Mad Season Discography of CDs

Mad Season music CDs Think of the one-shot Seattle supergroup Mad Season as the grunge version of sober living. Guitarist Mike McCready, best known as the main six-string slinger in Pearl Jam, met bassist John Baker Saunders while in rehab, and the two paired with Screaming Trees' drummer Barrett Martin and Alice in Chains vocalist Layne Staley, partially in hopes of steering the singer onto the path of the straight and narrow. Ultimately, the plan didn't pan out, but for a brief while, the quartet -- who adopted the name Mad Season -- did have their moment of clarity, captured on the 1995 album Above. There was a single issued to modern rock radio -- "River of Deceit" -- but this record downplayed easy hooks and melody in favor of churning introspection and slow vamps that occasionally flirt with blues (the never-ending 12-bar "Artificial Red," balanced by the distorto riffs of "I Don't Everything"), but usually conjure nothing more than the dank sludge of Seattle. Mad Season aren't quite mired in the darkest areas of grunge -- they're clever enough to let a saxophonist lend color to "Long Gone Day" -- but ...

Mad Season discography Track Listing of songs: Wake Up; X-Ray Mind; River Of Deceit; I'm Above; Artificial Red; Lifeless Dead; I Don't Know Anything; Long Gone Day; November Hotel; All Alone; Interlude; Locomotive; Black Book Of Fear; Slip Away; I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier; Wake Up; Lifeless Dead; Artificial Red; River Of Deceit; I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier; Long Gone Day; I'm Above; I Don't Know Anything; X-Ray Mind; All Alone; November Hotel;