Alice in Chains Rainier Fog
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bananatossing
January 16th 2023


2331 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

who wants the remasters? I'll pass them on on your shoutout boxes.

Wildcardbitchesss
January 16th 2023


12162 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Give it to me plz



Looking In View mastered properly is probably fuckin massive

FreakMachine
January 16th 2023


1913 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

REMIIIIND MEEEEEE WHY I EVEN CARE ANYMORE

bananatossing
January 16th 2023


2331 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

@Wildcardbitchesss It's very subtle. I'll share a screenshot from Audacity audio editor. The file above is the m4a file of the remaster. You can tell its been decompressed, while the file below is the m4a file of the original album version. You can see how there isn't any "white" or clear spaces on the edges of the wavelength in the original "A Looking In View". That means there is noise and that is where the brickwalling comes from: https://i.postimg.cc/0yKP5gkR/Screenshot-121.png



I actually noticed the difference with "Acid Bubble", it sounds huge on the remaster. And then I noticed with the rest of the songs.



Btw I can also link the Facelift and Dirt remasters if anyone is interested. The Dirt remaster wasn't so bad after all. Someone mentioned the original version sounds a bit outdated and I can see his point after relistening the remaster. I can say 100% tho the Facelift remaster is the best and was very necessary.

Parallels
January 17th 2023


10154 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

wow you can actually hear the hi-hat properly reverberate instead of being garbled over by the bass+bass drum bombast



the lead vocals are cleaner, and also the guitar leads are so much easier to pick out (!)

Parallels
January 17th 2023


10154 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

with you here, we shared a space

that's always half empty



grindiiiiiing, grindiiiiiing it all

always half empty

bananatossing
January 23rd 2023


2331 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

^title track is one of my favs here. actually the bookends are quite great, it's just that everything between doesn't flow well.



I altered the tracklist like this and flows a lot better to me:

1. The One You Know

2. Rainier Fog

3. So Far Under

4. Drone

5. Fly

6. Red Giant

7. Deaf Ears Blind Eyes

8. Maybe

9. Never Fade

10. All I Am

Parallels
January 26th 2023


10154 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I disliked the tracklisting as well. Red Giant in particular does feel much more appropriate in the second half.

Parallels
February 14th 2023


10154 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

grind in

grind in it all



always half empty

Sharenge
February 14th 2023


5191 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

they pave the road

with fool's gold

mryrtmrnfoxxxy
February 14th 2023


16649 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

shirt too small

arapinho1
May 14th 2023


341 Comments


Deserves higher rating

mryrtmrnfoxxxy
June 12th 2023


16649 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

yes

veninblazer
June 12th 2023


16839 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

one of these days i'll revisit this but i recall it boring me and lacking the feel I got from Black Gives Way to Blue and the Layne albums.

Titan
June 12th 2023


24929 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Despite some highlights, agreed that this is kind of boring

StormChaser
June 12th 2023


2122 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

banana is the goat for sending the remasters, much appreciated mate! they really bring out some of the licks that were lost in those brickwalled originals



They didn't change my opinion on the albums much though unfortunately. Black Gives Way to Blue is still a 4 for me (maybe it got an additional .2 actually if I could rate it that way) and The Devil Put Dinosaurs here is still boring for the most part, might even drop it to a 3 since it's significantly worse than BGWTB for me.



That being said, Rainier Fog has the best song out of all of the 3 albums in All I Am, and I wish they made another one with just a little less dad rock chugging and chorus sing-alongs and more interesting songwriting. Also I feel like they should let DuVall get more lead vocal tracks, he's just straight up better than Jerry and fits better with their sound, though I want Jerry to have his moments like he does on All I Am

Titan
June 24th 2023


24929 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

'Rainier Fog has the best song out of all of the 3 albums in All I Am'



great song but what about Choke?

Pikazilla
June 24th 2023


29806 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

choke on deez nuts

Wildcardbitchesss
June 24th 2023


12162 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Private Hell >>>>

Titan
June 25th 2023


24929 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I’ve been forcing this one and it’s paying off. Rating bump coming for sure.



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