Sweet Oblivion (studio album)
by Screaming Trees
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Screaming Trees bestography
Sweet Oblivion is ranked 2nd best out of 12 albums by Screaming Trees on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Screaming Trees is Dust which is ranked number 2199 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 735.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Sweet Oblivion track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 12/01/2025 01:38 |  Kingturtle | 6,510 | 72/100 |
| ! | 11/16/2025 11:47 |  Milhaud | 1,626 | 69/100 |
| ! | 06/25/2025 22:31 | traistboar | 1,432 | 79/100 |
| ! | 06/25/2025 21:52 | DaaN | 489 | 78/100 |
| ! | 06/08/2025 17:20 | Invader666 | 2,623 | 65/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.2/100, a mean average of 76.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.9.
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A very front heavy release with the first four songs being the best on the whole record. After this the album then falls into mainly filler content which makes for an average listen but you feel like there is wasted potential on here. The vocal definitely deserves better as that is the highlight of this record for me. They could have been a bit more experimental with their instrumentation as well or tried to vary the songs a little better to make for a more engaging listen for us. When the record is good, which is quite rare, it is amazing. Nearly Lost You is a fantastic song and the record is worth it just for that track alone. Overall, not much to stay for once your past track 4 but it isn't bad just average and a bit repetitive.
Screaming trees should of been bigger. Mark Lanegan is one of the finest singers with his melodic grunge rock vocals (even though I wouldn't call this grunge at all). This is a hidden gem from that era.
Very consistent with some peaks (Nearly Lost You, For Celebrations Past, Julie Paradise). Everything sounds great here!
pa 05/05/2014 11:38 | #110864
great voice.
Though it may drop at the end, there isn't a single track that will greatly disappoint.
pearljammer13 11/20/2011 03:15 | #30883
Solid. Love his voice.
Freddie55 12/22/2009 07:52 | #7786
Pleasant straight forward blues-rock to my ear. Not sure what's alternative or grunge about it. I am a fan of Mark Lanegan otherwise I would rate it a 70.
1234567890 10/30/2009 08:51 | #6974
I rarely find an album thats half this relentless.
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