Alice in Chains • Page 5

Degradation Trip is truly a work of art if any of y'all haven't got around to it. harrowing stuff but beautiful

 

New album is very good.

 

wasn't sure about it on my first listen, was expecting something like Deg Trip and got something more like radio rock haha. I'm sure it'll grow tho, Jerry doesn't miss

 

Dirt 30th anniversary box set up for preorder.



- Box with lid filled with metal shavings, Move shavings around to create your own dirt design using magnetic cover figurine
- Resin cover figurine fits atop vinyl records on your record player
- Dirt on Orange 2LP for the first time with remastered audio
- Dirt on CD with remastered audio
- Five 7” singles with brand new artwork on various colored vinyl: "Them Bones," "Down in a Hole," "Rooster," "Angry Chair" and "Would?"
- 80 page hardbound book
- Exclusive Dirt-inspired art prints by Cody Melick, Victor Melendez, Brent McKee, and Eric Wolfe Sahlsten
- 2-sided foldout poster
- 8x10 band photo glossy
- Four reprinted show posters
- Reprinted set list
- Dirt Tour laminate

 

honestly a perfect album

 

Damn, that’s one hell of an anniversary album! Yeah this album is a stone cold classic from front to back.

 

gonna have to go all the way in for this one

 

Seeing them tonight

 

Wow. That was the best I’ve seen them.

sludge factory and bleed the freak had me going crazy

 

Hell yeah sludge factory

 

your weapon is guilt

 

4:50.. Seal being a big Alice In Chains fan is cool lmao

 

Saw that recently and yeah dudes rock

 

Every Alice in Chains Album Ranked Worst To Best (thehardtimes.net)

 

spot-on ranking. those first two albums are perfect.

 

I actually like the self-titled album the least. It's been very hard for me to gel with, every time I've tried.

 

s/t could be my favourite

 

s/t is my fave. it is mean nasty and ugly and it smells bad

 

YOUR WEAPON IS GUILT

 

I'd probably bump up BGWTB one spot, but it's still a good list.

 

I've become more and more interested in the s/t recently, partly because it's pretty obvious why someone might not click with it. It's arguably ten minutes too long. It meanders, the vocals are more spacey, the belted semi-anthemic cathartic choruses are mostly stripped away. Dirt 2, it is not.

But if you can settle into its depressive haze then you probably love it. I'm one of those. I think it defies criticism in that way; its flaws are its strengths and all that.

I also like that Layne's voice was a little more effected and submerged in the mix, just like I think it's cool that a similar thing was done at times with Maynard's voice on Ænima a year later. If Layne's yelling out his pain on Dirt, he's more submitted to it on the s/t. It seems like an authentic snapshot.

 

No one has ever put why I love s/t so perfectly--well done!

 

I'd also just like to add that Shame in You is the greatest song they ever wrote

 

Assuming this is a Jar of Flies 30th anniversary release, possible tour or some such wonderfulness!

 

would love