![]() ![]() The main subject focus here is Staley’s drug trouble, which literally half of the album is dedicated to. Dirt is about feeling low, depressed and sad, or as the title suggest, like dirt. Not a pretty picture, is it? It represents the idea of the album perfectly, however. Especially Staley and Cantrell, whose personal tragedies were the most harrowing, contributed hugely to the record, and unintentionally created an album chock-full of depression, addiction, loss, and other subjects in that vein.īut that is exactly why Dirt was so successful. Staley recently got out of rehab, but fell back into old habits quickly, Starr and Kinney were drinking all the time, and Cantrell had to deal with the deaths of two people close to him: his mother, and his close friend Andrew Wood, front figure of the short-lasting Mother Love Bone. Each four of the band members was going through heavy personal issues at the time, and it shows. Tom Araya (Slayer) ~ Vocals on Iron Glandĭirt wasn’t the easiest of records to make. Michael Christopher Starr ~ Bass Guitar Jerry Fulton Cantrell ~ Lead Guitar, Vocals Layne Thomas Staley (R.I.P.) ~ Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar It was received superbly, lauded by music critics, and still is Alice’s most popular record. The new album was released in 1992 and entitled Dirt. ![]() ![]() The period in which this happened became an opportunity for the band to do some soul-searching, and led to songs with emotionally heavy subjects, many among them dealing with addiction, an issue the band, and especially Staley struggled with, until his death. After releasing demo songs for was what going to be their second full-length on the EP Sap, Alice in Chains went on to record their actual second studio record. ![]()
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