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I've never really listened to Lanegan beyond the well-known Trees songs ("Nearly Lost You," "All I Know"), but I am listening to Field Songs now and loving it. This is a rabbit hole I could go down for sure.
Scraps is the first album I listened to yesterday. Followed it up with the Soulsavers efforts, then tossed on the collab project I've been working on and then Houston: Publishing Demos.
I've got the Warsaw gig from '12 on currently, One Hundred Days.
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I've never really listened to Lanegan beyond the well-known Trees songs ("Nearly Lost You," "All I Know"), but I am listening to Field Songs now and loving it. This is a rabbit hole I could go down for sure.
I really enjoyed this one.
try next: Blues Funeral, Bubblegum and Whiskey for the Holy Ghost
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I've never really listened to Lanegan beyond the well-known Trees songs ("Nearly Lost You," "All I Know"), but I am listening to Field Songs now and loving it. This is a rabbit hole I could go down for sure.
I really enjoyed this one.
try next: Blues Funeral, Bubblegum and Whiskey for the Holy Ghost
Bubblegum is the one album I'm familiar with, and I like it a lot.
My favorite lanegan is when he started experimenting more with sound and instrumentation. I can't pinpoint exactly when that was because im not deeply knowledgable about his career but....
I know his first couple of solo records didn't floor me at first.
Blues Funeral was when he really started embracing synths and other instrumentation.
'Ode To Sad Disco' is still one of my favourite songs of this century
I looooove Ode. It's so hypnotic, feels like I'm driving at 4:30am, just in the beginning of dawn, tired after a night out with friends.
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I've just been listening to Mark on shuffle today. I've got a playlist of about 100 or so of my favorite songs of his. Once i digested an album I'd rarely go back to it start to finish. There were so many songs, I couldn't stay in one place with them long enough
Thanks for posting. I found it odd after reading all of the heartfelt celebrity/collaborator reactions that Isobel was missing, until I saw this heart aching article...
Think I'm still processing it and the realization that we'll no longer hear him is painfully sinking in. Losing a favorite sure does suck
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this is the song i keep coming back to.
this was tough news this week. like a few others have posted here, i've never really done a deep dive into his music or history, but the dude just seemed to always be in orbit around my music listening. those lanegan/campbell records were wonderful.
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One of the unique things about his style and writing is how many of his songs sounded like he was writing a eulogy for himself, in spirit if not in actual lyrics (but often the lyrics as well). Skeleton Key was the last song of his he released that I loved, and it feels like an appropriate enough final statement as well - especially when you consider how there is a sly, knowing wink to the whole thing. His last great song.
Ugly, I'm so very ugly I'm ugly, inside and out, there's no denyin' Love me, why would you ever love me? No one has ever loved me yet, pretty baby
Skeleton key, it won't open up It won't open any lock I have on me Rusted, bent and rusted Your precious skeleton key
I spent my life, tryin' every way to die Is it my fate to be the last one standin'? Don't you know it's a crime? All the shadowy peaks I climb And I have yet to ever be remanded Yes, I have yet to ever be remanded
Holy, holy All of your religions are a lie Hold me, don't you try to hold me I clearly see my own way to the other side Yes, I will make my own way to the other side
Cryin', quit your cryin' Sun'll likely rise again tomorrow As you follow it down, through the underground I would hook a leash upon your collar
Nothin' good is sustained, I gladly accept the blame But all my words won't add up to a dollar Yes, my all words won't add up to a dollar
Love me, don't say that you love me Nobody has ever loved me yet, pretty baby Cryin', quit your cryin' I have ten thousand tears that you can borrow
Come on, follow me down through the underground And I will sing to you a song of sorrow I will sing to you a sweet, straight song of sorrow I will sing you all a sweet, straight song of sorrow I will sing you all a sweet, straight song of sorrow
Skeleton key, where are you?
Skeleton key, bent and rusted All of your dreams are locked away The hands have stopped, on the timekeeper's clock And you have got to learn to breathe underwater Yeah, you have got to breathe, breathe underwater
Skeleton key, bent and rusted As broken as the heart the dirt has eaten Love me, don't pretend to love me I've lost enough to know when I am beaten I've lost enough to know when I've beaten I've lost enough to know when I've been beaten Yes, I have lost enough to know when I've been beaten
I should dive in into the whole Isobel Campbell thing. Its the collab i listened the least, not sure why. Maybe at the time i needed more rock or dark mood. Not sure.
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VinylGuy wrote:
I should dive in into the whole Isobel Campbell thing. Its the collab i listened the least, not sure why. Maybe at the time i needed more rock or dark mood. Not sure.
Joined: Thu December 13, 2012 6:31 pm Posts: 38609
its very hit or miss, I think, after the first record. But ballad of broken seas is great from start to finish. So are time of the season, snake song, and you wont let me down again
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