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Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name2.5 averageAlice in Chains Black Gives Way to BlueThese thoughts specifically address those who are drawn to the Layne Staley controversy related to AIC's re-emergence. I offer that the band (in any iteration) is proven and capable of delivering Jerry Cantrell's considerable songwriting efforts. What ruins those efforts for ME is that what was once creative and original has sunk to the formulaic, therefore deeming it mundane. ANY artist possesses raw potential to create something from the building blocks that comprise human emotion; whether you like, understand or enjoy it or not really has nothing to do with it - we are varied in our tastes, and the Teletubbies and Rotting Christ will draw their fans naturally. The thing that I simply CANNOT accept is a practice which is becoming more and more accepted, and that is formulization. Aretha Franklin wrote and recorded a song called "Respect." Lynyrd Skynyrd did the same with a tune called "Sweet Home, Alabama." The very WORST parts of us take music which has become popular and abuse it horribly by making a mockery of it. We turn it into Beer, Pizza and Fried Chicken commercials and use it for Insurance company advertisements. We sell cars with it. The saddest result of all of this is that, for the vast unthinking majority, it is effective. If you were a critically-acclaimed band and lost a member with a unique gift, you could either stop what you were doing, or you might search out someone else who possessed talent in his/her own right. Why not, indeed? To intentionally replace someone with a carefully calculated yet emotionless clone puts AIC at the American Idol level and it is where I stop typing this opinion.
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