Morphine (band)
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Morphine was an American
alternative rock
group formed by Mark Sandman
and Dana Colley
in Cambridge
, Massachusetts
, in 1989. They disbanded in 1999 after frontman Sandman died of a heart attack
.
Morphine combined blues
and jazz
elements with more traditional rock
arrangements, giving the band a very unusual sound. Sandman's distinctive singing was described as a "deep, laid-back croon" and his songwriting featured a prominent beat
influence. When asked by reporters to describe their music, the band created the label "low rock". One critical appraisal suggests that "Morphine immediately established a minimalist, low-end sound that could have easily become a gimmick: a 'power trio
' not built around the sound of an electric guitar
. Instead, with sly intelligence, Morphine expanded its offbeat vocabulary on each album."
Although Morphine was critically lauded throughout their career, it is difficult to measure their success commercially. In the United States the band was embraced and promoted by the indie rock
community, including public and college
radio stations and MTV
's 120 Minutes
(which the band once guest-hosted), but received little support from commercial
rock radio and other music television programs. This limited their mainstream exposure and success in their home country, while internationally they enjoyed mainstream success and support, especially in Belgium
, Portugal
, France
and Australia
.
, and saxophonist Dana Colley, a former member of the local Boston group Three Colors. Drummer Jerome Deupree, who had played with Sandman in a former project called the Hypnosonics, joined Morphine and completed its initial lineup. They recorded their debut album, Good
, for the Boston-based Accurate/Distortion label in 1991. The album received positive reviews and established a small but devoted audience. The band subsequently signed to Rykodisc
, who re-released Good under its own imprint.
Cure for Pain
, 1993's followup, increased the band's audience outside of New England
, and singles like "Thursday" and "Buena" picked up some college radio play.
During the recording of Cure for Pain, Deupree, who was suffering from health problems, was replaced by Billy Conway, who had previously played with Sandman in Treat Her Right. However, Deupree still played most of the percussion work heard on the album. After the album was completed, the band toured the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia.
In 1994, "Sheila" and "In Spite of Me" were prominently featured on the soundtrack of the film Spanking the Monkey
. The band returned to the studio in 1995 and produced Yes
. The album featured the single "Honey White," the music video for which appeared on the MTV
animated series Beavis and Butt-head
.
Two years later, Morphine signed with DreamWorks Records
, who released their major label debut, Like Swimming
. It was a critical success, but did not break the band into the domestic mainstream as had been hoped. DreamWorks released a music video for the single "Early to Bed"; directed by Jamie Caliri
and released in March 1997, the nightmarish yet humorous video became an instant favorite among fans and was later nominated for a Grammy award. The band also released B-Sides and Otherwise
, a collection of B-sides and live recordings, on Rykodisc this same year.
In the following time, Deupree once again began performing live and in the studio with the band, making the group a four-piece. The band's final studio album, The Night, was completed in early 1999.
On July 3, 1999, Sandman collapsed on the stage of the Nel Nome del Rock festival at the Giardini del Principe in Palestrina
, Italy
(near Rome
). He was soon pronounced dead of a heart attack
and Morphine immediately disbanded. His last words before he died were, "It's a beautiful evening and it's great to stay here and I want to dedicate a super-sexy song to you." The Night was released in 2000.
Since then, Bootleg Detroit
, an "official live bootleg", and The Best of Morphine: 1992–1995 have also been released by Rykodisc under the Morphine name. In 2009, Rhino Records released the two-disc set At Your Service, composed of unreleased Morphine material.
, later joined Colley and Conway in their first post-Morphine musical endeavor, Twinemen
.
Conway and Colley also officially formed the Hi-n-Dry
independent record label
and studio, converting Sandman's workspace into a commercial enterprise. The label's roster includes a number of their friends, colleagues and other Boston-area musicians. In 2004, Hi-n-Dry released the Mark Sandman box set Sandbox, which contained two CDs and a DVD of previously unreleased material spanning Sandman's musical career. The DVD featured clips from early Sandman shows, interviews from the Morphine tours, and various videos from other Sandman solo and group projects, such as Treat Her Right. However, for copyright reasons the box set did not contain any previously released material found in the Morphine catalogue, Morphine videos, or promotional material produced by Rykodisc or DreamWorks Records.
