alice Said
    • Disappearing
    • Ocean of Confusion
    • Shadow of the Season
    • Nearly Lost You
    • Dollar Bill
    • More or Less
    • For Celebrations Past
    • Julie Paradise
    • Butterfly
    • E.S.K.
    • Watchpocket Blues   (previously unreleased)
    • Paperback Bible   (previously unreleased)
    • Make My Mind
    • Dying Days
    • Sworn and Broken
    • Witness
    • Traveler









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