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Started by msd in Other Bands & Artists

What a great band, and what a classic “Dirt” is. What a shame Layne wasted his talent :(

Posted on Wed, 15 October 2003 at 20:59

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#1

Dermot wrote:

True, true. You can read his last interview here:
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1470138/20030225/alice_in_chains … lines=true

Posted on Wed, 15 October 2003 at 23:30

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allroy (Rainer) wrote:

sorry, but can’t agree. Would is a great song, but as a whole they’re boring.
I think they brought a real depressive mood into grunge and live they seemed to be, at least in my ears, to be a bad Cult clone.

Posted on Thu, 16 October 2003 at 06:39

#3

LunacyBooth wrote:

AIC were a superb band - one of my favourites. If you listen to Jerry Cantrells album Degradation Trip, however, it’s obvious who the talent in the band was. Layne was a superb frontman but Jerry was and still is an amazing musician. His solo albums are awesome!

Posted on Thu, 16 October 2003 at 12:03

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msd wrote:

allroy wrote:

sorry, but can’t agree. Would is a great song, but as a whole they’re boring.
I think they brought a real depressive mood into grunge and live they seemed to be, at least in my ears, to be a bad Cult clone.

Grunge WAS essentially depressive in mood!

Posted on Thu, 16 October 2003 at 16:00

#5

Skinfull wrote:

LunacyBooth wrote:

AIC were a superb band - one of my favourites. If you listen to Jerry Cantrells album Degradation Trip, however, it’s obvious who the talent in the band was. Layne was a superb frontman but Jerry was and still is an amazing musician. His solo albums are awesome!

Thats all well and good but the Bogey Depot album before the more recent one was far better and I thing the …Trip album is lacking something…possible Layne’s input???

As for the talent in the band the writing and the lyrics were what differentiated AIC from other not to be named so called Grunge bands!

Posted on Thu, 16 October 2003 at 16:14

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Phantom (Antonio) wrote:

AIC is definitely one of the best bands in the grunge movement. Even if I don’t really like the live album, they’re miles away from being a Cult clone… I think they gave their best in their “lightest” works, like Jar of Flies, where you can really appreciate their technique and musical feeling, even if they’re a little farer from the grunge style they grew up into.
Great band.

Posted on Thu, 16 October 2003 at 17:00

#7

Superunknown wrote:

Skinfull wrote:

Thats all well and good but the Bogey Depot album before the more recent one was far better and I thing the …Trip album is lacking something…possible Layne’s input???

I love “Bogey Depot”! “Degradation Trip” sounds like Nickelback, a boring rip-off of Alice In Chains. I’m glad these songs never made it onto an AIC album.

Posted on Fri, 17 October 2003 at 21:01

#8

davefromoverthere wrote:

Title: whee

girl i know via a hellraiser board (another UK facination of mine.. wtf
is it w/ you bastards?!) has been in
touch regularly w/ his mom.. there’s gonna
be a tribute coming out next year that
the girl will be helping w/ possibly..
apparantly his mom is a real sweetheart
who’s still not completely accepted the
fact that her son is gone..

hoping that she’s reaching out to some
of his fans like this out of a way to make
peace with it.. i’m sure if i had a child
who died horribly like this, it’d be better
to know (somewhat) that he at least touched
so many people in a positive way..

Posted on Sat, 18 October 2003 at 11:54

#9

msd wrote:

Look forward to hearing the tribute album.

n.b. Jerry’s album is called “Boggy Depot” ;)

Posted on Sat, 18 October 2003 at 14:17

#10

opalmantra wrote:

AIC and Soundgarden have been my fave Grunge bands.
AIC was certainly the most depressing.
Dirt is a masterpiece.
(Check out the two songs on the Last Action Hero OST- should have been on ‘dirt’)

Posted on Sat, 18 October 2003 at 14:32

#11

Bad Karma wrote:

They were a fantastic band Dirt is one of the classic albums of the 90’s.

Which bands are going to pay tribute to AIC?

Posted on Sat, 18 October 2003 at 18:41

#12

prisonbreaker wrote:

Bad Karma wrote:

Which bands are going to pay tribute to AIC?

it would be great if audioslave would do something

Posted on Sat, 18 October 2003 at 19:18

#13

efilnikufesin wrote:

i saw a top five grunge chart on mtv2 , there was some amazing songs particularly rusty cage by soundgarden - but of course in bloom by nirvana had to be at number which i think doesnt make sense , i think if all the hype was stripped away from that nevermind albumn it isnt that impressive i see the songs of bleach and incesticide as being more exciting. I was just listening to alice in chains’ dirt this morning and there is some powerful songs but the band must have been a right pack of miserabelles, “its gonna rain when i die” must take the most miserable lyrics award, i suppose it would sound good but if you where in that kind of mood though.

Posted on Sun, 19 October 2003 at 14:17

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LunacyBooth wrote:

Superunknown wrote:

I love “Bogey Depot”! “Degradation Trip” sounds like Nickelback, a boring rip-off of Alice In Chains. I’m glad these songs never made it onto an AIC album.

Oh dear! :rolleyes:

Posted on Wed, 22 October 2003 at 12:52

#15

Auto_Surgery (Andy) wrote:

Been away for a while but have one thing to say, AIC were a hell of a great band

Posted on Wed, 29 October 2003 at 14:26

#16

Superunknown wrote:

LunacyBooth wrote:

Oh dear! :rolleyes:

Oh, I’m sorry for having an opinion of my own…

Posted on Sat, 8 November 2003 at 22:10

#17

LunacyBooth wrote:

Superunknown wrote:

Oh, I’m sorry for having an opinion of my own…

…and you’re entitled to it mate. I was just stating my own opinion.

;)

Posted on Mon, 10 November 2003 at 13:56

#18

oguz wrote:

Title: Like the coldest winter chill, heaven beside you, hell within

AIC was a God of grunge but they were completely different from other Seattle bands.
They were fuckin great!
Usually real metal fans don’t like grunge bands except AIC.
For example you can find nice words about AIC from
Slayer members.

Posted on Tue, 11 November 2003 at 14:41

#19

Superunknown wrote:

Title: Re: Like the coldest winter chill, heaven beside you, hell within

oguz wrote:

Usually real metal fans don’t like grunge bands except AIC.

Why is that, by the way? I never understood it. Soundgarden and Nirvana made hard, loud, rocking music. There’s nothing to rant about (except I guess the lyrics which seem whiney to some very tough guys). I could understand if metal fans wouldn’t like bands like the White Stripes or the Strokes, but grunge is really a member of the same musical “family” as metal.

Posted on Fri, 14 November 2003 at 02:33

#20

oguz wrote:

Title: Re: Re: Like the coldest winter chill, heaven beside you, hell within

Superunknown wrote:

I could understand if metal fans wouldn’t like bands like the White Stripes or the Strokes, but grunge is really a member of the same musical “family” as metal.

maybe you right but if you listen AIC’s first album called ‘Facelift’, you can see the heavy sound.
I think Soundgarden and Nirvana (in spite of Nirvana’s heaviest album ‘Bleach’) were not have the same heavy volume like AIC.

Posted on Fri, 14 November 2003 at 14:45

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3ddo-on-the-balcony (eddo) wrote:

It all depends on ‘taste’ I guess. ‘Dirt’ is fanfuckingtastic and so is Soundgarden’s ‘Badmotorfinger’.
I have this thing with ‘Rooster’ and ‘Would’, but if you’d wake me up with ‘Jesus Christ Pose’ or ‘Drawing Flies’ I’d probably hugg you ;)

Posted on Sat, 15 November 2003 at 01:09

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