AND THE ESSENTIALLY PERFECT ALBUM WAS

Sweet Oblivion, by the Screaming Trees, produced by I think by Chris Cornell of Soundgarden and now Audioslave, who is a good friend of this guy I know. Really, this guy I know!

If you've ever driven a girl who's about to break up with you to SEA-TAC in the rain in an '84 Accord with a bad muffler, and you're trying to keep her from going because she is an angel talking herself into a path to loss and sadness and false dreams, which I haven't exactly, but can very easily imagine, this is the album.

Mark Lanegan is the vocal guy, and tours about under his own name.

look where you've been,
where every
woman's wasted