@1Publicnme This was their best album...without question. I've listened to this entire album hundreds of times and it still means just as much to me as the first time that I listened to it. It is probably top 3 on my list of all time albums. It is an absolutely amazing album. This was probably right before Lane started to get into drugs really bad...you can tell it in his voice...when he sings this song it still gives me chills.
@Vertigo2903 or you could say why do the best take drugs? heres to you man, may the good lord shine a light on you KICK OUT THE JAMS MOTHERFUCKER UP THE IRONS FROM LOUISIANA
The first time I heard this song was when I was clearing out my stuff from my girlfriends apartment after deciding to break up. It will stick with me forever
@letmeliveonceagain They're somewhat similar,yeah.It's a common,instinctive chord progression and strumming pattern.A lot of Western-world music has fundamental structural similarities like that.
I was gonna wait ti'll Swing on This to post on this,But it's been some time sense I've listened to AiC and I've seem to lost my way and forgotten how much this song hits home on so many levels.Thanks Lane and the boys for bringing life into some kind of perspective.Best damn song ever!!Thanks for posting brother.
What part of the human race is touched by music. I mean we are kind of like birds maybe in a sense. I don't know its indescribable when a song hits you in a way that you can't explain.
First time i hear this song, wow just wow. I love alice and chains but have never heard this tune. Now i need to go and buy every album to see what else i missed
people dont commit suicide bc theyre "weak." many are addicted to deadly substances and suffer from depression. both of these are real diseases/disorders and they are a deadly mix. ask any dr. and theyll say so. layne was addicted, plain and simple. just bc heroin or whatever sucks the life out of somebody it doesnt mean the person is weak. many people beat their addictions, but it's a lifelong struggle. it's a shame layne didn't. its okay to tell an addict to stay strong, but dont ever say the
@avzeolla doctors cant understand a users mind,but they can try with their books and degrees.If u let yourself go and open your mind I bet you would be using like me and it aint so bad....LAYNE STALEY LYRIC FROM JUNKHEAD.He got high cause he wanted to
I still believe this was their best Album ever, something other contemporary "rock" bands should emulate. Putting real emotion into their music, rather than just screaming and being pissed off all the time.
This makes me think of a good friend of mine that passed away. It's hard to say goodbye, and at times I think of suicide, but I imagine her saying "Don't Follow."
@StoopidGinger That can go both ways, one can be too weak to deal with life and others can be too weak to say fuck the system...fuck the pain and actually check out of it all. Most of the people I knew who commited suicide were really strong rebelious individuals who were not content with the way they had to live because they were very sick and tired of suffering. Killing yourself takes a lot of guts, so does staying on for the ride. So dont judge anyone until you been in their place
@19wayfarer19 you are correct sir. But its epic when he starts the solo by himself "Forgot my woman ,lost my friends...killer.wayfayer, so are you just a raybans fan or do like the Don Henley song as well, I don't know, Boys of summer is it?
I had this argument since my last year of high school. Everyone assumes (reasonably) that pleasure is the point of human life. I'm telling you, smarter people (with less pleasure!) will chronicle the future for future generations. In other words...
We don't give a fuck about partiers from 100 years ago DO WE
anyway you're not talking timeless genius. Michael Jackson is not Shakespeare and if you think he is fuck you. Sorry but really. The demands of a bunch of drooling people who managed to buy a house and a couch do not matter to this discussion, and feel free to quote this statement wherever you want to. True genius is NOT FOR SALE.
Yep the 90's, Seattle bands were the sheeeit, but we also were given
Smashing Pumpkins, Jane's Addiction, Tool, RATM, as well as QOTSA later in the decade. The current crop of music couldn't hold even one of those bands jockstrap.
Dude, I know. You even forgot like 3/4ths of them there are so many from the 90's. But hold on to hope. Maybe the 2010's will hold something for us. MGMT is pretty good. Maybe they are a sign for things to come.
like almost all of them.. Jerry's a lyric genius, has a great voice.. Layne is to me the better vocal i heard since i start listen music, years and years ago... god bless him at the heaven!! Rock In Peace, HERO
My wardrobe is nothing but band t-shirts, jeans, and button-up shirts. Some of them plaid flannels and some of them solid colors. Me loving grunge music is a completely unrelated with my lazy style of dress.
you know that's wat every gen says bout' the next...the 80s bunch said why ever did pussy cobain have to come by and make it seem like it was wrong to sing a fun record...
It gets lame when every single band plays nothing but "fun" records though, like it was in the 80's. This generation pretty much all music sucks......
yeah, Mickey Rourke's character says that in "The Wrestler" too.
