fans don't seem to like Unplugged very much
Yeah the studio versions of the songs are all superior imo & afaicr.
― chap, Thursday, 14 January 2021 13:39 (three years ago) link
There was this creepy kid i went to high school with who would always walk up to me at break and repeat this quote AIC had given to Kerrang!, that they were ***metal** and not ***grunge***, like it was profound somehow. It was true, but I really wanted him to fuck off and never understood why he kept repeating it to me, even though I was dead into grunge.
AIC's harmonies have always sounded otherworldly to me, absolutely unique.
― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Thursday, 14 January 2021 13:57 (three years ago) link
^ otm re their harmonies
I like the variety of JoF but Dirt is stronger song-for-song. Never heard the s/t album, should go listen to that
― Vinnie, Thursday, 14 January 2021 13:57 (three years ago) link
It's mostly boring.
― chap, Thursday, 14 January 2021 13:58 (three years ago) link
― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Thursday, January 14, 2021 8:57 AM bookmarkflaglink
"Rotten Apple" especially, or "I Stay Away"
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 January 2021 13:59 (three years ago) link
that they were ***metal** and not ***grunge***, like it was profound somehow.
Grunge was never a real genre, discuss.
― chap, Thursday, 14 January 2021 14:03 (three years ago) link
s/t album has a LOT of Jerry singing lead, often for entire songs, which I'm not really about. he has a decent voice but it's rather vanilla so I usually preferred it when they used him more sparingly, i.e. like on the intro verse to "Would?"
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 January 2021 14:03 (three years ago) link
Yeah I haven't heard a lot of praise for the s/t but it's the least thing in the Layne era I haven't heard and I love "Heaven Beside You" (on the subject of great harmonies)
― Vinnie, Thursday, 14 January 2021 14:05 (three years ago) link
s/t's highlights were "Brush Away", "Sludge Factory", "Frogs" (possibly the weirdest song they ever recorded not counting the bonus track on Sap), "God Am", "Head Creeps", "Grind"
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 January 2021 14:06 (three years ago) link
Mostly unmemorable songs on the s/t. Granted I didn't listen to it as much as Dirt, but today I wouldn't have the first clue what Shame in You or Nothin Song sound like.
― chap, Thursday, 14 January 2021 14:07 (three years ago) link
that nothin song sticks to your mouth like peanut butter on the brain...odelay-eeeeeee
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 January 2021 14:08 (three years ago) link
I like "Shame in You", decent Layne harmonies.
― chap, Thursday, January 14, 2021 8:03 AM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Next thing I know you're gonna say electronica wasn't legit.
― Looks like I'm gonna be the filling in a missile sandwich! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 January 2021 14:09 (three years ago) link
You know what doesn't get enough love? The Mad Season album. It's pretty great imo.
― Looks like I'm gonna be the filling in a missile sandwich! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 January 2021 14:10 (three years ago) link
Speaking of Mad Season, one of my favourite bits of Layne singing is his verse on this, at around 1.50. Chills.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJKvE3tMIPs
― chap, Thursday, 14 January 2021 14:14 (three years ago) link
yeah i love "Shame In You". One of the great grunge ballads. Reminds me of... shit what were they called? Brent or Brad or something? Mixed grunge and soul together, think it was a collab between one of Pearl Jam and antoher dude...
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Thursday, 14 January 2021 14:15 (three years ago) link
Whoa! Brad! I haven't thought of that in nearly thirty years!
― Looks like I'm gonna be the filling in a missile sandwich! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 January 2021 14:20 (three years ago) link
Brad are great - most things Shawn Smith was involved in a great (Pigeonhed, Satchel, Twilight Singers) his solo stuff.
I like the AiC Unplugged album. It's way too long but the highlights are, uh, high.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 14 January 2021 14:26 (three years ago) link
― chap, Thursday, January 14, 2021 6:39 AM (fifty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i do not agree
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 January 2021 15:00 (three years ago) link
My last post (typed in a break from online teaching) is utter garbage! Basically, Shawn Smith is the king. That is all.
And aye, Unplugged is great. I love the version of Frog.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 14 January 2021 15:09 (three years ago) link
the opening “AH!” on them bones is the best and scariest start to an album ever
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Thursday, 14 January 2021 16:13 (three years ago) link
Tangent, but I swear Bandcamp had a metric ton of Shawn Smith content - demos, albums, live stuff, etc. - and it's not up now. So much content, I didn't know where to start, and thought I'd check it before asking for suggestions here.
