Screaming Trees
Certain Songs #2171: Screaming Trees – "Sworn and Broken"
Album: Dust
But after putting out six albums and six EPs between 1986-1992, it took four long years for Screaming Trees to return with another album, 1996's Dust. And by 1996, the situation was totally different for grunge-identified bands, most of whom had either become massive stars; massive drug addicts, and in a lot of cases, both.
Had Dust came out in 1993, perhaps Screaming Trees could have capitalized on the momentum from "Nearly Lost You" and the post-cinema coattales of Singles. But it came out in 1996, and nobody gave a shit, though it did chart slightly higher — 134 to 141 — than Sweet Oblivion, it's been consigned to the same pre-and-post Oblivion oblivion that the rest of their catalog has.
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Certain Songs #2170: Screaming Trees – "Nearly Lost You"
Album: Sweet Oblivion
Like many of the bands that got signed to a major label during the great grunge gold rush of the early 1990s, Seattle's Screaming Trees had already put out four full-length albums — mostly on SST — prior to issuing their major label debut, 1991's Uncle Anesthesia. I do know that at least one or two of those 1980s records made it to KFSR, and despite the fact that they were more psychedelic than grunge, I also recall not being all that impressed, though I'm pretty sure I saw and enjoyed them at the Blue during that time.
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