Dirt

It was fine. Probably a guitarist's band

Too heavy for me. I actually like some of their more chill stuff. “Don’t Follow” (unfortunately, not on this album) is a GREAT song of theirs you should check out if you haven’t. As for Dirt, I do have an affinity for “Rooster.” I didn’t care much for it when I first heard it, but when you listen to the lyrics and realize it’s about a Vietnam vet (I believe, the singer’s father) it strikes a different chord.

I understand why this album exists, and it’s well executed for what it is. Unfortunately not my thing. Drumming is especially tight.

ok

It's everything I expected from an Alice in Chains album. Not my cup of tea, but not bad.

Not really my guitar style. Too much distortion, I guess. Makes it harder to make the melody shine. Some parts were nice, but I don't see myself seeking this album out again any time soon.

With all due respect, this kinda sucks. I grew up in Washington and TOTALLY get the influence and importance and legacy of Alice in Chains, but I just can't anymore.

not my thing

this one scared me ngl

Generic whatever with cacophony

Classic hard rock / metal. Good, but not what I want to listen to most of the time.

Eh

This was my kind of thing back in the early 90s and I had some friends who were really into it… but I never really got to grips with AiC. Don’t know what it was, it just never really clicked with me. This album offers some tasty riffs here and there but little else to me in 2023… plus I’m not a fan of his voice…

Don't like hard rock

The rock was a little too hard for me. Felt very 90s though. Not something I personally would go back and listen to on my own time

This is an album of music for sure. Middle of the ground for me honestly, didn’t really get into it

2 stars

FFS, cheer up, guy 🙄😂 Was this the birth of stoner rock? I was quite up for hearing this but it wore thin pretty quickly. It sounds like a desert, which is kind of the point I suppose. But I prefer my biospheres greener. Sort of a bridge between G'n'R and QotSA 🤔

The album is interesting to say the least. I think that there were some pretty decent songs and some songs that were just not enjoyable. I’m not saying that I hate that music but this isn’t my usual music genre so I don’t think I would listen to more of their music. It definitely could be better in my opinion. 2/5

Not bad not great

Not as great as when I was 16. There are a lot better albums from 90’s grunge than this.

Ugh. God, what a chore to get through. I definitely was not in the mood for this today. I do enjoy their distinctive quartal harmonies, but damn that lead singer's voice is everything i hate about grunge. That coupled with the sluggish tempos and depressing lyrics. Yeah, I get that people dig this, but I really don't. I never how how to rate an album like this. Do I try and be objective or do I give it my own personal rating? Usually, I go the subjective route because this is how I personally react to this music and how likely I am to check it out again. Sometimes I regret doing this as it's clear I just heard the wrong album on the wrong day and I feel bad about it later. Today I'm going to split the difference. My personal rating is a 1 because I honestly couldn't even make it through the whole album. I get that people dig this, and good for them, but boy I really don't.

Not my style. early 2000's soft girl era.

3. Dirt - Alice in chains 4/10 Would I listen again ? No Favorite song : Rooster Honorable mentions : junkhead Least favorite : the first and last third of this album I went in expecting way more, the entire albums feels and plays like it's just one big long wave of the exact same sounding note that lasts however long the album is. The solos are just good enough to engage me back in the songs but it's just back to the same. Rooster is the highpoint of the album and the bass on junkhead offers a heavy but needed relief to every other instrument, voice included.

Not really my thing

Alice in Chains definitely got a style that I don't particularly care for nowadays. Heavier rock sounds - approaching grunge maybe? There's some cool harmonizing? going on here in the first couple songs at least, but I don't particularly care for the singer's voice. I don't much care for this kind of vocal grittiness for the most part anymore. The guitar and bass distortion on Dam That River is so heavy it's like a wall of sound. Kind of cool. Breaking it down a bit in Rain When I Die. Lot of mystery going into the song that is slowly uncovering itself. The vocals here are in a more pleasing register, marginally. So far this is the song I like the most from the album. Unfortunately, the song is half over now and I'm getting bored. It's like the song heard - enter the bridge where some new interesting stuff happens, but not enough to keep me fully engaged. The song faded out - all the way to line, and then faded back up!!! Hate that! Down In A Hole starting off a lot softer - we got an acoustic guitar up in here? Reminding me vaguely of Goo Goo Dolls kind of stuff, but with a lot more effects pedals. This song the most pleasing to hear now, but I'm not stanning them yet. Why are so many of these songs so long? Not to min-max music, but do this many songs need to be this long? Sickman is not it! Heavy, then moaning, then droning, before dropping back into the metal-esque throbbing. The song is not boring by any means, but it is also not appealing to me in any way. 2 songs from the end and I really can't wait for it to be over tbh. Such a droning album from a genre I do not care about at all. Thank god that one is over. I did not like this album at all! Not my thing! Sorry Alice in Chains, maybe if I listened more to you like 15 years ago.

I can't tell if my rating is simply because this isn't to my taste but I suspect there's something more to this that is leading me to two stars over three. Whatever that is, I'm not willing to spend any more time considering it. I'm cool with maybe being "wrong" on this one.

Nicht so meins, ich mag die Tonalgen nicht

Lo grunge ok, pero no suy fan de lo metalero.

