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Screaming Trees

Band Ellensburg United States Active 1983–2000 Washington grunge band

Screaming Trees formed in 1983 in Ellensburg, United States and was active until 2000. Screaming Trees has 118 chart appearances on 78 radio countdowns from 27 stations on RockLists, spanning 1992–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Nearly Lost You”, which appears on 72 lists with a best position of #21. The station that charted Screaming Trees most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 28 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1992.

118appearances
78countdowns
7songs charted
27stations
0#1 finishes
1992–2025years

Screaming Trees came out of Ellensburg, Washington, with Mark Lanegan's dark, grainy voice out front, Gary Lee Conner on guitar and Van Conner on bass, and Mark Pickerel on drums. They made a string of EPs and albums through the '80s on independent labels, and their music was grunge before anybody called it that, only with more hard rock swagger and a heavy streak of psychedelia running through it.

Epic signed them in 1990, and Uncle Anesthesia the next year gave them their first charting single, "Bed of Roses". Barrett Martin took over the drums from Pickerel, and in 1992 came Sweet Oblivion, their biggest record. "Dollar Bill" got a little radio play, but "Nearly Lost You", a swirling, surging rocker with Lanegan sounding like he'd been up for 3 nights, is the one that blew the doors open, climbing to number 5 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. "Shadow of the Season" came off the same album.

The follow-up took years. Dust finally appeared in 1996, with "All I Know" reaching number 9 on both the Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock charts, and Josh Homme joined on guitar for a spell, but the album didn't match Sweet Oblivion's success. After struggling to make another record, the band called it quits in 2000; those final sessions came out in 2011 as Last Words: The Final Recordings. Lanegan died on February 22, 2022, and Van Conner on January 17, 2023.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by Screaming Trees on radio countdowns

#SongStrengthListsBest#1sPeak year
1 Nearly Lost You
3,609		 72 #21 – 1992
2 All I Know
930		 24 #5 – 1996
3 Shadow of the Season
396		 8 #386 – –
4 Darkness Darkness
208		 5 #396 – –
5 Dollar Bill
136		 4 #349 – –
6 Butterfly
56		 4 #785 – –
7 Working Class Hero
8		 1 #918 – –

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

Year-end chart timeline

Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.

