As expected, Mad Season sounds like a cross between Alice In Chains and Pearl Jam, taking the ponderous seriousness of Alice and PJ's '90s update of winding '70s guitar rock. Most of Above is quite somber, surpassing the meditations of Temple of the Dog in its dour tone. Staley's voice has always worked well in this setting, yet he frequently has had more compelling material than the webs of guitars that form the basis of Above. Much of the music on the album meanders without much direction, yet there are flashes of invention, particularly in Staley's work, with McCready contributing a few tasty licks. However, it commits the fatal flaw of a side project -- it sounds like one.
Dude, so i know a lot of you have probably known about Mad Season for a while... like since the early 90s, but i need to do my self-imposed job of promoting this kick awesome band and their one album.so if you dont much about the band, i will give you a little history -- Layne Staley was in two other bands other than Alice in Chains and they were Class of '99 and Mad Season.Mad Season only put ...
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This song, no, this album is amazing. Especially this song. It transports me back to the smokey, Red lit rooms of my inebriated youth every time. Ahh, such innocence. We wouldn't have seen it that way at the time, though. We thought we were so bright and worldly. It's a god am crying shame that Layne Staley Wasted away the way he did. I may get a tattoo of this album cover one day.
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just picked it out of the rack and thought to myself "wonder if anyone else thinks this cd is as good as i think it is, think i'll put it on mog..." lol... very mello,i think it was a great change for layne staley... too bad he was a junkie and died. i think he was the less hyped kurt cobain...
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What could be worse than those four? The "radio" at my job will be playing nothing but non-stop Christmas jingles until Janurary. I heard the music "mellow" out quite a bit, it's almost that time. I mean, how many damn times can anyone listen to Jingle Bells by 15 different artists? I mean this literally, folks, there's probably more versions out there. Time has been going fast, so hopeful...
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Farrah Fawcett, the multiple Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated American actress best known for her role as the vivacious Jill Munroe in the 1970s television series "Charlie's Angels," died in a Santa Monica hospital. She was 62. Her spokesman, Paul Bloch, confirmed that the iconic actress died Thursday morning shortly after 9 a.m. PDT. Her long-time partner Ryan O'Neal told People magazine Thursda
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What could be worse than those four? The "radio" at my job will be playing nothing but non-stop Christmas jingles until Janurary. I heard the music "mellow" out quite a bit, it's almost that time. I mean, how many damn times can anyone listen to Jingle Bells by 15 different artists? I mean this literally, folks, there's probably more versions out there. Time has been going fast, so hopeful...
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I don't know how many of y'all have heard of Mad Season. They were basically a side project supergroup of a bunch of people from the Seattle "grunge" scence, including Layne Staley and Mike McCready. They only released one album, partially to do with Layne's growing drug addiction and inability to perform, but that album was and still is fantastic. It's simplistic yet beautiful. Who knows what ...
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Dude, so i know a lot of you have probably known about Mad Season for a while... like since the early 90s, but i need to do my self-imposed job of promoting this kick awesome band and their one album.so if you dont much about the band, i will give you a little history -- Layne Staley was in two other bands other than Alice in Chains and they were Class of '99 and Mad Season.Mad Season only put ...
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I recently and finally bought the Mad Season CD Above after many years (5? 6?) of appreciating the single "Long Gone Day" but not having heard it since the year I first heard it. I popped it in my girlfriends car CD player and turned it to that track. It was still as enticing and exciting as the first time I'd heard it. The prospect of the other songs was also on my mind, greatness was bound to...
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just picked it out of the rack and thought to myself "wonder if anyone else thinks this cd is as good as i think it is, think i'll put it on mog..." lol... very mello,i think it was a great change for layne staley... too bad he was a junkie and died. i think he was the less hyped kurt cobain...
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This song, no, this album is amazing. Especially this song. It transports me back to the smokey, Red lit rooms of my inebriated youth every time. Ahh, such innocence. We wouldn't have seen it that way at the time, though. We thought we were so bright and worldly. It's a god am crying shame that Layne Staley Wasted away the way he did. I may get a tattoo of this album cover one day.
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