Dirt

Maybe at a different time I would have liked this more, but I think unfortunately I listened to it after a Funkadelic album while on a drive through the countryside on a brilliantly sunny summer day. Them Bones and Would? are great, their harmonies and weirdly dissonant but catchy guitars always call to me. But I didn't enjoy the whole album.

the 1992est album

Not a bad listen.

Eh

I'd be a 2.5 but im nice

probably really good. not for me

I feel bad only rating this a 3 knowing how iconic it is, I'm just not now and never was a big fan. Some cools memories, though. 3/5

lineas de guitarra increibles, quedan increibles con la voz de layne que hace dar una ambientación algo cruda

The more metal side of grunge has never really been my thing, it doesn’t tend to provide what I want from either genre. It’s a solid album but doesn’t connect much personally.

By stacking explosive anthems like Them Bones, Down in a Hole, and Rooster back-to-back in the first half, Alice in Chains showcases their peak riffs and vocal harmonies. However, this dense concentration of powerful tracks leaves the mid-to-late stretch feeling comparatively sluggish and experimental, despite the final punch that is Would?. The later tracks drag the score down from yeah to meh.

Did not listen.

I love junkman

A classic, if you have the time

Good album - a bit monotonous

Good album …I love it for what it is and Rooster is fav

I liked it more than I thought, but at a certain point it all sounds the exact same. Likes: Them Bones; Rain When I Die; Down in a Hole

++: Them Bones, Dam That River, Sickman, Rooster, Intro (Dream Sequence)/Iron Gland, Angry Chair +: Down in a Hole, Would? +-: Rain When I Die, Junkhead, God Smack, Hate to Feel -: Dirt 6,9/10

A: Hörde inte så mycket och tror det var bättre så. De få lyrics jag hörde lät som satir. 2/5 (b eller c-tier?) D: Korn if it was mid. Gillade det djur de hade fångat i sin gitarr. Men who is Alice and why is she in chains??? Namnet lowk en ick me tanke på att lead singern e en man. Den måst ha nå jävla bra backstory. 3,5/5

Not my preferred type of music, but I did mildly like it

A few good, if not great songs, but overall a bit average.

A really defining album from the grunge era - quite different from their peers - great songwriting... Just have always struggled to bond with AIC in the same way as Soundgarden, PJ, Nirvana et al. Given it a 4 but its more of a 3.75

One of those that’s good and I’m grateful for because I can hear how much of a contribution it has made to the music I love that came after but also, doesn’t light me up.

Alice In Chains got lumped in with the grunge scene of the early 90s but strictly speaking they were considerably heavier and more metal than their fellow Seattle cob-nobblers. They have satisfyingly huge and grinding guitars and only a couple of tracks on this album approach the grimier end of the musical spectrum. However, the glaring floppy haired elephant in the room is that lead singer Layne Staley was a hopeless junkie. Seriously, if you are in a band and one of your bandmates starts writing songs titled “Junkhead”, and lyrics about “losing my soul, down in a hole” and “walking through the valley of rape and despair” please stop the recording and get them some professional help as soon as possible. It was tragically inevitable that he would end up dying of an overdose aged just 34 on the anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death. What a lamestain.

expected to feel more strongly about it but surprisingly enjoyed a couple songs. 3 stars? songs i liked enough to save: - rooster - down in a hole - them bones - rain when i die - would?

Decent

I expected to really not like this because it's not my type of music, but I do see why this is so well regarded. It's full of raw emotion and feeling. I appreciate what they were getting across. Not something I would listen to regularly, but a well made record.

Dirgy, not really into this not really into voice. Bones is a pretty solid banger, but it just seems to be so meandering and a bit dull from there, why so many wig outs?

Good album

Besides the great "Rooster" and "Would?" and some nice guitar-work just decent grunge for me. There is simply no comparison with Pearl Jam and Nirvana. 2,5

nista setala sam zucu sve vreme

Alice in Chains is one of those bands I'm really ambivalent about. For me, grunge was about the wild Dionysian stage shows, the unpolished unhinged garage punk rock, natural expression without packaging and commercialism. Too often, that's not Alice in Chains, and Dirt is the best and worst example. It's hair metal grunge, it's very thoroughly produced, squealing shredding guitar, studio tricks, overdubbed evil demonic laughter to make a point. It's cheese, if we're honest. And honestly, the string of songs from "Rooster" and "Hate to Feel" is a slog. That said, Layne Staley is a great vocalist (though this album has him singing way too many repetitive one-note verses and all the vocal lines and plodding rhythmically), and Jerry Cantrell is a great player and songwriter. "Would?" for example is one of the great songs of the era. Dirt is undeniably effective and if we're grading on the "does it express addiction truly and effectively" curve, I'll grant it's an A+. (Sorry, I was trying to be generous here, really, but I should have just said that Jar of Flies and Sap are much superior albums.) Turns out, this in an album that if I have to listen all the way through and think about it, I'm not going to come up with much to say. I literally started out thinking "Yeah, this might be one of those I-don't-enjoy-it-but-I-gotta-acknowledge-its-greatness albums" and thinking it might be a 4 or 5. Now I'm kinda thinking this is a solid 2.5 and deciding whether the opening few songs, before the sameness sets in, plus "Would?" bumps it up. Yeah, for the sake of "Would?" maybe a 3.

Sounds like early 90’s seattle sound. Another one I’ve known about but never really listened to. Not quite my cup of tea but can appreciate their niche and artistry. The vocal harmonies are interesting and uncharacteristically musical for my image of this scene.

Heavy ass rock/metal? It goes really hard! Not sure it's for me though.

