hey everybody um today i wanted to make
a video in honor of mark lanigan who
died unexpectedly yesterday at the age
of 57. so i know that he was in a grunge
band called screaming trees he worked
with kirk cobain a little bit
and he was a singer um with queens of
the stone age for a time and then he's
been doing a lot of solo work 12 studio
albums apparently
um so yeah this is kind of
my first time really delving into his
work i have some recommendations to hear
from my patrons so let's start with a
screaming trees track this one's called
nearly lost you
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once again
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oh my gosh there's a rock organ
okay i i really liked that it i as
somebody who grew up
listening to and loving the stone temple
pilots i definitely felt
some kind of kinship with the song it
just feels like it was
i mean i don't know which one actually
came first or if they were developing
around the same time but
um seems like there's some some
stylistic similarities there
um
just a great song i love the drums they
swing a little bit it's very satisfying
um love the chords lots of like sassy
dominant seventh chords we were just
talking about epic uh by faith no more
has the same um kind of relationship i
think let's see is this an e
so it's an e
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that's beautiful i love that it kind of
gives you that like almost like
psychedelic rock sound this is a chord
progression you totally hear
because of that chord being
major uh oh and his voice is great i
love the like texture in his voice
it's kind of like deep and full-bodied
um a little bit raspy i guess that's
what i'm trying to say it's just you can
hear the like gravel a little bit
um i guess vocal coaches call that
distortion i think just like little
um but yeah just something about voices
with texture they they feel like almost
comforting to me
um
i can't like place
his
voice in any particular queens of the
stone age song i've heard yet but i'm
looking forward to
making connecting uh those dots i love
that part where the phrase kind of
catches catches you off guard at least i
can find it
oh is it starting on a major
my bad okay
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even better all major chords
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like syncopated it doesn't sound even it
kind of like
it kind of just
catches you off guard that was always so
exciting because i wasn't exactly sure
when everything was gonna come in
uh really kind of playing around with
your expectations there that's nice
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and also this melody is really nice so
i'm assuming he wrote this song this is
a great catchy melody
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mode mixture
major becomes minor
oh i love that
i also like how he waits a little bit
before he brings it in
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that's great
with that kind of minor sound
against the
major chord that's so bluesy
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can also hear like a a little bit of
influence from chris cornell
oh yeah i love his voice but anyway
great song
okay next we're going to listen to a
queens of the stone age song so this is
from their album songs for the deaf
and the song is called song for the dead
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maybe not
this up
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jimmy
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yes yeah
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nice
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let's go
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what
i knew they were gonna
oh
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now it's over okay
whoa yeah i've never heard that that was
great yeah i okay definitely felt like a
little bit of like
jimi hendrix kind of foxy lady sass and
similar groove so just like a lot of
like bluesy kind of guitar licks but
also in this kind of dark metal phrygian
or even maybe locrian for a second um
kind of
mode
that's what i meant to do
and um
and at the end there almost felt like uh
the guitar tone it was like really fuzzy
and distorted it reminded me a lot of
cream
which i grew up listening to because my
mom loved like 70s psychedelic rock uh
so that was kind of fun there's a lot of
like old i don't know familiar
associations i made listening to this
song
but yeah great vocals very uh like i
said kind of nice distortion a lot
grittier even than last time
um he's really kind of showing his
versatility because in the other song
it was it was still like it was like a
beautiful melody and he was really like
it was kind of soaring and it had almost
like a little bit of a mystery to it
okay i can't remember how it goes
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nope well i'll have to go back and
listen to it but this one was just like
you know um a much more
yeah like rough kind of
maybe even like metal approach i don't
know i've never been great with genres
so i'm i'm i'm bound to say something
really dumb about musical genres so i
apologize in advance
i just have to own it
um
so many fake outs in that song i can't
believe it when i hit the piano i was i
thought it was over and i was going to
be like that was great and i hit it
right on the downbeat it was so funny to
me
ah
um yeah that's rockin drummer is it josh
freeze already because damn it's drums
or
it was really is mix kind of really
interesting i felt like i felt like a
a recording definitely from the 70s and
it was like the drums were like almost
all the way on the left
and sounded really things sounded really
far away i don't know it was it was cool
it seemed like a stylistic choice great
little guitar licks
yeah so that was awesome okay the next
song i'm gonna check out is um
a mark lanigan solo project
song writing the nightingale from the
album whiskey for the holy ghost it's
his second solo album
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wander through the room
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a little more time
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so many years
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how
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um
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this is
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oh wow
that was just gorgeous
so haunting something about the way that
built
over time that gave me a similar
experience when i listened to like tulle
i don't know i i'm not exactly sure i
can put it into words just yet so it's
in c-sharp minor and um with a couple
surprise chords but
a lot of emphasis on these these
tensions
and that's kind of like the undercurrent
of the whole song
so i'm already in love with that
and then it felt like his melody was
a bit meandering you know it was kind of
like a a minstrel like like improvising
and telling a story you know um
it wasn't like hooky
but there were a few moments where he
repeated something and when he did i oh
it like hit me you know the
usually a very simple lyric
and those are the ones that usually kind
of get to me if you repeat them over and
over again trying to remember what they
