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Album Rating: 3.5
Tripod is a gem.
But you have to be in the right mood for it, a specific mood - also a very "demanding" listen if you go through the whole thing. A trip for sure. For me it has so many layers I end up discovering something new on each listen.
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I get that it’s objectively a difficult listen, but I can listen to it anytime any place. I understand I may be an anamoly though.
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Shame In You is a great song, but I prefer Sludge Factory, Frogs, Rotten Apple, Nutshell, Junkhead, Godsmack etc.
Apple may be my all time fav AIC song.
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I wonder how many people think rainier is pronounced rainy-er
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A metric fuckton is the specific scientific answer.
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AH
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that is a significantly better album title than i gave them credit for
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Rainier is a mountain in the Seattle area and it's pronounced rain-ear for those who may have been wondering
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I’ll stick with Rainy-er, sounds cooler
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Nah
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I don't know if it was a stupid or a brilliant idea to have an album title that only people from the northwest will pronounce correctly lol
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I mean I thought Rainy-er sounded fucking dumb so I looked it up. Not really that hard to figure it out tbh
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I'm from the northeast and I definitely thought it was rainy-er
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It's a reasonable assumption tbh
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"Grind, Brush Away, Sludge Factory, Heaven Beside You, Head Creeps, Again, Shame in You (best song they made), God Am, Frogs, Over Now"
Exactly none of those songs are on the same level as Rain When I Die, Them Bones, Down in a Hole, Would, Rooster, Nutshell, I Stay Away, No Excuses, and so on. Tripod is more experimental, if you consider that a merit in and of itself, but the songwriting is not even close to being as good as it was on Dirt and JoF.
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Yeah, I do prefer Dirt. The self-titled rules too, though
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Jar of flies> all
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First I thought that I grew out of Alice in Chains, but I think this is not exactly the case, maybe only partially. I really had a hard time with this new album's unbearably, painfully lazy and stale songwriting. Here are my issues. 1. The borderline faceless dualtone of Cantrell and DuVall. Harmonizing is cool but in the end neither of their voices is distinguishable (Cantrell's is, but his voice has nothing really special to offer; DuVall in his turn possesses great, sharp and powerful voice that needs to be in front of attention, Giraffe Tongue Orchestra's debut demonstrated it best, but Cantrell monopolizes all of our attention here and I'd not say worthily). 2. Hooks! TDPDH contained amazing vocal hooks in almost every song, most remarkably in "Hollow", "Stone", "Voices" and "Phantom Limb". Same thing with BGWTB. Here we have very tired, monotonous and bleak melodies throughout almost whole record except maybe for "The one you know", "Red giant" and "Never fade". But the chorus in the opener feels strongly unnatural and almost pops out of nowhere (and what about a main opening part? hint: listen to Gojira's "Stranded"); "Red giant", while being a standout song with interesting (by Alice in Chains' standards) riffs and rhythm section, clearly overstays its welcome. The rest of the album is really yawn-inducing (once again, even by their standards, given that they were always known as a slow-paced band).
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What is this
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this is what
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