Shawn's a favorite of mine, too. Wish I'd seen a lot more shows of his. The one at Seattle's Showbox lounge I caught was wonderful and intimate.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 14 January 2021 17:10 (three years ago) link
I liked the song Battleflag by Pigeonhed
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 January 2021 17:11 (three years ago) link
There's a Lo-Fidelty Allstars version of that, which is great.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 14 January 2021 17:12 (three years ago) link
I like that version too
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 January 2021 17:13 (three years ago) link
the Pigeonhed version is in a first ep season of the Sopranos. makes it a time capsule episode really
I saw Shawn Smith in a little pub near here, about six months before he died. I got a bear hug off him at the end. Amazing gig.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 14 January 2021 17:14 (three years ago) link
Wrapped In My Memory is in an episode too right? S5 maybe.
shawn smith is a legend in my mind just for his contributions to the first twilight singers record and having a band with my name
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 January 2021 17:25 (three years ago) link
Brad’s Shame still holds up
(I still haven’t heard any of the later albums)
― Master of Treacle, Thursday, 14 January 2021 17:44 (three years ago) link
unplugged brother > sap ep brother
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 January 2021 20:01 (three years ago) link
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson)
Hard disagree, if only for Jerry's gorgeous tone in the studio solo.
― chap, Thursday, 14 January 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
the strengths of unplugged are the vocals and the “mood” imo. and layne’s hair. the guitar solos do sound sorta weak, like Jerry and the other guy are trying to play acoustics as electrics.. and yeah xp laynes harmonies on the chorus of “brother” > Ann Wilson’s, sacrilege as that seems.
― brimstead, Thursday, 14 January 2021 21:16 (three years ago) link
I actually love the story of Jerry’s dad hearing Rooster for the first time at an AiC show. this toughass cowboy crying and waving his hat when it was over, v touching <3
― brimstead, Thursday, 14 January 2021 21:19 (three years ago) link
Did anybody else have the Jar of Flies ENHANCED CD ROM
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 January 2021 21:26 (three years ago) link
Abso-fucking-lutely. That was a vibe that didn't get explored enough and I really wish they'd have managed a second album. The deluxe edition from 2013 is fantastic, I sued to have the Live at the Moore on VHS back in the day.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 14 January 2021 22:19 (three years ago) link
I was a listened to tons of grunge back in the day, but never listened to Mad Season. Listening now and it's really good and has a unique vibe.
The chorus of I'm Above really reminds me of the titular lines in Still of the Night by Whitesnake.
― Jimi Buffett (PBKR), Thursday, 14 January 2021 23:18 (three years ago) link
God, I need to proofread my posts.
― Jimi Buffett (PBKR), Thursday, 14 January 2021 23:19 (three years ago) link
For me Mad Season has a v specific “heroin” vibe, I find it hard to listen to unless I’m in the right mood might be just a me thing tho
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 January 2021 00:13 (three years ago) link
def not a stick on at any time kind of album yah
― a nice controlled drift (Spottie), Friday, 15 January 2021 00:27 (three years ago) link
AiC are kinda like that for me too tho.
They are not my favorite "grunge" band (Soundgarden4eva), but they might be the most grunge of all 90s bands.
― Jimi Buffett (PBKR), Friday, 15 January 2021 00:37 (three years ago) link
i wanted to do a grunge poll
― a nice controlled drift (Spottie), Friday, 15 January 2021 00:42 (three years ago) link
Sign me the f up!
― Jimi Buffett (PBKR), Friday, 15 January 2021 00:42 (three years ago) link
Yeah, this might be the ultimate "grunge" album. It just sounds like ... grunge. This or Screaming Tree's "Sweet Oblivion," maybe.
I was listening to "Badmotorfinger" the other night, and it's like the ultimate prog-metal album that isn't quite prog or metal. I think the key to Alice in Chains (or Screaming Trees, for that matter) are those vocals. Cornell is the best singer of the entire bunch, but it's that low, guttural Layne/Vedder/Lanegan wail that kind of defines grunge for me.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 January 2021 01:27 (three years ago) link
Totally agreed (and lol, because I went Mad Season > Dirt > Sweet Oblivion tonight). Soundgarden always my favorite grunge band, but AiC and Screaming Trees have such distinctive vocals.
― Jimi Buffett (PBKR), Friday, 15 January 2021 01:30 (three years ago) link
i would participate in a grunge poll!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 January 2021 01:31 (three years ago) link
Strangely I was in the middle of listening to dirt yesterday and felt a sudden urge to hear “outshined”. Good god, Cornell’s verse vocals there. “SOOO DOWN”with aic for sure it’s the vocals but also really solid songwriting, really nice melodic touches and cool middle eights and things
― brimstead, Friday, 15 January 2021 02:02 (three years ago) link
I have somehow never listened to Mad Season and always mixed them up with Temple of the Dog!
― brimstead, Friday, 15 January 2021 02:03 (three years ago) link
Tracks or albums poll? Or both?
― pomenitul, Friday, 15 January 2021 02:03 (three years ago) link