Deupree continued to record with various jazz musicians and later became a member of the group Bourbon Princess. Colley formed the band A.K.A.C.O.D. with Monique Ortiz (the former leader of Bourbon Princess) in 2006. Their debut album Happiness was released in early 2008 and supported by a tour, featuring set lists fortified with Morphine material.
In 2009, Colley and Deupree began regularly performing Morphine songs and new material with a singer, bassist and guitarist formerly based in New Orleans named Jeremy Lyons as Members of Morphine (alternately, the Ever-Expanding Elastic Waste Band.) In July 2009, the group played at Nel Nome Del Rock Festival in Palestrina, Italy, marking the ten year anniversary of Sandman's death at the location in which it occurred.
(with both strings usually tuned to a 5th or octave interval) played with a slide
; however, on the group's records he added touches of guitar
, piano
, electronic organ
, and other self invented guitar instruments such as the tritar, featuring two guitar strings and one bass string. Colley played primarily baritone saxophone
, along with soprano or tenor saxes, and the rare bass saxophone
, and he sometimes played two saxes at once, a la Roland Kirk; he also played occasional percussion, and Dobro
on a B-side
.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
alternative rock
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
group formed by Mark Sandman
Mark Sandman
Mark Sandman was an American singer, songwriter, musical instrument inventor and multi-instrumentalist.An indie rock icon and longtime fixture on the Boston/Cambridge music scene, Sandman was best known as the lead singer and slide bass player of the band Morphine...
and Dana Colley
Dana Colley
Dana Colley is an American musician, best known as the baritone and tenor saxophonist in the alternative rock band Morphine.-with Three Colors :...
in Cambridge
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
, in 1989. They disbanded in 1999 after frontman Sandman died of a heart attack
Myocardial infarction
Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...
.
Morphine combined blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
and jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
elements with more traditional rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
arrangements, giving the band a very unusual sound. Sandman's distinctive singing was described as a "deep, laid-back croon" and his songwriting featured a prominent beat
Beat generation
The Beat Generation refers to a group of American post-WWII writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired...
influence. When asked by reporters to describe their music, the band created the label "low rock". One critical appraisal suggests that "Morphine immediately established a minimalist, low-end sound that could have easily become a gimmick: a 'power trio
Power trio
A power trio is a rock and roll band format where the traditional power trio has a lineup of guitar, bass and drums, leaving out the rhythm guitar or keyboard that are used in other rock music to fill out the sound with chords...
' not built around the sound of an electric guitar
Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
. Instead, with sly intelligence, Morphine expanded its offbeat vocabulary on each album."
Although Morphine was critically lauded throughout their career, it is difficult to measure their success commercially. In the United States the band was embraced and promoted by the indie rock
Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...
community, including public and college
Campus radio
Campus radio is a type of radio station that is run by the students of a college, university or other educational institution. Programming may be exclusively by students, or may include programmers from the wider community in which the radio station is based...
radio stations and MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
's 120 Minutes
120 Minutes
120 Minutes is a television show in the United States dedicated to alternative music, originally airing on MTV from 1986 to 2000, and then on MTV's sister channel MTV2 from 2001 to 2003....
(which the band once guest-hosted), but received little support from commercial
Commercial broadcasting
Commercial broadcasting is the broadcasting of television programs and radio programming by privately owned corporate media, as opposed to state sponsorship...
rock radio and other music television programs. This limited their mainstream exposure and success in their home country, while internationally they enjoyed mainstream success and support, especially in Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
, Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
and Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
.
Career (1989–1999)
Morphine was formed in 1989 by bassist/vocalist Mark Sandman, who had previously played with the bluesy alternative rock band Treat Her RightTreat Her Right
Treat Her Right is a blues rock group formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1984. The band originally featured Mark Sandman on guitar, Billy Conway on drums, Dave Champagne on guitar, and Jim Fitting on harmonica. Singing and songwriting duties were shared by all but Conway...
, and saxophonist Dana Colley, a former member of the local Boston group Three Colors. Drummer Jerome Deupree, who had played with Sandman in a former project called the Hypnosonics, joined Morphine and completed its initial lineup. They recorded their debut album, Good
Good (Morphine album)
Good is the first album recorded by the Boston based alternative rock trio Morphine. It was originally released in 1992 on the Accurate label, and then re-released by Rykodisc in 1993.- Track listing :...
, for the Boston-based Accurate/Distortion label in 1991. The album received positive reviews and established a small but devoted audience. The band subsequently signed to Rykodisc
Rykodisc
Rykodisc Records is an American record label. It is owned by Warner Music Group, operates as a unit of WMG's Independent Label Group and is distributed through Alternative Distribution Alliance.-Company history:...
