>first two songs
>high testosterone depression kino
>rest of the album
>yeehaw thinkin bout goin down south this year got no mo excuses partner giddy up
>first two songs. >high testosterone depression kino. >rest of the album
>first two songs
>high testosterone depression kino
>rest of the album
>yeehaw thinkin bout goin down south this year got no mo excuses partner giddy up
rotten apple is their second best song
nutshell is their first
That's inaccurate
for me it's whale and wasp
No Excuses is better than Nutshell.
Yes
Nutshell > Rotten Apple >> I Stay Away > No Excuses >> Don't Follow > Swing on This > Whale & Whasp
The only song I don't like on this album is No Excuses. In fact, it's my least favorite AiC song. I remember skipping the song every time I played this EP. I absolutely hate it (is it weird to hate a song made by your favorite band?). Too jangly and upbeat, not mellow enough like the other songs.
>is it weird to hate a song made by your favorite band
No. Every single artist/musician/band in history has a few bad songs. Some more than others.
True, I guess it just feels weird because No Excuses was one of their "hits" but I never got what everyone else liked about the song.
>is it weird to hate a song made by your favorite band
I like TON but I'm indifferent to Black No.1 and their goth stuff.
>t.favorites albums are World Coming Down and Dead Again
Too each their own. It literally one of my favorite Alice in Chains songs.
No Excuses and Heaven Beside You are the only two songs in their entire discography that I just do not care for at all. I've been a fan since the Facelift era. For the former, like I said it's too upbeat and jangly for me, I preferred the mellow mood of the other songs on the EP. With Heaven Beside You, the acoustic part that Jerry plays throughout the song is nice, but I can't stand his voice in the studio version. Too husky or out of tune? I like the Unplugged version far more.
I guess I have a bit of a different perspective when it comes to No Excuses. It's a song about struggle, not victory. It's not what I would necessarily call a happy song, even if the instrumentals are more upbeat.
>even if the instrumentals are more upbeat.
Yeah that's what I mean, the instrumentals were too upbeat for me. Lyrics are the part of a song that I care about the least, whereas vocal delivery and musicianship is what makes a record / sets the mood.
Honestly I was surprised at the success of the song and how it went #1. Shit was playing on the radio constantly. I've also always felt that it was the most conventional / generic sounding song of theirs, so that's another reason why I'm not a huge fan of it.
Well it's not only upbeat, but also catchy. It's one of their more accessable tracks for this reason I'll admit.
Both great songs. Never met anyone who disliked either.
That's because we never met
Those are the only two songs in their discography that I skip. Everything else is great/perfect.
Yep, I only started to see normies really liking AIC after this song was released. Like I said it's their most generic / conventional sounding in my opinion. I've always preferred I Stay Away when it comes to the Jar of Flies singles.
Rooster was a normie magnet before no excuses
Heaven Beside You is also one of the only song for me I tend to skip from their whole Layne era discography
agree. hate it. normies love it tho
sounds like a kings of leon album lol
no it does not
it literally does
from the description OP gave i mean
You're upset about a little country influence on Don't Follow? What a fucking retard you are. This whole EP is a classic and that song is one of my faves
I kind of agree No Excuses and I Stay Away were my least favorites, the latter the most. I like No Excuses a bit more
you sound insecure I Stay Away is the bloomer version of Rotten Apple to keep listeners from killing themselves
How? That song made me want to kill myself just like the other songs.
>>high testosterone depression kino
The fuck is with zoomers and their obsession with shit being "high-test" and "chad"?
Back in the day we used to just say "Alice in Chains rocks" and that was it. Has nothing to do with being high-testosterone, it's just a great bluesy-acoustic EP for when you're down on your luck.
I pity this younger generation.
It's no different than saying "it rocks" though. It's just a different slang.
No, your slang for it is "it's fire!!!", high-test and chad imply it has masculine traits and that those traits are the reason why it's so good, which Alice in Chain does feature, but in a mostly negative context - like depression, self-hatred, bottling the anger up, etc. It's not a term that makes sense for their music, so stop using it, you dumb zoomer, and broaden your vocabulary when talking about music that you like.
Yep, this is exactly what I was implying. Zoomers use the dumbest terms to describe music.
>when I was in middle school/high school it felt like I was the only person who really liked them
How old are you? Everyone digged Alice In Chains when I was in college. If you are a millennial then it's understandable as that sort of music was no longer popular by the time you guys came of age.
>How old are you?
I'm 42, so late gen x or early millenial depending on how you count it. I went to high school with a lot of wiggers though and not too many rock fans in general.
You take it more seriously than they actually mean it themselves, don't make me "ok boomer" someone from my own generation pls. And if you're using a term like "consoom" unironically then you're right there with them as far as butchering the language.
>I went to high school with a lot of wiggers though and not too many rock fans in general.
That explains it then
True, but it didn't go #1 like No Excuses did IIRC
>The fuck is with zoomers and their obsession with shit being "high-test" and "chad"?
>Back in the day we used to just say "Alice in Chains rocks" and that was it
These two sentences intend to express the same sentiment though (pic related). You have to understand how zoomers think to "get" their humor, but personally I think a lot of their general irreverence and filtering everything through a lens of LULZ terms is pretty funny. And I'm old.
At least a lot of these little zoom homosexuals have discovered and enjoyed Alice in Chains. This must have been a local/regional thing for me but for such a popular band now, when I was in middle school/high school it felt like I was the only person who really liked them. I had friends who gave me shit for it actually. But Facelift, Dirt and Jar of Flies are three of my favorite albums of all time, to this day.
it's not the same sentiment at all. the retards calling everything chad and high-test are using those terms to imply they are masculine alpha males because they consoom the right kind of media. it's completely idiotic.
What's the matter, OP, can't swing to this?
thinkin bout goin down south this year got no mo excuses partner giddy up
This actually makes me wanna check out this shit band.
Dirt and tripod and some of facelift are great, also the first 2 songs of this album like OP said.
how do you know if they're shit if you haven't checked them out?
They wrote and recorded this in 7 days after coming off the lollapalooza tour. They were basically just jamming, only song they (or Jerry) had was No Excuses.
no wonder it sucks
>Unironically posting about garbage radio rock
Man this board is trash
I like this album because I haven't matured at all since middle school