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Morphine is an alternative rock artist from Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA formed in 1990. 12 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Alternative Rock · Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA · Best alternative rock albums
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Good
1993 · 13 tracks
The Night
2000
Like Swimming
1997
Cure for Pain
1993
Yes
1995
1998-04-24: Sayre Field, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA
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At Your Service (Anthology)
2009
B-Sides & Otherwise
2000
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Bootleg Detroit (Deluxe Edition) [2025 Remaster] (Live)
2000
Bootleg Detroit
2000
Good (2020 Remaster)
1992
Morphine was an American alternative rock group formed by Mark Sandman, Dana Colley and Jerome Deupree in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1989. After five successful albums and extensive touring, 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 an unusual sound. Sandman sang distinctively in a "deep, laid-back croon", and his songwriting featured a prominent beat influence. The band themselves coined the label "low rock" to describe their music, which involved "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." The band enjoyed positive critical appraisal, but met with mixed results 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 …