Really enjoyed this! 3.5

Although I was just a baby during its heyday, I have a sort of vague familiarity with this era of rock music due to the media I engaged with growing up. It's definitely an iconic sound that deserves recognition, and I guess this album is as good an example of it as any, even if I don't necessarily love it myself. There are some pretty good songs here but a lot of it does really feel like it blurs together with how long the record is. I imagine that with a few more listens I'd come to appreciate the individual tracks more, but such is the unfortunate downside of being assigned a new album to listen to every day; if it doesn't immediately grab you, you're inevitably just going to move on. Favourite Tracks: Them Bones, Angry Chair, Rain When I Die

Packed with emotions but I won't listen to ts again

Та самая музыка которую слушал стереотипично бунтующий подросток из начала девяностых, из какой-нибудь семейной комедии. Ну да ладно, давайте не будем притворятся шо мы не знаем что такое Alice In Chains и её Dirt. Все мы всё прекрасно знаем. Альбом культовый для жанра гранж. Жанра, поклонником которого я особо никогда не был, если честно. На самом деле, слушаю AIC создаётся впечатление что именно из них вырос весь дальнейший пост-граж с вот этими всеми Creed'ами и прочим. Soundgarden с Pearl Jam я подробно не слушал, чтоб утверждать это про них, но с AIC определенно повеяло их влиянием на этот пост-гранж нулевых. ВПРОЧЕМ, на Dirt достаточно любопытных треков и интересных гитарных запилов, чтоб он уже звучал самобытнее всего пост-гранжа конца 90х, начала нулевых. Но для меня это как-то.. слишком прямолинейно, что-ли. Недостаточно изъёбисто, или типа того. Так ничего кроме ранее прослушиваемого Would? и не зацепило. Если бы здесь были дробные оценки, я бы поставил чёто вроде 3.7/5

Lots of grunge bangers to be had here. I’ve only listened to the album front to back a couple times but Rooster, Would, Down in a Hole, and Them Bones have stood the test of aging more so than lots of music from this era. It’s not the first thing I’d pull off the shelf but I enjoyed the listen.

Lots of radio classics on here for me. This is a band/genre that always works for me but also doesn't necessarily stand out and knock my socks off either. Almost like easy listening but in a heavy way.

Fine, not super memorable. Rain When I Die my favorite

Makes sense to me why it’s so celebrated. Didn’t vibe as much as I would have thought given I’m a huge nirvana fan

I don't think metal is for me, but I appreciate it for what it is. Highlights: Rain When I Die, Down in a Hole

Classic AiC album, highlight is Them Bones for me

I’m not a huge grunge fan (except Nirvana who I love), but I prefer when they pull from Metal influences like this rather than funky wakka-wakka guitars (looking at you, Pearl Jam)

These guys are pissed off. Boring as anything, but that one sound they have definitely rocks.

If you want to know what exactly grunge is this is the album for you, relentless in it's grungeness. 3.5*

I like this more than I used to after this listen but still find it a bit stodgy- like listening to porridge

90s grunge. To this Seattle kid, it just sounds like home. This weighs on the heavier side of the genre, with more roots in metal and hard rock. Them Bones Rooster Would?

Começa muito bem, com músicas icônicas, mas fica repetitivo com facilidade. Ainda assim, é um bom álbum.

Wish i liked more

For this style of music, this is actually very good.

Solid, rocking album!

don't really enjoy Layne's voice, but respect what they're doing

Classic hard rock grunge

I didn't like it at first but it did grow on me by the end of the first listen. Rooster is a great track.

Reminds me of when I used to watch Beavis & Butthead in the 1990s. Good memories, angry music, but not necessarily high quality.

I owned this album back in the day, and while I think it starts great and ends great, it's kind of a slog in the middle. The singles are great -- "Would?" and "Them Bones" are the highlights here, but "Rooster" and "Angry Chair" are pretty good too. The rest I'm not that into. 3.5 stars.

Pretty cheesy for grunge although Rooster is fairly fine. Would have preferred another Alice Cooper record. Even Alice Deejay would have been better. (Probably alone on that one.)

I can see why so many people love this album. 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘵 has a huge, oppressive sound, and the vocal interplay between Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell is easily the strongest part of the record. The atmosphere is there from beginning to end. What keeps me from rating it higher is that the album rarely surprises me. It spends so much time locked into the same dark, grinding mood that, after a while, the songs start to blend together. I kept waiting for a moment that would really pull me in or change the album’s direction, but it never quite arrived. By the end, I was left with a lot of respect for 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘵, but not much desire to revisit it.

Never listened to them before! Makes me instinctively want to turn it up to 11 in a good way. I’m not overly enamored with Staley’s voice or many of the choruses, though I love it when the guitar absolutely rips into the bridges or interstitials. The lead guitar is amazing. At first I feared each song would feel too samey, but it sometimes surprised me. The sludge is truly deep but when I’m (rarely) in the mood for that this record will be one I turn to now.

Not as bad as I thought it would be judging from the cover

I don't love the songs but I believe I would enjoy playing this music on guitar. Maybe it could grow on me with a few more listens. 3/5 for now.

Doesn’t have the same impact on me it once had, but some of those tracks still hit hard.

Realizing these guys were my gateway metal band. Nutshell off Jar of Flies is so moody (and i n c r e d i b l e) that I had thought of them as more squarely grunge/whatever Radiohead is. But Dirt (the song) is inarguably metal-ly. The minor key sets them apart for sure.

not a huge Alice In Chains fan but Layne’s voice really is from another world

good!

"Dirt" is Alice In Chains' best album, which isn't saying much. God, are they depressing. That may be the point, but you can sound cool while having depressing lyrics; just look at Guns N' Roses. AIC can't quite pull it off though. Playing downtempo hair metal riffs does not a good band make. Perhaps the only impressive link in the chain that is the band's members is Layne Staley, whose limited vocal range but high power set him apart from a lot of the 90s grunge bands.

