Alice in chains greatest hits album cover

While Alice in Chains would go on to do better and more consistent work, Facelift was one of the most important records in establishing an audience for grunge and alternative rock among hard rock and heavy metal listeners, and with its platinum sales certification, it also made Alice in Chains the first Seattle band to break through to a wider, less exclusively underground audience. It could be argued that this album defines the entire grunge music era of the 1990s, Whilst Nevermind was the break through for the seattle scene, It wasnt really grunge.

Although some parts of Facelift sink into turgid, ponderous bombast (particularly over the erratic second half), and the lyrics are sometimes immature, the overall effect is fresh, exciting, and powerful. Alice in chains them bones (guitar cover Written By admin. Whilst their follow up was also good, and their Sap ep and unplugged album, Dirt is the album that Id say defines Alice In Chains. Greatest Hits will serve the needs of casual fans who. The songs are mostly excellent and well-chosen, but unfortunately, there are simply too few of them. Neither hedonistic nor especially technically accomplished, Alice in Chains' songs were mostly slow, oppressive dirges with a sense of melody that was undeniable, yet which crept along over the murky sludge of the band's instrumental attack in a way that hardly fit accepted notions of what made hard rock catchy and accessible. Greatest Hits is not, alas, the antidote to the botched Nothing Safe: Best of the Box compilation, but rather a lower-priced, ten-track sampler of Alice in Chains ' career. Although their dominant influences - Black Sabbath, the Stooges - were hardly unique on the Seattle scene, Alice in Chains were arguably the most metallic of grunge bands, which gave them a definite appeal outside the underground all the same, the group's sinister, brooding, suffocating sound resembled little else gaining wide exposure on the 1990 hard rock scene. That started to change when MTV jumped all over the video for 'Man in the Box,' giving the group a crucial boost and helping to pave the way for grunge's popular explosion toward the end of 1991. When Alice in Chains' debut album, Facelift, was released in 1990, about a year before Nirvana's Nevermind, the thriving Seattle scene barely registered on the national musical radar outside of underground circles (although Soundgarden's major-label debut, Louder Than Love, was also released that year and brought them a Grammy nomination).

Alice in chains greatest hits album cover