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

nothin' (that I can recall)

Maybe heretical in the context of this thread, but listen to Dirt first.

Yea Tripod works better habit heard what comes prior

My recommended listening order:

Dirt
Jar of Flies (sorbet!)
Facelift (cock rawk!)
Sap
Tripod (aka s/t)

oh simon should absolutely listen to dirt first

the s/t takes work, as evidenced by this thread, even though it's one of the most singular rock records ever made

Sap could make a rather lovely appetiser before Dirt actually.

Not literally, that would be horrible.

world dies i still pay taxes

so far the s/t feels more my speed tbh

lol well that works too

"sludge factory" is one of the most apropos song titles of all time

I like how most of the lyrics to Again have a dumb, silly rhyminess to them, but then Layne throws a curveball with “your weak will won’t help to heal her heart”, which clearly carries deeper, more heartbreaking meaning.

wish I still owned the t-shirt I used to wear all the time with the cover of this album on the front (and the song titles on the back).

this is the best album ever

"Head Creeps" reminds me of my depressive summer of freshman year of high school and having zero friends.

well really the whole album but also that song

Frogs is such a jam

Eerie tune that one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiEr9OUcqpo

been listening to a lot of aic and mastodon so this cover appeared in my youtube suggestions. really great, to the point where toward the end it feels like they brought the more diseased vibe from the other songs on the album into "again"'s atmosphere

that's an inspired choice of cover, one that suits Mastodon & still somehow takes them outside of their orbit. but yeah, sick performance for sure.

time to call the doggies off

WORLD DIES I STILL PAY TAXES

"God Am" rules. I karaoked it once and this person in the crowd got mega-excited.

lyrically, it sounds cliched, but there's so many good one-liners

the aforementioned "world dies, I still pay taxes", "all bloomin' life you're feeding, can't hide sick ones you're weeding"

also that chorus, and that bridge.

yeah I especially love the ebow (?) guitar in the chorus of “god am”.

“shame in you” is a great ballad

yeah shame in you is my favourite off this one

Which is the other American band also ranked inside the Top 50 of VH1’s 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock, also formed in the late 1980s and still active today, also with a three-word name which contains 13 letters in total, all of which appear in the word “Chileans”? (apologies for tangentially related post but this tickled me when I read it in a guardian quiz)

Fuuuuck.

This was such a polarizing album from my friends in college that were into them, every single one of them HAAAAAAAAAAAATED this album so hard. I loved it and used to spend way too much breath trying to explain why and defend it.

I never understood why people were so opposed to this one? I

they’re just see through faded, super jaded

What was the answer, Ledge?!

From what I recall, most of my friends found it too "slow" and "plodding" for their tastes.

xp nine inch nails!

Argh!