The thing is, every generation thinks the next generation's music sucks, but it's not completely relativistic. The 70s was good, the 80s sucked, the 90s was good, the 00s sucked, and you can tell that because 70s music has outlasted 80s music. The pattern is a decade of sellouts followd by a decade of people pissed off by corporate whores. And good music just lasts longer; it leaves a legacy, whereas disposable shit doesn't.
every generation says it...yes...but you seem to be saying it with such definite conviction!
the 80s produced some of the greatest movements and records in all pop...it was the birth and proliferation of metal...hip hop took shape there...the music video took shape...alt. rock was born...so it's a real tough bet to say the 80s "sucked"...and wat exactly is a sell-out?...someone who makes what people want...not definitively!...that could just be an entertainer
I was supposed to say that Alice in Chains didn't stick out in the media back in the 90's which Nirvana did. I was acctualy trying to say that Nirvana was overhyped and Alice in chains should get more attention but whatever, Im from Sweden and my grammar kind of messed up in my other comment. Don't get me wrong, Alice in Chains is my favorite bands of all time. I deserve a -8 comment for my bad grammar :(
alice in chains got a lot of airplay in their day, but I guess the media fixated on Kurt Cobain as the representative of Generation X - he was probably a little more presentable than Staley, Cobain had a wife and kid, but Staley had a heroin addiction -- which one is easier to sell? (8^/
Layne-Y dude was just freak'en peach-Y I thonk...& this herion thingy WTF-ever...maybe in the last cupla years man...I don't belive the written lies, at all...dude was way too talented to do so...so ya they were differn't then Nirvana...was main stream sell-able...that is the differance.
@DiscursiveSoul You know Layne and Kurt was good friends before their success.. on a darker note they did shoot up together at someone's place in Aberdeen.
Alice in Chains did get their airplay, that's how I even came to know of them, but they didn't have a cute little puppy-eyed cynical sale-able front man like Cobain - seems like the media jumped on Nirvana for that reason - Staley was a little too hard-core for mass media advertising - plus it's always more pop-star-like to have a band leader who both sings and plays guitar, there's that pop idol mystique going on (yes Staley played guitar but not all the time) - I like AIC better
grunge, industrial, and metal - 3 awesome genres in the 90s - started in the 80s - totally UNDERGROUND. the 80s was dominated by pop and hair metal. the popular shittiness meant that good music was encouraged underground, only to emerge fully formed with a lot of anger at being ignored in favour of crap, around 1989.
as for the outlasting comment - I'll bet people will be buying Pink Floyd for a lot longer than they'll be buying Def Leppard.
as for the conviction I'm saying with (lol I see your humour, you're right that I was trying to say this common thing with uncommon confidence - but that's because I have reasons as you'll see), here's my reasons:
there's party music and then there's art music (of course good and shitty versions of both).
But 20 years later party music is good for nostalgia. 20 years later art music is still genius. Feel free to disagree but now you know why I said what I said.
I guess (to equal your 3 posts) what I meant was, the 70s continues to draw new listeners. New people can come to 60s/70s art music like pink floyd, the doors, dylan, etc, and I think the same thing will occur with alice in chains - kids not even born yet now will discover this legacy and like it when they're 20, 20 years from now. I just don't see that happening with party music.
the doors...lol...sorry, that's pretentious art at it's zenith...sex, alcohol and indian mysticism...oooh...
kids not born in the 80s are swinging to a lot of the stuff that was put out then...midnight oil, depeche mode, talking heads, r.e.m. to loads of glam...you're also very categorically speaking about rock...and forgetting a lot of the other genres...
That said, you're wrong. I''ll bet that if some martian scientist compiled a statistical summary of the interest in music per year, versus the people who were just interested in it because it was on the radio/televsion/internet that year, you'd find a damned high spike with bands like, for example, Joy Division.
We remember GODFATHER II these days cause it kicked ass. A LOT of movies were released that year. You can Prince it up all you like.
you're talking underground "critical" opinion appeals...interest in music leads to it's sale...it's just as simple as the industry's dynamic...and if there is an interest in a particular band/act...they will be on radio, tv or the internet...the scale of their exposure depends on the amount of interest they generate...Joy division only remains to this day a flash in the pan, culturally and industry-wise...influentially a lot more...
I guess what you're saying is that you're emphasizing MAJOR influence (ie the public) whereas I'm influencing REAL influence (ie on the history of music, ie on people who matter). I divide music into art/inetegrity on the one side, and whoredom on the other, for a real reason. Maybe tomorrow's whores will like today's whores. May they achieve eternity that way. The next Dante, if I'm not mistaken. Sorry, fuck whores. Here's my view: enjoy it: fuck corporate whores. Dante didn't write a jingle.
ha ha...history of music!...im talking bout' exactly the same thing...and i can even get into it detail by detail and break it down as to how and why these pop records re-wrote "music" history...but well, you'd rather "art" a 4-band music genre filled with bands who went to award shows and then cribbed about being there...
alright well congratulations on your insistence. I have a friend like you whose opinions I value very highly exactly because he argues against everything I believe in.
Anyway, take no further implications from this, but in my view there's an emotional range which indicates the sophistication of the being which experiencing. See Maslow's pyramid of needs. More to come.