# 67 : I thought it was ok. A bit ordinary for the genre. Dam That River

Didn’t like

Schoopls outshd a

Eurgh...

Best Song: Would? This track has a darker, brooding quality that is absent from the rest of the album. Worst Song: Down In A Hole. I just find all these kind of power ballads annoying. It feels antithetical to everything else that the band produces and just feels like an excuse to have a "lighters up" song. Slow and skippable. Overall: If a whine were a musical instrument. Mostly just one (whined) note, resulting in a really repetitive listening experience. There are better grunge bands by far.

Not my vibe sorry

Ihan ok. 2.5/5

Not really bothered

There's a couple of ok tracks, but not really my thing.

Decent enough, heavy grunge. Wouldn't really ever choos to listen to it though but wouldn't turn it off if it came on...

Too much Metallica, not enough Mudhoney/Nirvana/early Soundgarden. And harmonising tenor heavy metal vocals are rarely a good thing.

Not for me, but the hits are ok.

That song about the Rooster really sucks.

Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: it was ok, expected more but it was a bit bland for me Favourite song: Track 12 - Angry Chair

I was going to write about Grunge, Gen X and the insidious politics of apathy, but this record drained me of the, or any, inclination. They could’ve disheartened me with less than a third of this record - it’s really potent!

Grunge remains a dreary mess. I keep trying with it, it keeps failing.

Got a couple solid bangers on here

2/ 12, 17%

Bit too long and droning

Thought this was bollocks cheers

Never been too big on grunge, this is the sort of thing that just sounds okay to me? Would be middle of the road if not for the song Them Bones, which I've always hated with a passion

Njaa

Angry gym music for the sad man with no taste. idk nirvanna's kinda unimpeachable but them aside I think I'm not super into grungy

Nostalgiasyistä ihan hauska, muuten ei kyl lähe.

One assumes the title was not meant to imply “dull as …” though it’s fitting in just that way. Noisy Pretension would also have been a truth-in-advertising sort of title. This reads more metal – with all the jeg-jeg-jeg foundations – than grunge, in which the melodious quotients tend to be higher. Vocal style might be best described as half-Axl, half-Vedder, and feels precisely that dated now. Tired and too long and takes itself too seriously, which is what so much of '90s metal.

Je préfèrerais être un moineau qu'un escargot

noyée dans une mer de grunge / metal / rock insupportable

Too sludgy for me but I appreciated how melodic a lot of the vocals were.

It was something in its time

Sure it’s good for it’s type but not my thang

It's too damn long for every song to be that low bpm. I understand the cultural importance, but generally pretty weak.

blugh. This album is fraught with all of the things I hate about the 90's. Long hair, long underwear under shorts, heroin, combat boots, depression, dramatic depression, tortured artist syndrome, broke-assness, 1-800-Collect and Carrot Top. Yeah, this one brings back memories, but not good ones.

Dit is helemaal niks

Some fairly decent rock riffs overall far too close to metal-like pointless shouting

Nah.

pretty turgid

Plodding, grindy, grimy, sluggish, perpetually whiny vocals. I just can't get into Alice in Chains. Couldn't then, can't now. Also what is the thing where a song fades out... then fades back in? What is that supposed to do for me? Especially when I'm not looking for seconds.

Not bad. Not really my style.

decent, not really my jam though could be some good inspiration for mixing though

Hmm, visiskas rokas, man per daug rokas. nekabina nei viena daina, nesiklausyciau, visos gana panasios

Been putting this album off for awhile. First track was exactly what I was worried about. Just not my thing. Rooster though is a pleasant surprise. Rest of the album went by ok. Nothing spectacular to report. Not something I'll likely listen to again.

Svo mörg partý sem liðu fyrir þessa plötu í den. Þetta er ekki algjörlega botninn, það eru einstaka tónlistarglætur inn á milli, stundum er lækkað í distortioninu og grungmumblið er misáberandi, en heilt yfir er þetta bara vond minning og leiðinleg.

Feels like an album that would have "meant" something to 6th formers but makes it difficult to access for those hearing it for the first time in their later years

Picture the scene - it’s a January Monday, you’ve just turned on weekend listening but were busy from Friday til now which means you’ve got four bad boys to listen to. This is the last one but you’re done. You should have had a palette cleanser, a little break to listen to some comfort blanket music of your own, but no, you’re stubborn. You tired, you really tried - you put yourself in the shoes of your disaffected boyfriend when you were a teenager who listened to this kind of music, but to no avail. You just didn’t get it. Sorry James, I didn’t understand you then and I don’t understand you now. Peace out.

Слишком роковый рок, мне такое не по душе

All the songs are the same

I've got very little interest in taking heroin or in hearing about heroin. This album therefore doesn't really appeal to me thematically. Musically, it's a bit of a one-paced dirge and I robustly dislike the vocals. Rating: 2/5 Playlist track: Them Bones Date listened: 31/12/22

Didn't enjoy the beginning but it got me back around the end. Wasn't convinced but was alright

This is the kind of music guys wearing wife beaters love to blast on their blutooth speaker while disc golfing. This album somehow smells like cigarettes.

Lots of sounds. Lots of guitars going wah-wah-waaaooooowwwww!!! 2.5

YOURE LISTENING TO THE MENS ROOM ON 99.9 KISW SEATTLE. Aside from the well-known bangers, I found the album to be pretty boring. Bangers do bang tho. 2.5/5.

