Fave Song On Alice In Chains - Dirt?

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.

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