3.80

somehow I always an thrown off by how different alice in chains sounds in comparison to their reputation. simultaneously Softer than I always expect in terms of rock but also harder than what sounds good for their whole Thing. anyways the guitar was good

Them bones - 3/5 Dam that river - 3/5 Rain when I die - 4/5 Down in a hole - 3/5 Sickman - 4/5 Rooster - 4/5 Junkhead - 2/5 Dirt - 3/5 God smack - 2/5 Hate to feel - 3/5 Angry chair - 3/5 Would? - 4/5

I enjoyed this more than I expected though to be fair, I thought I was playing Alice Cooper for the first half of the album...

Excellent but not quite Jar of Flies

Drugs out here singing about how junkies are annoying the shit out of them and making their lives miserable... deep... I feel so sorry for the drugs... Down in a Hole is a masterpiece. But for the most part, this is a background album. It's not bad, but I can't say it's very good either. Kinda boring. Everyone has already heard the best songs from this album anyway: Rooster, Would?, Down in a Hole. The rest got exactly as much attention as they deserve. But still, it's not a bad album, especially if you just put it on in the background. 5.5/10

Chain Me Up in Rehab! --Vibes-- Keeping it a buck, this album rage-baited me. All of the tracks are so in-your-face with their darkness and primitivity that they wear you down. The way the first song kicked in was energizing, but then the second one also packed their own consistent jabs, and after a while, you are like a sickly Victorian child praying for the waves to stop. I went like liking what I was hearing for the first 15 minutes, then halfway through, I started wanting a trusted adult and a warm blanket. --Melodies/Instrumentals-- I enjoy the fact that each record has its own coherent melody line and progression. Though, as stated above, they are so relentless in their pace and timbre that I was drowning after a while. Some of the chorus lines also were resolved weirdly phrasing-wise, which lowkey edged me and pissed me off. --Vocals-- I could tell that the vocalist is good in his crafts, cause dude had some lungs on him. It requires a lot to consistently sing at the volume and timbre that he did. But some of his dragged out and slurred pronunciations were choices that genuinely baffled me, and I KNOW they were choices because genuinely who say some of these words the way he did. --Final Rating-- 3/5. My early college self would probably rate this closer to a 4, but for better or worse, my mental health got better so I have a lower tolerance for angsty morbid hooting and hollering now. The further I progressed along with my listen, the more I felt like the woman in the album cover. I can objectively see that most of the songs are well-produced with thoughtful lyricism and gut-wrenching vocals, but emotionally it made me feel ill. --Stand-out Tracks-- Rooster, Dirt, Angry Chair

https://youtu.be/AzF3j0wQ6EU&t=6s Obligatory “Them Bones” + “Rooster library add”. “Would?” was like really good too :) I usually don’t feel “I’m gonna listen to this again” on my 3/5 ratings but every song was at least good. No low points here really.

Gosh this listens a lot darker than it did when it came out.

If you're gonna be grunge, be grunge. I could feel the flannel rubbing my nipples on this one.

I love Lane Staley as a vocalist. My favourite Alice In Chains is the Unplugged and the Jar Of Flies EP. This album has good tracks but I can’t bring myself listening to it on the regular.

If I were in a slightly better mood, I might bump it up, but I'm just not totally feeling this today.

It's hard to give a good review to a band you don't really like. I really don't care for Alice In Chains but as a teenager, was surrounded by those who loved them. I never got it. Today I can say that I get it but it's still not for me. I am giving it a 3 because I recognize it's good. It's just someone else's good.

Never really got into these guys in the '90s. It feels nostalgic now, even though I don't recognize any of the songs. Lollapaloozish. Honestly I don't much care for this album: too dirge-y for me. Some of their later stuff I like better. Love the Angry Chair though. So angry!

wow honestly um this if me in the forest by myself drinking and being scary

Didn’t fully listen, but didn’t mind what I did listen to

It’s Alice and chains

Wasn't a fan. Too long. Not a fan of the vocals.

I was never much of an AIC fan. Their music never did it for me. I think it was because the singing and the music never yelled to me. It always sounded like two songs being overlapped. However, some stuff on this album wasn't too bad. Dam that River worked, sounded cohesive. The music is GREAT, probably top 5 favorite pre-2000s guitar sound. Drumming repetitive but serviceable. I realize now just how influential this band was! Gave Creed, Nickelback, and then everyone who copied them a blueprint.

Surprisingly, not as bad as I thought it was going to be. I was actually surprised by some songs.

Können Alice in Chains etwas dafür, dass ihr Sound so oft kopiert wurde? Nein. Trotzdem klingt es rückwirkend etwas Klischee-behaftet. Die Songs selbst sind gut, gut laut, teilweise berührend rau. Man möchte aber auch manchmal einfach sagen: wenn das so scheiße ist was du gerade nimmst und du das merkst, mach doch Reha und nicht noch eine Grunge Metal Song.

5.5/10

this album was horrible and I hated it but somehow I left the experience impressed and respecting the bit

Grunge was generally a bit heavy and bleak for my tastes, but I did listen to the punkier stuff like Nirvana and Mudhoney a bit. The more metal-influenced stuff like this and Soundgarden never interested me, and having listened to this, it still doesn't. I'm sure it's fine, but not being interested in the genre, all the songs sounded very similar to me.

Favorite Tracks: Down in a Hole / Rooster / Rating: 3.2 I listened to the 2022 Remaster for this. I know all the singles from this one, but haven't listened to the full album. Some great guitar work throughout, interesting tone and a kind of wall of sound reverb/flange effect really stacked up at times with a few genuine shredding solos. Staley's voice doesn't do much for me. Runs together a bit, but good energy. Sounding a bit dated to my ears; more of a certain time than an all-timer, for me at least.

some g sounds

I think this is meant to be a really good album – it’s on Martin Popoffs 500 best Heavy Metal albums of all-time list. At first, it felt very generic, kinda faith no moreish. Then I got into it but then I kinda lost track. Ambivalent is the word.