It's hard rock. Less grating than I thought, even some shoegazy sections, and I'm sure important in developing their genre, but not my deal. Drummer has a Meg White level of talent.

Aggressive, but still found it boring, not much happening in this music.

Dog dirt

It's a bit sludgy and dull. When it leans into its Sabbathy influences it gets better (God Smack for example) but where it relies on 5 minute song lengths and work is me junkie wisdom, it's pretty boring.

Don’t doubt the commitment here, but not my bag. Give me Soungarden over this.

Grunge, guitartungt, kedeligt

This album is mediocre at best. Lyrically, the songs read like a series of hollow and disjointed angsty phrases. It is also musically unremarkable.

Was not my sort of music at all bit too heavy for my liking

Great album to listen to if you want to hate yourself. “Rooster” and “Would?” are my two favorites.

Great production on this thing, but the grungy sameness of every track gets boring really quick. Lyrics leave more to be desired, should of been an amp-up album but instead just made me bored. This has never been my genre, but I’ve heard far better executions

Just not my thing, hard to say much but just so intense and too full on

Just pretty boring

un embole..

LA butt rockers turned Heroin dorks flopping around being miserable

Not impressed Samey samey

Not a heavy metal fan to begin with, so this didn't do much for me.

Yeah, look...this one didn't do much for me. I love loud, bombastic music but this was kind of an audio blend of sameness to be honest. A good album but just not my thing. Probably would be a four star album if I liked it. As it is, eh...sorry, not very listenable for me. Fave track: Them Bones

... Prefs: Them Bones, Dam That River, Rooster, Would? Moins pref: Rain When I Die

Nice heavy rock/grunge, but loosing some of the magic over the years

Ik vind het wat saaie muziek. Prima te luisteren, maar niet heel spannend of zo. **

i put this on in the background and carried on working. it feels like its been on an entire week of my life and its only track 7.

Not nearly dirty enough for me

Growly male voice, growly guitars, prominent heroin abuse, '90s Seattle angst. Of that very well represented genre this is by far not my favorite.

Gotta be honest this one was not really for me. I came to eventually appreciate the dark vibes and depraved lyrics but overall the vocals and instrumentals weren't really doing it for me. I will say I appreciated it more when I turned the volume up a few notches. Them Bones, Rooster, Dirt are good. Angry Chair is a funny song title. Feel like I need to develop a heroin addiction and drive around in a rusty car to really get into this album.

Definitely, not my cup of tea. Almost an hour of an album where every song sounds similar? In my humble opinion, they could have shortened the length of the record. Everybody is talking about the memorable riffs of the first three songs, but for me they weren’t memorable at all. I’ve just listened to them and they didn’t get stuck in my head. Appreciate the effort, although I do not quite understand why it is considered a masterpiece. Best songs (for me): Dirt, because it sounds slightly different from the rest, mostly at the beginning; and God Smack, because of how the singer brilliantly plays with his voice. Worst songs (for me): the first seven, from Them Bones to Junkhead.

I'm bringing a lot of baggage to this, because the guitar tone reminds me so much of early 2000s guitar center line 6 amp drop d shredding. The harmonies are good, but I find them a little grating (which is weird, because I love X's grating harmonies). Again, this negative review is a me-problem.

The album is grunge music. Some of the songs were familiar. The problem with grunge is always the vocals. I do not care for the singing on grunge albums and this holds true on this album. Vocals aside the music is decent. The album is between a two and a three. I will round down.

Very dreary, couldn't find an access point at all

Ok....I'm doing my best to listen to albums that I wouldn't normally touch with a barge pole (as the expression goes) Got through half of it...unremarkable Seattle cock rock/grunge with lotsa drug references...it all becomes a bit samey and depressing. I like the tone of the lead guitar. Won't pursue further....(this probably means I'm going to get a Pearl Jam album at some point doesn't it. .?)

I get the influence Alice in Chains had and all that but grunge/sludge from their era has never been my favourite. I don't hate it, I knew Them Bones and Rooster and Would? already, but I prefer what the genre eventually became and diversified into more than the band themselves.

Arjan is fan, dus ik heb het geprobeerd. Ik vond het niet eens zo verschrikkelijk. Best melodieus 🙂.

Painful to listen to this.

57 minutes and all kinda the same. It was okay.

At least I finished it...

I've heard this band's name for a long time but honestly have no idea if I'd ever heard anything by them. It's a familiar sound, of course, due to the few years leading up to this album's release and the several years that followed with all sorts of bands being lumped in -- fairly or unfairly -- that mushy category of "grunge." So, I put in some effort to remove all those connotations and just let myself listen to the album as its own work. Overall it's not really my style, but I can appreciate how tightly they play. A little too much yelling for my liking, and I'm sure it's just my own biases getting in the way, but they sound to me like some guys trying just a wee bit too hard to be dark and brooding. I know that's not open-minded of me -- I don't know anyone in this band, so for all I know this is a super-accurate reflection of who they are as people and artists -- but I can't shake that feeling, sorry, folks.

