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Posted on 4/1/19 at 12:42 am to Saintsisit
Loved Alice In Chains back in the day.They were my favorite Seattle band.
Posted on 4/1/19 at 4:23 am to TheGhostOfBigLee
Nutshell is my favorite
Love the unplugged version
Love the unplugged version
Posted on 4/1/19 at 6:49 am to TheGhostOfBigLee
Overplayed. Down in a hole, junkhead , rain when I die are all much better.
Posted on 4/1/19 at 7:36 am to TheGhostOfBigLee
The Rooster - Vocals Only
A bit overplayed...but listening to this gives you a better appreciation of how great the vocals are on it.
A bit overplayed...but listening to this gives you a better appreciation of how great the vocals are on it.
Posted on 4/1/19 at 10:41 am to Ace Midnight
What's amazing to me is how the term "grunge" got hijacked and came to be applied to music that had no real connection to what grunge bands originally were. Nirvana-Nevermind stylistically was not really grunge. It was far too polished, resolving and "rockist" to be in line with real grunge. It's also a funny thing that grunge music is so linked to the 90s when the real origins and heyday of ACTUAL grunge was in the late 80s.
It was puzzling to most fans when people like Mark Arm were saying the grunge scene was already dead in 1992, but he was right. It was commandeered by bands that were more concerned with being accessible and commercially sellable, it polluted the genre/scene with dilettantes and that was the beginning of the end.
It's a seldom understood fact that one of the main reasons Kurt Cobain committed suicide is that he felt responsible for the pop-ification of the grunge and alt-rock genres and how they eventually got watered down for mass consumption. He had crushing guilt that he single-handedly killed the thing he loved so much. Whether that's actually true or not is debatable but there's no denying that "Teen Spirit" and Nevermind were both key in that regard.
It was puzzling to most fans when people like Mark Arm were saying the grunge scene was already dead in 1992, but he was right. It was commandeered by bands that were more concerned with being accessible and commercially sellable, it polluted the genre/scene with dilettantes and that was the beginning of the end.
It's a seldom understood fact that one of the main reasons Kurt Cobain committed suicide is that he felt responsible for the pop-ification of the grunge and alt-rock genres and how they eventually got watered down for mass consumption. He had crushing guilt that he single-handedly killed the thing he loved so much. Whether that's actually true or not is debatable but there's no denying that "Teen Spirit" and Nevermind were both key in that regard.
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Posted on 4/1/19 at 10:43 am to Brazos
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rain when I die are
Posted on 4/1/19 at 10:45 am to RockAndRollDetective
I'll gladly take what grunge "became".
Posted on 4/1/19 at 10:48 am to TheGhostOfBigLee
It would be hard for me to hate this song more than I do. It actually causes me pain.
Posted on 4/1/19 at 11:08 am to High C
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I'll gladly take what grunge "became".
Oh you're definitely not alone on that. It's a shame that there wasn't some kind of separation between the different types of music so the original thing could have continued to thrive.
As for "Rooster", I liked that song when I first heard it but strangely it doesn't have the same staying power for me like other Alice In Chains songs. I got burned out on it very quickly.
Posted on 4/1/19 at 11:17 am to RockAndRollDetective
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It's a shame that there wasn't some kind of separation between the different types of music so the original thing could have continued to thrive.
Yeah, it's like someone said earlier. The suits made the call to use the grunge label, and it stuck. Made them a lot of money. Mudhoney, Tad, Green River, etc. not so much.
Posted on 4/5/19 at 1:24 am to Saintsisit
I enjoyed AIC and novelty acts like Mad Season.
Posted on 4/5/19 at 8:03 pm to TheGhostOfBigLee
Excellent song. Rain When I Die is my personal fave, but Rooster is amazing, especially when given the backstory about why Jerry wrote it.
The last three AiC albums have all been much better than anyone expected them to be. Lesson Learned is a damn earworm for me.
The last three AiC albums have all been much better than anyone expected them to be. Lesson Learned is a damn earworm for me.
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