Fave Song On Alice In Chains - Dirt?

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..

down in the hole i mean

i think that might have been a uk single

i think angry chair was a uk single?

it was i know i have that.

I'm not sure if I remembered to vote, but if I did I def. voted for one of the top 3...

I'm kind of shocked that Them Bones beat out Rooster, to be honest...

big airplay single over here = uk lurker votes?

them bones got airplay in the u.s. but i'm pretty sure both would? and rooster dwarfed it...

i mightve actually voted for bones on the basis that it was out of the big four the one that seemed the farthest away from being played out...

acrually on 'right turn' chris cornell comes in at 0:45. i always loved how that song features such a range of vocals. kicks off with jerry, then we get cornell singing a verse, then layne singing a verse. i really love this band.

by the way, 'dirt' has an incredible cover

I think he means when Cornell comes in with all the rest of them for the final chorus.

oh yeah i realise that's the bit he meant - just being pedantic about it not being his first entry into the song :)

I can't listen to Angry Chair without giggling...

I think he means when Cornell comes in with all the rest of them for the final chorus.

― pipecock, Friday, April 24, 2009 3:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
yup.

oh yeah i realise that's the bit he meant - just being pedantic about it not being his first entry into the song :)

― Charlie Howard, Friday, April 24, 2009 10:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
yup.

I can't listen to Angry Chair without giggling...

true. "angry chair" is a pretty funny combo of words.

you never sit on an angry chair?

Shall i do a facelift poll?

no poll the tripod one instead

yeah, self-titled is way better, imo. (and pretty underrated.)

nah its not that great

i'll do it after
Alice In Chains - Facelift POLL

Alice In Chains - Alice In Chains(aka Tripod)POLL

Cantrell is such an underrated songwriter.

I still will stan for his Boggy Depot solo record.

Degradation Trip is better imo

but of coursd, Dirt was his masterpiece, though he never took credit

Is it? I remember not liking the single or something and never checked out Degradation Trip.

I hadn't listened to this album for years, so decided to put it on last night. Christ, is this a great but fucking depressing record. In fact, it seems more depressing to me now than it ever did years ago. Unsure what to vote for here, because it's all good: maybe 'Junkhead' or 'Hate To Feel'.

Or unsure what I would have voted for, rather.

It's still a magnificent record

I agree. This is so much darker and heavier than In Utero, as much as I love that record.

I find this (and some other depress-o albums from the same time period like Psalm 69 and, to a lesser extent, Badmotorfinger) really hard to listen to now, and I have to wonder how much damage I did to my developing adolescent brain by listening to it over and over back in the day.

For me, it's very difficult to listen to this record without thinking of what eventually happened to Layne Staley. In fact, I'd say it was completely impossible. I mean, yeah, it's hard to listen to In Utero without thinking of Kurt Cobain killing himself months later, but where In Utero is lyrically cryptic in some places, Staley's "drug hell" songs on Dirt are quite up-front and explicit. Lyrics like "used to be curious/now the shit's sustenance" make it quite clear that Staley knew he had a problem. That he didn't manage to drag himself out of that rut, I find a more than a little sad, and it makes Dirt a bit of a painful listen these days for me.

Having said that, 'Junkhead' is more than a little unsettling for a different reason. It's pretty much a portrait/snapshot of a guy who is so far gone in his addiction that he doesn't see it as a problem. It's a bit of a controversial lyric, too: reading the lyrics cold off paper it comes across as being a pro-drugs song, but there's undoubtedly much more to the lyric than that.

aic are kind of a horrorcore gnr aren't they

this ... holds up

i am shocked but i am listening to it for the first time in probably 20 years and it is great

def holds up. comes out swinging too.

Loved the hell out of this album/band back in the day. Sickman is their Dazed & Confused.

Amazing album. wtf voted for iron gland tho? that's taking Slayer worship too far

I would have gone with Down in A Hole, I think. I battle with Staley's voice over a whole album, but song by song AIC still rule.

Yeah, this definitely still holds up, but I think a lot of major American alternative rock records from the '90s still hold up.

Big shout for Sean Kinney - fabulous drummer.

AiC lost a lot when the bassist quit

Hang on... I thought Starr was fired?

Either way, Mike Inez's bass on the Unplugged album is lovely.

no he quit.
xp

Yeah, I've heard the official line was that he quit, but I'm sure Starr himself is on record as saying he was fired.

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.