The problem with this song lies in how badly written the chorus is, and with Alice in Chains, the chorus is often half of what makes the songs truly amazing. It is yet another song that just begs to be skipped most of the time, however, at any point where the chorus isn’t playing, its honestly not terrible.
Which sadly doesn’t help when we get to track four, ‘I am inside.’ Yet again, we are “treated” to an unbearably slow mess of a song the chorus has a nonsensical tune to say the very least. For the most part, I feel compelled to skip this song almost as soon as it comes on. With near constant droning of, “it ain’t right” and a badly yelled, and downright distracting chorus playing in the background. It sounds unfinished and badly written at a lot of points during the song. Painfully slow the whole way through and extremely boring. ‘Right Turn,’ the third track, starts and immediately begins the confusing sound problem that plagues this album all too much.
Unfortunately, things only go downhill from here. ‘Got me Wrong’ can stand its own, even compared to main album releases. One of the few choruses that could do with being repeated a few more times in the song perhaps. The chorus begins at quite an early point in the song, and reminds us why we should stay on this track with its constant teasing us and leaving us wanting more of it. Track two, ‘Got me Wrong’ once again has Jerry taking the lead but Layne is roughly an equal now. It’s quite a noticeable pattern that Alice In Chains albums generally have amazing opening tracks, and this is no exception to that. At certain points we are graced with a serene and calm female voice in there too. The first track, ‘Brother,’ which remains calm and soft the whole way through. Featuring guitarist, and backup vocalist, Jerry Cantrell showing off his impressive vocals most of the song while lead vocalist, Layne Staley (mostly) takes a back seat. It’s a noticeably different Alice In Chains than we are used to by this point. The ’90’s is considered by many to be one of the greatest periods in musical history, and with too many good albums from that era to count, I’m somewhat inclined to agree.Īmidst the numerous new styles in the 90’s Acoustic music still manged to maintain relevance, and MTV reinforced this with their Unplugged sessions series, where musical groups would preform acoustic versions of their songs to a small audience.Īlice In Chains, between touring and producing a follow up to their first album, wanted to show their softer side and released the first of 2 acoustic albums Sap Also, they have a combined length of 51 minutes, which is about the same as most of the other releases. Sap was released in 1992 and actually came out before Dirt, while Jar of Flies was released in 1994, and came out after Dirt. You may be asking, “So why are you reviewing them together?” The reason is because after 1995 they came bundled together, and are generally considered to be a sort of “Siblings” release it didn’t feel right reviewing them separately. What is an EP? An EP, or Extended Play, is a smaller musical release than an Album. On the other hand, an Album is no longer considered an EP when it has more than 4 tracks, or is longer than 20 minutes.Ģ.In this review we look at their 2 Acoustic EP’s, released between Facelift and Dirtīefore we begin I would just like to quickly explain a few things. We saw them stray away from the Grunge label into new musical territory. Last time it was 1992 and Alice in Chains had just released their overwhelmingly successful album Dirt.
Jar of Flies The Botched and the Beautiful
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