the buff who fell to earthGone 4 years today already. Damn.
Mark Lanegan - Whiskey for the Holy Ghost (1994)
So I guess I'm doing my Mark Lanegan discography listen-thru now. I didn't remember that J Mascis played drums for a couple songs on Whiskey for the Holy Ghost, and I'm sure I didn't know he played piano on a Scraps At Midnight track.
Holy moly, I'm not sure I've ever heard Mark Lanegan's collabs with Isobel Campbell before. Absolutely gorgeous.
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad of the Broken Seas (2006)
Not sure why I don't already own a copy of this album, really dig the overall tone/vibe of this one.
Mark Lanegan Band - Blues Funeral (2012)
This droney, piano-plinky track might just be one of my favourite Lanegan songs. It's surprising how well his vocal style works with such different types of music.
Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood - "Thank You" (2013)
I had missed a couple collab albums not listed as part of Mark Lanegan's discography, so now going backward to the one album he did with Greg Dulli for their project The Gutter Twins. I've never really paid attention to Dulli and Afghan Whigs. Should I?
And now onto a couple albums from Soulsavers that Mark Lanegan was essentially the lead singer and co-writer for. I knew the first track on 'It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land' immediately, KEXP must've played this one tons or something and I just didn't realize it wasn't a Mark Lanegan album.
Edit: Thought this was a strange song to pick as the single but then I got to "Spiritual", and now I'm like 'why so much Jeebus?!'
Soulsavers - "Revival" (2007)
Okay, Imitations, Mark Lanegan's 2013 album of covers, is the first of his discography that I do not care for. I don't even know the original songs (or at least I don't recognize them), but me and covers just tend not to jive...
Holy shit, is it just me or is Mark Lanegan purposely singing like Layne Staley in this track? Maybe it's because I read he wrote it right after hearing Layne was gone, but Layne is 100% all I hear. Goosebumps.
Mark Lanegan - "Way To Tomorrow" (2002; released 2015)
That song fucking broke my heart.
First time hearing this album and at the halfway point I've gone between kinda sorta hating and kinda enjoying it, depending on the song. Probably the weirdest one in his whole discography. If I end up giving this a thumbs down, it would be the only one in his discography that's his own material that I don't dig.
Mark Lanegan Band - Somebody's Knocking (2019)
Oops, thought I just have 2 more albums left but I totally missed his collab albums under his 'Dark Mark' pseudonym, one of which isn't even listed anywhere on his Wikipedia discography page, tsk tsk.
Ooo this is quite nice. This one isn't listed anywhere on Mark Lanegan's discography page on Wikipedia for whatever reason, even though his other Dark Mark releases are. I've never heard of Not Waving before but since I otherwise dig Lanegan's more electronic-tinged albums, I should've been all over this back when it came out.
Not Waving & Dark Mark - Downwelling (2019)
Downwelling, by Not Waving & Dark Mark
9 track album
Pauxlll Kruczynski@buffyleigh wikipedia contributors are amateurs compared to discogs contributors
edit to clarify I didn't mean you
@paulkruczynski lol true, though for more well-known artists I don't usually find gaps
surdfishReminded me of his cover of Nutshell...I don't want my heart broken today, but this does it for me (x3 by now),
surdfish (@[email protected])
Mark Lanegan & Maggie Björklund ~ Nutshell (Alice In Chains cover) #togoty 🤘🎅❤️🔥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m9IG66EUe0
@surdfish well fuck, now i'm legit crying 
@buffyleigh sorry, I know I will too...his take is so perfect with the pedal steel. Never imagined any other could come close to Layne's gravity.
Ned Raggett@buffyleigh I differ there, I'm very fond of his covers -- one of the rare ones is this version of a song with Beth Orton, originally by Marc Almond with Nico as his duet partner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60bSZAEwWRE
Mark Lanegan & Beth Orton - Your Kisses Burn
Souvlaki Space Station 🛸@buffyleigh Thanks gor all the recs, I really enjoy a lot of his solo stuff as well as his work with Gutter Twins... didn't he do some stuff with Josh Homme too, or am I misremembering this?
