#skin yard

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Song 1000 smiling knuckles by skin yard

[wakeupandsmellthecarcass]

Airbudz.

Also Demri and Layne because these pics are cute. (Apparently my 5th artist changed)

[all-rock-and-roll-is-homosexual]

Skin Yard, 1991

scanned from 35mm slide

📸: Karen Mason

if you like my scans and want to help out you can do so here

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DON'T MIND IF I DO 🥵🥵🥵🥵

[krispyweiss]

Book Review: “The Greatest Band that Ever Wasn’t: The Story of the Roughest, Toughest, Most Hell-raising Band to Ever Come out of the Pacific Northwest, The Screaming Trees - A Comedy/Tragedy in 3 Acts” - by Barrett Martin

Screaming Trees nearly reunited in 2015 for a string of European and U.S. festival dates that would’ve featured Peter Buck on auxiliary rhythm guitar and represented the band’s largest payday.

But singer Mark Lanegan pulled the plug the day before an announcement was due. And with the subsequent deaths of Lanegan and bassist Van Conner, in 2022 and ’23, respectively, the Trees, who split in 2000, were left as an increasingly rare band that breaks up and stays that way.

This is the biggest revelation in Barrett Martin’s “The Greatest Band that Ever Wasn’t: The Story of the Roughest, Toughest, Most Hell-raising Band to Ever Come out of the Pacific Northwest, The Screaming Trees - A Comedy/Tragedy in 3 Acts.” That unwieldy title inadvertently encapsulates the main problem with the otherwise-interesting book from the man who replaced Mark Pickerel as drummer for the Trees’ during their final decade.

Namely, Barrett needed a co-writer and/or a strong editor. As published, “The Greatest Band that Ever Wasn’t” is messy and littered with grammatical errors, typos, redundancies and a tendency to be verbose for verbosity’s sake. The comedy/tragedy addendum, meanwhile, is a misnomer, as the book by the multi-instrumentalist who also has played with Skin Yard; co-founded Mad Season and Tuatara; and was a touring member of Buck’s R.E.M., reads like a traditional rock memoir, albeit a poorly written one.

All of this said, Barrett presents 33 enlightening stories about the poorly documented Trees across 204 pages and it’s refreshing to read a rock ‘n’ roll memoir by a musician whose memories are all fond and who has no desire to settle scores in public. That Martin loved his band and respected his bandmates, also including guitarist/composer Gary Lee Conner and latter-day rhythm guitarist Joshua Homme, is obvious.

Martin also reveals that Lanegan recorded two a cappella Blind Willie McTell covers - not named - for a soundtrack, also not named, the drummer-cum-author is producing. A good editor would’ve done something to close the gaping hole in this tantalizing tidbit and ensured readers were not left with terrific content presented poorly.

Grade card: “The Greatest Band that Ever Wasn’t: The Story of the Roughest, Toughest, Most Hell-raising Band to Ever Come out of the Pacific Northwest, The Screaming Trees - A Comedy/Tragedy in 3 Acts” - by Barrett Martin - C+

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[twymyn99]

Skin Yard - Hallowed Ground (1988)

[the-sneep-snoop]

In 1984, Seattle was more than an out of work logging community, too big to be called a town, too small to be called a city. It rained a lot, beer was cheap, and most of the touring bands at the time painfully skipped Seattle as part of their routing. There was scarcely a music scene to speak of. With the exception of The Blackouts. U-Men, and 10 Minute Warning, many of the bands that did exist were still clinging to their still-not-yet-dead new wave roots. Others were championing the Johnny Thunders cum Black Flag punk ethic. It was a fractured scene, trying to find an identity, seemingly looking for a focus - Seattle was backwater. No one seemed to realize that listening to both The Stooges and Aerosmith was uncool. So everyone did, and without notice, a “new” sound began to evolve. Fueled equally, by the irreverent snottiness of the punk camp and the gloss of the more mainstream hard rock heroes, a new music was being borne and it was distinctly Seattle.

The earlier history of the Northwest spawned considerable talent, much of which was, by nature, rebellious and ground breaking.Bands like The Sonics and The Wailers set a precedent of making music that ignored all the rules and created a fresh standard. A spirit of autonomy existed and well ahead of its future history, some of the first ‘punk’ attitudes were emerging, distinctly D.I.Y. So it was no surprise that once again an exciting and defiant music was in its formative stages. There was little or no attention on the Northwest as a source of independent music, and left alone, some remarkable things were happening. A new breed of band was rearing its ugly head, and by some form of providence, Chris Hanzsek decided that this was music worthy of recording. He, with some help from his partner Tina Casale, set out to assemble a record chronicling this new Seattle sound. DEEP SIX is the result. With the exception of U-Men, all of the recordings herein are the first ever released material by these bands, all of whom have been instrumental in the legacy that Seattle has, for better or for worse, left the world. These are not the best recordings you’ve ever heard, the budgets spent were meager at best. What this record is, however, is an honest and direct freeze frame from a time in Seattle’s music history when there was still a certain innocence intact. This was before the media circus came to town and exploited everything that we once held so dear. It is pure and raw and heart felt.. and it is still distinctly Seattle. Enjoy. - Daniel House

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[revkilltaker]

Screaming Trees – Uncle Anesthesia - LP - Music on Vinyl Records - MOVLP587

Stats

Pressing #:  Repress

Color:  Black Vinyl

Qty Pressed: ???

Additional Info: Other Pressing Available

Track List

Beyond This Horizon

Bed Of Roses

Uncle Anesthesia

Story Of Her Fate

Caught Between

Lay Your Head Down

Before We Arise

Something About Today

Alice Said

Time For Light

Disappearing

Ocean Of Confusion

Closer

9.5/10

[wakeupandsmellthecarcass]

Skin Yard!

One of my top favourite grunge bands.

[nowimnothiing]

i never see anybody mention Skin Yard when talking about grunge bands. theyre so great and so underrated and for what.

if youre reading this im locking you in a room and forcing you to listen to them rn 👇

[shotmrmiller]

Leaving animal corpses on my doorstep wouldn't work on me but you know what would? Bare animal bones. Preferably skulls. Deadass waiting for Simon to drop something off and then opening the door and just yanking him inside my room because you good sir deserve a head for expanding my odd collection

idk how you get the skin off but he's just letting the head of whatever dry under the sun if you tell him you want the skull.

lmao sticking your hand out to grab his ankle through the doggy door like get in here neow.

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