Sing Backwards and Weep: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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This was not an easy memoir to get through. I decided to listen to this as an audio book. I figured it would be great to hear Mark Lanegan's story in his own words. It might've been easier to read it as a book. His biography is grueling, to say the least. I take no joy in stating this, being no stranger to addiction myself... and Mark Lanegan having been a hero of mine since 1992... a position he no longer occupies, for a couple of reasons.

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Hij heeft zo mooie muziek gemaakt, zo goede nummers, het is vreemd dat we hem nooit meer zullen horen of zien. Hamnett, Alun (May 2020). "MARK LANEGAN – STRAIGHT SONGS OF SORROW". Record Collector . Retrieved May 23, 2020. I expected his life to change soon after that sentence; I wanted him to get over the heroin and get on with his real life. I wanted the Lanegan who sings I’m Not the Loving Kind so beautifully to emerge. But he doesn’t, and my impatience with the book and Lanegan gradually turned into admiration as I began to realise that this wasn’t going to happen. I was going to have to wait for the redemption. This brutally honest memoir covers Lanegan's early life through to the full span of the Screaming Trees including coverage of his first two solo albums and his friendship with Kurt Cobain and Layne Stayley. Reading this, it’s not clear to me that Lanegan has learned anything. Props to his punk sensibility that he doesn’t give us much of the “and then I got clean” version – though there is a strange near-final religious epiphany that he describes without exploring.

Počne nezavidnim detinjstvom i onda bez prestanka tone u nova dna ljudskog ponašanja. Čitaoca ne štedi brutalnih opisa telesnog i mentalnog horora alkoholizma i narkomanije, posledica nebrige za sebe i druge, izrabljivanja svih oko sebe i neverovatnih napora da se po svaku cenu dođe do droge. Urođena telesna otpornost, visoka diploma škole ulice, harizma i prihodi muzičke zvezde osrednjeg kalibra, sve se spojilo da ta agonija traje neverovatno dugo. Veći uspeh ili neuspeh bi ga verovatno ranije šutnuli na dno. Late in the afternoon, I got a call from the entertainment lawyer I shared with Kurt, Rosemary Carroll, an extremely smart, no-nonsense woman who happened to be the ex-wife of celebrated writer/musician Jim Carroll. My entire childhood, my mother, who, unbelievably, worked as a college lecturer of early childhood education, had been a wholly detestable, damaged witch,” he writes. Lanegan was close friends with the singers in those two bands — Kurt Cobain and Layne Staley respectively — and, like both of those men, he carries inside him a powerful, singular instrument, with his baritone style occupying the deepest end of the male vocal spectrum. And, like both of his friends, eventually he would become desperately mired in drug addiction.

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More than anything else, Lanegan portrays himself as an unreliable, criminal, hateful, rancorous, utterly useless, miserable piece of shit, a dope dealer semi-guilty of the deaths of several Seattle peers, a violent, lying sex and porn addict and complete failure.In his own words, he was born a 'garbage can of a drug fiend', a teenage thief and alcoholic, the town drunk even before he was of legal age to drink. I did get the feeling he was eager to move on from his early years, though he does return to discuss his parents at later stages. We do get to read about his musical influences and how they shaped him.