alice in chains c/d

that would be awesome if you could tweet everyone on Twitter simultaneously just by "@twitter"

that's actually a direct line to the powers that be at Twitter

@HarMarSuperstar
Layne Staley is tweet dissing me from the grave.

@StLayneStaley
- @HarMarSuperstar YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE MONEY TO PAY WHORES! YOU DON'T HAVE A PENIS

oh is it? I guess I haven't Twittered enough to know that...it is still pretty LOL tho.

omg @ the 'you don't have a penis'

haha i was kidding

lol i'm getting bitchslapped with my lack of twit-cred today

listening to Dirt. Wouldn't even call myself an AIC fan, but this album is pretty great. Of all the grunge-era bands, imo AIC has survived with the least attachment to the "genre", and perhaps not coincidentally, with a sound that is most difficult to pigeonhole. pop/metal/doom/glam? seems almost impossible to ape without sounding like an AIC cover band

it's still a pretty heavy album too that routinely hits the sweet spot.

Love them but I hate Rooster. It's so redneck.

Also, I lived in Seattle for 13 years and yes, Jerry Cantrell is a shitty person.

Is he?

he always came across as a great guy in Kerrang! in the 90s, but then difficult to read too much into that I suppose

Hah, I missed the Har Nar twitter beef from the last revive.

thanks for the dn

lol my pleasure

I picked up dirt & unplugged as a twofer from FOpp the other day.

I did? Where's that then?

The Temple of the Dog thread led me to AIC videos on youtube. I was never a fan the first go 'round and I'm still not getting it.

The musicianship is solid, all the way around and the production is outstanding. But Staley's voice and the songs feel like the reductio ad absurdum of that era of grunge/alternative misery and self-hatred. There seems to be no self-awareness and humor to their music at all, which just makes it a beatdown in comparison to Nirvana or even Pearl Jam. In my head I see them on a lineage with Slipknot/etc. in terms of making miserable music for miserableness sake for miserable teenagers.

AIC were I guess the goths... I love Staleys voice because it's so plaintive & painful, the voice totally suited the lyrics & music

but they could totally be funny
check it
http://youtu.be/Kgy8IPFVG5g

I believe they put out an album after the comeback album. Anyone ever hear it? Any thoughts? I also find it funny I saw Jerry Cantrell with the exact same line-up of musicians they make up the current Alice in Chains.

that*

they've had two. first one, Black Gives Way to Blue, is actually really really good. haven't heard the second.

I own Black Gives Way to Blue and I'll have to give it another listen soon. Never heard the second one.

black gives way to blue was good, i didn't like the second one much.

that being said i don't really love the whole new singer era. i'm too tied to Layne to really embrace it fully

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-gx957MEO4

Video from 1986, pre-Cantrell (and everyone else except Stayley I think). Very Sunset Strip.

omg @ poodle layne

I know it’s lame to just revive threads to be all “yeah awesome” but goddam I love Alice In Chains.

i love aic!!!! i listened to dirt for the first time in forever a few weeks ago and wow what a record

great drummer

I listen to unplugged and dirt quite often

I was just jamming "God Am" from the s/t.

one of my earliest favs from my high school years. also feel that Facelift is an underrated cock rock classic, never woulda guessed the albums that woulda come out of them after that.

the shit on the boxed set is great too, as were their soundtrack songs. "What the HEll Have I?" is a fav

love them so much!! <3

the MoPop founders tribute concert from last month is worth a look, some great covers incl Fishbone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zTIF6CM1tI

Dirt and Sap/Jar Of Flies are all-time for me.

Dirt is more or less a perfect album, really the sweet spot between their rocking and moody/introspective sides plus catchy as hell tunes.

Definitely classic: debut, Dirt and Unplugged. Quite like Tripod but not fussed about much that came after. I saw them on the Dirt tour in (I think) 1993 - monstrous gig.

never got to see them, by the time I was into them, Jar of Flies had been out a while, and Layne was in a bad way.

always made me sad, the footage of them opening for Kiss on the s/t (Tripod) tour and Layne having to be in a wheelchair.

Layne always sounded good live based on the recordings, always had a lot of power, and the harmonies with him and Jerry were great live too.

i almost went to see the new incarnation in 2019 (it's taken me time to embrace) but I had a conflict.

"Rain When I Die" is the ultimate AIC anthem IMO

Yeah, I don't think I'd go see them. Having said that, seeing anyone right now would rule!

I got one of my kids a Jar of Flies shirt for Christmas and I think I'm going to have to steal it.

AiC's Jar of Flies was the first band t-shirt I ever owned. only one my folks would buy for me cos they were so uptight.

Aww. Such a cool shirt.

I think the unplugged version of “brother” is the definitive one for me, thanks to the vocal harmonies in the verse

yeah I liked what they did with it for that special!

i thought i was cool when I learned that guitar solo as a kid util I realized it was like a beginner guitar solo lol

"Rain When I Die" is the ultimate AIC anthem IMO

― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal)

That chorus! And the wah wah riff...

fans don't seem to like Unplugged very much, but it was the only AiC I knew for a long time and so the album versions sound a little strange to me. I dug Dirt out the other week and was impressed at how hard it rocked - definitely one of the most "metal" of all the big grunge-era bands

Well there's a reason for that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-gx957MEO4

There are times when I think Jar of Flies may be the best album of the early-to-mid '90s alternaboom.

Dirt is miles better than JoF. I actually prefer Sap to it as well.

fans don't seem to like Unplugged very much

Yeah the studio versions of the songs are all superior imo & afaicr.

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.

^ 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

It's mostly boring.

AIC's harmonies have always sounded otherworldly to me, absolutely unique.

― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Thursday, January 14, 2021 8:57 AM bookmarkflaglink

"Rotten Apple" especially, or "I Stay Away"