Sweet Oblivion

Sweet Oblivion
Studio album by Screaming Trees
Released September 8, 1992
Recorded March, 1992
Genre Grunge
Neo-Psychedelia
Length 46:13
Label Epic
Producer Don Fleming
Screaming Trees chronology
Anthology: SST Years 1985-1989
(1991)		 Sweet Oblivion
(1992)		 Winter Songs Tour Tracks
(1992)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Rolling Stone [2]
Entertainment Weekly (B+)[3]
Q [4]
NME [5]
Robert Christgau (B+)[6]
Piero Scaruffi [7]
Kerrang! [8]
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Sweet Oblivion is Screaming Trees' 6th full length album that was released on September 8, 1992. The recording was the band's highest landmark in terms of album sales, and was the closest they would come to ever achieving mainstream success. Sweet Oblivion managed to sell in excess of 300,000+ copies on the strength of "Nearly Lost You." The band's biggest hit, it benefitted from an appearance on the Singles soundtrack, a Top Ten, platinum-selling hit album which featured many other popular Seattle-based music acts from the time period.

Personnel changes around the time of the album also led to the replacing of original drummer Mark Pickerel, who left to pursue other musical interests, with Barrett Martin. Four years would pass in between Sweet Oblivion and the band's followup album, Dust, a move that arguably hurt much of the Trees' commercial momentum. [1]

Contents

Track listing

# Song Length Credits
01 "Shadow of the Season"
4:34
 L. Conner/Lanegan
02 "Nearly Lost You"
4:07
 L. Conner/V. Conner/Lanegan
03 "Dollar Bill"
4:35
 V. Conner/Lanegan
04 "More or Less"
3:11
 L. Conner/V. Conner/Lanegan
05 "Butterfly"
3:22
 L. Conner/V. Conner/Lanegan
06 "For Celebrations Past"
4:09
 L. Conner/V. Conner/Lanegan/Martin
07 "The Secret Kind"
3:08
 L. Conner/V. Conner/Lanegan/Martin
08 "Winter Song"
3:43
 L. Conner/Lanegan
09 "Troubled Times"
5:20
 L. Conner/V. Conner/Lanegan/Martin
10 "No One Knows"
5:13
 L. Conner/Lanegan
11 "Julie Paradise"
5:05
 V. Conner/Lanegan

Personnel

Charts

Album

Year Chart Peak
1992 Heatseekers 4
1993 The Billboard 200 141

Singles

Year Single Chart Peak
1992 "Nearly Lost You" Mainstream Rock Tracks 12
"Nearly Lost You" Modern Rock Tracks 5
Hot 100 Airplay 62
UK Singles Chart 50
1993 "Dollar Bill" Mainstream Rock Tracks 40
Modern Rock Tracks 28

References

  1. ^ Huey, Steve. "allmusic ((( Sweet Oblivion > Review )))". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r59753. Retrieved March 17, 2010. 
  2. ^ Brackett, Nathan. "Screaming Trees". The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. November 2004. pg. 721, cited March 17, 2010
  3. ^ Farber, Jim. "Sweet Oblivion". Entertainment Weekly. October 1992. pg. 58, cited March 17, 2010
  4. ^ "Screaming Trees". Q. October 1992. pg. 90, cited March 17, 2010
  5. ^ "Screaming Trees". NME. October 1992. pg. 37, cited March 17, 2010
  6. ^ Christgau, Robert. "Screaming Trees". robertchristgau.com, Retrieved on March 17, 2010.
  7. ^ Scaruffi, Piero. "Screaming Trees". pieroscaruffi.com (Italian). Retrieved on March 17, 2010.
  8. ^ Watts, Chris (31 October 1992). "Screaming Trees 'Sweet Oblivion'". Kerrang!. 416. London, UK: EMAP. 

External links

Screaming Trees
Studio Albums
Compilations
Extended plays
Singles
"Bed of Roses" · "Dollar Bill" · "Nearly Lost You" · "Butterfly" · "Shadow of the Season" · "Sworn and Broken" · "All I Know" · "Dying Days" · "Sworn and Broken" · "Traveler"
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