Sweet Oblivion
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| Studio album by Screaming Trees | ||||
| Released | September 8, 1992 | |||
| Recorded | March, 1992 | |||
| Genre | Grunge, neo-psychedelia | |||
| Length | 46:13 | |||
| Label | Epic | |||
| Producer | Don Fleming | |||
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| Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
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| Robert Christgau | B+ |
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Sweet Oblivion is Screaming Trees' sixth full-length album, released on September 8, 1992. The recording was the band's highest landmark in terms of album sales, and was the closest they came to ever achieving mainstream success. Sweet Oblivion sold in excess of 300,000 copies on the strength of "Nearly Lost You". The band's biggest hit, it 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.
Personnel changes around the time of the album also led to the replacing of original drummer Mark Pickerel, who left to pursue other musical interests, with Barrett Martin. Four years passed in between Sweet Oblivion and the band's follow-up album, Dust, a move that arguably hurt much of the Trees' commercial momentum.
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