What I mean is that I have this assumption, that I'm sure you recognize, that catering to a party, is basicaly evil. Palin, Hitler, Stalin, etc. My view is, as I say, fuck normal people. Their IQ is lower, their religiosity is higher, they're retarded. Don't think that I'm not aware of what the consequences of saying this to you are. I just don't care. Enjoy Michael Jackson.
and much like your godfather ii example...we remember thriller today because it kicked ass...we remember purple rain because it kicked ass...and people remember great pop/records records because they kicked ass...so wat's your point?...that more people will remember AIC than...
right!...you're one of those, lol...well live it up in your little world...but it's kinda sad you refuse to even try and see the artistic merit of acts like MJ...
but yeah I've got what certain Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Dostoevsky-appreciating people might cal "a bias against corporate whore upstart advertisers." I think that there is no basis to call anything better than anything else - I really think that. I'm objectively no better than an amoeba or a random insect. That said - in terms of art, I'm talking timeless genius you're talking a corporate whore. Shakespeare's around now. MJ as you call won't be in 500 years.
ha ha...more music snobbery...without a tool for knowledge...here we come!...i'm not talking corporate whore...i'm talking timeless genius too...in fact the kind that has crossed language and cultural barriers...the kind that has touched emotion with sheer sound and motion...and another definitive statement about MJ!?...of course, you're the artist...you'd know better...
but in hindsight...AIC is "timeless genius"...merely asking?...
musical longevity remains to be seen...it's tough to say what people will and wont remember...but grunge will certainly never out run glam on the popularity scales...on artistic counts, yea probably...on popularity and sheer radio play, not ever...simply because as a genre it is not as accessible in it's sensibilities, in comparision with glam and the like...
you're really bracketing stuff down...art music and party music...there's party music that has great artistic value...Prince, for instance...has made a load of wat was called "party music"...but with artistic innovation...and all art music isn't necessarily genius...genius can be in simplicity plenty of times...
and why again do you think that pop is shit!?...some of the most complex, socially reflective and sonically brilliant records were the biggest pop sellers of the era...thriller, purple rain, so, like a prayer, delicate...etc...
i can't believe that this music is generating so much "old rock is awesome" comments. This is still new stuff to me. well...sort of. yeah, it's been 15-20 years now, but after suffering through the cheap crap of the 80's, the 90's stuff seemed amazing then, and after that it's been crap again. so yeah...i guess i need another beer.
Men without Hats, Flock of Seagulls, Wang Chung, were just a few along with Duran Duran that kept me off the regular rock station dials in the 80's. It was a dead zone for rock with a few exceptions but wasn't worth the pain of listening to that crap just to hear one good song every now and then. I just found out yesterday what I thought was an AIC song was done by Mad Season!
Wow, what a great song. I agree with everyone, this is real music. I was born in 94 and I prefer Alice in Chains, and other older rock bands rather than the crappy music they have now. Sure there are some catchy songs, but nothing compared to the masterpieces that the real rockers created, especially Alice in Chains. And Layne, you're my inspiration. I wish more kids my age liked this music. RIP Layne, Well meet one day. =]
It's great to see someone in the younger generation who appreciates great music. I was born in 62 and there was a period during the 80s when the mainstream rock music was a bunch of crap from Austrailia like Duran Duran. I wouldn't listen to rock on the radio then unless it was classic rock. Then in the 90s when bans like Alice in Chains came out I was back to listening to rock radio again.
Yeah, Duran Duran sucked except for one song, nothing compares to Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden. I loved growing up in the 90's, where all of the great music was created.
wait...what? duran duran and aic??? yeah, okay, that thoroughly confused me. duran duran was fine for what they were, and actually kind of artsy in their own way, but...yeah, no. just mentioning them in the same sentence with aic without something like "these are opposites" is a beatable offense.
absofreakinglutely, i'm of the same age, and rock is basically late 60's, 70's, and 90's. Note a conspicuous absence? Of course there was the 50's. but that was before my time, and while i can appreciate the rock from that era it d
I missed these tunes. The CDs r all scratched up, fuck you drug haters
fetalbetal 1 day ago
fuck you amphetamine ;(
vicek669 1 week ago
Jar is really where they started peeking as a band.
1Publicnme 1 week ago
@1Publicnme This was their best album...without question. I've listened to this entire album hundreds of times and it still means just as much to me as the first time that I listened to it. It is probably top 3 on my list of all time albums. It is an absolutely amazing album. This was probably right before Lane started to get into drugs really bad...you can tell it in his voice...when he sings this song it still gives me chills.
LordTepes81 1 week ago
this is the only song that can take me some place else in my head. if you know me then you know this. and you know what im feeling right now
rizzodv 3 weeks ago
fuck drugs...morrison..joplin..staley..cobain...hendrix...why do u take the best
Vertigo2903 1 month ago
@Vertigo2903 or you could say why do the best take drugs? heres to you man, may the good lord shine a light on you KICK OUT THE JAMS MOTHERFUCKER UP THE IRONS FROM LOUISIANA
TATELANDDOG 1 month ago
Long live the depressive '90s!
jjhatnm 1 month ago in playlist Music
fuck you methadone
shystar92 2 months ago
fuck you methone
shystar92 2 months ago
The first time I heard this song was when I was clearing out my stuff from my girlfriends apartment after deciding to break up. It will stick with me forever
benhaminmarin 2 months ago
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Soneillion 2 months ago
Song gets stuck in my head, this and rotten apple
forceadeptjedi 2 months ago in playlist The fucking idiot's playlist
My favorite singer of all time, what soul he had. RIP friend
djcygnusx1 2 months ago
Miss u Layne,... This song 4ever reminds me of better times in my life,.. The early 90's kiked fuk'n ass,.. Luv ya man,.. RIP Layne,... jg69702
coring11 3 months ago
baby
Socotrine 4 months ago
love this song !!
