Facelift

Alice in Chains

Genre: music4me > Alternative > Alternative

Format: CD Album

Released: Fri 1 Nov 1991

Catalogue Number: 467201.2

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Description:
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. 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. Neither hedonistic nor especially technically accomplished, Alice in Chains' songs were mostly slow, oppressive dirges with a sense of melody that was undeniable, yet which crept along over the murky sludge of the band's instrumental attack in a way that hardly fit accepted notions of what made hard rock catchy and accessible.

Track Listing:

1.	We Die Young
2.	Man in the Box
3.	Sea of Sorrow
4.	Bleed the Freak
5.	I Can't Remember
6.	Love,Hate,Love
7.	It Ain't Like That
8.	Sunshine
9.	Put You Down
10.	Confusion
11.	I Know Somethin (Bout You)
12.	Real Thing