The cocktail of panache and regret after eating a cigarette whole. 3.5/5

Har aldrigt varit ett fan, men de va fetare än vad jag förväntade mig

Tengo que admitir que es un álbum del que tengo mejor recuerdo que presente. Es muy bueno, pero nunca me pegó como la primera vez que lo escuché. Would sigue siendo una de las mejores canciones grunge de la historia. Ese final. Me pone como loquita. 7/10

Leuk album met goede muziek maar zou het zelf niet heel snel weer op zetten omdat ik het toch net te zeurderig over vond komen

Sophie - Another band I only really know by name. Never actually listened to anything by them. I enjoyed this, although I can’t say I found any song particularly distinct. But somehow I found it fun to listen to. Classic 90s grunge style. 3/5

I'm not a great fan of grunge, but I didn't mind most of the album. It's very dark and it does become a bit much after listening to the whole album. Nevertheless, I did like some of the tracks.

acutally kinda liked this one

Good, but more for winter instead of spring and a bit repetitive

It started strong but I felt like it got too repetitive too fast.

Only knew the first one from tony hawk and thought the band is just a Metallica ripoff. Buut its actually not that bad. Sometimes bit too much tough-guys-with-a-heart-riffs

Rocky

I think singers voice is unique and a welcome change. Lots of great alice In chains hits on this album, but listening to it all back to back, didn't realize how long their songs seem and I didn't enjoy it that long. Songs for me are better as pallet cleanser in a playlist than back to back

It's probably blasphemy, but these songs all kinda ran together. God Smack surprised me, and Would? is a good finisher.

Feels very 90s in a way that isn't appealing to me.

I know this is good but I just dont enjoy it that much. A little goes a long long way

guter grunge, konnt man sich auf jeden fall abhören

me gustó, nunca había escuchado uno entero de Alice. Pesadito igual jaja, quedé con el bocho gigante. Pero tengo algo de metalero muy en el fondo de mi alma, así que me la banqué. Me gustaría escuchar otros discos a ver que onda

This is a good album. I feel it’s overrated but still a good album

Out of all the grunge albums I've listened to so far, "Dirt" resembles more heavy metal from the decade before it. Where "Superunknown" was hard rock and "Nevermind/In Utero" were (noise)-punk, Alice in Chains went down a different path. Probably not in the right headspace to listen to this right now. Even if I were having a bad day this wouldn't be the first thing I'd put on.

Iconic 90s sound. They were not my grunge band though. Two or three HOF bangers. And the rest…

Review - never been a big fan of this band, but honestly this album isn't bad. The singer's really good. The guitar's really good. They do some fun stuff with time signatures and rhythms which other grunge bands weren't doing. They're a little metal-y. But I think what I've always disliked about them is that the very bad, later "post grunge" bands were mostly aping their sound, rather than Nirvana or Soundgarden etc, and so I've tarred them with that same brush. But it's not their fault that the guy from Creed wished he was the guy from Alice in Chains. It's like Nietzsche with the Nazis - it's not his fault that everyone who liked him was terrible. Rating - 6/10 Need to hear? YES

Bij een aantal nummers hoor ik vage shit op de achtergrond, een of andere sample met een gesprek ofzo. Leuk om eens te luisteren maar niet echt bijzonder

Also sounds very generic to me, but presumably because they helped create the sound? It's not bad, it just feels so much like what I listened to as a teen, I have a hard time taking it seriously.

Overall Rating - 2.92/5 (5.83/10). Ultimately, a very forgettable album. Early grunge, and not bad, but not that good, either.

Some of the lyrics sound a little vith form now, but some great tracks on here.

metallll rrraahhhhh

This was ok. I really like the hits by Alice in Chains. They have really catchy hooks and cool guitars. I think the reason their good songs are so effective is that the verses are so dark and heavy, and then there is an awesome chorus. The songs without those choruses are mostly boring and heavy in a 'i don't want to be hearing this' way. A greatest hits album by them is a 5, but they have too many songs that don't connect with me for me to listen to a normal album all the way through regularly.

Just as annoying as your little brother. 3/5

If this is what Spencer heard when he listened to Metallica, then I understand. But, I still respect the artistry of it and can see a time when this might be what I need to hear that time of day to get me going. Rooster might be my fav.

Loud!! Not sure why Linkin park did it for me and not this

Not bad, listened through a few times.

Man, the way they can intertwine melody into heavy is amazing.

cool grunge, i accidently listened to this album like 6 months ago so that's a vibe LMAO.

I love AIC but love their slow. “Swamp rock” style rock better than their harder, grunge sound. Still, classic album with plenty of great tracks.

Har store problema med vibratoen i vokalen. Klare ikke overse det. Ellers e det jo ofte ganske interessant. Them Bones e noe av det beste vi fikk av grungen🤝

Grunge med sterke emosjoner. Låtene blir litt for likelydende.

Alice in Chains’ Dirt is one of those albums I can admire from a safe distance. Coming from a love of the Pixies’ off‑kilter sparkle and the Smashing Pumpkins’ dreamy bombast, the Seattle grunge scene never fully pulled me into its orbit—and Dirt reminds me why. It’s a masterclass in mood, but that mood is unrelentingly bleak. There’s no denying the craft here: the harmonies are haunting, the riffs hit with precision, and Layne Staley’s voice carries a rawness that still feels dangerous. But the album is steeped in addiction, despair, and emotional claustrophobia. For someone living a clean, positive life today, that darkness doesn’t feel cathartic so much as something I don’t need to revisit often. Still, Dirt earns its place in rock history. I can appreciate its impact, its honesty, and its influence—even if I don’t feel compelled to dwell in its shadows. A solid three stars for an album I respect more than I enjoy.

Ok

1992 was the peak of Houmous & Chutneys rock era. Always amazes me that other bands even tried to 3.4 6/13 Rooster

First listen I heard the metal, didn't like it much. Second listen I heard the grunge, it sounded a bit better. Third I heard it as a heroin album, okay that makes sense now. The next two levels in my journey would probably require life experience to appreciate, so I'll leave it there for now.