92 93 96

Every countdown appearance

Year#SongCountdown
2025 372 Nearly Lost You 99.1 PLR Top 400 of the Last 40 Years (2025)
2025 338 Nearly Lost You WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s
2024 422 Shadow of the Season The Best Opening Tracks of All Time
2023 246 Nearly Lost You 105.9 The X July 420 (2023)
2023 886 Nearly Lost You 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time
2022 243 Nearly Lost You 105.9 The X July 420 (2022)
2022 317 Nearly Lost You KEXP Top Songs of the Last 50 Years (1972-2022)
2022 396 Nearly Lost You X96 Top 500 Alternative Songs of All Time
2022 157 Nearly Lost You The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s
2021 269 Nearly Lost You 105.9 The X July 420 (2021)
2021 362 Nearly Lost You 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s
2021 688 All I Know 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s
2020 268 Nearly Lost You 105.9 The X July 420 (2020)
2020 389 Nearly Lost You The DC101 Top 500
2019 300 Nearly Lost You KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time
2014 657 Nearly Lost You CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)
2014 820 All I Know CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)
2013 665 Nearly Lost You CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)
2013 846 All I Know CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)
2011 666 Nearly Lost You CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)
2011 850 All I Know CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)
2010 666 Nearly Lost You CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)
2010 822 All I Know CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)
2009 418 Nearly Lost You Live 105 Memorial 500 Song List (2009)
2009 649 Nearly Lost You CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)
2009 802 All I Know CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)
2008 675 Nearly Lost You CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)
2008 785 All I Know CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)
2007 727 Nearly Lost You CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)
2007 787 All I Know CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)
2007 386 Nearly Lost You KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007)
2006 428 Nearly Lost You KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2006)
2006 422 Nearly Lost You Live 105 500 Co-Op Countdown (Memorial Day 2006)
2006 135 Nearly Lost You WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2006)
2006 107 Nearly Lost You The End Top 107 Songs of the '90s (December 2006)
2005 144 Nearly Lost You WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2005)
2005 311 Nearly Lost You CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2005 1585 All I Know CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2005 391 Nearly Lost You 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005)
2005 78 Nearly Lost You 96.5 The Buzz Top 96 of the 90s
2004 173 Nearly Lost You The End Original Alternative 500 (May 2004)
2004 308 Nearly Lost You CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2004 1586 All I Know CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2004 282 Nearly Lost You Y100 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (July 2004)
2004 78 Nearly Lost You WBCN Grunge Top 104 (2004)
2003 144 Nearly Lost You WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2003)
2003 308 Nearly Lost You CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2003 1586 All I Know CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2002 21 Nearly Lost You WFNX Top 50 Grunge Songs of All-Time (June 2002)
2002 152 Nearly Lost You WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2002)
2002 308 Nearly Lost You CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2002 1588 All I Know CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2002 437 Nearly Lost You KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002)
2002 103 Nearly Lost You Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
2002 417 Shadow of the Season Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
2002 937 All I Know Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
2002 1228 Dollar Bill Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
2001 228 Nearly Lost You WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2001)
2001 308 Nearly Lost You CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2001 1596 All I Know CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2001 417 Nearly Lost You WBRU Modern Rock Top 500 (2001)
2000 226 Nearly Lost You WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2000)
2000 296 Nearly Lost You CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
2000 1596 All I Know CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
1999 413 Nearly Lost You Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999 386 Shadow of the Season The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999 672 Dollar Bill The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999 690 Nearly Lost You The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999 987 All I Know The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999 211 Nearly Lost You WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1999)
1999 295 Nearly Lost You CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999 1596 All I Know CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999 865 Nearly Lost You CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999)
1999 455 All I Know KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999)
1999 517 Nearly Lost You KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999)
1999 639 Shadow of the Season KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999)
1999 649 Darkness Darkness KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999)
1999 374 Nearly Lost You WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999)
1998 280 Nearly Lost You KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998)
1998 512 All I Know KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998)
1998 544 Darkness Darkness KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998)
1998 655 Shadow of the Season KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998)
1998 998 Butterfly KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998)
1996 100 All I Know Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1996
1996 91 All I Know WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1996
1996 5 All I Know The End Top 107 Songs of 1996
1996 74 All I Know WBCN Top 104 Songs of 1996
1996 56 All I Know Radio & Records Top 96 Songs of 1996
1996 122 Nearly Lost You Q101 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (1996)
1996 240 Nearly Lost You WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1996)
1996 349 Dollar Bill WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1996)
1996 306 Nearly Lost You KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996)
1996 396 Darkness Darkness KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996)
1996 474 Shadow of the Season KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996)
1996 829 Butterfly KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996)
1995 328 Nearly Lost You KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1995)
1995 367 Nearly Lost You KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995)
1995 496 Shadow of the Season KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995)
1995 608 Darkness Darkness KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995)
1995 785 Butterfly KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995)
1995 918 Working Class Hero KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995)
1994 261 Nearly Lost You KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1994)
1994 465 Nearly Lost You Live 105 Revolutionary 500 (July 1994)
1994 264 Nearly Lost You WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1994)
1994 353 Dollar Bill WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1994)
1994 493 Nearly Lost You KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994)
1994 644 Shadow of the Season KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994)
1994 724 Darkness Darkness KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994)
1994 837 Butterfly KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994)
1993 35 Nearly Lost You KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1993
1993 44 Nearly Lost You Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1993
1993 64 Nearly Lost You Triple J Hottest 100 of 1993
1992 78 Nearly Lost You KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1992
1992 47 Nearly Lost You 91X Top 91 Songs of 1992
1992 58 Nearly Lost You Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1992
1992 78 Nearly Lost You Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1992
1992 27 Nearly Lost You WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1992
1992 46 Nearly Lost You CFNY Top 102 Songs of 1992

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