, who re-released Good under its own imprint.
Cure for Pain
Cure for Pain
Cure for Pain was the second album released by alternative rock band Morphine through Rykodisc in 1993. The tracks "Sheila" and "In Spite of Me" were prominently featured on the soundtrack of the 1994 independent film Spanking the Monkey...
, 1993's followup, increased the band's audience outside of New England
New England
New England is a region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of the six states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut...
, and singles like "Thursday" and "Buena" picked up some college radio play.
During the recording of Cure for Pain, Deupree, who was suffering from health problems, was replaced by Billy Conway, who had previously played with Sandman in Treat Her Right. However, Deupree still played most of the percussion work heard on the album. After the album was completed, the band toured the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia.
In 1994, "Sheila" and "In Spite of Me" were prominently featured on the soundtrack of the film Spanking the Monkey
Spanking the Monkey
Spanking the Monkey is a 1994 US independent black comedy written and directed by David O. Russell. The title of the movie is a slang phrase for masturbation and is used in the film by one of the teenage characters...
. The band returned to the studio in 1995 and produced Yes
Yes (Morphine album)
Yes is an album by alternative rock band Morphine, released in March 1995.-Track listing:All songs written by Mark Sandman .# "Honey White" – 3:06# "Scratch" – 3:13# "Radar" – 3:28# "Whisper" – 3:28# "Yes" – 2:00...
. The album featured the single "Honey White," the music video for which appeared on the MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
animated series Beavis and Butt-head
Beavis and Butt-Head
Beavis and Butt-head is an American animated television series created by Mike Judge. The series originated from Frog Baseball, a 1992 short film by Judge. After seeing the short, MTV signed Judge to develop the concept. Beavis and Butt-head originally aired from March 8, 1993 to November 28, 1997...
.
Two years later, Morphine signed with DreamWorks Records
DreamWorks Records
DreamWorks Records was an American record label. Founded in 1996 by David Geffen, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg as a subsidiary of DreamWorks SKG, the label operated until 2005 when it was shut down...
, who released their major label debut, Like Swimming
Like Swimming
Like Swimming is a 1997 album by the alternative rock band Morphine.-Track listing:All songs written by Mark Sandman.# "Lilah" – 0:59# "Potion" – 2:00# "I Know You Like Swimming is a 1997 album by the alternative rock band Morphine.-Track listing:All songs written by Mark Sandman.# "Lilah" – 0:59#...
. It was a critical success, but did not break the band into the domestic mainstream as had been hoped. DreamWorks released a music video for the single "Early to Bed"; directed by Jamie Caliri
Jamie Caliri
Jamie Caliri is a director, known primarily for music videos and television commercials. He was born on February 22, 1970 in Buffalo, New York. He is associated with DUCK Studios, an animation/design studio that produces commercials, live action, film/t.v...
and released in March 1997, the nightmarish yet humorous video became an instant favorite among fans and was later nominated for a Grammy award. The band also released B-Sides and Otherwise
B-Sides and Otherwise
B-Sides and Otherwise was a collection of B-Sides and previously unreleased songs by Morphine, put out in 1997 by the Rykodisc label.-Track listing:# "Have a Lucky Day"# "All Wrong"# "I Know You-Part Two"# "Bo's Veranda"# "Mile High"# "Shame"...
, a collection of B-sides and live recordings, on Rykodisc this same year.
In the following time, Deupree once again began performing live and in the studio with the band, making the group a four-piece. The band's final studio album, The Night, was completed in early 1999.
On July 3, 1999, Sandman collapsed on the stage of the Nel Nome del Rock festival at the Giardini del Principe in Palestrina
Palestrina
Palestrina is an ancient city and comune with a population of about 18,000, in Lazio, c. 35 km east of Rome...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
(near Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
). He was soon pronounced dead of a heart attack
Myocardial infarction
Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...
and Morphine immediately disbanded. His last words before he died were, "It's a beautiful evening and it's great to stay here and I want to dedicate a super-sexy song to you." The Night was released in 2000.
Since then, Bootleg Detroit
Bootleg Detroit
Bootleg Detroit is the only authorized release of a live recording of Morphine. It was released on the label Rykodisc in 2000. Recorded by Alan J. Schmit—a fan—on March 7, 1994 at St. Andrew’s Hall in Detroit, Michigan, it was edited and mixed under Mark Sandman’s supervision...