3.5 Could do with being a bit shorter

I am familiar with some grunge music; Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden etc, but haven’t had much exposure to Alice in Chains. I really enjoyed this albums and picked out a few songs I was familiar with from long ago. Very enjoyable listen. Some very dark lyrics. 3 stars. Fave track - rooster

Enjoyed this Musically engaging

6/10 No es mi estilo, gritos innecesarios.

okay but too long

Good for a drive - energetic

not my vibe but good musically

It sounds like I should be into grunge but I really am not. This is an album with 2-3 amazing power ballads (Rooster, Down In a Hole and Would) and then a lot of chugging boring heavy metal. The metal bits are actually much better and more powerful on their first album, Facelift. Here it’s a snooze fest. Anyway three starts for notability and the ballads.

Initially not something that caught me, i prefer Nirvana but dont know much grunge. Later i got a but more into it but unlikely i will listen again. 3.5 stars

I realise that apart from Nirvana and Mudhoney, I didn't listen to a lot of grunge. What I have heard on this list hasn't excited me much. Chugs along in that 90s way. Songs too long, too many tracks. Not the worst though. 2.5 rounded up Heard before? Some Owned: No 50/220 (22%) Will I get: No

Pretty good, 3.4

Growley emo cotton wool mouth gunna sing ya about ddruuggs

Not my favourite grudge metal band, but all is good here.

No estoy acostumbrado al heavy, pero la verdad es que es un album que he disfrutado más de lo que me esperaba

again no es mi estilo de música pero lo puse de fondo mientras leia y no se me hizo tan pesado.(aunque sigue siendo un álbum largo a mi parecer) amo el sonido de la guitarra en todo el album. Me gustó mas que el anterior pero en efecto, no lo volvería a escuchar

Can’t go wrong with Alice In Chains. Rooster is always great listen.

Is there going to be a metal album (according to 1001) that I like besides them awesome Black Sabbath records?? How many ACDC, cock rock, Limp Bizkit and grunge albums am I gonna have to go through before the next one! I don't want to be the I hate metal music guy, I love metal music! I'm sorry Iron Maiden I should have rated you higher I don't know what I was thinking! You know I don't hate this, this isn't something I'd listen to of my own volition but it's fine, I get why people like this.

I really wanted to dive in to Alice In Chains before and this was a great one to start with! Down In a Hole Dirt These are my favs.

Grunge is such a weird genre in retrospect. Really nirvana was a complete outlier and this is more like the typical grunge sound. I enjoyed listening to it. But not so engaging that I imagine I’ll come back and listen again.

Solid grunge here but nothing too special.

Fuzzy guitar and driving bass make it unmistakably grunge, but it has a darker, heavier bent. There's a heavy metal soul to this. "Would?" is a favorite, and "Rooster" is solid, but other tracks left me wondering how long till the next track. Distinctive sound with some Soundgarden vibes, but Layne Staley was never Chris Cornell.

6/10

I don’t typically listen to hard rock/heavy metal but I do think this is a good album.

Good to revisit. Still don't like the vocalizations, but the guitar licks are pretty awesome.

Not a huge grunge head but you know what I enjoyed this more than I was expecting, big walls of angst that feel pretty all-consuming in quite a nice way. I think these guitar tones that would have felt really dated about five years ago have benefitted from the revival of this kind of aesthetic so it actually feels quite fresh. This is still just not the kind of music I'm that into, but I was pleasantly surprised by it. 3 stars but would give it an extra half if I could.

mid

Some bangers and then some very samey sounding tracks between the bangers

pretty good its like nirvana but better

It's fine, Alice in Chains isn't my favorite personally

not really my thing

oh Stu LOL you must be thrilled (I hear you can't buy a thrill these days HAAAA) Steely Dan today - yay!!!! As for Alice in Chains, never could vibe with their sound, too dark, menacing and threatening - all that wailing in that key is depressing. Talented musicians but only 2 tracks on here I like

It feels like having butterflies in your stomach. I can't tell if it's excitement, fear, anxiety, or something else. All I know is it is present, lingering, and steady, persisting throughout the album. A steady strumming in my belly.

AIC was a phase that I went through that embodied a dating phase that I went through. It was great at the time but I left it all behind.

The highs are really high. The lows are just mediocre, generic sludge rock. Still, not bad. 3/5

I feel like I should have liked this more. But I never made it there.

Okay. Didn't love it, didn't hate it.

Good. Big 90s grunge vibes

Bättre än jag förväntade mig, men också för långt för det den erbjuder. 3.5.

Thanks to Headbangers Ball I was pretty early to AiC. “Man in the Box” was just different enough from the metal bands to keep my attention, but also seemed, well, kinda disturbed. But with big choruses! Dirt took that further, probably too much for normie teenage me. One song about a problem with heroin? Cool, speak your truth. A whole suite? Mostly in dirge form? Hmm. But, the songs that hit still work for me and Cantrell’s playing goes well past the metal trappings of the non-grunge bands they were initially associated with. It’s no wonder this is such a formative record for genres that followed.

More towards the metal end of the Seattle grunge groups with this album which is probably one of their better ones early in their career.

Some really cool stuff on this but often feels like a repetitive soundscape. A little bit too metalic for my taste. Alice In Chains is warranted as being one of the big 4 of grunge, but they are behind Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Nirvana still in my book.

I think this gets better the more you listen to it, which is good, but at impact I've found the instrumentals not varied enough, probably because grunge is not my favourite genre (I don't dislike it though, like I said, it probably would take me more than a day to get used to it. A good album overall, I just don't like really coesive albums.

just dont like the nasal ahhhhhh voice

The highs of this album are incredibly high. Opening track rips, Rooster and Would are fuckin amazing! Vocally top performances in the genre ever. Second half of the album drags for me, a few skip songs too many.

