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