TheBAYOUBRAT 5 months ago in playlist TheBAYOUBRAT's favorites
Respond to this video... this is a great,one of my favorites from AIC!
Dankstar326 5 months ago
@letmeliveonceagain They're somewhat similar,yeah.It's a common,instinctive chord progression and strumming pattern.A lot of Western-world music has fundamental structural similarities like that.
chibblywubbly 5 months ago
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chibblywubbly 5 months ago
If only I could find the harmonica tabs for this song... That harmonica makes me feel like everythings going to be allright in a weird, sad way.
greedostick 5 months ago
Great Jam ... Hippie Skippy Ready To Party !
TheCornCobbers 5 months ago
@TheCornCobbers my type of party
IllinoisPawnShop 5 months ago
Jar of Flies is such a good album. Fuckin A!
TheTruthSayer1 6 months ago
Number uno song when Im sad.
NikolaDrummer 10 months ago
dont forget to thank god for alice in chains rock on
babo430 1 year ago
FUCK YOU HEROIN!!
covinafalconer 1 year ago 29
@covinafalconer I lol'd so hard..
oceanborn05 1 year ago
@covinafalconer ROADHOUSE.
myewgul 6 months ago
@covinafalconer FUCK YOU DRUGS ALL TOGETHER.
GiGaPLExxx128 3 months ago
Alice chains never failed to amaze me there legends ...
subfloyds 1 year ago
talent, creativity, inspiration, light and darkness...................AIC forever
TheFrankbone 1 year ago
why did he ever have to leave us??
Mr1337k1ng 1 year ago
i hope he`s home now!!
trifili 1 year ago
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trifili 1 year ago
if christianity is true, i hope this is played when the angels descend down to earth from heaven.
dustin2006 1 year ago
this is the greatest acoustic album ive ever heard
sfh113 1 year ago
I was gonna wait ti'll Swing on This to post on this,But it's been some time sense I've listened to AiC and I've seem to lost my way and forgotten how much this song hits home on so many levels.Thanks Lane and the boys for bringing life into some kind of perspective.Best damn song ever!!Thanks for posting brother.
xXRairXx 1 year ago
Still love this song every time I hear it.
celestejonkman 1 year ago
What part of the human race is touched by music. I mean we are kind of like birds maybe in a sense. I don't know its indescribable when a song hits you in a way that you can't explain.
MrButtbanger 1 year ago
*lighter*
Skreech666 1 year ago
They totally should have done this for unplugged.
tinmanluver35 1 year ago
First time i hear this song, wow just wow. I love alice and chains but have never heard this tune. Now i need to go and buy every album to see what else i missed
350ztech 1 year ago
@350ztech Hope you got some and have discovered how awesome Layne Staley was. He was amazing.
copycat33633 1 year ago
people dont commit suicide bc theyre "weak." many are addicted to deadly substances and suffer from depression. both of these are real diseases/disorders and they are a deadly mix. ask any dr. and theyll say so. layne was addicted, plain and simple. just bc heroin or whatever sucks the life out of somebody it doesnt mean the person is weak. many people beat their addictions, but it's a lifelong struggle. it's a shame layne didn't. its okay to tell an addict to stay strong, but dont ever say the
avzeolla 1 year ago
@avzeolla doctors cant understand a users mind,but they can try with their books and degrees.If u let yourself go and open your mind I bet you would be using like me and it aint so bad....LAYNE STALEY LYRIC FROM JUNKHEAD.He got high cause he wanted to
Driveshaft12345 6 months ago
It's ALLLLLL in da group consciousness baby!!! LOVE YOU AIC RIP Staley yer shit live on brudda!
JerFhilm 1 year ago
THIS SONG TOUCHES MY SOULLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!
covinafalconer 1 year ago
One of my most favorite songs ever.
Enteri47 1 year ago
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Layne's voice hits me so hard in this song
coonscrib 1 year ago
Layne's voice hit's me so hard in this song.
coonscrib 1 year ago 7
Goosebumps........
chrishaven76 1 year ago
the harmonica sounds like heaven...
BeingCoolIsMyJobMan 1 year ago
very underrated album
tittyj2020 1 year ago
ahhhh the goodtimes
13mayhem17 1 year ago
timeless classic. i remember when this album first came out, i have no clue where it went
MrEvenflow98 1 year ago
i love this
tlpank46 1 year ago
better days baby !!!!!!
cjaeger1968 1 year ago
Anybody remember this one.......Hands up if you do!!!!!!!!!