, an "official live bootleg", and The Best of Morphine: 1992–1995 have also been released by Rykodisc under the Morphine name. In 2009, Rhino Records released the two-disc set At Your Service, composed of unreleased Morphine material.
Posthumous projects (1999–present)
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. Orchestra Morphine mostly performed music from The Night, but also included some other Morphine and Hypnosonics material as well. Orchestra Morphine still performs occasionally but no longer tours. Singer and guitarist Laurie Sargent, a member of Orchestra Morphine and former vocalist for the band Face to FaceFace to Face (new wave band)
Face to Face was a new wave Boston, Massachusetts quintet.-Formation:Guitarist Stuart Kimball formed the band in New Hampshire during the late '70s with a close group of friends...
, later joined Colley and Conway in their first post-Morphine musical endeavor, Twinemen
Twinemen
Twinemen is an alternative rock band based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA created by former members of the bands Morphine and Face to Face. The group includes Dana Colley , Billy Conway , and Laurie Sargent...
.
Conway and Colley also officially formed the Hi-n-Dry
Hi-n-Dry
Hi-n-Dry is a Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA-based independent record label and recording studio. Founded by the late Morphine singer and bassist Mark Sandman, the studio and label are currently managed by former Morphine bandmates Dana Colley and Billy Conway along with Laurie Sargent and Andrew...
independent record label
Independent record label
An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...
and studio, converting Sandman's workspace into a commercial enterprise. The label's roster includes a number of their friends, colleagues and other Boston-area musicians. In 2004, Hi-n-Dry released the Mark Sandman box set Sandbox, which contained two CDs and a DVD of previously unreleased material spanning Sandman's musical career. The DVD featured clips from early Sandman shows, interviews from the Morphine tours, and various videos from other Sandman solo and group projects, such as Treat Her Right. However, for copyright reasons the box set did not contain any previously released material found in the Morphine catalogue, Morphine videos, or promotional material produced by Rykodisc or DreamWorks Records.
Deupree continued to record with various jazz musicians and later became a member of the group Bourbon Princess. Colley formed the band A.K.A.C.O.D. with Monique Ortiz (the former leader of Bourbon Princess) in 2006. Their debut album Happiness was released in early 2008 and supported by a tour, featuring set lists fortified with Morphine material.
In 2009, Colley and Deupree began regularly performing Morphine songs and new material with a singer, bassist and guitarist formerly based in New Orleans named Jeremy Lyons as Members of Morphine (alternately, the Ever-Expanding Elastic Waste Band.) In July 2009, the group played at Nel Nome Del Rock Festival in Palestrina, Italy, marking the ten year anniversary of Sandman's death at the location in which it occurred.
Band members
- Mark SandmanMark SandmanMark Sandman was an American singer, songwriter, musical instrument inventor and multi-instrumentalist.An indie rock icon and longtime fixture on the Boston/Cambridge music scene, Sandman was best known as the lead singer and slide bass player of the band Morphine...
– 2-string slide bass, vocals, organ, tritarTritareA tritare is an experimental guitar invented in 2003 by Samuel Gaudet and Claude Gauthier of the University of Moncton of a family of stringed instruments which use Y-shaped strings, instead of the usual string-shaped strings; Y-shaped strings can produce sounds which are harmonic integer...
(3-string slide guitar), guitar, piano (1989–1999) - Dana ColleyDana ColleyDana Colley is an American musician, best known as the baritone and tenor saxophonist in the alternative rock band Morphine.-with Three Colors :...
– baritone sax, tenor sax, double sax, triangle (1989–1999) - Jerome Deupree – various percussion (1989–1993, 1998–1999)
- Billy Conway – various percussion (1993–1999)
Instruments
Morphine's instrumentation was unusual for a rock band: Sandman's primary instrument was a two-string bass guitarBass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
(with both strings usually tuned to a 5th or octave interval) played with a slide
Slide guitar
Slide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. The term slide refers to the motion of the slide against the strings, while bottleneck refers to the original material of choice for such slides: the necks of glass bottles...
; however, on the group's records he added touches of guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
, electronic organ
Electronic organ
An electronic organ is an electronic keyboard instrument which was derived from the harmonium, pipe organ and theatre organ. Originally, it was designed to imitate the sound of pipe organs, theatre organs, band sounds, or orchestral sounds....