were something about lies so many like
beautiful
um
kind of belts too he just was really
like pushing the emotion out
uh through his voice and
hitting some really um like intense
notes for his well i don't know his
range exactly but they just felt like
you know
he was really projecting and i could
really feel him reaching right for those
for those notes it also
kind of stayed in this like dreamy sad
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area for a really long time and i felt
speaking of time i felt like i didn't
even know
exactly where the phrases were beginning
and ending
you know it was very it was very uh
it was like repetitive in like a getting
in the zone kind of way what's the
what's the word i'm looking for
hypnotic and then when the chord finally
changed took a while i was like whoa
you know i felt like i went along with
it
um
and i remember there being this
major chord that was just this like
bright spot let's see if i can find it
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oh
these cords are doing it for me
and what's in conflict there
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i feel like there's some kind of uh
harmonic tension there
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like a b and a b sharp at the same time
maybe
so much tension
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melismas
maybe that's another reason i thought of
tulle
i need a little more
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interesting talking about time and how i
feel like he really is kind of pushing
the boundaries of our concept of time or
our experience of time in this song
also really nice textures you know very
like subtle drums
just kind of suggesting but really it's
the the guitar keeping time
and uh just a lot of like
tasty high end and like the bells and
a lot of sparkles and and and
glass sounds i don't know it's just very
pristine but also like
um
there's a wash because of all the reverb
and the delay
feels like you're really far away a lot
of the time
that was gorgeous okay here's something
called
circle the fringes by the gutter twins
so this is another band it looks like he
was in or maybe started
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violins
like a loop
oh
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oh
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it's all right
to take
between
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um
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um
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yes
oh
well that was damn good too gosh okay i
have to just go back to this beginning
lick
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after this intro which is just i am
i love love
this intro um
it just reminds me
actually you know what it reminds me of
of a nine channels remix of the frail
um but the way violins sound when
they're like
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is is is a special kind of like
like i love it and also makes my skin
crawl and that's like why i love it it's
it's it's
it's like beautiful and
but also out of control i don't know i
love it um this is beautiful minor just
exploring the miner
it sounds very like old world somehow
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it's like a drone
okay that's amazing
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that's just such a great riff
it sounds so good in the base but the
base is really present
and this is in like three four or you
could think of it as six eight also like
a slow six eight
and i just love this
even that contrast is so great and this
last little dun is totally unexpected
going up to the ninth uh it's just like
overshooting basically
where you're supposed to land it sounds
so so good this whole song for the most
part the core of the bridge or maybe the
course is a little different but
um this is one and flat six my favorite
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it's all
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you right
great melody
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actually i'm not sure that's how it
ended but
okay then you've got this i think david
bennett piano has called us a line
cliche
i could be wrong but
that's kind of this this descending line
just by half steps and each chord has
one of those notes in it it's a it's a
thing i've heard in lots of like
classic rock david bowie songs
queen songs elton john songs i don't
know it's
beatles songs
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and then
did i get it
no one of those is a g
anyway it's cool
i love that
it actually kind of reminds me a little
of queens of the stone age somehow
oh yeah i wanted to talk about this i'm
so glad i was wondering i was like i bet
you his voice would sound amazing in his
really low register like exactly like
that it's what a payoff
uh he sounds like a like a villain you
know in a in like a musical theater
production
just got so much texture in his voice
it's like it's like you can
see the texture of his voice when he
when he sings down there or speaks down
there
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great use of repetition uh the rhythm
there is kind of consistent
but he's changing up his pitches that's
beautiful another great song i found one
more queens of the stone age that was
recommended to me which is in the fade
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cracks in the ceiling
crooked pictures in the heart
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i'm leaving here tomorrow
oh
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what just happened
huh
that seemed abrupt
well um
another great song uh i really like his
uh melody writing
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what a great melody it's just got uh
this it has a lot to do with the rhythm
but also his sense of
just melodic line and harmony too but
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beautiful
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leaning on these tense notes i just love
when singers do that
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that's so catchy
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chords underneath are awesome but um
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lots of major chords in queens of the
stone age songs i'm starting to
recognize it's a part of their sound
it's like he's singing like in the minor
pentatonic scale over this totally major
chord progression which does like yeah
it feels a little bluesy feels a little
cheeky i don't know it's great um he
really kind of he he hit kind of his
higher range and also his lower range
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ah no oh against the flat six
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i love this kind of back and forth it
sounds like it's him both times right
live till you die i
know
live till you die i
know
i love that kind of almost calling
response with himself very dynamic great
track well i think that that was a
really successful introduction to
somebody whose life was definitely cut
short and
again i'm really sorry for those of you
that are
mourning his loss i can really
see how much he contributed we will all
remember him through his music all right
y'all until next time