The hidden links between Alice In Chains and T-Pain REVEALED!
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link
either "Would?" or "Them Bones" - think I'm going with "Would?"
― Bo, a 6-month-jackson Portuguese overdrive (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 15:04 (fourteen years ago) link
went with "would?" after much deliberation. but considered "down in a hole" and "angry chair" (two other sentimental, 8 grader favorites) as well.
― original bgm, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link
"Would?" it is.
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link
the winner is a bit predictable now
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link
someone please vote for non singles!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
i think this is the only one of the big grunge blockbusters of my youth that i haven't listened to since the 90s and might've actually discarded or gave away...i vaguely remember liking "Dam That River" but I still gotta go with one of the singles, "Them Bones"
― Excuse Me While I Pimp My Al Shipley (some dude), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link
i would never give dirt away, i gave a mate a loan of it and never got it back so i ended up buying it again on ebay for 99p
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
the excitement...
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 22:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
well its nice to see that everything got voted for at least once.
― borntohula, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link
the top 4 are about right. i'd put dam that river or the title track at number 5.
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 23 April 2009 07:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Is it me, or do those multi-tracked vocals on this record sound quite a lot like modern autotuned vocals?
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 15:16 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalinkjust you
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 15:20 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
No way - Neil is right! Especially on "Rain When I Die" on those choruses! Very good call.
― Shannon Whirry & the Bad Brains, Thursday, 23 April 2009 08:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha ha glad it's not just me! And a good turn-out for this poll...
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Thursday, 23 April 2009 09:38 (fourteen years ago) link
wasn't bad. at least some people voted for the non singles :)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 April 2009 12:20 (fourteen years ago) link
what did you vote for?
― original bgm, Thursday, 23 April 2009 13:49 (fourteen years ago) link
this is ILM, we don't have to prove that we've heard more than just the singles
― Bo, a 6-month-jackson Portuguese overdrive (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 23 April 2009 15:01 (fourteen years ago) link
"Rain When I Die"
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 April 2009 15:03 (fourteen years ago) link
good call. almost voted that myself! but I think the singles are very strong on this one.
― original bgm, Thursday, 23 April 2009 15:59 (fourteen years ago) link
but man, how ugly is that cover???
― original bgm, Thursday, 23 April 2009 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
photoshop: the dark ages
those first-generation grunge covers were pretty dire
― Bo, a 6-month-jackson Portuguese overdrive (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 23 April 2009 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ me calling Alice in Chains "first-generation grunge"
did God Smack lose out in votes because of a shitty unoriginal band taking it as their name?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 April 2009 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
10. "Iron Gland" – 0:43
totally forgot there was some kind of short placeholder track on this album -- was it a skit? amp noise?
― Excuse Me While I Pimp My Al Shipley (some dude), Thursday, 23 April 2009 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
it's basically amp noise and some yelling. but I just looked the album up on wikipedia, and this was on there:# Tom Araya: vocals on "Iron Gland"
what?!?
― original bgm, Thursday, 23 April 2009 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link
it tells you on the album credits on the cd that it's tom araya. You guys just had taped from a mates cd copy? ;)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 April 2009 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link
what album was that "alice mudgarden" song on? i thought it was a bonus on dirt or something.
― borntohula, Thursday, 23 April 2009 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link
You mean Sap?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 April 2009 17:12 (fourteen years ago) link
― original bgm, Thursday, 23 April 2009 17:25 (fourteen years ago) link
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, April 23, 2009 1:12 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark
yes! i don't know why i thought it was on dirt...
― borntohula, Thursday, 23 April 2009 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I love Sap. I wrote elsewhere how I searched over Glasgow for that. When it got reissued along with Jar Of Flies , all the critics jizzed over Jar of Flies but it was not a patch on Sap to me.I still have my original cd of Sap and the vinyl of Sap/JoF.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 April 2009 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
lol kerr "I actually OWNED an alice in chains CD"
― Bo, a 6-month-jackson Portuguese overdrive (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 23 April 2009 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 April 2009 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Curtis you surprise me!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 April 2009 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
yesssss. such a great song. i always get chills when cornell comes in at the end.
― borntohula, Thursday, 23 April 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
you heard the screaming trees album Uncle Anesthesia Cornell produces and adds backing vox on a couple of songs to?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 April 2009 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 April 2009 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Screaming Trees Best Album Poll
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 April 2009 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, April 23, 2009 3:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
i knew he produced, but i've never heard the album, so i didn't know he sung on it too. cool, i'll check that out.
― borntohula, Thursday, 23 April 2009 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
he sings on the vid i linked to above
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 April 2009 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I feel like I've asked this before, but are there many other albums that end with a single? "Would?" always seemed like an odd choice to close things out (although I like how it's kind of an abrupt ending, matching the sudden attack of "Them Bones" at the beginning).
― Lie Bot, Thursday, 23 April 2009 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I always assumed it finished with an upbeat song to show the light at the end of layne's tunnel of despair or something
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 April 2009 21:55 (fourteen years ago) link
didnt see that poll, but would have vote Down In The Hole..
― Zeno, Thursday, 23 April 2009 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I was surprised it didn't get more votes.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 April 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
everyone went for the hit singles...happens all the time..
― Zeno, Thursday, 23 April 2009 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
i always felt like "Would?" was just kind of a bonus track on the album, since it had already been on the SIngles soundtrack and a hit off that a few months earlier.
― beast of the admin log (some dude), Thursday, 23 April 2009 23:05 (fourteen years ago) link
seeing this poll made me miss that song,so i downloaded and listening to it now after many years i didnt...too bad so many future imatators ruined the fun a their sound a bit..
― Zeno, Thursday, 23 April 2009 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link
down in the hole i mean
i think that might have been a uk single
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 24 April 2009 11:15 (fourteen years ago) link
"Junkhead" is my #1
― billstevejim, Sunday, 7 February 2021 07:10 (three years ago) link
Eric Harvey for Pitchfork Sunday
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/alice-in-chains-dirt/
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 10 July 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link
someone upthread said that “sickman” was their dazed & confused but it’s clearly “hate to feel”!
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Saturday, 30 July 2022 01:20 (one year ago) link
the weighting of tracks in this poll is probably about right, but I think I'd bump up the title track a few notches, and Sickman could go down a bit. maybe.
― charlie rex, Thursday, 4 August 2022 05:39 (one year ago) link
there are so many devastating lines on this album, but one that's unfairly overlooked is "ah, what's the difference, I'll die in this sick world of mine". obviously the entire album is focused on how his addiction was killing him and knowing where it all leads to but there's such an eerie fatalism to that one line, one that hints at much more of a desire to escape it than he shows elsewhere on the album, but understanding the odds are stacked against him
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 17:13 (two months ago) link