1001 Albums Generator Day 6 I used to talk about music late into the night with the friend who’d lent me Crooked Rain, while sharing a bottle of Hennessy he’d drunkenly splashed out on while walking back from a night out. One time, we watched Alice in Chains’ MTV Unplugged session, while he told me what had happened to Layne Staley. It’s a powerful show, but it felt like rubbernecking. Even by 1996, he looked broken, hunched over his lyric sheet, with Jerry’s sweet harmonies seemingly covering for his frailty as much as enriching his melodies. That performance aside, I think of Alice in Chains as one of several hard rock bands erroneously lumped in with grunge, despite having no connection with punk and because they were contemporaries who shared the yarling vocal style and lack of glamour. I’m not a big fan of the art=pain idea. The fact he was really hurting isn’t enough to make it good. If you divorce the music from the tragic biography, there’s not much in it to convey the depth of feeling, so I’m left with little more than the thought that these guys have spent a lot of time practising licks. I don’t mean to criticise them for proficiency or for being show-offs (what else is a rockstar supposed to do if not seek attention?); their weakness is in the gap between the emotion they want to convey and how they go about it. It reminds me of kids who had mundane lives in term-time but were full of stories of the amazing adventures they had during the summer when no-one else was around. Alice in Chains aren’t fantasists, but they’re similar in one sense: because they’re annoying it’s easy to miss that they really need to be liked and this is how they’ve learned to seek affection. It comes across like someone showing you a fresh wound on their wrist and then doing a kickflip. They aren’t ready to be honest about what they want and aren’t ready to receive it if offered. I also dislike the production. Given that I quite like the Unplugged show and the way Layne and Jerry’s voices sound together, I can’t help wondering how I’d feel about this album if it had been recorded by Albini. I want someone to sharpen and dry out the sound, making the drums kick like a pissed off mule against a wooden gate, rather than someone trying to do as much damage as they can to a tin shed with a sack of fish. I want it to swing rather than plod. Basically, I want it to be either In Utero or Sleep’s Holy Mountain and it just can’t.

I think I missed my grunge phase growing up! Not my cup of tea...

I've never heard anything by Alice In Chains, all big hits and deep cuts included. I've just been aware of them as key players in grunge and metal of the 90s, so was interested to see what "Dirt" had in store. It's definitely a guitar album: Jerry Cantrell is a colossal presence, unleashing sludged out riffs, chromatic runs and furious leads all over the record. But an album can rarely hold complete attention with guitar wizardry alone: the songs themselves need to stand up too. Opener "Them Bones" is energetic but hardly inspiring: a cutthroat riff, howling vocals and lyrics soaked in apocalyptic self-pity. The rest of the album veers between up-tempo palm-muted metal riffs and cloying, doom-laden refrains (within the same song, a little awkwardly, in "Sickman"). One of my main takeaways, though, is that "Dirt" is more melodic than I expected. The chorus of "Rain When I Die" is soaring and titanic, punctuated by long sustained notes and manages to stand out from the rest of the album. The album also features unabashed harmonies that I didn't expect, whether in the vocals or lead guitar ("Hate To Feel", intro of the strong ballad "Down In A Hole"). Overall, the sonic texture we are left with is heavy, weighty and dark, but there's more to it than grunge's reputation had me believe. It's produced like arena-rock in technicolour: vast, expansive, like the desert landscape depicted on the cover. "Rooster" is the emotional peak, showcasing both sides of the band without being too heavy-handed: it builds very well through a falsetto harmony intro and first verse before the wall of guitars crashes in after the two minute mark. While it was nice to find myself enjoying elements of many of the songs, it wasn't enough to redeem the album for me completely. "Dirt" is much too long, and several of the tracks start to merge together after a while. There were very few stand-outs by the second half: instead, each riff growled into the next like a huge cloud of dirt. I can appreciate why fans of the grunge genre may enjoy this, but it isn't for me. With a lot of editing and a little less self-seriousness, this could have reached up to 3 stars- it's unlikely I'll be seeking it out again.

I tried but I failed

It was a chore listening through the whole album. Lead's vocals are kinda nice though.

I get why some people would like it but I couldn't get into it

Too slow, too long and very samey. It's also kinda generic, the only song I'd heard before was Rooster (and possibly Would?, but I didn't make it that far), but I felt like I'd listened to these songs hundreds of times before. Some of it is catchy and I guess that, along with the familiarity is why people like this album/band, but I can't get into it.

This is one that I was excited to listen to as I am typically a big fan of music from this time period/genre, but it unfortunately just didn't do much for me. It started somewhat strong with the opening track (one I have definitely heard before), but it just became more and more dull throughout the VERY long listen. Rooster was the only song that stood out immediately because it was a little more upbeat/emotional than the others. Nothing impressed me instrumentally as far as guitar and rhythm parts go, and I did not enjoy the lead singer's nasally voice for the most part. I find that this pales in comparison to the energy and passion from other grunge acts that were performing at this time (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, etc.). I can understand why this might have been popular back then, but I can't help but think of it as boring now. 2/5.

Tycket det mesta låter lite detsamma förutom kanske två låtar. Lite edgelord:ig stämning men med ett väldigt snyggt utförande. Allting bärs upp av sångaren som gör ett toppenjobb, tycker musikaliteten lutar sig för mycket mot samma saker hela tiden och allt flyter ihop. Tycker grunge-genren överlag har lätt att bli monoton och tråkig, tycker de faller i den fällan..

det var ett album.

