Includes FREE MP3
version
of this album.
or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
Sell Us Your Item
For up to a $0.35 Gift Card
Trade in
More Buying Choices
Morninglory... Add to Cart
$12.98  & FREE Shipping on orders over $25. Details
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
Sorry, this item is not available in
Image not available for
Color:
Image not available

To view this video download Flash Player

 

Saturnalia

The Gutter TwinsAudio CD
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)

Price: $12.50 & FREE Shipping on orders over $25. Details
  Special Offers Available
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
 : Includes FREE MP3 version of this album.
   Provided by Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Terms and Conditions. Does not apply to gift orders.
Only 6 left in stock (more on the way).
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.
Want it Wednesday, May 29? Choose One-Day Shipping at checkout. Details
Complete your purchase to save the MP3 version to Cloud Player.

Formats

Amazon Price New from Used from
MP3 Music, 12 Songs, 2008 $9.49  
Audio CD, 2008 $12.50  
Vinyl, 2008 --  

Amazon's The Gutter Twins Store

Visit Amazon's The Gutter Twins Store
for all the music, discussions, and more.

Special Offers and Product Promotions

  • Buy a CD or a vinyl record, get a $1 Amazon MP3 Credit. Limit one promotional credit per customer. Here's how (restrictions apply)
  • Includes FREE MP3 version of this album Here's how (restrictions apply)

Frequently Bought Together

Saturnalia + Dynamite Steps + Powder Burns [Vinyl]
Price for all three: $39.48

Some of these items ship sooner than the others.

Buy the selected items together


Product Details

  • Audio CD (March 4, 2008)
  • Original Release Date: 2008
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Sub Pop
  • ASIN: B0012GJG38
  • Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #92,340 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

1. Stations, The
2. God's Children
3. All Misery / Flowers
4. Body, The
5. Idle Hands
6. Circle The Fringes
7. Who Will Lead Us
8. Seven Stories Underground
9. I Was In Love With You
10. Bete Noir
11. Each To Each
12. Front Street

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

This wily and depraved collaboration between Greg Dulli (Afghan Whigs, The Twilight Singers) and Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age) was aptly named for the Roman festival of misbehavior. Saturnalia allots equal time to both of the veteran alternative rockers as they traipse a wayward path. The sinister strings, Mellotron, and harmonium compliment Lanegan’s bourbon-drenched baritone as well as Dulli’s vocal abandon. While Dulli’s compositions, the funereal "God’s Children," torchy "The Body" and ghostly "Front St.", are terrific, Lanegan’s contributions may not have an equal impact--though his mere presence is imposing. Guttural ballads like "Bete Noir," "Seven Stories Underground" and the lingering "Who Will Lead Us" surge with his familiar, nostalgic imagery ("I think the chariot is coming… Lord, I’ll give this trumpet up"), and "Idle Hands" will have ‘Tree’s fans reminiscing. --Scott Holter

Product Description

Saturnalia is the anticipated first album from The Gutter Twins, the collaboration forged in late 2003 by Mark Lanegan and fellow maverick singer-songwriter Greg Dulli. Saturnalia finds the axis Dulli nicknamed "the Satanic Everly Brothers" going even deeper into the shadows than ever before. Mystical, unpredictable, ultimately masterful, the album both embodies and defies any expectations suggested by the principals' individual notoriety. Pointedly not resting on the sonic laurels of their previous successes, Saturnalia instead proves rootsy but Baroque, handmade yet modernist, teeming with siren melodies that don't resolve. Produced by Dulli and Lanegan along with the band's unofficial third member Mathias Schneeberger.

Customer Reviews

Either way, an awesome album that everyone should buy. B. Wilkie  |  6 reviewers made a similar statement
Oh well, this is still a very rich, and creepy kind of album, with some interesting Biblical references. Jason Harrington  |  4 reviewers made a similar statement
This complements Dulli's higher pitched and more melodic vocals perfectly. Tom Chase  |  4 reviewers made a similar statement
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Looking at many of the reviews here, it appears you either come to this album as a fan of Greg Dulli (The Twilight Singers; Afghan Whigs) or as a fan of Mark Lanegan (The Screaming Trees). Let me state upfront that I am a pretty big Greg Dulli fan. After all he built his initial successes in my very own Cincinnati when he lead the Afghan Whigs in the late 80s and early 90s.

"Saturnalia" (12 tracks; 53 min.)continues a collaboration between Dulli and Lanegan that was started on several tracks on the excellent 2003 Twilight Singers "Blackberry Belle" album. "Saturnalia" crashes in with "The Stations" and then takes off from there. The dark and brooding "All Misery/Flowers" is my favorite track of the album, with great underlying drums (played by Dulli, incidentally) and the songs just drones on (and I mean that in the best of ways), just fabulous. Other highlights include "Idle hands", the pensive "I Was In Love With You" and "Each to Each". The closer "Front Street" (starting off very quitetly and acoustic) somehow feels out of place with the rest of the album and should have been kept off the album.

Most (but not all) of the songs are co-written by Dulli and Lanegan but let's be honest: this feels much more like a Greg Dulli album, and in fact "Saturnalia" fits in musically very nicely along with the Twilight Singers' catalog. One of the reviewers who gave rated this album only 2 stars wrote "Not Enough Lanegan For Me", and I can certainly understand that. For me, I'm quite happy with this realease.
Was this review helpful to you?
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Heaven's Quite A Climb April 8, 2008
Format:Audio CD
Lanegan and Dulli have forever been troubled souls, and "Saturnalia" shows no glimpse of the two lightening up. Lyrically, musically and visually this album is as passionately dark and melancholy as anything in either artist's back catalogue. Don't expect classic folk singalongs about the prairie and summertime joys - expect two wistful men of acumen singing the real dirty blues.

