Album of the Week #26 - Alice In Chains - Facelift

Karl Hungus · 11-02-2008 4:27pm #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFWkPVHKwCY

Sephiroth_dude · 11-02-2008 5:01pm

Great album! from that great opener track "we die young" to the last track "real thing"its just absoulute class

Ho-Hum · 11-02-2008 6:20pm

"Scaaaaaaaary's on the wall" this was the sneer that made me fall in love with Layne Staley's voice, it will always be one of my favourite intros to an album. He was an absolute legend and this is a really good album, wouldn't hesitate to reccomend it to anyone looking for some Seattle inspired rock.

Doctor J · 12-02-2008 8:02am

This album is ok but IMO things didn't fall into place with these lads until Dirt. It sounds a bit disjointed at times, it doesn't flow from start to finish like a really great album. There's still a bit of a hangover from their glam past though thank **** Queen Of The Rodeo didn't make it on

It's good, but they were only finding their sound here. Dirt is where the good stuff is.

hyn-zie · 12-02-2008 4:32pm

Doctor J wrote: »

This album is ok but IMO things didn't fall into place with these lads until Dirt. It sounds a bit disjointed at times, it doesn't flow from start to finish like a really great album. There's still a bit of a hangover from their glam past though thank **** Queen Of The Rodeo didn't make it on

It's good, but they were only finding their sound here. Dirt is where the good stuff is.

Dirt is there best album but i really like this album, some really class riffs on this record well worthy of anyone's collection!

fortuneg · 12-02-2008 8:37pm

Love that guitar tone, if you could plug a lump of wood into a block of wood the intro to We Die Young is what it'd sound like.
Woody!

Jack Vegas · 13-02-2008 2:35pm

My favourite AIC album. "Bleed The Freak" and "Sunshine" are underrated gems.

Creature · 13-02-2008 3:00pm

A good album but weak in places. As Doctor J said, they were only finding their sound with Facelift and really achieved perfection with Dirt. Man in the Box is an ass-kicking mofo of a song though.

Chuchu · 13-02-2008 9:55pm

Wow, very fond memories.... I remember getting this on casette from Tommy in Sound Cellar when it first came out, and then seeing them support Megadeath (I think?) in the Point, only went to see AIC at the time as they didn't do their own headline euro tour with Facelift. I LOVE this album... not many turkeys on there IMO:)