Buttrock as fuck. I just can't get into it at all, not my thing. Vocally the style is almost a meme now.

Helt ok rockalbum, väldigt tungt, metaligt, mörkt, grungeigt och heroinigt. Lite för tungt för min smak, och oftast ganska tråkigt. Men absolut inte dåligt. Några feta gitarrsolon dyker dock upp här och var. Kommer troligtvis inte återvända till det här bandet speciellt ofta. Fastnade mest för de lite lugnare låtarna, som Down in a Hole och Rooster. Titelspåret Dirt är bra, alldeles lagomt mycket metal och låter lite som Black Sabbath. Även avslutningsspåret Would? är bra. Bästa låt: Down in a Hole.

First Listen. I know the song Rooster from before the rest was new. It seems ok.

I can tell this is a good example of a genre that I'm not particularly fond of. Innit.

I never liked too much of Alice in Chains. No good reason for it, but never liked it. This album showed to me the reason: It's the same song for 1 hour! It's not absolutely bad, normally I like this 90's feeling, but the exact same song for 1 hour is too much 90's for me.

Nope...not for me. 2 stars

I'm not sure what it is that I'm supposed to like about this album. If asked, I'd say I like grunge but perhaps the truth is that there are a few grunge bands I liked but that's where it started and stopped.

The 90s to me just seemed way too late to be starting a metal band, though I guess since they're from Seattle they were officially part of the grunge movement. The harmonies are a nice twist, it makes them sound a bit southern rock-ish, if that's your cup of tea.

It ain't for me.

Creed vibes

From my era - not a huge fan then, and hasn't aged too well to my ears

Ну такое, роцк батянский тоже

No me gusta demasiado este tipo de música.

Better than I expected but def not my vibe. Kalvin Phillips

Just really not for me.

Some good moments but for the most part a little below average. In a nutshell, Carlton Palmer.

Thats a no from me. Not bad but not good either

This album should be in my wheelhouse (heavy 20th century rock), but it is not. Maybe it’s the nasally, whiny vocals. Maybe it’s the ‘I’m more depressed than you’ lyrics, but whatever it is, it’s not for me.

me not like it

Them Bones is the only song I know and want to continue knowing from this album. How come there are like 20 tracks here??? I had to tap out with 3 left.

ehh

Mehhhhh

"Rooster" and "Would?" are OK, for the rest, not my style (fif rock)

Muddy, moody and boring gunge.

I tried, I really tried. But I cannot help but dislike the aesthetics of peak mainstream Grunge. This muscular, testosterone-laden power riffing meets "expressionistic singer bragging about how miserable and vulnerable he is"-style; it is just another testament to what was, music-wise, terrible about the 90s. For me, most mainstream Grunge records stray too far from the uncompromising intensity of metal. They are neither as emotionally charged nor as musically enhanced as the best Post-Hardcore records. Albums such as Dirt just sit between the chairs, ready to be digested by a voyeuristic crowd that likes its music hard, but not too hard. Dirt might be a good album; I simply cannot judge because I can't manage to get past the overall concept of Grunge as a type of consummate music. It simply annoys the hell out of me. Sorry, Alice in Chains, but I guess you're not lacking fans.

Sounds like Def Leppard trying to do Pearl Jam & failing miserably. Thankfully I never need to hear it again.

Shit

actually the feeling of the album is it's strictly suppress i get from the mix and master , i don't know if it is by purpose or just their way for that is truly not what i like and appreciate. As a hard rock or metal, this is definitley not enough, it feels like what they want to express is not wholy expressed.

My first rehab poetry collection. Why won't the horribly multitracked singer shut up for a minute so we can at least get a break and tune into the mediocre riffs?

Nope. I like some parts of one or two songs but couldn't get through half the album. One star.

Nicht meins

O no. this isn't for me

After a while i wished my ear canals would block

It all sounds the same to me, and it’s all just so terrible.

Almost painful

1/10… grunge / *1992

I would always reach for the radio dial whenever this band came on. Time has not improved my opinion. If anything I have less patience. Sitting through this was a chore. How was this even in the running let alone made the final cut for this list?

This album is Dirt.

punk no mi onda, capaz va p entrenar

Ugh, do I have to? I guess I am kind of surprised that so many of these albums are . . . not that good? And/or unpleasant to listen to? But, I suppose, a reminder that taste is subjective, beauty is the eye of the beholder, etc., etc. But, still . . . this sucks (lol). The only thing I need to decide is between 1 and 2 stars, which gets back to the old (and -- as it applies to music like this - not very interesting) question of how much weight do I give to how much do I like it (i.e., not at all), vs. trying to be more ... objective (?), in terms of their skill, or originality, or whatever. Eh, f**k it, that's too hard; 1 star.

good example of why I think the 90s were weak for music

I didn't totally hate this album, but it's definitely not my cup of tea. A lot of noise, a lot of heavy metal instruments, nothing that stood out to me.

Langweilt mich so sehr, dass ich es nicht zu Ende gehört habe.

Started kinda strong but very quickly I realised first impressions are misleading. Punchy start but entire album was uninteresting and samey. Topped off with shit vocals akin to guy from my office singing to the radio (sorry to my colleague btw) and I was skipping through songs towards the end.

I've listened to a lot of albums so far, and some aren't for me but I understand why people like it. I cannot comprehend how people like this album, it's just soul-sucking.