1BiTcH2 1 year ago 2
this is a very good song and very good album! 1st album i bought by A.I.C.
LtGeneHavoc1 1 year ago
I never get tired of this song i always loved it becuz u could hear tha emotion in laynes voice..u could tell he was miserable...RIP layne staley
SmashingPumpkinsTV 1 year ago
I still believe this was their best Album ever, something other contemporary "rock" bands should emulate. Putting real emotion into their music, rather than just screaming and being pissed off all the time.
ccpickre 1 year ago 3
God i miss Layne soooooo fucking much
MrJingleheimer 1 year ago 10
This makes me think of a good friend of mine that passed away. It's hard to say goodbye, and at times I think of suicide, but I imagine her saying "Don't Follow."
mrtall1994 1 year ago 14
@mrtall1994
only the weak contemplate suicide. dont be weak
StoopidGinger 1 year ago
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wadefk3vr 1 year ago
@StoopidGinger That can go both ways, one can be too weak to deal with life and others can be too weak to say fuck the system...fuck the pain and actually check out of it all. Most of the people I knew who commited suicide were really strong rebelious individuals who were not content with the way they had to live because they were very sick and tired of suffering. Killing yourself takes a lot of guts, so does staying on for the ride. So dont judge anyone until you been in their place
wadefk3vr 1 year ago
Bose Companion 3 series. Old, but still rocks!
Krupification 1 year ago
this is the best song ever made! Beautifuuuul
Dushaful 1 year ago 2
classic
sistir23 1 year ago
This CD was stolen from me when i worked at the Pelicans, I haven't heard it for so long. I've missed it. :(
AlgonDelgo 1 year ago
take me home ya.....take me hoohohahhome.....never sound so beautiful
beAVENeasy 1 year ago
we use 2 jump bridges bumping this cd
holt3134 1 year ago
awesome how did you bump the cd, car speakers??
scrumtralesant14 1 year ago
this should have been on their unplugged playlist
steelgrunge 2 years ago 11
Why is my mum not answering her phone?
This is fear.
I feel so hopeful that my friends and family are not alone.
Fuck, damn it!
Share now, don't hesitate.
aghoranathi 2 years ago
@aghoranathi ~_~ You're an interesting person, aren't you? ;D
PurityandDeath 1 year ago
the whole song is incredible, but the part where layne comes in kills me
mistersam92 2 years ago 4
Yeah forget all the noise... just take me home LORD.
DDT777 2 years ago 4
hang in there DD
edhatesit 2 years ago
My fav song..
diddles123wtf 2 years ago 2
I CAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
eSportsFocus 2 years ago
I lovely this song - beautiful
spivmistr 2 years ago
holy tits, someone take the soapbox away from mawhar
thendcomes 2 years ago
chill song! feels wonderful!!
Krupification 2 years ago 5
Wow you people are pretentious.
ShangoRBG 2 years ago
Wow, you're a homosexual
tsenamaster 2 years ago
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fuck mj chomos burn in hell
jnjcarreno 2 years ago
Great F-inG song.... and btw.. im glad MJ is dead
jokerdan78 2 years ago
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fuck youI wish you were dead
Faggott
erizk12 2 years ago
at two minutes thirty four seconds, this song turns from great to fuckin amazinggggggggggg
chiefbuckafuffalo 2 years ago 41
Im so glad blues and rock got it on and made beautiful babies like that.
pyrovet 2 years ago 51
@pyrovet Very well put.
ripwalter34 1 year ago
@pyrovet I know right...lol ...
CubanzRunShit247 1 year ago
@pyrovet They're essentially one in the same.
robdog3182 1 year ago
@chiefbuckafuffalo I agree!
copycat33633 1 year ago
@chiefbuckafuffalo Well, thats when Layne comes in my good man, nuff said.
DaveS12382 1 year ago
@DaveS12382 he also comes in on the first verse, in a harmony albeit.
19wayfarer19 1 year ago
@19wayfarer19 you are correct sir. But its epic when he starts the solo by himself "Forgot my woman ,lost my friends...killer.wayfayer, so are you just a raybans fan or do like the Don Henley song as well, I don't know, Boys of summer is it?
DaveS12382 1 year ago
@DaveS12382 what the fuck!? are you a telepath? how'd you know that? I fuckin love that tune.... I feel watched
19wayfarer19 1 year ago
@chiefbuckafuffalo totaly agree
lizzykiss441 1 year ago
@chiefbuckafuffalo at two thirty four in the morning, you turn from Christian to pagan.
lifeworld1977 1 year ago
@lifeworld1977 damn aint that the truth...
grasscat1977 1 year ago
I had this argument since my last year of high school. Everyone assumes (reasonably) that pleasure is the point of human life. I'm telling you, smarter people (with less pleasure!) will chronicle the future for future generations. In other words...
