Sweet Oblivion Explained

Sweet Oblivion
Type:Album
Artist:Screaming Trees
Cover:Screaming Trees Sweet Oblivion.jpg
Released:September 8, 1992
Recorded:March 1992
Genre:
Length:46:13
Label:Epic
Producer:Don Fleming
Prev Year:1991
Next Title:Winter Songs Tour Tracks
Next Year:1992

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".[7] The song benefited from an appearance on , 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.[8]

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Notes and References

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  6. April 2004. The 20 Greatest Grunge Albums of All Time. Spin. SPIN Media LLC. 20. 4. 62. December 26, 2021.
  7. Web site: Erlewine. Stephen Thomas. Stephen Thomas Erlewine. Screaming Trees Biography, Songs, & Albums. May 2, 2019. AllMusic.
  8. Web site: Erlewine. Stephen Thomas. Stephen Thomas Erlewine. Dust - Screaming Trees Songs, Reviews, Credits. March 17, 2010. AllMusic.
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