Sweet Oblivion

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{{Infobox album

| name = Sweet Oblivion

| type = Album

| artist = Screaming Trees

| cover = Screaming Trees Sweet Oblivion.jpg

| alt =

| released = September 8, 1992

| recorded = March 1992

| venue =

| studio =

| genre =

• Grunge{{cite web|date=April 1, 2019|title=50 Greatest Grunge Albums|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/50-greatest-grunge-albums-798851/screaming-trees-sweet-oblivion-1992-798914/|access-date=December 26, 2021|website=Rolling Stone}}{{cite web|date=May 24, 2017|title=The 30 Best Grunge Albums of All Time|url=https://loudwire.com/top-grunge-albums-all-time/|access-date=December 26, 2021|website=Loudwire}}{{cite web|last=Leivers|first=Dannii|date=June 15, 2020|title=10 obscure but absolutely essential grunge albums|url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/10-obscure-but-absolutely-essential-grunge-albums|access-date=December 26, 2021|website=Louder Sound}}{{cite web|date=October 11, 2021|title=Top 30 Grunge Albums|url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/top-grunge-albums/|access-date=December 26, 2021|website=Ultimate Classic Rock}}{{cite web|last=Robinson|first=Joe|date=January 8, 2013|title=10 Best Grunge Albums|url=https://diffuser.fm/best-grunge-albums/|access-date=December 31, 2021|website=Diffuser.fm}}{{cite magazine|date=April 2004|title=The 20 Greatest Grunge Albums of All Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mOL9JKjjbdcC&pg=PA62|magazine=Spin|publisher=SPIN Media LLC|volume=20|issue=4|page=62|access-date=December 26, 2021}}
• psychedelic rock
• folk rock

| length = 46:13

| label = Epic

| producer = Don Fleming

| prev_title = Anthology: SST Years 1985–1989

| prev_year = 1991

| next_title = Winter Songs Tour Tracks

| next_year = 1992

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Sweet Oblivion

| type = studio

| single1 = Nearly Lost You

| single1date = August 1992{{cite web | url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Gavin-Report/90/92/Gavin-1992-08-14.pdf | title=Screaming Trees - "Nearly Lost You" (Epic)| work= The Gavin Report|page=46| date=August 14, 1992}}

| single2 = Dollar Bill

| single2date = March 7, 1993

}}

}}

Sweet Oblivion is the sixth studio album by Screaming Trees, released on September 8, 1992. It quickly became the band's best-selling record, and was the closest they ever came to achieving mainstream success. Sweet Oblivion sold in excess of 300,000 copies on the strength of the band's biggest hit, "Nearly Lost You".{{cite web|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|title=Screaming Trees Biography, Songs, & Albums|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/screaming-trees-mn0000312353/biography|access-date=May 2, 2019|publisher=AllMusic}} The song benefited from an appearance on Singles: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, a Top Ten, platinum-selling hit album which featured many other popular Seattle-based music acts from the period.

Around the time of the recording of the album, the band’s original drummer Mark Pickerel left to pursue other musical interests, and was replaced with Barrett Martin.

Nearly four years passed in between Sweet Oblivion and the band's follow-up album, Dust, a move that hurt much of the band's commercial momentum.{{cite web|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|title=Dust - Screaming Trees {{!}} Songs, Reviews, Credits|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/dust-mw0000184238|access-date=March 17, 2010|publisher=AllMusic}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|last=Huey|first=Steve|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/sweet-oblivion-mw0000086686|title=Sweet Oblivion – Screaming Trees|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=March 17, 2010}}

|rev2 = Entertainment Weekly

|rev2Score = B+{{cite journal|last=Farber|first=Jim|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,312028,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070903055011/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,312028,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 3, 2007|title=Sweet Oblivion|journal=Entertainment Weekly|date=October 9, 1992|access-date=March 17, 2010|page=58}}

|rev3 = Kerrang!

|rev3Score = 4/5{{cite book | last = Watts | first = Chris | title = Kerrang! | chapter = Screaming Trees 'Sweet Oblivion' | volume = 416 | publisher = EMAP | date = October 31, 1992 | location = London, UK | title-link = Kerrang! }}

|rev4 = Los Angeles Times

|rev4score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite journal|last=McOmber|first=James Martin|title=Screaming Trees: 'Sweet Oblivion' (Epic)|journal=Los Angeles Times|date=November 8, 1992}}

|rev5 = NME

|rev5score = 8/10{{cite journal|title=Screaming Trees: Sweet Oblivion|journal=NME|date=October 3, 1992|page=37}}

|rev6 = Q

|rev6score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite journal|title=Screaming Trees: Sweet Oblivion|journal=Q|issue=73|date=October 1992|page=90}}

|rev7 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

|rev7score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite book|chapter=Screaming Trees|last=Randall|first=Mac|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|editor-last=Brackett|editor-first=Nathan|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|publisher=Simon & Schuster|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=t9eocwUfoSoC&pg=PA721 721]|title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide}}

|rev8 = Select

|rev8Score = 5/5{{cite journal|title=Screaming Trees: Sweet Oblivion|journal=Select|issue=29|date=November 1992|last=Perry|first=Andrew|pages=84–85}}

| rev9 = Spin Alternative Record Guide

| rev9score = 9/10{{cite book|chapter=Screaming Trees|first=Michael|last=Azzerad |author-link=Michael Azzerad|title=Spin Alternative Record Guide|title-link=Spin Alternative Record Guide|editor1-first=Eric|editor1-last=Weisbard|editor2-first=Craig|editor2-last=Marks|publisher=Vintage Books|year=1995|isbn=0-679-75574-8|pages=343-344}}

|rev10 = The Village Voice

|rev10score = B+{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|url=http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv293-93.php|title=Consumer Guide|work=The Village Voice|date=March 9, 1993|access-date=March 17, 2010}}

}}