Alice in Chains Unplugged

[Sacotool]

Damn, I think this might be the best installment in the MTV Unplugged series. The band sounds really great, despite Layne Staley's obvious drug problem. I can't help but wonder if the instruments might've been "touched up" a bit in post-production, their playing is that good.

 

[hdeck]

that was a really amazing set the played. i can listen to them unplugged for hours on end.

 

[ElFenix]

AiC still owns. of course... i've got like every release they have... musicbank, live, hits, nothing safe, the albums, the dvd, unplugged... probably 16 discs or so total

 

[aircooled]

Definitely one of the best CD's ever made.

 

[Codewiz]

The unplugged set was awesome. It doesn't get much better than that. It is really sad that no one was able to help Layne. Such a wasted talent but it wasn't a surprise to see him go.

 

I didn't know Lane Stanley was dead until like last month.

 

[RU482]

that and Nirvana were the best

 

[Codewiz]

Originally posted by: redly1
that and Nirvana were the best

I loved Nirvana in my teens but as I have gotten older(I am 24 now) it has kind of gotten old to me. It was a breakthrough for the music scene and they were extremely important BUT the music just doesn't have the ability to continue to impress me now.

I can still listen to every Alice in Chains album where I can't say the same about Nirvana.

 

Nirvana was nothing but watered down punk for the masses. Nothing revolutionary at all. Good music, but nothing that hadn't been done for years before and by better artists.

 

[Codewiz]

Originally posted by: dwell
Nirvana was nothing but watered down punk for the masses. Nothing revolutionary at all. Good music, but nothing that hadn't been done for years before and by better artists.

They broke the scene for every other band to make it. I don't see where you draw that Nirvana was watered down punk. I don't know what punk you were listening to but Nirvana didn't have much in common with punk. At least none of the punk that came before Nirvana. I am refering to bands like Black Flag.

 

[RU482]

but the unplugged album ranked up there among the best of the unplugged series.

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

Holy shizit there's an unplugged album?!! None of the music stores here have it so I had no idea about this 🙁

<--ashamed AIC fan

 

[Sacotool]

Yeah it was first released in 1996, released on DVD a couple years ago🙂

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: Codewiz

Originally posted by: dwell
Nirvana was nothing but watered down punk for the masses. Nothing revolutionary at all. Good music, but nothing that hadn't been done for years before and by better artists.

They broke the scene for every other band to make it. I don't see where you draw that Nirvana was watered down punk. I don't know what punk you were listening to but Nirvana didn't have much in common with punk. At least none of the punk that came before Nirvana. I am refering to bands like Black Flag.

good call codewiz. cobain's style was based on what he thought punk should sound like based on descriptions. he didn't actually know anything about it. he knew punk was this and this and that but he had no working knowledge of the music itself, so i think it's pretty hard to call them watered down punk. they had the punk spirit but they weren't punk at all.

 

[mpitts]

Originally posted by: Codewiz

Originally posted by: redly1
that and Nirvana were the best

I loved Nirvana in my teens but as I have gotten older(I am 24 now) it has kind of gotten old to me. It was a breakthrough for the music scene and they were extremely important BUT the music just doesn't have the ability to continue to impress me now.

I can still listen to every Alice in Chains album where I can't say the same about Nirvana.

I would say exactly the opposite. AiC gets old, but Nirvana's music continues to impress me. I like AiC, but I have always liked Nirvana's work better.

That being said, I would say that AiC and Nirvana's Unplugged sessions were my two favorites.

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: Sacotool
Damn, I think this might be the best installment in the MTV Unplugged series. The band sounds really great, despite Layne Staley's obvious drug problem. I can't help but wonder if the instruments might've been "touched up" a bit in post-production, their playing is that good.

well everything is multitracked when the record it and they can compress and process the hell out of it at their lesuire, so it's not surprise they sounded good. that said, they were very talented musicians and the lack of mistakes is from their skill.

 

[Codewiz]

Originally posted by: mpitts

Originally posted by: Codewiz

Originally posted by: redly1
that and Nirvana were the best

I loved Nirvana in my teens but as I have gotten older(I am 24 now) it has kind of gotten old to me. It was a breakthrough for the music scene and they were extremely important BUT the music just doesn't have the ability to continue to impress me now.

I can still listen to every Alice in Chains album where I can't say the same about Nirvana.

I would say exactly the opposite. AiC gets old, but Nirvana's music continues to impress me. I like AiC, but I have always liked Nirvana's work better.

That being said, I would say that AiC and Nirvana's Unplugged sessions were my two favorites.

Well the reason Nirvana gets boring to me is the simple structure of every song. Every song by nirvana follows the same basic structure. AIC did not do that and that is why I still enjoy the music. My three favorite bands of all time are Black Sabbath, Tool and AIC.

It is funny because for the most part I only listen to heavy metal like In Flames and Incanation but my favorites are not metal with the exception of Black Sabbath.