Alice In Chains – Dirt (1992)

April 5, 2023

I’ve never been a big fan of pretty much anything in the grunge style (perhaps Kyuss or Melvins come closest) but I checked out a bunch of Alice in Chains stuff recently after replaying GTA San Andreas, which pumped “Them Bones” into my head about 500 times in the space of six weeks. And I’ve got to be honest, I enjoyed this far more than I thought I would.

I don’t know enough about the genre (or band) in general to offer much more than my opinion on the sound, but Dirt is a very well made record, which takes the band’s debut and cleans it up a little, with a slight boost to the production. I will admit that I listened to the 2022 remaster, so perhaps the additional loudness made this pop more for me (I don’t usually like remasters and prefer at least at first to check out the originals).

Some of my favourite tracks include “Dam That River”, “Rooster”, “God Smack” (lol) and “Down in a Hole”.