Not my thing at all

Alice in chains, heard of em never listened. Why are we screaming. Ok man. Let’s do this. Sure. Dirt. Big ol pile of them bones indeed. Sure. “The album's lyrics explore depression, pain, anger, anti-social behavior, relationships, drug addiction (primarily heroin), war, death, and other emotionally charged topics” like yeah man what are we doing here. If you say so. I just don’t have anything to say it’s just metal. Like yeah. Me when my chairs mad at me. Favourite: Rooster Least favourite: God Smack

Pretty much nothing I liked. 1.5

Såhär brukar det låta när man i en film ska ha med ett fiktivt rockband och musiken mest är rock med stort R. NPC-grunge.

Did not enjoy this at all.

This just ain't for me

The album theme of heavy metal/grunge/alt is not something I'm really interested in.

The only song on the album I liked was the last one, “Would.” But I remembered liking them before… lt made me look up their “Jar of Flies” EP, which was a favorite back in the day.

Wow. Just finished Mark Lanegan’s memoir and a book about In Utero, so the timing seemed great. This was bad when it came out, and is worse now.

Not my thing

How are pounding drums, hateful lyrics & ear bleeding guitar noises considered music?

a lot less messy than the offspring album but i dont think this is for me still i liked dam that river kinda? i like a certain part of the chorus but the rest of the song doesnt hit like that specific part it has a depressing vibe that i cant fw. it doesnt make me feel depressed but like you can tell what its trying to go for and i find it kinda cringe especially in sickman. “though i walk through the valley of rape and despair” ??? 😭 would is prob best song on the album which doesnt say much cus the albums really bad but it actually is quite a decent song

I feel like I’ve heard of this group before, but since I’m not a fan of this genre, I didn’t bother looking into them beforehand. This is a 1 for me.

Horrible.

Not my thing

Just like I loved what I got from the generator yesterday, I don't like this equally as much.

I could not pick one minute of this monotony out from another to save my life, except for me that awful, inscrutable 'rooster' song

Vocals

The. Worst.

Okkkkkkk

God….this was awful, though I know some people love it🤣

I am not a fan of grunge. It felt like I was listening to a bunch of whiny addicts.

Not a fan of this album. I only like songs like this if they are catchy

Even after listening to this album, I just don't really see the appeal of this type of music. I guess I'm just not angry enough to appreciate it. Plus, this music and its lyrics just depresses me and after an album like this is through, I have to go and find something more uplifting and light. I was glad when this album was through.

even geluisterd maar was echt mid

Not really my cup of tea. I really don't like the guitar tones on the record, and the overall songwriting didn't really click with me. I'm gonna say, though, the most famous songs on the album are outstanding, and I feel like the band is at its best when they allow for a bit of contrast, so I wish there were more of that.

I’m sure people enjoy this. I do not.

Can't get through this album. Not my style.

Aw ye boy, I'm ready for some edgy shit. Just kidding, not really. I don't care much for hardcore music. I know Alice in Chains are a popular band, but what genre they belong to is a mystery. That year of release is throwing me. I'd go for something metal-ly, but I don't think that has a broad enough appeal. Is this going to be a grunge album? I mean, yeah. Another grunge album. These guys definitely fit the bill. They sound like just about every other grunge act I've listened to. They especially nail the vocals - there's nothing grungier. It's for this reason that I was profoundly bored by this album. I like the many colourful emotions that music can encompass, but if there's one emotion in music that I find to be immensely frustrating and antithetical, it's apathy. I get that grunge was a coping mechanism for many during a time of great unrest, but the older I get, the harder I find it not to view this stuff as predictive programming. Enforcing and glamorising a culture of apathy and non-resistance so the real nightmares could be wrought on the younger generations. As far as the actual music goes, it's grunge. The instrumentation is polished and superficially pleasing, though there isn't anything dynamic or engaging about it. Overall, I felt exactly how this album wanted me to feel. Disengaged and uninterested. Book time. Drove the band into the spotlight. Personal in its subject matter. I know Alice in Chains are a big deal, so I guess I can let this one slide. I cosign this inclusion.

Listened to the beginning on one song early at the airport. It was a lot and not my style so I did not return to it

I have to face facts, this is the sound of grunge. I once thought I was a fan of grunge but when that was true, it was not represented by music like this. My beloved Mudhoney, Babes in Toyland, Nirvana, even L7 did not make turgid dreck, devoid of subtlety or nuance, but with the benefit of hindsight, it seems that is exactly what history attributes to the grunge label. I don’t want to lay all the blame on this lot; there are plenty of other self important, humourless purveyors of the yarl that have tarred a historically important genre with this type of artless dross. They may not be the only offenders, but this is often held up alongside Nirvana as the finest in grunge so it only seems appropriate to take it down a peg or ten. I gave Dirt a full and proper chance and at no point did I get the impression I was being won over. If grunge was meant to be a second punk then Dirt sounds exactly like the music scourge that needed eradicated.

2/10

1 star, no women

couldn't get through the whole thing. every song sounds the same i just can't do it. saved: n/a.

this just isn’t my vibe that’s okay!! i wish i didn’t have to rate it!! maybe i’d like it if it was my vibe!! even slightly!!

not a fan.

Grusig Kei nerve gha.

