Alice in Chains | 
 enlarge | Artist: Alice In Chains
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Rating:  144 reviews
Sales Rank: 124187
Media: LP Record
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.2
UPC: 074646724811
EAN: 0074646724811
ASIN: B000002B89
Release Date: October 31, 1995
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| Tracks:
| • | Grind | | • | Brush Away | | • | Sludge Factory | | • | Heaven Beside You | | • | Head Creeps - Alice in Chains, Staley, Layne | | • | Again | | • | Shame in You | | • | God Am | | • | So Close | | • | Nothin' Song | | • | Frogs | | • | Over Now |
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 End of an era December 24, 2008
tommy brooklyn (Erotic City)
Alice In Chains were the band that signified that a huge change was coming for the hard rock scene in the late eighties. Introspective lyrics, haunting harmonies, and Jerry C. This album represents the end of an era for a generation that refused to go quietly, and in the process, left their mark on rock music. Cantrell does a nice job of mixing up the hard-edged cuts with a couple of mellower tracks. This is the last studio album you'll ever get to hear with the soaring, shining Layne & Jerry harmonies. For that reason alone, it's a classic.
 Dark Final Album November 18, 2008
Corey Turner (NH)
As many of you may know by now Alice In Chains have reunited, having William DuVall step into Layne Staley's position. Staley passed away in 2002, rest in peace buddy. So while "Alice In Chains" poses as the bands last studio album with Layne, it may not be their final farewell.
Anyways, the self entitled album is much darker then their mega hit "Dirt". Dirt was more aggressive and was noticeably dark, this album is much more passive and releases a much gloomier haunting aura of things to come. AiC have composed songs that weave amazing vocal melodies, and you'll find them here as well. Jerry Cantrell manages to belt out a few more guitar licks that are as memorable and hooky as ever. The band seems to approach these songs with a mildly slower manor.
Opening with "Grind" a slush of guitar effects soak up the intro, and Layne's vocals noticeably different (well some effects were added for this song but continue listening to it, sounds lower and more jaded). The song manages a catchy chorus and released an alluringly odd music video. "Brush Away" details the sense of late arrival, and disappearances, and just the overall carelessness.
Four rather long tracks appear "Sludge Factory", "Head Creeps", "Frogs" , and "Over Now". Sludge Factories guitar wanders helplessly, look at the lyrics "Now the body of one soul I adore wants to die
You have always told me you'd not live past 25
I say stay long enough to repay all who cause strife".
The album to say the least is pretty messed up. "Head Creeps" isn't much brighter and is much thicker too (not to mention creepy). "Frogs" guitar serves as the spine, and never changes too dramatically during the eight minutes. At the end, you can hear Layne almost testing words in a trivial feel. "Over Now" is probably the most accessible of the four. After a brief static dotted intro, and a trumpet the song begins to really flesh itself out. Dry kicking guitar, and a song as ominous as Nirvana covering "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" for MTV Unplugged. It's like the band could just leach each others energy and just flow with it. One always seems to dip slower throughout a song.
Some of the other accessible tunes include heavy hitter "Again", and acoustic based "Heaven Beside You". The album oozes of depth, and is to be taken in consideration that this isn't a radio friendly album. Songs drift too long, some tracks progress too far, and overall isn't as hook ridden as some of the other grunge bands albums. Alice In Chains are thought to be a 'grunge' band, they are highly unique and draw upon dark punk material as well as metal.
So with Layne's last studio AiC album we have one of the darkest albums to date. From the powerfully deep "Frogs", to the short rocking "So Close", to the requiem like "Over Now", AiC left no terrain untouched. This is an album that sinks in with every listen, and should be a staple to your collection.
