Alice In Chains 1992 Dirt

Alice in Chains - Dirt (1992)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Dec. 31, 2022
Alice in Chains - Dirt (1992)

Alice in Chains - Dirt (1992)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 411 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 135 MB | Covers - 96 MB
Genre: Alternative Rock, Grunge | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Columbia/Sony Music (472330 2)

Dirt is Alice in Chains' major artistic statement and the closest they ever came to recording a flat-out masterpiece. It's a primal, sickening howl from the depths of Layne Staley's heroin addiction, and one of the most harrowing concept albums ever recorded. Not every song on Dirt is explicitly about heroin, but Jerry Cantrell's solo-written contributions (nearly half the album) effectively maintain the thematic coherence - nearly every song is imbued with the morbidity, self-disgust, and/or resignation of a self-aware yet powerless addict. Cantrell's technically limited but inventive guitar work is by turns explosive, textured, and queasily disorienting, keeping the listener off balance with atonal riffs and off-kilter time signatures…

Alice in Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here (2013)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Jan. 18, 2023
Alice in Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here (2013)

Alice in Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here (2013)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 496 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 158 MB | Covers - 68 MB
Genre: Alternative Rock, Grunge | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Capitol Records (509999 47800 2 4)

The big task for Alice in Chains on their 2009 comeback Black Gives Way to Blue was to prove they could carry on battered and bruised, missing Layne Staley but still in touch with their core. They had to demonstrate the band had a reason to exist, and Black Gives Way to Blue achieved this goal, paving the way for another record just like it. Enter The Devil Put the Dinosaurs Here, a record that is pretty close to identical to Black Gives Way to Blue in its sound, attack, and feel. Where it differs is in the latter, as the overall album feels lighter and, at times, the individual songs do, too. "Scalpel" flirts with the acoustic bones of Jar of Flies and also has perhaps the richest melody here, working as a song, not a grind…

Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains (1995)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Jan. 5, 2023
Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains (1995)

Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains (1995)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 443 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 153 MB | Covers - 72 MB
Genre: Alternative Rock, Grunge | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Columbia/Sony Music (CK 67248)

Dispelling rumors of their demise due to Layne Staley's heroin addiction, Alice in Chains is a sonically detailed effort that ranks as their best-produced record, and its best moments are easily some of their most mature music. Alice in Chains relies less on metallic riffs and more on melody and texturally varied arrangements than the group's previous full-length albums, finally integrating some of the more delicate acoustic moods of their EPs. The lyrics deal with familiar AIC subject matter - despair, misery, loneliness, and disappointment - but in a more understated fashion, and the lyrics take on more uplifting qualities of toughness and endurance, which were missing from much of their previous work…

Alice in Chains - Facelift (1990)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Jan. 8, 2023
Alice in Chains - Facelift (1990)

Alice in Chains - Facelift (1990)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 374 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 127 MB | Covers - 56 MB
Genre: Alternative Rock, Grunge | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: CBS/Columbia (CK 46075)

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). 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. 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…

Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue (2009)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Jan. 15, 2023
Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue (2009)

Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue (2009)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 395 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 128 MB | Covers - 64 MB
Genre: Alternative Rock, Grunge | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Virgin (509993 08264 2 7)

It's hard not to feel for Alice in Chains - all the guys in the band were lifers, all except lead singer Layne Staley, who never managed to exorcise his demons, succumbing to drug addiction in 2002. Alice in Chains stopped being a going concern long before that, all due to Staley's addictions, and it took guitarist Jerry Cantrell, bassist Mike Inez, and drummer Sean Kinney a long time to decide to regroup, finally hiring William DuVall as Staley's replacement and delivering Black Gives Way to Blue a full 14 years after the band's last album. To everybody's credit, Black Gives Way to Blue sounds like it could have been delivered a year after Alice in Chains: it's unconcerned with fashion; it's true to their dark, churning gloom rock; and if you're not paying attention too closely, it's easy to mistake DuVall for his predecessor…
Alice In Chains - Dirt (2022 Remaster) (1992/2022) [Official Digital Download]

Alice In Chains - Dirt (2022 Remaster) (1992/2022) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 57:33 minutes | 693 MB
Rock | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release a remastered 30th anniversary 2LP 12″ black vinyl edition of Alice In Chains’ landmark album, Dirt, on Friday, September 23.

VA - Singles: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1992) [Re-Up]  Music

Posted by Efgrapha at April 14, 2021
VA - Singles: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1992) [Re-Up]

VA - Singles: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1992)
EAC | FLAC (Tracks) + cue.+log ~ 422 Mb | Mp3, CBR320 kbps ~ 153 Mb | Scans included | 01:05:27
Soundtrack, Alternative Rock, Grunge, Hard Rock | Label: Epic Soundtrax | # EK 52476

The romantic comedy Singles, in part a homage to director Cameron Crowe's hometown of Seattle, was released at exactly the right time (summer 1992). Nirvana's Nevermind had symbolically knocked Michael Jackson off the top of the album charts at the beginning of the year, and the underground buzz about Seattle bands like Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, and Pearl Jam was beginning to find its way past circles of indie aficionados and open-minded hard rock fans and into the mainstream. Singles helped crystallize the idea of the "Seattle scene" in the mainstream public's mind, and it was also one of the first big-selling '90s movie soundtracks (it went platinum and reached the Top Ten) to feature largely new work from contemporary artists. The soundtrack's strength was the way it was so firmly rooted in place – where future soundtrack extravaganzas simply contrived to gather as many big-name acts as possible, Singles focused specifically on Seattle-area music (quite logically, given the film's plot and setting), which gave the album the feel of a cohesive document.
V.A. - Top 100 90's Rock Albums By Ultimate Classic Rock: CD26-CD50 (1990-1999)

V.A. - Top 100 90's Rock Albums By Ultimate Classic Rock: CD26-CD50 (1990-1999)
FLAC (*image+.cue+log ,scans) | Run Time: 23:13:50 | 9.04 Gb
Genre: Classic rock, psychedelic rock, alternative rock, progressive rock, hard rock
Label: Chrysalis, Columbia, Elektra, Warner Bros. Records…

Any discussion of the Top 100 '90s Rock Albums will have to include some grunge, and this one is no different. A defining element of that decade, the genre (and the bands that rose to fame playing it) was given credit for revitalizing rock at a badly needed moment. That said, there's far more to the story. Our list of the Top 100 '90s Rock Albums, presented in chronological order, takes in the rich diversity of the period.