Alice In Chains

[challenge_everything]

I actually picked up the only AIC album I hadn't heard last night... the selftitled one... it's not very good.

 

[mdmatt4ever]

They suck.

what are you smokin?

 

[The Ozzman]

Heart doesn't suck. I've never heard ANY Queensryche and probably never will.

 

[CAIRATH]

I actually picked up the only AIC album I hadn't heard last night... the selftitled one... it's not very good.

I enjoy the ending track but overall the album is disappointing yeah.

Also anyone who hasn't done so should check out Mad Season - Above. It's a collaboration album between AiC/Pearl Jam/Screaming Trees members with Layne on vocals. The first track on that album is so powerful and depressing (and eerily prophetic, given Layne's fate). Here's some random guy's youtube video for the song:

 

[The Ozzman]

Above is a bad ass record. I should listen to it again tonight,

 

[razoredge]

gee I wonder why Layne Staley and all those grunge guys associated themselfs all together ?

Im also wondering if any of you know who one of the first bands the word grungy was applied too?......... thats right... Black Sabbath, why? because they sounded grungy. "thats some grungy shit", typical reaction from someone hearing Black Sabbath for the first time.

satanstoenail...... go listen to your "hop"...... = cause your a mod otherwise take this =}:-0

Ozzman, you have heard plenty of Queensryches sound in various metal bands that lean toward that side of metal. No doubt you are miles ahead of the game if you dont at least research the band and locate some of their somewhat diverse library of music that may appeal to what ever your taste in metal or rock is. They were never thrashy though if thats your preference, they were more astmospheric, internal and progressive(as in Floyd kind of progressive not virtuoso DT/SX type of progressive) Never known as musical virtuosos, though Geoff Tate is highly regarded amounst the best of vocalists. They just had their own sound, people either like it or they dont. Heres a fair quality live video shot in 91 of one of their slower songs origionally recorded around 85, naturally the sound was high quality as opposed to this amature live video.

 

[Doomasaurus Sex]

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

Agreed.


Since they were out around my birth year and my mom and dad were into metal I got to grow up listening to this stuff.

Rain When I Die is my all-time favorite AiC song, though.

 

[BloodSword]

AIC were a Rock/Metal hybrid. For the casual fan pick up the "essential" AIC and LISTEN to what's being done. They are considered "grunge" because they were one of the bands coming out of Seattle lumped into the grunge sound. Jerry Cantrell, "we infused our music with little flourishes of grunge, because that was at our roots. But, at the base our music was intended to be hard/rock/metal, and I think we were successful in doing that. We will always be "labeled" as grunge because we came out of that scene." This quote came from a guitar player friend of mine who digs Cantrell's work. He claimed to have read it in "Guitar Player" magazine.

 

[razoredge]

yep, exactly what the definition of grunge is, less the punk part which bands like Nervana favored, where as Soundgarden and AiC did not and Pearl Jam was more toward rock. Still doesnt change the fact that any of them were a part of the wave of a totally new sound that drastically changed popular heavy music around 92, that point is legendary and it was pegged grunge, and honestly I believe it was because no one knew what else to call it. It was that different from anything else prior and it was grungy.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

I actually picked up the only AIC album I hadn't heard last night... the selftitled one... it's not very good.

I would listen to it a couple more times. I didn't care for it much at first but it quickly became my favorite album after repeated listens. It's definitely their hardest album to digest, though.

 

[razoredge]

I should probably buy some but it seemed to me from the one I borrowed that the best songs already got plenty of air play and the rest didnt stand out much. ?

 

[The Ozzman]

You have to get at least these two:

Dirt
Jar of Flies

 

[BloodSword]

I suggested "The Essential because it may give those who have none, a broad overview as to why it would be wrong to infer they were a "grunge" band. Anyway, they only recorded 4 or 5 albums. Fuck, get them all!!

 

[The Ozzman]

3 albums and 2 EPs

 

[Manic Ferocity]

I would start with Dirt. It's their most accessible.

I'm listening to the self-titled album now. I forgot how fucking awesome of a song Frogs is.

 

[challenge_everything]

3 albums and 2 EPs

And an unplugged album. Which I like, even though the original versions of most of the songs are better.

 

[The Ozzman]

And an unplugged album. Which I like, even though the original versions of most of the songs are better.

Forgot about the unplugged album. That album is probably one of the best live albums ever done.

 

[Belligerent]

The best Unplugged Mtv ever produced.

 

[razoredge]

Naw, Queensryche was........

 

[Belligerent]

So what does everyone think of Jerry Cantrell's solo stuff?
I really like Boggy Depot.