TRIPOD DOG WAS A GOOD DOG.... October 10, 2008
wally gator (USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Me and my buddies used to hang out on these train tracks. At the time they were abandoned, and were an excellent place to hide out and chill, when we were in high school. There were a few interesting stops along these abandoned train tracks, but one spot was the one where we were frequently visited by the Tripod dog. Yep. Tripod dog, would take off from his owners yard and visit us often. And since most of the time, we were all somewhat off our tree's, alot of the time we would sing round offs to him, of Alice in Chains songs.
While most people don't seem to regard the Tripod Dog album as highly as other AIC titles, I can't understand all of the one and two star reviews. I think this album has tons of great music on it, which showcases a few different facets of this band. The album is however, defined by three tracks. The first being HEAVEN BESIDE YOU, which in my opinion is THE best metal ballad of the nineties. It's slow and doomy, with great lyrics, and is presented in a way that instantly sounds like a classic. No one could ever nail the harmonizing vocals so perfectly, and it adds a sense of beauty to this dark ballad.
The next, takes the two's harmonizing into a different gear, with the thunderous AGAIN. That track is creepy, but makes you want to pump fists, and really sort of dances on your brain at the same time. The first time I heard this was on the radio somewhere between being asleep and awake in the middle of the night. Never left my head. A total first class rocker. Tripod Dog totally dug it.
And then theres OVER NOW. This tune is quiet and nice, a mellow groove, which sounds alot more positive in retrospect to the rest of the album. "It's over now, but I can see somehow..." The harmonies don't go to waste here either.
Now unfortunately the rest of the album doesn't qualify on masterpiece terms like the rest of AIC discs did, but I don't think much of it is throw away. Some songs come off a little to abrasive in the mix, where this would otherwise be a really sublime kinda late night spin- but those three tracks alone are definitive nineties rock staples. And also I really always liked the artwork in the liner. I have this bit on vinyl, and the artwork is bigger and more defined, making this album a definite keeper for my collection.
God bless Tripod Dog, wherever he is.
Crunchy, Existential Grunge December 11, 2007
K. Dowdell (Seattle, WA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
AiC's final studio release fittingly projects a sense of finality and closure...songs like So Close, Over Now, and Head Creeps echo a sort of haunting acceptance of a cruel fate that perhaps Layne Staley was anticipating in the near future. Nonetheless the grit and existential nature of much of the album comes with crunchy guitar and wailing riffs to spare...a culmination of the "dirt" that had been AiC's signature until then. A good listen in accompaniment of some cynical circumspection of today's society and those who are left behind.
Great acoustic sounds in Over Now and Heaven Beside You, sludginess in Head Creeps and, yes, Sludge Factory, and introspection in Shame in You and God Am.
 The strain starts to show - easily their worst November 22, 2007
finulanu (Here, there, and everywhere)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This contains one of the most boring songs ever, that I'll say right now. That song is called "Sludge Factory". Dear god, that song is awful! I shudder when I hear the high-pitched singing at the start, the lyrics are pure uninteresting crap, and musically it's just generic AIC. It's a bad song! Oh, and seven minutes of it? Um, no. Wikipedia called it "One of the more popular songs on the album" or something like that, but whoever wrote it must've been the kind of hardcore AIC fan who'd give this mess of an album a 10. And that's not its only problem: there are a bunch of "generic AIC" songs on here: "Shame in You"; "Brush Away"; "Head Creeps"; "Nothin' Song"; "So Close" and "Frogs" are all uninteresting melodically, don't have anything new to say, run out of steam way before they end, and in fact make up 7/10th of my "bottom 10 AIC songs" list. You can also find "Hate to Feel", "Whale & Wasp" and "Love, Hate, Love" on that list, if you were wondering, which I'm sure you weren't. A couple songs do have some cathartic force ("Over Now"; "Again"; "Grind"), "Heaven Beside You" makes for a great "light-and-shade" song, similar to Led Zeppelin's "Over the Hills and Far Away", but in a minor key, and "God Am" makes excellent use of synthesizers. But as a whole, this is one sad album. Kind of like that dog on the cover.
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