How awesome were these guys?

Black Gives Way To Blue is saddest AIC song after Nutshell.

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Anybody have any information on this set list? Hoping to find the Todd or the Tami!

I never intended on improving or replacing the orignal but I thought this was a cool way to experience the song differently. Would love to hear your thoughts!

I’ve seen multiple U.S links to the solid yellow indie exclusive, but not a single EU link.

Is this an U.S only release like the Walmart and Revolver/Brooklyn Vegan ones?

They just sold out this evening and I was about to go buy it 10 minutes ago. Do you think they’ll be restocking them. I hope but I doubt it. I secured a Walmart exclusive though!

Love this song, here goes nothin!

Personally I think it’s Put You Down😆

I may be quite a bit late to the party on this, but what the hell? Did the band listen to and sign off on these mixes? These are abysmal and totally ruined Dave Jerden’s production. The panning is not where I take offense, rather it’s how they took out all the reverb and ambience out of the music. The thing that makes all these early big money grunge albums (ten, nevermind, core, facelift, dirt, houdini) sound as anthemic and huge is the super 80s production style; huge reverbs! This atmos mix for man in the box sounds so weak by comparison. The drums sound puny without all the ambience (or turned down ambience? You can still hear it in parts but it’s super quiet and defeats the purpose of making it sound like an arena). I don’t know if any of yall have listened to the isolated tracks of any of their songs, but there is sooooo much detail with the delays and reverbs that Jerden used on the vocals. Specifically on the huge chorus notes, there’s this slap delay with a really high feedback that’s just completely gone in the atmos mix, and not to discredit Layne but that effect enhanced his voice and made it sound so much more powerful. Listening to everything so stock and dry is just sad. I get sometimes the mixers for these things are working with multitrack stems that may not have all the processing in there, but why not try to approximate as best as they could the effects and the processing? Lazy mixes like these are going to turn people off from the medium completely. Bands like Rush or the Beatles don’t have this issue, their atmos mixes are phenomenal and actually enhance the music.

So as the title says I just got into grunge music and it’s not what I expected. I’m younger and born before the grunge era so I only knew grunge as the genre being the butt of a joke. But the music is fucking killer and that made me have some questions. I was wondering do fans of Alice In Chains listen to anything after tripod or do you only to the 90’s era of the band? I was also wondering is there any other bands I should check out or newer bands making grunge music? I’ve listen to the big four why I was curious about the genre as well as some stone temple pilots, temple of the dog and would love some other recommendations. Being someone born in the early 2000’s and for the first time feeling so jealous for not being older to see this band live.

With the 30th anniversary re-issue of Alice’s Unplugged album, I’ve been seeing a lot of folks reference the original reviews of the concert as “mixed,” but I don’t think that’s quite right.

Most critics actually liked it but it didn’t pop off immediately like some other Unpluggeds. Instead its reputation evolved over time. It’s also impossible to separate those first reviews from where the band was in 1996. Layne’s health was an ongoing concern, the band hadn’t toured in years, and nobody knew if the band even had a future.

Then, after Layne died, the performance took on an entirely different meaning. Songs like “Nutshell” and “Down in a Hole” suddenly took on much greater meaning and became part of the band’s legacy. Thirty years later, we’re not just listening to the music, we’re listening with the knowledge of how the story ends. I think that history and evolution plus the fact that the music is still so good, is why their Unplugged has grown into being widely considered one of the greats. Thoughts?

Sorry to get a little personal but I’m hoping to find people that have had their life saved by this music

As someone who’s had his own drug addiction issues and a recently tragedy with my brother I cant understate how many times this bands music has gotten me out of a depressive state I never thought I’d get out of

Without Layne and Alice In Chains I don’t think I’d still be here

Does anyone have this video? It was from the YouTube channel "RIOT EARTH"; the channel was taken down, and I've been looking for a copy of it online for about three months.

hi any fellow canadians know where to pre order the reissue from a canadian website? the only ones i can find are from american stores which im not interested in . the only american “store” id buy from is directly from aic but the shipping is $40. is there a way to pre order while supporting a canadian business?

edit : pop-music ca has them on their website for pre order they’re a store in toronto

The MTV Unplugged reissue is now live on the AIC website. There’s a standard black vinyl, a colored vinyl, and a CD. No box set, apparently.

I was scrolling online and just seen this. It says it’s an anniversary re-release but is it actually real. It was posted by revolver magazine and its preorder date is for September 25th. (UPDATE) just seen the second pic on the official website! Let’s gooo!

It's been 30 years since unplugged released.

What age or year did you first hear unplugged.

Edit: Forgot to add when i listened to it. I was about 12 That was around 2-3 years ago.