Greatest Hits is not, alas, the antidote to the botched Nothing Safe: Best of the Box compilation, but rather a lower-priced, ten-track sampler of Alice in Chains' career....
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Alice in Chains' first two albums, Dirt and Facelift, were packaged together as a limited release in Britain in 1993. Since the set contains no bonus tracks, there's no...
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Appropriately titled, this is Alice In Chains going back to their heavy and sludgy roots; still dark and depressing lyrically, but more of a kick musically. The softer...
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Dispelling rumors of their demise due to Layne Staley's heroin addiction, Alice in Chains is a sonically detailed effort that ranks as their best-produced record, and its...
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Named after the Seattle warehouse where they recorded their early work, Music Bank documents the career of Alice In Chains with familiar favorites, unreleased tracks, and...
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Three studio albums, two EPs, one live album, and a few European B-sides seemingly is a scant body of work to provide the basis for a box set, but that proves not to be the...
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Metal dudes benefit more than anyone from the now-venerable (almost wearisome) unplugged concept, and Seattle thrash gods Alice In Chains are no exception. The main...
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Between the end of 1993 and a performance for MTV Unplugged in the spring of 1996, Alice in Chains performed no concerts -- they didn't even support the release of their...
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Hard-rocking with ominous lyrics and bleak shadows. A psychiatrist's wet dream with plenty of nightmares revealed. Drugs, death, sickness and sadness all rolled into 13...
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A monumental lift-off with plenty of metal, but without the pure speed and screeching vocals of so many others of that same period. Just the beginning of what guitarist...
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When Alice in Chains' debut album, Facelift, was released in 1990, about a year before Nirvana's Nevermind, the thriving Seattle scene barely registered on the national...
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Upon its release, Sap was a revelation, a seemingly tossed-off EP of four mostly acoustic ballads (augmented with a goofy bonus track) that threw Alice in Chains' melodic...
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With Alice in Chains on hiatus by the turn of the 21st century, Columbia Records issued several stop-gap releases to fill up the space -- 1999's greatest-hits collection...
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Nothing Safe: Best of the Box anticipated 1999's three-disc Alice in Chains box set, which covered the group's best songs and assorted rarities. Because Nothing Safe is...
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