We don't give a fuck about partiers from 100 years ago DO WE
mawhar 2 years ago 2
anyway you're not talking timeless genius. Michael Jackson is not Shakespeare and if you think he is fuck you. Sorry but really. The demands of a bunch of drooling people who managed to buy a house and a couch do not matter to this discussion, and feel free to quote this statement wherever you want to. True genius is NOT FOR SALE.
mawhar 2 years ago
Yep the 90's, Seattle bands were the sheeeit, but we also were given
Smashing Pumpkins, Jane's Addiction, Tool, RATM, as well as QOTSA later in the decade. The current crop of music couldn't hold even one of those bands jockstrap.
Vanoffy 2 years ago 4
Dude, I know. You even forgot like 3/4ths of them there are so many from the 90's. But hold on to hope. Maybe the 2010's will hold something for us. MGMT is pretty good. Maybe they are a sign for things to come.
dantedraco 2 years ago
Jerry's voice doesn't have the strength of layne's.
warrar1 2 years ago
90s rock best period
holt3134 2 years ago 2
how come nobody gives props to jerry cantrell?...
carnevalnbg 2 years ago 3
cuz layne is dead
rocketfingers67 2 years ago
I agree. Both Layne and Jerry were fantastic, together and seperate.
This song was written by Jerry Cantrell
residualbill 2 years ago
like almost all of them.. Jerry's a lyric genius, has a great voice.. Layne is to me the better vocal i heard since i start listen music, years and years ago... god bless him at the heaven!! Rock In Peace, HERO
johnny891000 2 years ago
buddy i give props to cantrell every nite b4 i go to bed. hes the maiine
Bluejaysforevs 2 years ago 2
God bless Layne Staley
MrStones64 2 years ago 2
I grew up listening to AIC! I was so lucky!!!
pete26454 2 years ago 2
One of my top favorite songs of all time.
jjhatnm 2 years ago 3
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blutobelushi 2 years ago
grunge, cant say i miss it at all realy AiC did it for me and glad to see'em bk.
elfsfot 2 years ago
this goes to show you that todays music is garbage gotta love AIC
kief0120 2 years ago
all best comments here i miss the grung time too, great bands , great magic, everyone was trying to be real , human,
and this vocalist, I´ll never forget....
1embletina 2 years ago
gen-x slackerdom, untucked button-up shirts, flannel granola puget-sounders.... i really miss the grunge era.
music like this makes gen-y music look like cheap chinese lead-coated imports.
jbgandhi2 2 years ago
My wardrobe is nothing but band t-shirts, jeans, and button-up shirts. Some of them plaid flannels and some of them solid colors. Me loving grunge music is a completely unrelated with my lazy style of dress.
ComaAlpha 2 years ago
keep telling yourself that, Kurt Cobain.
jbgandhi2 2 years ago 2
you know that's wat every gen says bout' the next...the 80s bunch said why ever did pussy cobain have to come by and make it seem like it was wrong to sing a fun record...
dhillan85 2 years ago
It gets lame when every single band plays nothing but "fun" records though, like it was in the 80's. This generation pretty much all music sucks......
moreoreos123 2 years ago
yeah, Mickey Rourke's character says that in "The Wrestler" too.
The thing is, every generation thinks the next generation's music sucks, but it's not completely relativistic. The 70s was good, the 80s sucked, the 90s was good, the 00s sucked, and you can tell that because 70s music has outlasted 80s music. The pattern is a decade of sellouts followd by a decade of people pissed off by corporate whores. And good music just lasts longer; it leaves a legacy, whereas disposable shit doesn't.
mawhar 2 years ago
every generation says it...yes...but you seem to be saying it with such definite conviction!
the 80s produced some of the greatest movements and records in all pop...it was the birth and proliferation of metal...hip hop took shape there...the music video took shape...alt. rock was born...so it's a real tough bet to say the 80s "sucked"...and wat exactly is a sell-out?...someone who makes what people want...not definitively!...that could just be an entertainer
dhillan85 2 years ago
the 90s was good!?...how...because of grunge...brit pop/latin pop or the boy bands?...
dhillan85 2 years ago
Because of death/black metal, of couse! Grunge was overhyped...badly! But this is a band that sticks out b/c of the atmosphere.
xxxhentaikingxxx 2 years ago
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This band doesn't stick out at all compared to Nirvana.
voro122 2 years ago
@voro122 Uh, Nirvana doesn't really "stick out" either.
grindcore09 2 years ago
People got me wrong :(
I was supposed to say that Alice in Chains didn't stick out in the media back in the 90's which Nirvana did. I was acctualy trying to say that Nirvana was overhyped and Alice in chains should get more attention but whatever, Im from Sweden and my grammar kind of messed up in my other comment. Don't get me wrong, Alice in Chains is my favorite bands of all time. I deserve a -8 comment for my bad grammar :(
voro122 2 years ago 5
alice in chains got a lot of airplay in their day, but I guess the media fixated on Kurt Cobain as the representative of Generation X - he was probably a little more presentable than Staley, Cobain had a wife and kid, but Staley had a heroin addiction -- which one is easier to sell? (8^/
SupernalOne 2 years ago 4
Layne-Y dude was just freak'en peach-Y I thonk...& this herion thingy WTF-ever...maybe in the last cupla years man...I don't belive the written lies, at all...dude was way too talented to do so...so ya they were differn't then Nirvana...was main stream sell-able...that is the differance.
