Mark Lanegan

Um-

Which one? Mark Lanegan?

Yeah.

Yeah.

There's a crimson bird flying when I go down on you.

And finally, hey, remember when Isobel Campbell, formerly of twee Scottish indie pop giants Belle and Sebastian, and Mark Lanegan, he of righteous, bro-ish American alt rock gods Screaming Trees, not to mention Queens of the Stone Age.

Remember when Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan made three full-length duet albums together and they fucking ruled, even though you would not necessarily assume that combination would fucking rule? I know what they just said lyrically, by the way.

Never mind that now.

From their first great duet album, released in 2006 and called Ballad of the Broken Seas, that song was called Do You Want to Come Walk with Me? Parenthesis do you want to close parenthesis come walk with me question mark.

All these songs have long titles.

Young Folks is the shortest song title in this whole genre.

Isobel Campbell's high, frail, lilting voice and Mark Lanegan's deep, rad, terrifying bass ass voice, their voices work wonderfully together, even if together they sound like one of those heartwarming nature photographs of, like, a canary befriending a warthog.

So that definitely s- stuck with me.

Um, but, you know, started discovering other, other, other things and, you know, Radiohead and [smacks lips] Mark Lanegan had a really massive influence on this score, as well as, you know, some other, uh, uh, '90s and 2000s rock bands too.

Um, but yeah, certainly, like my parents' record collection was anchored in a lot of '70s rock and, you know, as a kid growing up in the '90s, I, I took that and then was like, "Oh, what's, uh, Blink-182? What's, what's punk?"

[laughs]

What happened to him? His head was bound in a drive a wheel and his body have never been found my girl my girl don't you lie to me tell me where did you sleep last night come on and tell me somebody in the pines in the pines Why the sun don't ever shine unless you build it all night long.

But he also did, he also played guitar for, Mark Flanagan did it.

And Kurt played guitar on that one.

And that one's very dark

They actually had this, like, piece of artwork on what became their first album from, in the US.

It said, like, "Guaranteed real teenagers." Like, I think Tim, Mark, and, um, and Rick from Ash were...

This is, like, a couple years before Charlotte Hatherley joined the band.

So they were still a trio.

And he said, "Oh, that was a lot of fun.

I always have a lot of fun playing at the n- at 9:30." And then he said, uh, "If you live in DC, um, The Gutter Twins are gonna be there." And he gave me, like, the exact date, like, six months in the future that they hadn't even announced yet.

But he and Mark Lanegan brought The Gutter Twins to the Black Cat.

Right.

[laughs]

Years later, I got to interview Mark Lanegan, and-

Oh my gosh

...

... last detail

... as much as I was with you, uh, at the-

I had to really hold it together when Mark Lanegan was being...

[laughs]

Yes, yeah.

You know, Mark Lanegan, Portishead, a little Massive Attack, which is not rock, it's trip hop, but, like, John and Zoey's theme is a little-

I've never heard of trip hop before.

Yeah.

And I also scored a scene that was John and Hal driving to Macon Ranch for the first time.

Mm-hmm.

So I established these two sound worlds, one of which is very kind of Mark Lanegan, uh, blues sort of inspired-

Right

I got there.

I'm a Northern Soul fan and a Mark Lanegan fan.

[laughs] Oh, by the way, we've gotta do a Northern Soul episode.

And we gotta do a T. Rex episode.

I'm not saying I love you I won't say I'll be true There's a crimson bird flying When I go down on you

And finally, hey, remember when Isobel Campbell, formerly of twee Scottish indie pop giants Belle and Sebastian, and Mark Lanegan, he of righteous bro-ish American alt-rock gods Screaming Trees, not to mention Queens of the Stone Age.

Remember when Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan made three full-length duet albums together and they fucking ruled even though you would not necessarily assume that combination would fucking rule? I know what they just said lyrically, by the way.

Never mind that now.

From their first great duet album, released in 2006 and called Ballad of the Broken Seas, that song was called "Do You Wanna Come Walk with Me," parenthesis, Do You Wanna, close parenthesis, Come Walk with Me, question mark.

All these songs have long titles.

"Young Folks" is the shortest song title in this whole genre.

Isobel Campbell's high, frail, lilting voice and Mark Lanegan's deep, rad, terrifying bass ass voice, their voices work wonderfully together, even if together they sound like one of those heartwarming nature photographs of, like, a canary befriending a warthog.

Mm-hmm.

Mark Lanegan.

Hort, Hort got me this bootleg Mark Lanegan record.

Like, it was a live record.

He got it at a Mark Lanegan show, but it's, like, a bootleg recording.

Mm-hmm.

We wore that the fuck out.