, and other self invented guitar instruments such as the tritar, featuring two guitar strings and one bass string. Colley played primarily baritone saxophone
Baritone saxophone
The baritone saxophone, often called "bari sax" , is one of the largest and lowest pitched members of the saxophone family. It was invented by Adolphe Sax. The baritone is distinguished from smaller sizes of saxophone by the extra loop near its mouthpiece...
, along with soprano or tenor saxes, and the rare bass saxophone
Bass saxophone
The bass saxophone is the second largest member of the saxophone family. Its design is similar to that of the baritone saxophone, with a loop of tubing near the mouthpiece. It was the first type of saxophone presented to the public, when Adolphe Sax exhibited a bass saxophone in C at an exhibition...
, and he sometimes played two saxes at once, a la Roland Kirk; he also played occasional percussion, and Dobro
Dobro
Dobro is a registered trademark, now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation and used for a particular design of resonator guitar.The name has a long and involved history, interwoven with that of the resonator guitar...
on a B-side
A-side and B-side
A-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of gramophone records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s. The terms have come to refer to the types of song conventionally placed on each side of the record, with the A-side being the featured song , while the B-side, or...
.
Studio albums
- GoodGood (Morphine album)Good is the first album recorded by the Boston based alternative rock trio Morphine. It was originally released in 1992 on the Accurate label, and then re-released by Rykodisc in 1993.- Track listing :...
- 1992 - Cure for PainCure for PainCure for Pain was the second album released by alternative rock band Morphine through Rykodisc in 1993. The tracks "Sheila" and "In Spite of Me" were prominently featured on the soundtrack of the 1994 independent film Spanking the Monkey...
- 1993 - YesYes (Morphine album)Yes is an album by alternative rock band Morphine, released in March 1995.-Track listing:All songs written by Mark Sandman .# "Honey White" – 3:06# "Scratch" – 3:13# "Radar" – 3:28# "Whisper" – 3:28# "Yes" – 2:00...
- 1995 - Like SwimmingLike SwimmingLike Swimming is a 1997 album by the alternative rock band Morphine.-Track listing:All songs written by Mark Sandman.# "Lilah" – 0:59# "Potion" – 2:00# "I Know You Like Swimming is a 1997 album by the alternative rock band Morphine.-Track listing:All songs written by Mark Sandman.# "Lilah" – 0:59#...
- 1997 - The Night - 2000
Live albums, compilations and promos
- B-Sides and OtherwiseB-Sides and OtherwiseB-Sides and Otherwise was a collection of B-Sides and previously unreleased songs by Morphine, put out in 1997 by the Rykodisc label.-Track listing:# "Have a Lucky Day"# "All Wrong"# "I Know You-Part Two"# "Bo's Veranda"# "Mile High"# "Shame"...
- 1997 - Sampilation - 1997
- Bootleg DetroitBootleg DetroitBootleg Detroit is the only authorized release of a live recording of Morphine. It was released on the label Rykodisc in 2000. Recorded by Alan J. Schmit—a fan—on March 7, 1994 at St. Andrew’s Hall in Detroit, Michigan, it was edited and mixed under Mark Sandman’s supervision...
- 2000 - The Best of Morphine: 1992-1995The Best of Morphine: 1992-1995The Best Of Morphine, 1992-1995 is a greatest hits compilation by the band Morphine, released on the label Rykodisc in the year 2003.The Best of Morphine, 1992-1995 chronicles the bands first four albums: Good, Cure For Pain, Yes and B-sides and Otherwise, and includes two previously unreleased...
- 2003 - Sandbox: The Mark Sandman Box SetSandbox: The Mark Sandman Box SetSandbox: The Mark Sandman Box Set is a double album by Morphine frontman Mark Sandman, released in November 2004.-Track listing:All songs written by Mark Sandman.Disc 1# "Double Stripper Double Sax" – 1:05# "I Can Do That" – 1:53# "Tomorrow" – 3:28...
- 2004 - At Your Service - 2009
Singles
- "Buena" (1993)
- "Thursday" (1993)
- "Cure for Pain" (1994)
- "Super Sex" (1995)
- "Honey White" (1995)
- "Early to Bed" (1997)
- "Murder for the Money" (1997)
- "Eleven O'Clock" (1999)
External links
- The Other Side
- [ Morphine data in Allmusic]
- Twinemen on MySpace
- A.K.A.C.O.D.