Dirt by Alice In Chains

Pros: Excellent songs with honest messages
Cons: Too depressing to be for everyone

Sometimes pain can produce beauty, and as far as the music world is concerned, Alice In Chains' Dirt is a prime example of that. An essential piece of the Seattle explosion, this 1992 masterpiece is, for the most part, an album about pain, ...

Pros: Mind-blowingly flawless vocals, gritty guitars, amazing lyrics
Cons: People who wanna be cheered up...will hate this

I really can't pinpoint the exact moment I got into the legendary Seattle rock band Alice In Chains. I just know that once I truly started listening to them, I was absolutely hooked. Many Alice In Chains fans consider their 1992 release, the ...

Pros: Intensity, Vocals (sometimes), Lyrics, Emotion
Cons: Vocals (most of the time), Too conceptualized, Depressing

Alice in Chains debuted in 1990, about one to two years before the start of the grunge revolution that the band would come to be associated with, with the EP We Die Young. That same year, they released their first full-length album, including some...

Pros: Hardly any to speak of.
Cons: Remarkably awful in every way, shape, and form.

I consider myself to be someone who is entirely open to a variety of music genres. I don’t believe in merely being satisfied within the borders of one particular niche, whether that’s metal, rock ‘n roll, or whatever. Over the years, I’ve ...

Pros: dark, and deviously good
Cons: depressing?

Can someone please help me? I have a slightly annoying-- although some will think that _I’m_ annoying simply for bringing it up-- problem regarding the “Seattle bands”. (I’ve decided not to use the dreaded “g” word at all in this review…) Well, for ...

Pros: Thirteen of grunge's best, most complete tracks
Cons: Dark as all hell, and certainly not an instant hook for the listener

There are really only a certain number of albums to which the word "definitive" applies. And when one is discussing the emergence and influence of grunge music, it's hard to look past Nirvana's Nevermind and Pearl Jam's Ten to see and...

Pros: A candid look at what was ailing Layne, wrapped up in a power metal package.
Cons: People like me would say that this was the last great thing they did.

Even though some of Epinions' best and brightest have already covered this album, should I just allow this lovely masterpiece to remain unexplored by the hands and mind of yours truly? HELL NO! I am taking the liberty of starting up my very own ...

Pros: The most concise riffing of AIC's catalog, great lyrics and harmony
Cons: None to speak of

At this point in time, the history of the Seattle rock band Alice In Chains is fairly well known. Their story became headlines in the past couple of months with the recent drug-related death of lead vocalist Layne Staley. Nu Metal acts across the...

Pros: Every song is great, Cantrell is a god, Layne Staley's voice
Cons: None

Grunge is usually associated with the likes of Nirvana and Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden for the bigger music fan. In the early 90's a certain "Seattle" band named Alice in Chains came out with a hard rock/metal/grunge album called Facelift. It was a...

Pros: Those with a fondness for this heavy metal genre will enjoy the impressive guitar work
Cons: A conceptual disaster of terrible squalling music, awful vocals and idiotic lyrics

How does a popular band comprised of four disaffected young people find themselves embroiled in some self-destructive and tedious cycle of drugs, depression and pointless annihilation? Here is one armchair theorem from someone on an armchair. Four ...

Pros: One of the best grunge rock albums ever.
Cons: Slightly depressing musical lyrics.

Lead singer, Layne Staley, was found dead in his Seattle apartment April,19,2002. His death was ruled to be a overdose from a mixture of heroin and cocaine. I am greatly saddened by the fact that we will never hear any of his work in the future. He was...

Pros: The greatest album Of all time.
Cons: Cons?

Alice In Chains – Dirt
The Greatest Album Of All Time

Background

Alice In Chains is:
Layne Staley (vocals)
Jerry Cantrell (Guitarist)
*Mike Starr (Bass)
Sean Kinney ( Drums)

This...

Pros: A Great Grunge Masterpiece from Alice In Chains.
Cons: None.

In 1992, the rock world was swept in the new rock genre known as grunge. Grunge rock was lead by bands from the city of Seattle who combined the intensity of punk and mixed up with hard rock. Leading the pack in 1992 were bands like...

Pros: There are a lot...lyrics, vocals, guitar, drums, bass, feeling...
Cons: Dark, depressive and heavy. Rules, but it's not for everybody.

Well, i don't think this review will add something new to the epinion's reader (there are a lot out there), but I must say something about Alice in Chain's best album, just because they've been so meaningful and important to me, and to cry the departure o ...

Pros: The band's most emotional and deepest album; heavy, dark, and twisted. Great lyrics!
Cons: Some songs have awkward structures; some fans will either love them or hate them.

To almost every band, no matter what genre or style they may fall into, there is the essential album. The one record that either: A. Got the band into the mainstream and therefore, started a wide fan base and popularity, or B. The one album that really ...