Fave Song On Alice In Chains - Dirt?

he didnt want to tour was what he said at the time

AiC had the best vocal harmonies... like the pre-chorus in “hate to feel”

Ah yeah, just looked it up... he later said he was fired due to drugs, which is quite something when you think about it.

I saw them live in this era and expected them to R.O.C.K. and they were really stiff, awkward and boring except for the bass player who did the hair whirl-whip thing a lot.

this is the best album

i love that someone voted for iron gland

probably me because I vote for anything tangentially related to Slayer

hard to vote against "Would?". that song walloped me upside the head the first time I heard it as a kid, that chorus, but that "IF! I! WOULD! COULD! YOU?" ......chills

"Rain When I Die"'s chorus is majestic, but Cantrell does some fine work on this one as well.

always loved the verse of "Dam That River" a ton, plus the fuckin solo and the riff underneath it....

ooof i love this alb

would’ve gone for “sickman” in this poll. bad trip

oh yeah, the AHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH part

always loved how they had cool vocal harmonies on like every track, it was like the Crosby Stills and Nash of stoner rock except Layne was Crosby and Stills and Jerry was Nash and actually no they weren't that makes no sense

I think "Down in a HOle" is the first song off of this I ever heard.

"Them Bones" was the second and I was fairly shocked as at the time I'd only heard DIAH and the Jar of Flies album and didn't realize they were so heavy

So fucking good. Has to be “would?” but... yeah great album.

Thanks to discovering this thread I ... may actually revisit this record for the first time in 15-20 years.

Rain When I Die has a fantastic vocal performance from poor old Layne.

this is the best album

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I get the chorus from "Rain When I Die" pop in my head whenever I'm driving and it starts to rain

I think it's Down in A Hole but could be convinced it's Rooster. Fantastic album.

Love it but Rooster is a total momentum killer (maybe i've just heard it way too many times)

Dam That River was always my least favourite track on this killer album,

used to love Rooster, Angry Chair and God Smack but they definitely weren't my faves on returning to it the other week

Which gland were they talking about? Can someone explain to me the joke?

idk, between that and "God Am", I think they liked really bad puns and absurdism

just like that bonus track on Sap which featured Sean Kinney screaming word salad into a megaphone

I sang "Junkhead" at karaoke once, the audience found it very depressing. such a heavy-assed song

"rooster" has been somewhat diminished by overplay but also i sometimes think... "rooster" was a hit???? lol

i think it's still harrowing in sequence though

always took Iron Gland as a vamp on Iron Man tbh

Rooster's verses were some of Layne's finest singing.

definitely a strange hit. 90s alt rock radio allowed for some quirkier hits to emerge, esp Soundgarden's Superunknown tracks and their weird time signatures/tunings.

if there's one song I don't *love* outright, it's probably "Hate to Feel". I still like it, but it feels very disjointed, like riding a wooden roller-coaster that stops working periodically

i'm with the person who said "dam that river" is the weakest here. still a jam, just kinda lacks the "this song has a dark underbelly that's even scarier than the surface" feeling of pretty much every other track for me

it is an excellent track two for that reason tho

I love the prechorus of “hate to feel”, seriously intense vocal harmony

you love to feel it

i'll not hear any dam that river slander.

I have mad love for the title track on this. it's the slow-burning heart of the album, a centerpiece if you will.

also, this verse always gets under my skin:

You, you are so special
You have the talent to make me feel like dirt
And you, you use your talent to dig me under
And cover me with dirt

it's kind of a testament how my darker moodset was already almost in place by high school because I lent this album to a friend and he returned it and I asked him how he liked it and he hated it and said "this shit is way too depressing" and he quoted the title track to me and I was like "oh...that? who among us hasn't felt this w etc etc"

truly the most perfect intro

I went through a heavy AiC binge a few weeks ago so this revive is hitting the spot <3

probably gonna spin this later

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kIR9dkEA_c

Playing and tempo is pretty loose, but pretty much the better for it, and his bass tone is the sound of grunge.

this was one of the albums that i learned how to type with
i would just type the lyrics as i heard them and try to keep up with the song

"AHHHHHHH <Enter>
AHHHHHHH <Enter>
AHHHHHHH <Enter>
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

lol

I love Hate to Feel. One of the few weak chinks in the album though is how it is sequenced so close to Angry Chair, which has a very similar structure (I actually prefer Hate to Feel).

And yes the title track is immense.

middle 8 to “angry chair” is so great.. LOST MY MIND YEAAAAHHH

that was my favorite part of the song growing up

Layne's voice frightened me on "God Smack" too

was blasting this shit in the car earlier. it was never exactly my fave back in the day but fuck me

I've not listened to the whole album in a good long while but god it's so beautifully produced. Every slough, every murky corner is lit like an M.R. James story. I don't mind admitting I struggle with Staley's voice over a sustained period but as a document of what he was capable of, this is the album.