Where "Saturnalia" succeeds most is in fusing the styles and sounds of the two artists. Like all of Lanegan's solo albums, there is an overwhelming sense of maturity and wisdom in his delivery - a feeling that he really has seen some bleak times, far beyond those of the self-wallowing MTV plastics. His voice is as gravely and whiskey-drenched as it has ever been, perfectly matching and emphasising the often gloomy lyrical content. This complements Dulli's higher pitched and more melodic vocals perfectly. The two voices are constantly shifted to great effect; the best examples of this would be "Circle The Fringes" in which Lanegan rips through Dulli's melodic lines with a rumbling quake, instantly blackening the song's atmosphere. If not within the same song, the two deliveries are often placed side by side, such as with Lanegan's Tom Waits styled romp "All Misery" and Dulli's beautiful ballad "The Body".

In terms of song writing "Saturnalia" is successfully varied, and a seamless combination of the two artists. Songs such as "Who Will Lead Us Now", "All Misery", "Bete Noir" and "Seven Stories Underground" sound very reminiscent of Lanegan's solo output, all offering frustrated and brooding lyrics over a sombre folk/blues sound. Dulli's writing is very evident in a few of the more rocking songs (note - more rocking in relation to the brooding dirge elsewhere), such as "God's Children" and "Idle Hands", both of which recall "Gentleman" era Afghan Whigs with driving guitars and a vigorous delivery from Dulli. However, this is not to say "Saturnalia" is merely a mix-match of the two artists' sound - "I Was In Love With You" sounds superbly fresh, starting up like a down tempo Lanegan love song it builds and climaxes into a blistering rock ballad, with Dulli really attacking the vocals to create one of the album's finest moments. The album's closer "Front Street" fashions the album's strongest duet, centred around the chilling lines "We're gonna have us some fun".

"Saturnalia" is yet another remarkable outing from Mark Lanegan, and for me, some of Dulli's work best since the Afghan Whigs heyday. Perfect for fans of either artists, or those simply wanting some real gritty folk blues.
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars One Of The Best Albums In Years June 23, 2008
Format:Audio CD
I've been a fan of Mark Lanegan's for a long time and I love both his solo work and his work with the Screaming Trees, and I have more recently become a fan of the Afghan Whigs as well, and this album is a beautiful reflection of the attributes that attracted me to both artists. It contains potent lyrics and a haunting dark sound that resounds thoughout every song on the album. Although I don't like it quite as well as I like some of Lanegan's solo works, I believe this album is one of the best to come out in years and I would put it above any other music of this time period. I also note that I agree with one of the other reviewers in that Saturnalia leans more toward the Greg Dulli side than that of Mark Lanegan. Either way, an awesome album that everyone should buy.
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars Dulli or Lanegan fans will like it
I am a Dulli fan. I will purchase his new material knowing that somewhere on that album I will be satisfied with what I've purchased, sound unheard. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Gregory
4.0 out of 5 stars Agree
I agree with others, too much dulli, not enough lanegan..... The music is beautiful and sets a good atmosphere, but if you dont have all of lanegans records buy those first...... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Claudia Herrera De Spigler
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow!
This is one of those albums you will buy and like, but then sort of loose it among your Dulli/Lannegan collection, then later you will be like "oh, I forgot about that one," and... Read more
Published on March 16, 2010 by Jason Harrington
3.0 out of 5 stars expected better
Lanegan seems to be so much more tallanted than this album provides. It just seems to lack a energy and focus.Idel Hands is a fine song, but it just doesnt carry the record. Read more
Published on February 12, 2010 by Brent N. Humphrey
5.0 out of 5 stars A great listen
I honestly had never heard of this band until I saw them on the Voodoo 08 roster, and then I didn't even get to see them play, but I was intrigued nonetheless. Read more
Published on September 19, 2009 by Nicole M. Rios
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow....
If you are an afgahn whigs fan or even more of a Twilight Singers fan, you will freakin love this album....it is one of my favorites by greg dulli and co......just buy it
Published on January 29, 2009 by S. Issa
5.0 out of 5 stars Lullabies So Real, Handcrafted.
Mark Lanegan & Greg Dulli are both such Titans . They could read nutritional information on the side of A cereal box and I would be all in. Read more
Published on December 24, 2008 by Holden Caulfield
5.0 out of 5 stars Don't know how I missed this album when it came out.
What a great album. I've always loved Mark Lanegan's work (both solo and with the Screaming Trees), and I picked this up when it first came out but only really started listening... Read more
Published on December 4, 2008 by K. Kodosky
4.0 out of 5 stars Come dance 'round the hangin' tree!
In the early nineties, the devil went up to Seattle. He was lookin' for a phrase to turn. He came across a young journalist sawin' on a word processor and printin' it hot. Read more
Published on November 4, 2008 by Luke Rounda
5.0 out of 5 stars FIerce,buy it
AMazing! I suggest buying this from AMazon,as appose to buying from a person selling it used.Reason why..Madonna,COldplay,etc..They don't need the xtra $. Read more
Published on September 30, 2008 by Juicy Lucy
Search Customer Reviews
Only search this product's reviews

Forums

Search Customer Discussions
Search all Amazon discussions

Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 




So You'd Like to...


Create a guide

What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?



Look for Similar Items by Category