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Sweet Oblivion by Screaming Trees
Sweet Oblivion is an album by Screaming Trees, released in 1992. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 84 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Nearly Lost You”, on 72 lists with a best position of #21.
Sweet Oblivion, Screaming Trees' sixth album, came out on Epic on September 8, 1992, and it's as close as they ever got to the big time. Somewhere around the sessions, original drummer Mark Pickerel left to chase other music, and Barrett Martin took his place behind Mark Lanegan, Gary Lee Conner and Van Conner.
It's a grunge record with a long memory. Gary Lee Conner's guitar swirls with old-school psychedelia, Van Conner's bass rumbles, Martin drums with a big, rolling heft, and Lanegan's voice is the whole show: a dark, weathered baritone that sounds like it has lived three lives already. "Nearly Lost You" is the one everybody knows, a hard-charging, hook-heavy blast that turned up on the soundtrack for Singles, a top-ten, platinum album packed with Seattle bands, and it became the band's biggest hit. "Shadow of the Season" and "Dollar Bill" dig deeper into the shadows.
It sold more than 300,000 copies and quickly became their best seller. But the band waited nearly four years to follow it with Dust, and much of the momentum drained away in the meantime.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Sweet Oblivion on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nearly Lost You | 72 | #21 | – | 1992–2025 | |
| 2 | Shadow of the Season | 8 | #386 | – | 1994–2024 | |
| 3 | Dollar Bill | 4 | #349 | – | 1994–2002 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.