Morphine was an American alternative rock group formed by Mark Sandman, Dana Colley and Jerome Deupree in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1989.
Low-fi but hight-brow, Mark Sandman's outfit was obstinately oddball .
Here was a band into Blues and Rock with no electric guitar. Insteaded, the three-man line-up
sported a drummer, Sandman on a bass with only two strings, both tuned to the same note, and Dana Colley on meaty baritone Sax.
Morphine combined blues and jazz elements with more traditional rock arrangements, giving the band an unusual sound.
Unerpinning the leader's world-weary vocals , often put through a distortion unit, Morphine
packed an appropriately addictive punch on numbers like " Honey White " and " Cure For Pain ", a sound they dubbed " Implied Grunge ".
The band preffered to play smaller clubs, and remained loyal to the Boston - Cambridge area,
even when they signed to DreamWorks .
Marc Sandman was a graduate of UMass Boston who only launched a music career in his mid-thirties with the Punk-Blues group " Treat Her Right " before forming Morphine.
Their fiercely devoted funs were deeply shocked when Sandman died after suffering a heart attack while on stage in Rome in July 1999 .
Within a year of Sandman's death, Colley and Conway created " Orchestra Morphine ", a group of Sandman's friends and colleagues who toured to celebrate the music of the band and to raise funds for the Mark Sandman Music Education Fund.
TRACKS
European edition
01. Have A Lucky Day Good 3:27
02. You Look Like Rain Good 3:38
03. You Speak My Language Good 3:25
04. Thursday Cure for Pain 3:26
05. Buena Cure for Pain 3:19
06. Cure For Pain Cure for Pain 3:13
07. Honey White Yes 3:06
08. Super Sex Yes 3:52
09. Whisper Yes 3:28
10. Eleven O'Clock Like Swimming 3:18
11. Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer The Night 5:42
12. The Night The Night 4:48
13. Jack And Tina previously unreleased 8:32
14. Pretty Face previously unreleased 4:47
15. Shame B-Sides and Otherwise 2:44
16. Sexy Christmas Baby Mine previously unreleased 2:05
Released February 18, 2003
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Studio albums
Good (1992)
Cure for Pain (1993)
Yes (1995)
Like Swimming (1997)
The Night (2000)
Members
Mark Sandman : 2-string slide bass, vocals, organ, tritar (3-string slide guitar), guitar, piano (1989–1999)
Dana Colley : baritone sax, tenor sax, double sax, triangle (1989–1999)
Jerome Deupree : drums, percussion (1989–1991, 1991–1993, 1998–1999)
Billy Conway : drums, percussion (1991, 1993–1999)
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