Alice In Chains | Dirt | CD 1320

Alice In Chains were initially tagged with the "grunge" moniker, when in fact their haunting, ponderous sound was far closer to the progressive rock of Queensryche. Their second album Dirt was a moody, portentous affair, filled with occasionally inspired riffing from guitar-player Jerry Cantrell and hair-tossed wailing from singer Layne Staley. Perhaps the band got lumped in with Generation X because of their lyrics--depression, death and drugs. Certainly, titles like "Down In A Hole, "Junkhead" and "Hate To Feel" didn't leave much room for doubt as to what Cantrell's particular passion was for. The quartet did have a slightly lighter, almost poppy side to them, though, as "God Smack" and Hate To Feel" indicated. In the main, however, Dirt was classic angst rock, of the style their peers Pearl Jam had made so popular. --Everett True

TRACKLIST

1. Them Bones
   
2. Dam That River
   
3. Rain When I Die
   
4. Sickman
   
5. Rooster
   
6. Junkhead
   
7. Dirt
   
8. Godsmack
   
9. Hate to Feel
   
10. Angry Chair
    
11. Down in a Hole
    
12. Would?
    
13. Bonus Track