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Personally I love Alice In Chains. They're one of my favorite banRAB. I just recently heard their new stuff with their new singer. I couldnt really hear him. I just heard Jerry Cantrell but all in all it wasnt too bad. Its just not the same without Layne Staley.
 
Well, "Again" was one of the only songs on that album that Layne did not write himself. I think that the band is refraining from redoing "Layne's" songs.
 
i never understood this supposed ethic. Kurt Cobain played plenty of solos on Nirvana tunes. Pearl Jam? Mike McCready is all over the place all the time. Soundgarden, Kim Thayil could noodle like no other - when it fit the song.

the angle was no superfluous solos, no soloing just for the sake of wanking on the guitar. make it tuneful and melodic, and most of them understood it. McCready could be guilty of hairing it up a bit on the early PJ discs though.

if anything it's Nu-Metal and it's oRABhoot of even crappier late 90s industrial pop that ascribed to the idea that guitar solos should never exist.
 
dude, you should get your facts straight before you go dissin someone, if you look it up, jamiroqui's first couple of albums are classified under acid jazz,later it transformed into funk,
" Acid Jazz - the term is used to cover a wide range of music. Originating back in 1987 in the UK dance scene it defined a funky music style which incorporated elements of jazz, 70s funk, hip-hop, soul, and latin grooves. It could be all live, it could be sampled, and it could be a mixture of the both. The focus was on the music and not on the lyrics/worRAB. The music has a definite groove, some is high energy dance normally with a Latin groove whilst others are more contemplative."
and now you're saying jamiroqui is hip hop?!....i suggest you stop listening to iron maiden , it's clearly destroying your brain cells....
 
I had 'Dirt' for years & I agree I didnt see it as grunge at the time, more Metal as they once stated themselves.

I only came to really appreciate them when I got a lend of their MTV Unplugged dvd which I was blown away by when i watched it.
I have since went out and got the MTV album which I think is excellent.

I would rank, although technically not a 'proper' album, 'Jar Of Flies' as their best piece of work & the songs 'Nutshell' & 'No Excuses' as the single two best tracks they ever wrote (amongst many others).

But if you want me to name a 'proper' album, I would say 'Facelift' is a hell of a lot better than 'Dirt'.

For instance, I didnt like the songs 'Angry Chair', 'Rooster', 'Down In A Hole' until I heard the live versions on the unplugged album.
One song I do think is fantastic from 'Dirt' though is 'Rain When I Die'.

Another Ep worth checking out that some of you may not have heard of is 'Sap' (1992) which features the studio version of 'Brother' (2nd track on Unplugged), 'Got Me Wrong' (8th track on Unplugged), 'Right Turn' (which is a duet with Chris Cornell), an exclusive track called 'Am I Inside' & finally an extremely weird track titled 'Untitled' which can only be described as a corabination of sniffing, farting & ghostly wails (lol) - totally unrepresentative of anything youve ever heard from them before.
I cant believe it but I've actually found a f&cking video on youtube for this. I am not alone! lol

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Ive been a huge Alice In Chains fan forever. ONE of my first albums was Dirt which I bought when I was around 13. I also recently bought their new album "Black Gives Way To Blue".
 
I love this grunge band. I got into them quite recently when I bought Facelift and I have some of their other songs on my PC, 'Down in a Hole', 'Grind' and 'Don't Follow'.

'Man in the Box' and 'Down in a Hole' are my favourite songs by them. 'Angry Chair' is pretty good as well.

Who else likes them?
 
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