I couldn't finish it.

Not for me.

It's like putting on noise. The guitars are harsh and the vocals don't make up for it. Not my genre.

Just not a fan of this style of music. I’ve tried and failed a few times now. I expect for this to stay a 1 for me

Album review 002 Dirt by Alice In Chains (1992) Rating: 1.5/5 This is the first time I’ve listen to this album in its entirety and, knowing some of the tracks already, it didn’t bring anything I didn’t expect - essentially, a very one-dimensional set of songs with pretty much every one being an angst-ridden whinge about the singer/band slowly killing themselves with their drug addictions. What should be a powerful and emotional album ultimately becomes everything it shouldn’t be: boring. I doubt I’ll ever feel the need to listen to Dirt, or Alice In Chains for that matter, again.

As uplifting as two wrists, slit to the bone.

- Yeah, I hate it. So plodding - it feels so long, like it will never end. Tortured seems to be the theme of this album for me, and I just don’t want to listen to that. - This guy’s voice really irritates me - flat, whiny, honking, back of throat, lack of range, and, wait for it, tortured. It’s like trying to be Metallica, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, etc without the tone. I just can’t deal with music when I hate the singer, sorry. - I couldn’t understand most of the lyrics, and what I could were pretty embarrassing and one-note. If anyone tries to argue that women are more emotional than men, make them listen to this album. - I’m not into hard rock guitar riffs without memorable melody to go with it. That said, I admit the guitarist is talented. - Good drumming. - To me, this is all supporting instrumental without the top that it’s supposed to be accompanying. Being in this band would be my worst nightmare.

Grunge away! No thanks .

You either grew up when this band was popular or you dad liked them when you are a kid. Hard for me to believe there is any other category of people that enjoys this album.

Not the worst thing ever. Bits were pretty tolerable, in a technical sense. But I can't listen to this singing without thinking about Creed doing the voice to death.

Butt for me. Sounded like Nirvana but still didn't engaged me.

Half way through Sickman I said "this is a slog", them looked and discovered that was only track five of thirteen.

Ughhhhh. Screams in my ear. Could not bear it.

Utterly boring. Not my thing at all. Didn't finish any of the songs because they just did not hit. Abstractly I know some people love this band, which is baffling TBH. Is soft metal a thing? Because this is soft as fuck. Not for me, to be sure.

Wow! So depressing!

miserable, bleak

This sounds like Motley crue or Guns'n'roses trying to be Black sabbath and misery romanticizing lyrics are a bit juvenile. The vocal harmonies heard on the record add at least some interest, but from halfway on i was just waiting for this to end.

Listening to the album I had one thought in my mind - is this just one long song or are the songs so similar to each other that they're indistinguishable? Turned out it's the latter.

Went into this with high hopes, and it started off strong with Them Bones. Alas, it was all downhill from there. The whiny elongated vocals really started to grate on me. Wouldn't listen to this again.

This one was hard for me to get through. It’s interesting to me how the 90s sometimes gets talked about as a renaissance for rock, or the last time it was a relevant form. Maybe it has to do with the way bands stripped back some of the excessive and synthetic-sound studio techniques of the 80s. I love some 90s rock but albums like this feel like they didn’t have much they were trying to say.

Not my taste

Not my thing

Not really a fan of grunge or progressive rock of this particular flavor. Im more of a minty fresh kinda guy and the vibes of these songs are like muddy. Its for someone, but not for me

generic ahh music

1/5 with much distance to the next star. I hate AIC, always did. Every song sounds the same, there's not a single cool spark of creativity to be found, and that's sad, considering how big of a following these guys have. Their style sounds like they couldn't figure out if they wanted to copy Pearl Jam, Black Label Society or Nirvana. They're one of the reasons I'm very happy that Grunge was only a thing for a couple years and then vanished for good.

The band has one good song and it's not on this album. Dogshit

Woof. Loved this as a kid but it was a slog to get through now.

Langweilig

God, those vocals, those lyrics... "I feel so alone Gonna end up a big ol' pile of them bones" "Down in a hole, feeling so small Down in a hole, losing my soul I'd like to fly But my wings have been so denied" Gave up on this one at Sickman. At least this list has made me realise I am really not a grunge guy.

yeah, meh, it's ok, highly charged rock innit! Imagine some of these tracks used for soundtracks in American movies. e.g. -5 punk bank robbers preparing for the heist of the century in the back of a Dodge van, dressed in vests one of them (Brad) is listening to Alice in Chains through a Walkman, tinny sound but loud enough for all the robbers (& viewers) to hear, then cue van wheel spinning away, dust everywhere with the track now in the forefront of the movie, then music fades and your onto the next scene; inside an orderly bank with pleasant honest folk going about their business with a twitchy security guard at the door (who you already know is going to get it!)

Grunge by numbers. Not getting any innovation, lacks distinctiveness or flavour. Could be pearl jam

not a fan

*no music, screaming and squalling instruments. Not easy listening to. Need to have negative star options

No thank you.

Not my style

Did not enjoy this. It’s the same ‘herm yarl’ things I generally don’t like about Niravana, Nickelback etc. Just doth not please mine ear.

Always a bad sign when music that's so busy still manages to be so dull - couldn't survive past 'Rain When I Die'.