1Nicolinaz 2 years ago
@SupernalOne Kurt Cobain also had a heroin addiction.
liamsmom82 1 year ago
@SupernalOne Don't forget that Kurt Cobain had a heroin addiction as well, although not as severe as Staley's...
DiscursiveSoul 1 year ago
@DiscursiveSoul You know Layne and Kurt was good friends before their success.. on a darker note they did shoot up together at someone's place in Aberdeen.
Garkar2006 1 year ago
@Garkar2006 They weren't actually that good of friends, as Layne once said in an interview. But I did hear about them shooting up together.
DiscursiveSoul 1 year ago
@voro122
Alice in Chains did get their airplay, that's how I even came to know of them, but they didn't have a cute little puppy-eyed cynical sale-able front man like Cobain - seems like the media jumped on Nirvana for that reason - Staley was a little too hard-core for mass media advertising - plus it's always more pop-star-like to have a band leader who both sings and plays guitar, there's that pop idol mystique going on (yes Staley played guitar but not all the time) - I like AIC better
SupernalOne 1 year ago
also 70s music has not "outlasted" 80s music...at all...do please tell on what grounds you say that!?
dhillan85 2 years ago
hey, happy to oblige. this is my view anyway:
grunge, industrial, and metal - 3 awesome genres in the 90s - started in the 80s - totally UNDERGROUND. the 80s was dominated by pop and hair metal. the popular shittiness meant that good music was encouraged underground, only to emerge fully formed with a lot of anger at being ignored in favour of crap, around 1989.
as for the outlasting comment - I'll bet people will be buying Pink Floyd for a lot longer than they'll be buying Def Leppard.
mawhar 2 years ago 2
as for the conviction I'm saying with (lol I see your humour, you're right that I was trying to say this common thing with uncommon confidence - but that's because I have reasons as you'll see), here's my reasons:
there's party music and then there's art music (of course good and shitty versions of both).
But 20 years later party music is good for nostalgia. 20 years later art music is still genius. Feel free to disagree but now you know why I said what I said.
mawhar 2 years ago
I guess (to equal your 3 posts) what I meant was, the 70s continues to draw new listeners. New people can come to 60s/70s art music like pink floyd, the doors, dylan, etc, and I think the same thing will occur with alice in chains - kids not even born yet now will discover this legacy and like it when they're 20, 20 years from now. I just don't see that happening with party music.
mawhar 2 years ago 2
the doors...lol...sorry, that's pretentious art at it's zenith...sex, alcohol and indian mysticism...oooh...
kids not born in the 80s are swinging to a lot of the stuff that was put out then...midnight oil, depeche mode, talking heads, r.e.m. to loads of glam...you're also very categorically speaking about rock...and forgetting a lot of the other genres...
dhillan85 2 years ago
I'm talking rock. I don't deal with pop.
That said, you're wrong. I''ll bet that if some martian scientist compiled a statistical summary of the interest in music per year, versus the people who were just interested in it because it was on the radio/televsion/internet that year, you'd find a damned high spike with bands like, for example, Joy Division.
We remember GODFATHER II these days cause it kicked ass. A LOT of movies were released that year. You can Prince it up all you like.
mawhar 2 years ago
you're talking underground "critical" opinion appeals...interest in music leads to it's sale...it's just as simple as the industry's dynamic...and if there is an interest in a particular band/act...they will be on radio, tv or the internet...the scale of their exposure depends on the amount of interest they generate...Joy division only remains to this day a flash in the pan, culturally and industry-wise...influentially a lot more...
dhillan85 2 years ago
I guess what you're saying is that you're emphasizing MAJOR influence (ie the public) whereas I'm influencing REAL influence (ie on the history of music, ie on people who matter). I divide music into art/inetegrity on the one side, and whoredom on the other, for a real reason. Maybe tomorrow's whores will like today's whores. May they achieve eternity that way. The next Dante, if I'm not mistaken. Sorry, fuck whores. Here's my view: enjoy it: fuck corporate whores. Dante didn't write a jingle.
mawhar 2 years ago
ha ha...history of music!...im talking bout' exactly the same thing...and i can even get into it detail by detail and break it down as to how and why these pop records re-wrote "music" history...but well, you'd rather "art" a 4-band music genre filled with bands who went to award shows and then cribbed about being there...
dhillan85 2 years ago
alright well congratulations on your insistence. I have a friend like you whose opinions I value very highly exactly because he argues against everything I believe in.
