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.
Looooota folks dying these days. Lotta folks.
Never heard of them.
RIP, anyway
Never heard of that group, but I was never into Grunge.
More like obnoxious NOISE, and definitely NOT real music. Crap.
He made very questionable covid decisions per his interview and book in #4. 2 months later he’s dead.
Popular music has experienced an incredible period of creativity over the past 75 years. Unfortunately, almost all of it has been crap.
RIP
I thought that guy was cancelled for some reason.
Hardly older than me. My sympathies to his family and friends.
Got that right!
Was Dave Grohl in QotSA and Foo Fighters at the same time?
Them Crooked Vultures, too.
Busy guy...
One of the best songs from the grunge era...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE5f561Y1x4
He wanted decadence and depravity. Got his wish. Now gets decomposing.
He was with them the same time he was working on One by One with FF. He still plays with them on occasion.
One of the best ever. Some of his best work was with Mad Season: Slip Away and Black Book of Fear.
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