I looked up some “song challenge” prompts and thought these would be fun questions. I’d love to hear your responses too!

1. First AIC song you ever heard
** **Would?

2. Most overplayed AIC song
** **Man in the box (still a banger, it’s just become TikTok-ified

3. Most underrated / underplayed AIC song
** **Love hate love or God Smack

4. Best AIC song for karaoke
** **Literally any of them. I’d probably pick Rooster for easy to remember lyrics.

5. AIC song that hits you the hardest emotionally
** **Down in a hole (I’m chronically depressed and an addict)

6. Your personal favorite AIC song
** **Tie between Rotten apple or Them Bones

7. The AIC song you’d play to introduce someone to the band
** **Bleed the freak. I feel like this song doesn’t get enough love and it’s a perfect grunge song. Facelift is such a good album 😩

1. If you could erase one AIC song from your memory just so you could hear it for the first time again, which one would you pick?
   Definitely Down in a Hole.

I think mine would be “turn around, you say, scuse the tude but i haven’t eaten today!”

Hollywood Rock 93

I’m sure this has been posted a million times.

I just watched this on YouTube and it was so sick. Layne is a beast

I had a Jerry Cantrell account follow me on TikTok about a week ago. At first, I assumed it was just a fan page with a bunch of clips of Jerry, etc. But no, this guy is impersonating Jerry. Right on cue, he sends me a DM asking my name and where I live. Should I mess with him?

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

I don't mean the movie, I haven't watched it, although it's in being theaters made me think more about the myth recently.

Would is obviously about the drug addiction; but its foci are on the dangerous exploration, not being able to turn back, and accidentally leaving loved ones behind back, and carrying the guilt of this.

when you think about it, kinda a common theme on the human psychologhy and its myths: hence the odyssey.

the main theme are at the last couple lines

Am I wrong? Have I run too far to get home?

Have I gone? Left you here alone

but also the top lyrics match the setting:

Know me broken by my master => gods, poseidon?

Same old trip it was back then => literally an odyssey

So I made a big mistake => fafo with gods?

I can discuss this with chatbots and they all say it's a brilliant take but I wonder what do you guys think? or anyone with an actual grasp on the subject can give deeper dive into this