Vinyl Record

Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion

Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion on LP vinyl. A 1992 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

LP · 1992

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 1992 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

Sweet Oblivion is Screaming Trees in 1992, arriving from the Pacific Northwest underground just as the wider world had learned to use one word for a lot of different Seattle-adjacent music. The band's sixth album is their commercial breakthrough, but it does not feel engineered from outside. Mark Lanegan's weathered voice, Gary Lee Conner's psychedelic guitar lines, Van Conner's bass and new drummer Barrett Martin's lift make the record sound older, earthier and stranger than much of the era around it. Nearly Lost You became the doorway, helped by its connection to the Singles moment, but the album is bigger than that one song: Shadow Of The Season opens with heavy, melodic confidence; Dollar Bill slows the ache into a wide-screen ballad; Winter Song, Butterfly and Troubled Times keep the folk-rock and psych colours alive under the grunge-era weight. The 1992 timing is everything. Sweet Oblivion caught the Trees close enough to the mainstream to be heard, but too idiosyncratic to be reduced to trend.

Sweet Oblivion matters because it is the Screaming Trees album that brought their underground psych-rock weight into the grunge-era spotlight. In 1992, Nearly Lost You opened the door, but the record's lasting power comes from Lanegan's voice and the band's older, stranger melodic depth.

For collectors, Sweet Oblivion is the essential Screaming Trees title and the cleanest entry point into Mark Lanegan's band-era work. Its value is the full 1992 album arc, from Shadow Of The Season and Nearly Lost You through Dollar Bill and Winter Song.

Pacific Northwest alternative rock with gravel-deep vocals, psychedelic guitar colour, hard drums, folk-rock undertow, grunge-era density and melancholy hooks built for late-night replay.

Recommended for: Collectors building a serious early-1990s alternative rock section; Listeners drawn to Mark Lanegan's voice before his later solo mythology; Fans of Nearly Lost You, Dollar Bill and Shadow Of The Season.

When was Sweet Oblivion released? Sweet Oblivion was released in 1992 as Screaming Trees' sixth studio album. Why is Nearly Lost You important? Nearly Lost You became the band's best-known song and helped bring Sweet Oblivion to a much wider audience. Who sings on Sweet Oblivion? Mark Lanegan is the lead vocalist, and his deep, weathered delivery is central to the album's identity.