What do you think of the great Morphine? With only bass, drums, sax and vocals they created some extroardinary sexy, moving and interesting pieces of music. It gets all the sadder if you think of Mark Sandman, their frontman (vocals + bass) who passed away live on stage in Italy in 1999... The rest of the members have now returned as the Twinemen (with a female singer). But it's nowhere as good as Morphine...
My personal favourites of them are The Night, Cure For Pain, Super Sex, You Speak My Language...
I've heard some reviewers complain about the lack of a lead guitar in their music, but I don't know: I don't really miss it here...

well, I really love them...even though I haven't heard a lot of them...but now that you've mentoned them, I'm gonna search more a bout them again. I really love 'you speak my language'

i initially heard that name, when i was reading a placebo-review in a magazine. The author was examining why placebo took its name, and was somehow reasoning on existing band names like Morphine, Codeine, etc. Then i started to inquire around bout their records,
my lazy reserch has not been concluded yet
i mean still haven't got any track of'em.
where should i start you think,
which one is the best album to make me motivated to collect the rest?

well you could always try the best of album
and Yes is a good starting point too, I guess

Best of Morphine, hmmm, sounds good
i think it also includes those tracks you've listed :
The Night, Cure For Pain, Super Sex, You Speak My Language...

i'm on the way

it does

tell me if they have any other songs like you look like rain or rope on fire and then i will tell you whether i like them or not.

that's a weird question... but yeah I guess they do...

Anyone looking forward to Sandbox, a collection of unreleased songs by Mark Sandman, Morphine's frontman? I am, to say the least... Here's what Pitchfork has to say about it...

"Late Morphine Frontman Honored with 3xCD Box
Rob Harvilla reports:
A box set dedicated to Mark Sandman, one of independent music's great tragic figures, is poised for release on November 16th. Sandbox spreads 31 songs across two compact discs to chart the legacy of Mark Sandman, who fronted a number of Boston-based combos-- most notably, Treat Her Right and Morphine. Sandman masterminded the concept of "low rock," the slide-bass/sax/drums/no-use-for-a-goddamn-guitar setup that scored Morphine a handful of minor modern rock radio hits back in the mid-90s, in addition to the time-honored bounty of critical acclaim, and oh yeah, an incredibly rabid fanbase.

The tunes featured on Sandbox, all of which are unreleased, are culled from a tremendous archive scavenger hunt fathered by Sandman's friends and bandmates after the singer/bassist's death from a heart attack onstage at a July 1999 Morphine show. The double-disc collection, to be released by Hi-N-Dry-- the label formed by surviving Morphine members Dana Colley and Billy Conway-- will come bundled with a DVD bearing rare and unseen footage, as well as additional material penned by the late guest of honor. Breakdown:

>> Disc One:
01 Double Stripper Double Sax
02 I Can Do That
03 Tomorrow
04 Patience
05 Cocoon
06 Imaginary Song
07 Not Like That
08 Jealous Dream
09 Justine
10 The Phone
11 Devil's Boots
12 Born Again
13 Wig
14 51%
15 Good Time

>> Disc Two:
01 Riley the Dog
02 Some Other Dog
03 Snow
04 Providence
05 Doreen
06 Get Along
07 Mona's Sister
08 Hombre
09 Hotel Room
10 Let's Not Talk
11 Bathtub 12 I Wanna Go Home
13 Deep Six
14 Livin' With U
15 They Bent Me
16 Middle East

Sandbox liner note penman (and fellow presence of the Boston underground) Ted Drozdowski suggests that more archived material may follow. "Even his friends Dana, Billy, and Jerome (who poured through the many hours of tapes that Mark left behind to compile Sandbox) had no idea how prolific he had been," Drozdowski writes. "This set just scratches the surface-- not only of the vast body of Mark's previously unrevealed work, but of a life richly lived on its own terms and done too soon."

In the meantime, Colley and Conway have just released their second full-length as The Twinemen with singer/guitarist Laurie Sargent. Titled Sideshow, the album follows the group's 2002 self-titled debut and, according to the band's website, "expands the already wide blend of genres and instrumentation that made their critically heralded debut so distinctive." The Twinemen are just wrapping up their North American tour, but they've still got a handful of performances left. Three, in fact:

10-25 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom
10-27 New York, NY - NYCD [in-store performance]
10-27 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge

.: Pitchfork Review: Morphine: The Best of Morphine 1992-1995
.: Hi-N-Dry: http://www.hi-n-dry.com"

My dad had their album "Yes" in his car the other day while i was driving it so i figured i would take a listen.......possibly the worst album ive ever listened to. The constant drone of the sax, and the suicidal vocals were to much for me.


Anyways, how did their lead man die?