This album is a bit of a mixed bag for me. The highlights are some of the best songwriting examples of the grunge era in songs like Down In A Hole and Rooster, with some amazing vocal performances in songs like Rain When I Die, Junkhead, and Them Bones. There's some good riffs, interesting rhythmic changes, effective harmonies, and some interesting structures and progressions. But the flip side is how depressed it left me feeling. There are many songs with no tonal centre or intentionally dissonant chord usage that - while theoretically interesting - left me feeling unsettled lead my mind to wander. There are also some pretty lacklustre and forgettable verses that just drag when compared to highs this album. Best song - Rooster Notable mentions - Them Bones, Down In A Hole, Rain When I Die

meh

J’ai besoin de le réécouter

3/5

It's a shame that Alice in Chains often gets relegated to B-team grunge status behind the stratospheric success of Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I suspect that their music is a bit less accessible than some of the other bands. Like Soundgarden, Alice in Chains is closer to metal, whereas Nirvana was more linked to punk, and Pearl Jam was closer to straight-forward arena rock with a serious Gen-X bent. Dirt can be seriously creepy at times. I've always loved the harmony vocals and sludge of Alice in Chains, but they just don't hit me the way they used to when I was a teen. So, how to rate this album? It's a grunge classic from the start of my most formative years. It's an excellent representation of the genre, but that genre just doesn't do it for me much anymore. The punchiness and raw testosterone from the chords were incredible when I was a young teen. I still get excited when one of the hits from this record comes on randomly in a playlist or a cover band in a bar strikes one up, but I'm not really seeking out Alice and Chains at this point in my life. This is probably a four-star quality record in general terms, and of course, fans of the grunge era will probably like it even more than that. It's a personal three from me, though.

I was into the whole grunge thing at the time, but not Alice in Chains so much (I was a Pearl Jam girly). Nonetheless, I did enjoy hearing this album again.

Classic

3/5

Solid, pretty dark, a bit of a slog in subject matter wise and there are no out and out bangers but good production and musicianship and pretty consistently decent

Never listened to them before but quite liked this album, it's quite punky but borders on metal. I'd definitely listen to more of their stuff!

Not my thing but I can see why people are fans

It is probably not wise to judge a band against itself, but this album is limited in my mind as it competes against Jar of Flies which I am more partial to. Still solid, however, and I like the memento mori theme!

Sludgy as hell. I always dug how Staley and Cantrell's vocals worked together. Favorite song: Would?!

6.3/10

Not my type of album, it sounded too repetitive for me.

esta bueno, nada del otro mundo

One of the grunge giants but I liked their second album Jar of flies much more.

meh, all kinda sounded the same, not really my vibe tbh 3

1/12/26. I was feeling too soft for this album today but still not bad. 6.5/10

I'm excited to listen to this as I don't listen to a lot of Heavy Metal. First impression is it's pretty solid. It's heavy without screaming so I'm in. I think I can understand the appeal, however i'm not so into it that I'd search and listen to it. However, if it were on at a party I wouldn't turn it off. This feels like an album you'd crank in a garage by yourself when you're feeling sad and crush some beers. Then cry a little.

This one rolled around while I was an angsty teen, it was good timing. Dark, heavy, and tortured sound with exceptionally good production. It’s not a daily listen for happy people, but it has its place.

More of a mood piece than an individual track piece, I enjoyed playing the whole album from start to finish. But I don't think Grunge is really for me.

I dags album var lidt bedre. Stadig ikke helt min smag men jeg kunne godt lide det lidt

Like there are some bangers, maybe in a different setting I would enjoy more. Fav: Would?

Nice sound

Has not aged well, repackaged hair metal for the grunge era.

It’s not my cup of tea, but I appreciated the lyrics and the harmonizing. I was almost warming up to it by the time I got to Would?might be worth another listen, but I’ll give it a three for now, reserving the right to change my mind.

Very heavy grunge, great guitar riffs but repetitive feeling lyrics

i can see some appeal in this as well it

First song was pretty great but this album is so fucking edgy. Yes, yes, we know you are a sad boy.

Heavier album than I expected and not a sound I would lean towards normally. Some great guitar work on this album which I can hear echoes of other bands of the era. Not a bad album, just not my cup of tea.

Very good rock album, deep and personally on drug addiction and coming up from rock bottom. An easy and strong 3.

sick man was good

começou bem paulera logo de cara,, eu tava gostando bastante mas aí perto do meio começou a ficar meio repetitivo e eu não tava mais tão interessada. foi de um 4 pra um 2 mas a última música eu achei a mais diferenciado então subiu pra um 3

This made me think of the line "Her CD changer's full of singers that are mad at their Dads", from Bowling For Soup's "Girl All The Bad Guys Want". Rage, misery, brutally expressed in metallic grunge

I liked this a lot. I would only re-listen to a few on the regular. LOVE rooster, God Smack, Down in a Hole, Would. Sickman and Rain when I die were alright.

It has a very dark and heavy sound, from the music to the vocals and themes. It was an interesting and intense listen, but good overall.

I resonated with this album a bit. It did feel like a long album but some songs hit just right. I did already know 2 songs in there but the extra songs around them are good. It was a great first listen through and I am already looking forward to my next listen but I am not sure I'll be able to listen to the whole thing again. The drums are what I mostly vibes with, that drummer is amazing and the guitar has some riffs that I vibe with for sure. It's definitely an album that I've been sleeping on for a while so I am glad I got to listen through the whole thing now. 7.6/10

really cool rock sounds, superb instrumentals- but it's not my fav kind of sounds, I imagine a rock head would 1000% love this album

The guitar in Them Bones was really good. Whole album reminded me of Soundgarden & Pearl Jam, now wondering how I missed this band the first time around.

Beim Lesen des Namens der Band kam mir nicht in den Sinn, so ein "Metal"-Album zu hören. An sich ordentlich harter Klang, aber mir fehlte etwas die Varianz zwischen den Liedern.

