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sweet album i remember when it came out i was in middle school
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Alice in Chains
Dirt
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AMG Review of Dirt
Steve Huey
All Music GuideDirt is Alice in Chains' major artistic statement and the closest they ever came to recording a flat-out masterpiece. It's a primal, sickening howl from the depths of Layne Staley's heroin addiction, and one of the most harrowing concept albums ever recorded. Not every song on Dirt is explicitly about heroin, but Jerry Cantrell's solo-written contributions (nearly half the album) effectively maintain the thematic coherence -- nearly every song is imbued with the morbidity, self-disgust, and/or resignation of a self-aware yet powerless addict. Cantrell's technically limited but inventive guitar work is by turns explosive, textured, and queasily disorienting, keeping the listener off balance with atonal riffs and off-kilter time signatures. Staley's stark confessional lyrics are similarly effective, and consistently miserable. Sometimes he's just numb and apathetic, totally desensitized to the outside world; sometimes his self-justifications betray a shockingly casual amorality; his moments of self-recognition are permeated by despair and suicidal self-loathing. Even given its subject matter, Dirt is monstrously bleak, closely resembling the cracked, haunted landscape of its cover art. The album holds out little hope for its protagonists (aside from the much-needed survival story of "Rooster," a tribute to Cantrell's Vietnam-vet father), but in the end, it's redeemed by the honesty of its self-revelation and the sharp focus of its music. [Some versions of Dirt feature "Down in a Hole" as the next-to-last track rather than the fourth.]
great album
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
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I know this similar topic has already been fodder for the MOGos... many of us take issue with bands that keep a name that shouldn't necessarily belong to them anymore, but my buddy, "*The Boy Flood*":http://mog.com/The_Boy_Flood is a particular fan of my rants... ;). This may be a little too early for my next one, but I can't help it if the bastardos at WMMR & their ploy to draw me into purcha...
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Tonight I decided I wanted to hear Angry Chair on the way home, which lead me to listening to all of Dirt, which reminded me of my senior year in high school.Now, y’all know I’m a dork. I’ve always been a dork, but it took me awhile to embrace that and have fun with it. When I was 17 I was completely in denial. I thought I was bad ass, I was angsty as fuck, and I took myself very, very se
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Never Fear...Our Goverment Is Here...
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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons’ cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their o
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
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I know this similar topic has already been fodder for the MOGos... many of us take issue with bands that keep a name that shouldn't necessarily belong to them anymore, but my buddy, "*The Boy Flood*":http://mog.com/The_Boy_Flood is a particular fan of my rants... ;). This may be a little too early for my next one, but I can't help it if the bastardos at WMMR & their ploy to draw me into purcha...
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Alice in chains - Would? Ft. Phil Anselmo
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The sound is bad so turn it up. Plus this a first for me since my TV broke in the front room. Don't want to bug the misses during her puter' office time lol...;)
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This Sick World of Mine
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!http://a3.vox.com/6a00cdf7ea3e36094f00d4142fe93b685e-320pi!Acute viral nasopharyngitis, also known as the common cold. What a bitch! I _could_ go home from work, but that will diminish my concert vacation time. Then again, I really feel like garbage. Moggers - any tried-and-true treatments for this nasty ailment?
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Tonight I decided I wanted to hear Angry Chair on the way home, which lead me to listening to all of Dirt, which reminded me of my senior year in high school.Now, y’all know I’m a dork. I’ve always been a dork, but it took me awhile to embrace that and have fun with it. When I was 17 I was completely in denial. I thought I was bad ass, I was angsty as fuck, and I took myself very, very se
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Never Fear...Our Goverment Is Here...
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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons’ cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their o
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Casey Kasem--Like You've Never Heard Him Before (Take 2...)
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If you want to hear Shaggy cussing out his producer, you're gonna need to copy and paste each of the following 2 lines of address into another browser because I couldn't get it all to fit as one hyperlink...http://www.ezarchive.com/gvsb99/AlbumSpace/2XQ758GFJX/19+Casey+Kasem+Goes+Off.mp3Hope that works. (If you grew up w/Casey's Top 40, it will be worth the effort...)
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Alice in Chains in Studio
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Alice In Chains, having not released a full length studio album of original material since 1995's self titled album, are working hard in the studio to have the record done by the end of 2008. Although the band did record a few songs that were released on their box set Music Bank in 1999, "Alice In Chains" was the final album with original vocalist Layne Staley, who died of a drug overdose in 20...
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great album
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sweet album i remember when it came out i was in middle school
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alice in chains
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i revisited this album today. i have no other music in my collection likeAlice In Chains. i typically do not listento stuff this angry and distorted. but-there is something amazingly appealing about Dirt.(as soon as Them Bones started, i wastransported back to 1992- wheni lived by myself in a small, depressing apartment. ah, those were some good times...)review from allmusic: Dirt is Alice in C...
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Depressing
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Pffft. I hate math tests....I hate ridiculous engineering labs...this school thing can be a drag when it gets tough.So, when the going gets tough, the tough listen to Alice in Chains.
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