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post #46 of 53
1/14/10 at 11:06am
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You've been in Japan too long.

Trust me, at my college/tutoring I have heard worse.
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post #47 of 53
1/14/10 at 1:33pm
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Well, you know what they say about great minds...

Tripod is actuallly the album I kept losing as well. I've probably owned three copies of it, and the only reason I have it now is because it's on my iPod. I enjoyed Sap and Jar of Flies, but they never approached being my favorite. I have have a theory that Alice in Chains has two distinct sets of fans - the heavy fans and the acoustic fans. Both groups tend to like all of their music, or at least tolerate it, but every Alice in Chains fan favors one or the other. I actually owned all of their heavier albums years before I owned the two acoustic ones.

Given you're a Dirt man, I'm a little surprised your favor the new one over Facelift.

All this talk is making me sad Layne is dead. It's making me even more sad that I was supposed to see them in '94, but they dropped out of the tour.

LOL - I dl'd the tracks I wanted off Tripod from iTunes, so I'd never lose that. Now I have to lose both a laptop (which I have done before), and a backup drive (three, actually) in order to properly lose Tripod again.

Between the heavy and acoustic sides, I don't know that I have a preference. There's a lot of spillover between the two sides so their sensibilities aren't completely abandoned, and I kind of like knowing that they have a balance between the two, and have the balls to put out records that reflect that. As for Facelift, I've not spun that one in forever, and the last time I did I thought it too 'shiny' or produced. I thought Sap and Dirt were the beginning of the band's honest and thoughtful efforts.
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post #48 of 53
1/15/10 at 2:17am
wow... talkin' about soundgarden, aic..... grunge is back! time to wear that old pendleton plaid work shirt!!! oh, wait.
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post #49 of 53
1/15/10 at 11:31am
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wow... talkin' about soundgarden, aic..... grunge is back! time to wear that old pendleton plaid work shirt!!! oh, wait.

I was about to grow my hair out again like I did back in the day, then I looked in the mirror and my hopes for a second adolescence were dashed on the cold hard rocks of a cruelly receding hairline. =(
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post #50 of 53
1/15/10 at 12:16pm
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LOL - I dl'd the tracks I wanted off Tripod from iTunes, so I'd never lose that. Now I have to lose both a laptop (which I have done before), and a backup drive (three, actually) in order to properly lose Tripod again.

Between the heavy and acoustic sides, I don't know that I have a preference. There's a lot of spillover between the two sides so their sensibilities aren't completely abandoned, and I kind of like knowing that they have a balance between the two, and have the balls to put out records that reflect that. As for Facelift, I've not spun that one in forever, and the last time I did I thought it too 'shiny' or produced. I thought Sap and Dirt were the beginning of the band's honest and thoughtful efforts.

Well thanks for destroying my Alice in Chains theory.

I definitely like the acoustic stuff, and I really respect the fact that they were talented enough to do it, but, even as I get older, I just can't help but love the heavier stuff more. It's like the old pizza analogy - there's good pizza and great pizza, but there's really no such thing as bad pizza. There's no bad Alice in Chains, just varying levels of awesome.

My only complaint about Facelift is that there was a pretty good dose of 80s that somehow got mixed in, and that gave it the shiny/produced feel you mention. They pretty well got rid of that feel by Sap and Dirt, which, I think, made them both sound more earnest. There are some gems on Facelift - "Bleed the Freak," "We Die Young," and "Sea of Sorrow" in particular - but it definitely wasn't as consistent as Dirt. I agree 100% that Sap and Dirt were the sound of the band hitting its stride musically.
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post #51 of 53
1/15/10 at 12:52pm
Listening to Dirt right now. Good Lord this was a ridiculously good band. As good as I know they are, I'm still a little blown away every time I go back and really listen. It had been a little while since I'd last really paid attention to Dirt, and it's taking all the restraint I can muster not to rock out in my cubicle.
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post #52 of 53
1/15/10 at 1:23pm
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I was about to grow my hair out again like I did back in the day, then I looked in the mirror and my hopes for a second adolescence were dashed on the cold hard rocks of a cruelly receding hairline. =(
Just pull a Nic Cage, Gallagher, or David Crosby. You can always tuck your long flowing locks into the back of your collar for work and no-one would be the wiser.
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post #53 of 53
1/15/10 at 1:44pm
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Just pull a Nic Cage, Gallagher, or David Crosby. You can always tuck your long flowing locks into the back of your collar for work and no-one would be the wiser.

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. Props to you, sir!
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