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- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: CD
- ASIN: B000007SRM
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 38,429 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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8 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I disagree with the above reviewer. If your idea of a good time is sitting at home with a razor blade over your wrists, contemplating the joys and miseries of your life, buy it anyway. Just don't use the razor.
Beautifully poignant, if slightly depressing (if you're the depressive sort) and a very gentle ride for the most part. It's been a while since I heard it but I remember the experience well. A good buy if you want to be soothed and maybe feel a little tug at the heartstrings. But then I'm a sucker for ambience, so what would I know?
4 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Do not buy this album if your idea of a good night in includes sitting with a razor blade over your wrist contemplating the joys and miseries of your life. Otherwise, get it and just coast through it's late night blackness.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
NO TEENY-BOPPERS ALLOWED...
5 Jan 2005
Format:Audio CD
Fans of Mark Lanegan had to wait five long years for his third solo LP, SCRAPS AT MIDNIGHT. Was it worth the wait? You bet your brooding ass it was! After a few years spent taking just about any drink or drug handed to him, Lanegan surfaces with an album that sketches a world with its own everlasting sense of regret and loss. It also features Lanegan's wry wit, excellent lyrics, and elegantly raw voice. In other words, poison to teeny-boppers.
The album opens with "Hospital Roll Call," a Sergio Leone type western dirge with Mark growling "sixteen" over and over again ("16" was Lanegan's room number in a rehab clinic). An effective overture, the song gives way to "Hotel," one of the most darkly affecting songs in Lanegan canon. Lanegan has often downplayed this side of his musical character but when he sings "I remember your face/But it's been a long, long day/And what I did along the way/I wouldn't care to say" it is delivered with the sort of world-weariness that you would associate with Lightnin' Hopkins or Hank Williams. It is, simply put, a gripping voice.
Mike Johnson is back, co-producing the album with Mark and helping him paint musical landcapes that give a perfect backdrop to Lanegan's often mesmerizing songs. Lanegan, like Seattle contemporary Chris Cornell, remains one of the most versatile singers of his generation, and the ex-Screaming Trees frontman proves it here with songs ranging from the delicate "Bell Black Ocean" and "The Last One In The World" to the intense anxiety of "Waiting On A Train" and the epic "Because Of This." As with his previous masterpiece, WHISKEY FOR THE HOLY GHOST, Lanegan handles all of it with apparent ease, although many of the songs on this album will leave you feeling at times that there is somebody watching you outside your window. SCRAPS AT MIDNIGHT features Mark Lanegan carving out a style that he can distinctly call his own, simply because nobody else is doing this kind of music with such authenticity. Some might find it "morbid." Again, no teeny-boppers allowed...
The album opens with "Hospital Roll Call," a Sergio Leone type western dirge with Mark growling "sixteen" over and over again ("16" was Lanegan's room number in a rehab clinic). An effective overture, the song gives way to "Hotel," one of the most darkly affecting songs in Lanegan canon. Lanegan has often downplayed this side of his musical character but when he sings "I remember your face/But it's been a long, long day/And what I did along the way/I wouldn't care to say" it is delivered with the sort of world-weariness that you would associate with Lightnin' Hopkins or Hank Williams. It is, simply put, a gripping voice.
Mike Johnson is back, co-producing the album with Mark and helping him paint musical landcapes that give a perfect backdrop to Lanegan's often mesmerizing songs. Lanegan, like Seattle contemporary Chris Cornell, remains one of the most versatile singers of his generation, and the ex-Screaming Trees frontman proves it here with songs ranging from the delicate "Bell Black Ocean" and "The Last One In The World" to the intense anxiety of "Waiting On A Train" and the epic "Because Of This." As with his previous masterpiece, WHISKEY FOR THE HOLY GHOST, Lanegan handles all of it with apparent ease, although many of the songs on this album will leave you feeling at times that there is somebody watching you outside your window. SCRAPS AT MIDNIGHT features Mark Lanegan carving out a style that he can distinctly call his own, simply because nobody else is doing this kind of music with such authenticity. Some might find it "morbid." Again, no teeny-boppers allowed...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4 3/4 Stars
5 May 1999
Format:Audio CD
His best album. Somber folk-blues-rock with beautiful atmospheric production & arrangements (thanks to Mike Johnson). The slide guitar & piano on the tender, perfect Bell Black Ocean are alone worth the purchase. Of course, the main attraction hear is Lanegan's voice, a throaty nicotine-scarred, white-blues which all fans of Waits, Cave, Lee Hazlewood, etc. will appreciate. Much, much, much better than anything the Screaming Trees have done. There's a single for Stay which is worth seeking out for the b-sides (trad. folk song Death Don't Have No Mercy & the 13th Floor Elevators' haunting, country-tinged Slide Machine).
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Sublime, a real men perspective and point of view
10 Jan 2005
Format:Audio CD
What does have this man that every song he creates is beautifull? in a completely men perspective Mr Lanegan creates melancholic and appealing atmospheres, so folk, southern , grey , very enjoyable, Mr Lanegan thougths are 100% male and its about time a rigth and perfect image of real men (like i consider myself)were showed by a singer/songwritter like this great performer, poetry surrounds every melody, and beautifull lyrics fill that acoustic riffs that are the main ingredient in his albums, it worths to get every Mark Lanegan recording.
HM
HM
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