I wanted to hate this. But I cleared my head and listened and gave it a real chance. Then I hated it. The end.

Dirt. That about sums it up.

This really irritated me

just wasn't my type of album.

Not my jam. Got bored quickly.

God I hate this so much. Would? is the only song that is halfway listenable. The rest is just shit

Hm

I know this is objectively a bunch of very talented musicians but as an album it is excruciating. If it was 30 minutes long I would have been thrilled. However, it is almost twice that long with nothing justifying its length. Definitely felt like I was in the Angry Chair for this one.

dogshit

I thought Alice In Chains were Metal trying to be Grunge back in the day, I still do. It's awful.

Another band that I want to like but just don’t. This album is a painful listen, which I think is what they were going for. It’s a perfect fusion of everything I dislike about both grunge and metal. Not for me.

If I was disturbed I would like this music. 1/5

Perfectly combines two genres I don’t like: grunge and metal. I can see how this is something people like, but I sure don’t. The longer I listened, the harder this became for me. A slog

Gross.

didnt like it when it was current rotation on the radio. still dont like it. maybe if they quit using drugs they could have written better

Not for me

Actively didn’t enjoy. Other bands have done it better, had better lyrics, songs and voices.

Eh, not my kind of music. Some of the songs had decent background music, but the singer was not my cup of tea. They're all talented, but it isn't my thing. Best song: Would?

Throw this album Down In A Hole with Them Bones and cover with Dirt. The lead singer is whining or yelling about some depressing topic on every song making this a poor listening experience. L = (0.8*s) the last song “Would?” actually bumped it up. J = (1.1*s) someone please explain why Dirt is on the 1001 Must Listen list, it’s near the top of the Too Long list.

Hated every second of this experience.

Not really my thing!! <3

I liked the parts with no guitars or singing.

not for me in the slightest. Hard to look past the lead singers delivery of every single line 'sung' Who ever the lead guitarist and bassist are where the redeeming quality of the record with no other redeeming qualities

Not for me. They kind of droned on

Another Metal album that bores me to tears.

Is it more tuneless than turgid, or more unsubtle than unrelenting. Hard to say but it's an insult to Alices everywhere.

I listened, talked about, and thought about this album all weekend long. I've been saying that I think I spend more time listening to the albums I don't like, than I do listening to the albums I know are an instant 5 stars for me. I need to listen enough to figure out why I don't like it, or if I can really justify a low rating. I've decided, after much consideration, to give this a 1. The curve has to bend somewhere, and I do not like this album. Wailing guitar, screaming, whining vocals. It's loud, it's all too much. Too much drum, too much guitar, too much vocal, not enough melody. When this music was popular I was still listening to my parent’s cassette tapes, and stuff like Boys II Men and En Vogue on the radio. Grunge wasn’t around me growing up, and I never journeyed myself that direction later in life. It’s hard for me to get in to this now, and without any 90s nostalgia it really is a miss for me. It's not a bad album, it's not unlistenable. This is just not my kind of rock n roll.

Nah. Still.

Preferred this sound when Black Sabbath was making it 20 years prior. 🤨👎

did not like

not my cup of tea

I gave up. I just can’t stand this band.

Väldigt tråkig rock, snälla inte mer.

I don’t like heavy metal

Really didn’t get on with this album. It’s felt relentlessly samey and far too long. Something about the production of the vocals and drums left me cold. The music sounds like some 80’s metal and the vocals are grungy but annoying and I found this really jarring.

Tytuł albumu jest jednocześnie wyrazem jego jakości. Ten album został wydany w takim dziwnym momencie, że w połowie są to już popłuczyny po jakości metalu lat osiemdziesiątych, a jednocześnie jeszcze nie wyrobili w brzmieniu tego, co było fajne w latach 90-tych ("Rage Against The Machine" jest z tego samego roku, "Nevermind" z poprzedniego, więc dało się już wtedy zrobić coś serio dobrego). Płaskie brzmienie, prostackie teksty (liczba tych oh i yeah...), ogólnie nudy na pudy. Mam wrażenie, że wokalista Godsmack się inspirował estetyką Alice in Chains, ale wyszło mu to milion razy lepiej. Solówki gitarowe na tym albumie brzmią jak ćwiczenia dla początkujących "Moja pierwsza solówka". Myślałem nad 2, ale puściłem sobie jeszcze single z tego albumu podczas pisania tej recenzji i chuj mnie strzela.

Really not for me, dull and every song sounds the same.

I find this unlistenable and lacking any sense of genuine emotion.

grunge genre. i really dont like it. i have a headache today and this album is not helping!

Not for me

Teen angst şov

Dirt by name, dirt by review. God I hate late 80's early 90's sleaze rock.

Schrott! Weg damit!

no

I just found this rather boring. Every song sounded the same and they did nothing for me.

Better than Marilyn Manson, but that's not saying much.

If this is grunge, it explains why it never hit the mark with me. Sub-par heavy rock with no redeeming features. I flicked through the tracks here and definitely didn't feel that I was missing anything. Yawn.

Unlistenable. Shit. Poo.

Absolute, utter dog shit.

Every song is grungy and the same, my least favourite album ever.

dont like

I gave it a fair shake but this music is just not for me.

No, no, and no.

just really not for me can’t even finish it

Didn’t really enjoy this album.

🎧Butt rock