Screaming Trees - Uncle Anesthesia

This is the One

Sweet Oblivion blows !
This album is so superior to that inflated box of pus, it makes me sick.
I'm glad The Trees got the recognition they deserved but they should have got it when Uncle Anesthesia came out.
"Bed of Roses", "Caught Between", "Lay Your Head Down", "Alice Said", "Closer", I mean come on, what was everybody smoking ? Why wasn't this the break through million seller ?
Get out of town, don't pass go, buy this album so Lanegan can get another fifth of whiskey and a pack of smokes. And if it isn't all I said, Amazon will refund your money.
No questions asked, punk !
Nirvana or any of those Mudhoney grunge [...] can't touch this.
November 22, 2006

I love it

This was the 3rd album I ever bought from the Trees. They are not as hard as most of the other 'grunge' players and they focus more on a bluesy psychedelia then on recycled punk riffs. I love this album, it is thier best work imo. May 17, 2006

Say Uncle.

To this day, I have no idea why Screaming Trees were not as huge as Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or the rest of the bunch. But at the same time I'm glad, because they're still kind of my little secret, (among thousands of others). The Trees can be as thundering as Soundgarden, as dark as Alice In Chains, and as gentle as some Pearl Jam. Yet they are known as well as Mudhoney and Tad. Anyway, to my point. If you have no Screaming Trees, then do start with "Sweet Oblivion", but if you have that and "Dust" already, this is just as essential. "Uncle Anesthesia" is basically their "Bleach", or "Louder Than Love". Got it, get it, good. May 2, 2005

Awesome grunge cd

I think the screaming trees are one of the best grunge bands. I think the best part of it is Lanegan's voice. I would call him the Tom Yorke (Radiohead)of grunge. All the songs are good, but tracks 3,7 and 10 are the best. These guys woud have been as famous as pearl jam and alice in chains, but from what i've heard, the would get in drunken fights and break up, then start back again.
I also recommend tad, meat puppets, nirvana, alice in chains,system of a down, radiohead and slayer(DON'T ASK). February 8, 2004

Bargain bin treasure!

I'm guessing that this album sold a lot of copies in the mid 90s, after the movie Singles came out, and waves of people jumped on grunge-wagon, looking for more of the "Nearly Lost You" pop bonanza and anything flannel. 12 years later, you can find it in used cd bins for pretty cheap, which indicates to me that a lot of people jumped off that wagon rather hastily in the face of newer, slicker, more cleverly marketed trends. Their loss is your gain. Go buy this cd immediately.

Hours after buying this album, the song "lay your head down" had become one of my all time favorites, and etched itself a slot on the big mix-tape of my soul. The Trees blend full-on metal with punk rock, beatlesque pop, new wave and psychedelia. Mark Lanegan sings within himself, never stretching and straining to hit high notes, but getting wonderful nuances out of every breath. There are even traces of the JL Pierce influence to be heard beneath it all. This might have been one of the best albums of the grunge era, and unless you are a big dope like Max Kellerman, you owe it to yourself to seek out music like this and find a place for it in your cd collection. File it in between Royal Trux's "Thank You", and the Psyclone Rangers "Devil May Care" as one of the all time bargain bin finds for 90s music. October 28, 2003

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