Anyway, take no further implications from this, but in my view there's an emotional range which indicates the sophistication of the being which experiencing. See Maslow's pyramid of needs. More to come.
mawhar 2 years ago
What I mean is that I have this assumption, that I'm sure you recognize, that catering to a party, is basicaly evil. Palin, Hitler, Stalin, etc. My view is, as I say, fuck normal people. Their IQ is lower, their religiosity is higher, they're retarded. Don't think that I'm not aware of what the consequences of saying this to you are. I just don't care. Enjoy Michael Jackson.
mawhar 2 years ago
and who exactly are these "people who matter"...?
dhillan85 2 years ago
and much like your godfather ii example...we remember thriller today because it kicked ass...we remember purple rain because it kicked ass...and people remember great pop/records records because they kicked ass...so wat's your point?...that more people will remember AIC than...
dhillan85 2 years ago
Well I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. Michael Jackson = / = Godfather II.
I think we're dealing with an entirely different level of artistic power.
mawhar 2 years ago
right!...you're one of those, lol...well live it up in your little world...but it's kinda sad you refuse to even try and see the artistic merit of acts like MJ...
dhillan85 2 years ago
oh man
well, I do
and it is sad!
but yeah I've got what certain Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Dostoevsky-appreciating people might cal "a bias against corporate whore upstart advertisers." I think that there is no basis to call anything better than anything else - I really think that. I'm objectively no better than an amoeba or a random insect. That said - in terms of art, I'm talking timeless genius you're talking a corporate whore. Shakespeare's around now. MJ as you call won't be in 500 years.
mawhar 2 years ago
ha ha...more music snobbery...without a tool for knowledge...here we come!...i'm not talking corporate whore...i'm talking timeless genius too...in fact the kind that has crossed language and cultural barriers...the kind that has touched emotion with sheer sound and motion...and another definitive statement about MJ!?...of course, you're the artist...you'd know better...
but in hindsight...AIC is "timeless genius"...merely asking?...
dhillan85 2 years ago
musical longevity remains to be seen...it's tough to say what people will and wont remember...but grunge will certainly never out run glam on the popularity scales...on artistic counts, yea probably...on popularity and sheer radio play, not ever...simply because as a genre it is not as accessible in it's sensibilities, in comparision with glam and the like...
dhillan85 2 years ago
you're really bracketing stuff down...art music and party music...there's party music that has great artistic value...Prince, for instance...has made a load of wat was called "party music"...but with artistic innovation...and all art music isn't necessarily genius...genius can be in simplicity plenty of times...
dhillan85 2 years ago
and why again do you think that pop is shit!?...some of the most complex, socially reflective and sonically brilliant records were the biggest pop sellers of the era...thriller, purple rain, so, like a prayer, delicate...etc...
dhillan85 2 years ago
I have heard this song a thousand times and I will never get tired of it...We love you Layne R.I.P.
yotiny567 2 years ago 5
i can't believe that this music is generating so much "old rock is awesome" comments. This is still new stuff to me. well...sort of. yeah, it's been 15-20 years now, but after suffering through the cheap crap of the 80's, the 90's stuff seemed amazing then, and after that it's been crap again. so yeah...i guess i need another beer.
MaximusRelaximus 2 years ago 9
lol!
best. comment. ever!
jbgandhi2 2 years ago
The whole album was excellent like this song.
eamonreillydotcom 2 years ago 2
Men without Hats, Flock of Seagulls, Wang Chung, were just a few along with Duran Duran that kept me off the regular rock station dials in the 80's. It was a dead zone for rock with a few exceptions but wasn't worth the pain of listening to that crap just to hear one good song every now and then. I just found out yesterday what I thought was an AIC song was done by Mad Season!
philgecat 2 years ago
Wow, what a great song. I agree with everyone, this is real music. I was born in 94 and I prefer Alice in Chains, and other older rock bands rather than the crappy music they have now. Sure there are some catchy songs, but nothing compared to the masterpieces that the real rockers created, especially Alice in Chains. And Layne, you're my inspiration. I wish more kids my age liked this music. RIP Layne, Well meet one day. =]
riolinda91695673 2 years ago 9
Comments like yours give 'old geezers'
like myself hope for tomorrow's music/music lovers.
I was in my mid twenties and covering all of the grunge stuff at the time.
Timeless. 8)
Blessings & Peace
RynoScott 2 years ago 5
It's great to see someone in the younger generation who appreciates great music. I was born in 62 and there was a period during the 80s when the mainstream rock music was a bunch of crap from Austrailia like Duran Duran. I wouldn't listen to rock on the radio then unless it was classic rock. Then in the 90s when bans like Alice in Chains came out I was back to listening to rock radio again.
philgecat 2 years ago 2
Yeah, Duran Duran sucked except for one song, nothing compares to Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden. I loved growing up in the 90's, where all of the great music was created.
riolinda91695673 2 years ago 3
wait...what? duran duran and aic??? yeah, okay, that thoroughly confused me. duran duran was fine for what they were, and actually kind of artsy in their own way, but...yeah, no. just mentioning them in the same sentence with aic without something like "these are opposites" is a beatable offense.
MaximusRelaximus 2 years ago
absofreakinglutely, i'm of the same age, and rock is basically late 60's, 70's, and 90's. Note a conspicuous absence? Of course there was the 50's. but that was before my time, and while i can appreciate the rock from that era it d