Top 30 Reasons Why Alice in Chains' DIRT is a Masterpiece

Fellow grunge scholars, "Dirt", by Alice in Chains, is turning 30 this year. It has received critical acclaim, and is considered by many critics and fans alike as the group's best album. It's a 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.

Top 30 Reasons Why Alice in Chains' DIRT is a Masterpiece

It's a brutally truthful work – and that's why it will always be one of the greatest records ever made."

Dirt included the top-30 singles "Would?", "Them Bones", "Angry Chair", "Rooster", and "Down in a Hole", all of which had accompanying music videos. The album remained on Billboard's charts for nearly two years.

In 2011, Loudwire named Dirt as one of the best metal albums of the 1990s, alongside other albums such as Megadeth's Rust in Peace and Tool's Ænima, writing "In the battle between metal and grunge, Alice in Chains are a rare band that is embraced by fans of both genres.

listen to dirt here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19CXYQhqVu0

Them Bones Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTuD8k3JvxQ

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