Lanegan mark

Mark Lanegan (born the November 25th 1964, with Ellensburg) is a singer with the raucous voice, successively member of Screaming Trees, Mad Season, Queens off the Stone Age and Gutter Twins.

Straight come from Seattle, it worked with enormously of musicians of which Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley (within Mad Season), Isobel Campbell, Twilight Singers (of which the leader Greg Dulli is the other member of the Gutter Twins), Mondo Generator, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Jeffrey Lee Pierce of the Gun Club Martina Topley-Bird, Masters off Reality, Desert Sessions, Mike Watt.

The Screaming Trees (1986-1997)

Mark begins its career as a singer in Screaming Trees. They will record seven albums during their eleven businesss year. The group belonged to the pioneers of the Seattle sound , but did not know the popularity of Nirvana or Pearl Jam.

Career Solo (1990-aujourd' today)

In parallel of Screaming Trees, Mark begins its career solo in 1990 with “The Winding Sheet”, published on the Sup-Pop label. Kurt Cobain is present on this album, with the song and the guitar on Down in the dark , but also accompanied by Krist Novoselic with low, on Where did you sleep last night . The two following albums, Whiskey For The Holy Ghost in 1994 and Scraps At Midnight in 1998 know one big hit near criticism but remain confidential. Mark Lanegan leaves then an album recovery, I' L Take care Of You including/understanding covers of Gun Club, Fred Neil, Leaving Trains or Buck Owens. It closes its period blues and folk through the very beautiful album Field Songs marking the stop of its long collaboration with Mike Johnson (former bass player of Dinosaur Junior).

Leaving the legendary Pop Sub label for an new agreement at Beggars Banquet, from now on marked print of the Queens Off The Stone Old, the future productions in solo of Lanegan are definitely more rock'n'roll and experimental. This turn starts with the exit of a EP UFO, Here Comes That Weird Chill then with the album Bubblegum left in 2005, the first commercial real success of Mark in solo. If one finds sometimes environments folk and bluesy beginnings in these two albums, it is especially the turn rock'n'roll and heavy which one notices with their listening. Pieces like Skeletal History, Metamphetamine Blues, Driving Death Valley Blues or the stoogien Sideways In Reverse illustrate all the influence of the QOTSA on the career solo of Lanegan. And it is all the American medium of India which collaborates in its last deliveries: PJ Harvey, Josh Man and Nick Oliveri obviously, Chris Goss or Greg Dulli. New fact also, Mark turns in a way much more regular and a little everywhere in the world. Besides it gives its first Parisian concert in September 2004 to the New Casino.

Following its departure of the Queens Off The Stone Old in 2005, it puts its career solo between brackets but enters a collaborative step. It joint the ex-member of Beautiful and Sebastian, Isobel Campbell, to record Off Balad The Broken Seas , in a kind of remake of what had already been able to do Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra at the time. It leaves then in round with Greg Dulli and its new project, Twilight Singers, atmospheric prolongation of Whigs Afghan, with whom it assembles also a project very awaited by the fans: The Gutter Twins. The album of the two accomplices, they are indeed friendly since many years, should leave at the beginning of 2008.

Last delivery in date, and undoubtedly one of most astonishing, its participation on 8 titles of the second albums of Soulsavers, actually two DJs and producing English. The album, It' S Not How Far You Fall, It' S The Way You Land left at V2 in April 2007, is a mixing collection of electro songs, hip hop, gospel, country and of heavy environments in Tom Waits. This curious mixture however proves very judicious and it from now on famous raucous voice of Lanegan sticks perfectly to the musical environment concoctée by two English. The title Revival headlight seems to have conquered the radios indies and of the titles like Ghost Of Me, Paper Money, or the resumptions of Stones and Neil Young No Expectation and Trhough The Sails give to the album a particular savor.

Mad Season (1995)

Mark Lanegan speaks on behalf of two songs of the Above album, left into 95. Mad Season is then composed of Layne Staley (Alice In Chains) Mike McCready (Pearl Jam), Barrett Martin (Screamin Trees), John Baker Saunders. After a long delay, the projects of a second album will finally never be born.

Queens Off The Stone Old (2001-2005)

Mark Lanegan becomes the third singer, full-time, of Queens off the Stone Age in 2001. It joined thus his friend Josh Homme, the leader of Queens off the Stone Age, which had taken part in a round of Screamings Trees in 1996. He Co-will write and pose his voice on several songs of Rated R (2000) Songs for the Deaf (2002) and Lullabies to Paralyze (2005). Its departure of the group in 2005, at the same moment that Nick Oliveri, intervenes under obscure conditions. If it does not turn any more with the group during the following round Lullabies to Paralyze, it is however credited on the next album with the Queens, Era Vulgaris , available since June 12th, 2007, and there interprets a title with Josh Homme (To rivet one The Road).

Discography with Screamings Trees

(1986) Clairvoyance (Velvetone)
(1987) Even If and Especially When (ST)
(1988) Invisible Lantern (ST)
(1989) Buzz Factory (ST)
(1991) Uncle Anaesthetized (Epic)
(1992) Sweet Oblivion (Epic)
(1996) Dust (Epic)

Discography Solo

(1990) The Winding Sheet (SubPop)
(1994) Whiskey For The Holy Ghost (SubPop)
(1998) Scraps At Midnight (SubPop) (with his/her friends of the Queens off the stone old)
(1999) I' L Take Care off You (SubPop) (album of recovery)
(2001) Field Songs (SubPop)
(2003) Young stag Comes That Weird Chill (Beggars Banquet)
(2004) Bubblegum (Beggars Banquet)

Contributions

(1987) 448 Deathless Days (Steve Fisk)
(1990) Harmony in Defeat (King Krab)
(1992) Jamboree (Happy Happening)
(1993) Satisfied Mind (The Walkabouts)
(1994) Volume 9 (Various Artists)
(1995) Ball-Hog gold Tugboat (Mike Watt)
(1995) Over and Thru the Night (Steve Fisk)
(1995) Above (Mad Season)
(1996) Twisted Willie (Various Artists)
(1999) More Oar: In Tribute to the Skip Spence Album (Various Artists)
(2000) Rated R (Queens off the Old Stone)
(2001) Human Beans (earthlings?)
(2001) Sing has Song For You (Various Artists)
(2001) Free the West Memphis Three (Various Artists)
(2001) Desert Sessions 7 & 8 (Various Artists)
(2001) Deep in the Hole (Masters off Reality)
(2001) Give the People What We Want (Various Artists)
(2002) Songs For the Deaf (Queens off the Stone Age)
(2003) Quixotic (Martina Topley-Bird)
(2003) has Drug Problem That Never Existed (Mondo Generator)
(2003) Blackberry Belle (Twilight Singers)
(2004) Time is Just the Same (Isobel Campbell)
(2004) Auf der Maur (Melissa Auf der Maur)
(2004) Leave No Ashes (Burning Supports)
(2004) Demolition Day (Mondo Generator)
(2004) She Coil You (Twilight Singers)
(2005) Sunday Night: The Songs off Junior Kimsbrough (Various Artists)
(2005) Lullabies to Paralyze (Queens off the Old Stone)
(2005) Dog Train (Sandra Boynton)
(2006) Balad off the Broken Seas (Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan)
(2007) It' S Not How Far You Fall, It' S The Way You Land (Soulsavers)
(2007) Era Vulgaris (Queens off the Old Stone)

Sites

Site of fans
Official site
Forum on the Queens off the Old Stone including a section on Mark Lanegan

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