Dirt all the way if you want electric guitars. It's more powerful than Facelift and just as brooding as Jar of Flies. Dirt is quite possibly the greatest hard rock album of the 90's and one of the greatest hard rock albums of all time. It transcends grunge, metal, and rock...it is its own genre. No one has written a song as powerful as Would? since.
And yes, they've got a new album on the way...haven't heard it but I've heard it's great from the rumor mill.
The title track for Dirt is quite possibly the most intense self-loathing you will ever experience, and Junkhead, with its tongue-in-cheek middle finger to the anti-drug establishment, is hilariously awesome. I recommend the demo version of Junkhead if you wanna be blown away. The vocal mixing was done a little differently with a little more effect on the vocals in the lower thirds, and it's so good that I wish they had done the finished product in the same way. As for the song Dirt, the vocals on that song were so intense and seething with anger that you can feel it come right out of your speakers. Dirt, Superunknown, and Ten weren't albums...they were experiences.
And Dam that River? Find me ANY song by ANY mainstream band in the 90's with a riff as badass as that one. MAYBE Room a Thousand Years Wide or Outshined by Soundgarden. MAYBE.
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