Solid record, the singles were definitely the strongest tracks but there were a few others that came close. Definitely would benefit from cutting 2 or 3 of the weaker songs but even those had some cool ideas. 3.5

Net schlecht

released 1992 (2022 remaster album). heavy metal / rock band formed in 1987. songs i already knew: none songs i liked: dirt facts: lead singer layne staley died of an overdose of a speedball (mix of speed and heroine) age 34 part of the ‘big four of grunge’; others are nirvana, pearl jam and soundgarden

fave songs: rain when i die down in a hole rooster 3.5 🌕🌕🌕🌗

To me I wasn’t a huge fan of the album. I liked the guitar and bass riffs. Would? was my favorite song on the album. A lot of the songs had similar vibes. It just wasn’t for me.

Metal. Too much metal. Decent album with a few recognizable songs. Too much metal. Pitchfork: n/a Rolling Stone: n/a Best Songs Rooster Would?

- uskotteko kotona, mulla ei oo yhtään alice in chainsin biisiä soittolistoilla - dam that river, potkii - sickman, potkii - miten mä tykkäänki näistä vähiten kuunnelluista biiseistä - never forget vh1 mainospätkä missä soi would - ei paskempi levy, iha jees

Not bad. Just not bad

Album #11: Dirt - Alice in Chains Genre (according to Wikipedia): Grunge, alternative metal, heavy metal, hard rock Singles?: Would?, Them Bones, Angry Chair, Rooster, Down in a Hole Have you listened to this album or anything by this group before?: I have listened to this album once before. I have also heard “Man in a Box” and “Get Born Again”. Thoughts?: This is one of my mom’s favorite bands. I enjoy Rooster and Down in a Hole, and I have listened to this album. I like the concept, despite it being depressing. What an intro to start the album. I like depressing music, but I feel like because I’m a sensitive individual, certain music is overwhelming (like hip-hop or specific rock). I’m nervous about the listening experience here. Maybe it’s pretentious of me to say. Favorite songs: Them Bones, Dam That River, Down in a Hole, Sickman, Rooster, Junkhead*, God Smack, Angry Chair As a writer, what can you use this album for to hone your craft?: Darker, depressing scenes deserve this type of music for inspiration. But I’d sit and listen many times first. I don’t want to be insensitive. File correlations: File #009: Force Devils (certain scenes)

Super heavy but good, a little angry sounding

Something about this didn't then and doesn't still appeal to me. Too heavy? Too much butt-rock remnant? Not sure. I like one song a lot, the rest... less.

Not my favourite grunge band of the era, and grunge is not my favourite genre, but this was not bad.

There were some good things about this album. Brought me back to 90s alternative radio for sure.

Heard this one almost 20 years ago. Doesn't hit the same. Some great riffs but too long and a bit too samey. I'll give it a 3

Not what you need to be in a chill mood. More so if you wanna be moody. It did appease my temporary moodiness though.

Considered listening a second time to follow the lyrics, but it's just too loud. Perfectly fine album, almost wish I could give it 4 stars. Just can't imagine listening to that much noise all the way through again, willingly. If this was my style it would rank high. - Pop metal? What is this... I don't hate it tbh - Probably too loud to get a 4 either way, but I am enjoying it

53/1001 First listen. I love the big names in grunge but just never got into Alice In Chains. I have heard the singles but never listened to them. I could get into this album though and will revisit this band again in the future based on everything I heard between the singles. 5/10

Missed this music while my kids were little. Good. Just good.

Music good. Singing style is interesting but a no for me.

Everyone I hung around with played this album a lot, and I did. It was on the juke box where I worked. Patrons liked to play it. I heard it again and again and again. And again. Metal grunge. Heroin withdrawal depression music. Great time!

This is a good, albeit too long, grunge album. Grunge isn't one of my best jams but damned if Alice In Chains doesn't have some bangers. Top tracks: "Rooster," "Them Bones," "Would?"

not quite my tempo, I can appreciate what it is. Prime Matt Linville Listening hours for sure.

--Them Bones...power stance! --Dam that River...solid --Rain When I Die...like the guitar work here --Down in a Hole...getting a little long --Sickman...this is weird. not sure if it's my brand of weird --Rooster...sudden urge to grab my crotch --Junkhead...mildly interesting sludge --Dirt.../checks watch --God Smack...not digging the vocals --Untitled...interlude --Hate to Feel...I like the heaviness --Angry Chair...what did you do to the chair, Layne?! --Would?...is that a heavy bass intro? don't mind if I do

Doomy, grungy, and lots more

A bit too hard to be found on most "divorced dad rock" playlists but could fit into the genre. Has some good stuff. The melodies in particular hit pretty universally on this project. 'Them Bones' solo was great. 'Dam That River' solo was also great. Honestly, guitar work all over this project is fantastic. Favorite song: Down In A Hole/Would? Least favorite song: Rooster

Cool

Inte så bra som jag mindes den. Rooster är en monsterhit men resten är bara ok. Tungt välspelat men utan hookar. En trea

Rooster

Rooster time

Some compelling songs and really nice riffs, but ended up not feeling as exciting or impactful as I was expecting going in. I also never really got into the singer’s voice.

There's a lot going on here--some of it I like, some of it I find irritating. For me, it's just too much all at one. It's overwhelming. I can see why people love it: the music, the vocals, the atmosphere of it all. I can also see why people hate it, for all the same reasons. What a sad existence Layne Staley had.

This has a harder rock tone. I loved "Them Bones" and the talent on guitar.

Pretty solid - didn't pay much attention to them at the time. One of those bands that are good, but didn't particularly catch me.

Grungy goodness though it's way too long. There are some really good songs like "Rooster", "Down in a Hole" "Hate to Feel," and they keep things interesting most of the time. I enjoyed the layered vocals and more complex rhythmic structures. But, come on, almost an hour is too much and on one song in particular ("God Smack") the vocal was like nails on a chalkboard with an exagerrated vibrato that made me want to gouge my eyes out.

