Alice In Chains

[Manic Ferocity]

...wins for best/catchiest choruses of all time.

Are we in agreeance?

 

[The Ozzman]

They win for being one of the greatest bands of all time

 

[Manic Ferocity]

That too. There's just something about their choruses, though, that just strike me as well, inspirational.

 

[Belligerent]

Facelift is boring imo. Everything else they have done is great.

 

[The Ozzman]

Facelift is great. The self-titled is kind of boring though..

 

[Belligerent]

See i like their s/t. Heaven Beside You, Grind, Sludge Factory are all great tracks.

 

[The Ozzman]

There are definitely some great tracks on the s/t, but I don't find it as great as Facelift. Facelift has Bleed The Freak, which is fucking amazing.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Actually, their self-titled is my favorite.

It goes in this order:

Alice In Chains
Jar of Flies
Facelift
Sap
Dirt

All of their albums are top-notch imo so the order doesn't make that much of a difference anyway.

 

[mdmatt4ever]

they win for being a great band but i can think of tons of bands with catchier choruses

 

[Satanstoenail]

Dirt is a masterpiece.

 

[razoredge]

For some reason I cant take a steady diet of Alice in Chains, though I like them, I never owned a CD. My daughters boyfriend lent me ??? it was either the self titled or Dirt I believe and I listened to it once and went back to my preferences. I didnt even burn a copy. That said, they win for having Layne Staley one of the greatest voices of at least the past 3 decades. As well as having an extremely powerful sound from just a three piece groove section

 

[ShredHeadJHJ]

I was into them a bit in Middle School I think it was. I had the s/t & Dirt I think it was. Gerat band & definitely the best of the popular 90's rock bands along with STP. I've been meaning to get back into them & get some of those album I missed out on, but it's hard to get around to all that.

 

[Belligerent]

In this order from best to least liked:
Dirt
Jar of Flies
S/T
Sap
Facelift

 

[IWP]

They're one of the few grunge bands I can actually tolerate along with Pearl Jam.

 

[Belligerent]

Best band to ever come out of Seattle, grunge or not.

 

[BloodSword]

Dirt is a masterpiece.

Absolutely, possibly the best band to come out of the so-called-"grunge" scene. More of hard/rock/metal band than grunge. Jerry Cantrell's guitar work is awesome!!

 

[razoredge]

Best band to ever come out of Seattle, grunge or not.

I'd give Queesnryche and Heart the personal nod for that, with Alice in Chains 3rd but if you go by record sales, longevity and mass popularity Heart may have sold more than the other two combined. But Queensryche is what I have spent more time listening to over the years.

Alice in Chains was definantly a grunge band, one of the handful signed with major label and brought grunge into mainstream popularity, very little in common with the song structure of metal.

 

[The Ozzman]

I would consider AiC grunge-metal. They definitely had some metal riffs in their music

 

[razoredge]

Grunge was influenced by metal and was a fusion of hardrock, metal and punk, so naturally one could say it sounds like hardrock or metal. However when grunge came around, that is when Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Sound Garden and Pearl Jam came to national awareness.... it was a totally new sound, nothing like any of the pop metal, heavy metal or old hardrock we were accustomed to.... it was new and the term Grunge fit it perfectly because it was grungy, not articulate, choppy and fast like that of metal.

I know I mentioned it before but they opened for at least part of the VanHalen "FUCK" tour, which I attended the local concert. I knew I was listening to a new sound, a new wave of music that was going to take hold. I enjoyed it but the VanHalen fans around me were not impressed and were becoming very impatient.

 

[The Ozzman]

Alice in Chains was more metal than grunge, imo. They just happened to be from Seattle and came into popularity at the same time as grunge, so they got lumped in there.