@anarchiv he did a TON of stuff with Josh Homme. i, however, will be avoiding all of that.
Moss Wizard@anarchiv @buffyleigh not speaking for Buffy, but I avoid Josh Homme because he’s been kind of a jerk for a long time. Not like “totally evil” but gross enough for me to say no thanks.
@Moss @buffyleigh That's frustrating. Also weird that the news didn't reach me
DaveKaz@anarchiv @buffyleigh he was a member of Queens of the Stone Age for a while.
@fistfulofdave @buffyleigh That's what I thought
Arratoon@buffyleigh Did you like I’ll Take Care of You, his first covers album? It’s one of my favourites of his.
@arratoon ah right i forgot that was a covers album too. i did enjoy that one! those songs seemed a lot more natural, just Lanegan doing Lanegan things. Imitations sounded more obviously cover-like, i guess?
Kimberley@buffyleigh I haven’t listened to Soulsavers in far too long, thanks for the reminder
@Kimberley Do you know what their deal was? Were they actually a religious group or just liked using religious tinged stuff in their songs?
@buffyleigh I don’t think they’re religious but I don’t actually know. I always interpreted Revival as metaphorical, more spiritual awakening than religious
@Kimberley i can't really find info so that's what i assume too. i come from a religious background though so i always wonder when encountering familiar imagery
@buffyleigh yeah!
Congregation through Black Love.
Although a lot of people love 1965
A lot of Catholic guilt.
Congregation through Black Love.
Although a lot of people love 1965
A lot of Catholic guilt.
@fistfulofdave cool, now on my radar!
C Puffer@buffyleigh @fistfulofdave Keep in mind that Gentlemen, perhaps their most known album, is a portrait of an asshole. I mean, it’s a great record and not a glorification but the cumulative effect is, “that is not a good dude”
@puffer @fistfulofdave good to know
@buffyleigh @fistfulofdave Marcy from Scrawl, one of my favorite bands, sings lead on one song but the lyrics, oof.
donutage (Bill Cole)@puffer @buffyleigh thanks for this. I meant to explain this.
Niels van Rongen@buffyleigh I saw him live three times. Once with Isobel Campbell, once solo for Blues Funeral and once with the Gutter Twins. I always wondered how he ended up with Campbell and Soulsavers (later replaced by Dave Gahan). He also did half an Unkle album. Also guest vox for a band like Creature with the Atom Brain. At some point he was everywhere.
@niels that's amazing. yeah, the list of collabs on his wikipedia discography page is rather ridiculous, lol.
@buffyleigh at that time I bought a lot of his collaborations. Mark is on it? A guaranteed sale. 😊
@niels gotta say, it took me a loooong time to come around. i literally deleted the Mad Season songs with him on it the first time i heard it, like a total dingbat (i only wanted to hear Layne). 🙃 i think it was watching Parts Unknown and hearing him every episode that fixed that.
TROG@buffyleigh That is an excellent album. I haven't listened to it in ages though. Thanks for the reminder!
@TROG My pleasure! I love his mix of synth stuff with his usual blues rock, just totally works for me.
@buffyleigh Agreed! That was an unexpected surprise when I first heard it.
@buffyleigh my favorite of his solo albums.
@fistfulofdave Before I would've said mine is With Animals followed by Whiskey. But now relistening to all of them in a row, I'm not sure where to put this one and Bubblegum...
@buffyleigh both are produced by Alain Johannes which explaines them a bit.
@buffyleigh I only have a couple random tracks of them together—"Come Undone" & "Time of the Season", both of which seem to have been freebies from Amazin—but I do like them both.
HarriO)))@buffyleigh There are times when I enjoy their collaboration albums even better than Lanegan's best solo albums...