Album was alright, some groovy beats in there and I liked Them Bones, Down In A Hole, and Rooster, but it could feel a little generic/samey at times and the lyrics are a bit too heavy for these songs to be something I will be returning to again and again

Bom que já começa num AAAAAHHHH hehueuheuhe. Vibe massa de cara já, me lembra a banda dos brother... Álbum vai pra uma vibe mais tensa e pesada que não costumo curtir tanto. Rooster é legalzinha, curti. Voz do cara é bem foda. Álbum legalzinho, algumas músicas muito foda, mas não é tanto meu estilo, então dou 3 estrelas.

Popular grunge band that I have not listened to, really. Recognized some of the songs, but as I am not a huge grunge fan, I'll only give this three stars since it has some of the band's best work.

I had the Singles soundtrack. That was enough grunge for me in the 90s. This wasn’t bad though; I enjoyed the sludgier songs more than the guitar solo-y stuff.

Was already a big fan of Them Bones for a long time. Obviously Down In A Hole, Rooster and Would? are classics. Great album!

Grunge but a little more polished, big vocals and production on this. Didn't love it but liked it enough, maybe another or listen or 2 is needed.

I'm already familiar with the album from late school/early university and enjoyed the singles when working on homework so this has a strong nostalgia vote going for it. The rest of the album isn't quite strong enough, maybe it needed some more variation to help the heavy elements shine again.

Enjoyable grunge album

This Alice in Chains album is punishing, absolutely the heaviest thing we’ve had so far It’s a bit grungy for my tastes but the more metal elements appeal to me and the expression of the feelings and experiences on display are challenging but I think worthy of putting into song, and I think the brutal music does them justice Not quite for me but happy to see some darker and heavier music on the list, going high 3

I somehow missed AIC the first time around. I think they were big during the -10 years I was mostly listening to singer-songwriters. This is pretty good but seemed monotonous after a while. I should listen to more of it.

meh

Nice discovery! Dark and energetic

Some amazing guitars! I like the use of the different pedals to give the guitar a different feeling. Each song sounds very different without losing ''their'' style.

Nostalgisk lyd, selv om jeg aldrig har lyttet meget til dem.

2.5 alright lot of the same sound not amazing but didn't dislike it

Still unsure if this one aged well. It was a great narrative though, from start to finish.

Rv

Dirt? More like Dirge. I've tried to listen to this before and that did no favours. Look it's fine and I can listen but nothing really stood out apart from Down In A Whole. The lowest of 3s. Give me melody!

It's a lot heavier than I expected, which is good. The guitar playing is pretty great, I'm not a massive fan of the American rock sound, they always seem to go big and stay there. I prefer a bit more nuance. Not being overly familiar with all the output it feels very similar to pearl jam vocally (I'm sure I just don't know enough. And it has elements of Scott Weiland and Chris Cornell, although I am more familiar with (and prefer) bits of their work. With it not having too much in terms of dynamics or movement into other genres it was a lot at nearly an hour long. An acoustic ballad wouldn't have hurt to break it up a bit, or perhaps something less stereotypical. I may try again one day, I quite liked it.

A band I never really got into at the time, always preferred Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots and Nirvana. First half of this is pretty strong though, but it does run out of steam after Sickman for me

Decent but still prefer pearl jam & nirvana

Could’ve been 10 songs shorter otherwise banger.

Kelpo metallilevy.

90s were a trip. Glad I heard the non radio songs on this album, I didn't realize how damn moody the lyrics were (when I could understand them)

Okay classic rock. Nothing crazy.

Standouts Them Bones Rooster Would?

It starts off as a 4 star album with some insane vocals, melodies and riffs. However it does drag on a little with a lot sounding like sub par grunge songs. A solid 3 from me!

I had heard the singles but never the full album. Listen to it twice through, I think I got it now

I've listened to a couple songs off of this before. From memory: grunge-y sort of late 90s rock edge with some pseudo goth undertones? I will admit I have a massive bias for album art, it can make or break an album for me, and in this case massively breaks it for me. I'm not the biggest fan of rock grunge, especially when it seems so 3 door down / creed - adjacent, but I recognize with this album that's probably a case of it being so influential it becomes the norm. A combination of classic rock, grunge, and alternative metal that ends up being a blur of same-y sounds.

Better than I remember. Great guitar tones.

A solid listen

Na gut, noch ein Grunge Album. Wobei ich dieses hier zu den besseren zähle.

okii yay

not bad

Grunge broke just as I was getting my musical identity, but Alice In Chains passed me by. This album is fine, but nothing really stood out for me. I may dig it out again, mainly because I know I should listen to them, but I’m pretty sure my next listen will be as if it was my first. Three stars, and a solid top-half of that three, but nothing quite here yet to make it four.

Staggeringly important record that I've just never understood because grunge outside of Nirvana and the first few Pearl Jam records has never been my thing. It's possible I gave this album one full play through back when I was listening to the Time Crisis hosts discuss it maybe on the 30th anniversary. It still felt like I had never heard "Rooster" until the first quiet part of the chorus so I'm embarrassed to call that my first really standout track. The chorus is pretty memorable though! "Would?" would not in fact be one of my favorite songs of 1992 like rateyourmusic would have you expect by ranking it number 1 for the year.

Not really my cup of tea, but it was okay.

Was more metal sounding than I expected

To repetititve

American hard rock. They're good. Just not amazed by it

I've never really listened to this band much, but I didn't hate this. It's adjacent to a lot of bands that I really love, but it didn't click as much.

It’s funny, I was just reading a bunch about Layne Staley a few days ago. I used to listen to this one a lot, but it’s kinda showing its age. Or I am. It's not as good as Madvillainy.

I went into this album expecting shitty grunge-metal—not because it's bad per se, but because it's been so over-referenced to death in rock culture that I assumed it would blend into the weeds it spawned. Fortunately, I was wrong.

Best Track - "Would?"

Mildly interesting

Some pretty cool grooves and songs. A little longer than necessary but at least it finishes on the best track.

nice head bobbin while i look for work