Sweet Oblivion is the sixth studio album by Screaming Trees, released on September 8, 1992. It quickly became the band's best-selling record, and was the closest they ever came to achieving mainstream success. Sweet Oblivion sold in excess of 300,000 copies on the strength of the band's biggest hit, "Nearly Lost You". The song benefited from an appearance on Singles: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, a Top Ten, platinum-selling hit album which featured many other popular Seattle-based music acts from the period.
Around the time of the recording of the album, the band’s original drummer Mark Pickerel left to pursue other musical interests, and was replaced with Barrett Martin.
Nearly four years passed in between Sweet Oblivion and the band's follow-up album, Dust, a move that hurt much of the band's commercial momentum.
Track listing
Personnel
Screaming Trees
Mark Lanegan – vocals
Gary Lee Conner – guitar
Van Conner – bass
Barrett Martin – drums
Technical
Don Fleming – production
Andy Wallace – mixing
Howie Weinberg – mastering
John Agnello – engineering
Visual
David Coleman – art direction
Michael Lavine – photography
Charts
References
External links
Screaming Trees albums
1992 albums
Epic Records albums
Albums produced by Don Fleming (musician)