Dirt

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Total Tracks: 13   Total Length: 57:33

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Masterpiece Theater starring a hammer!

NorthernPilot

No long winded sentences or an overt bastardization of adjectives here...see B.S. e-music review....simply one of the greatest albums of all time. Grunge and early 90's metal's Dark Side of the Moon. Download the whole F'ing thing if you know what is good for you. No joke....they don't make em'like this anymore and never will. Solid! 11 stars out of 10.

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NICE try!!!!!!

oneofsix1958

Petition the lord with prayer?!!? You CANNOT petition the lord with prayer!!!!! ...AND YOU CANNOT try to album onlyize this recording because it is a ONE OF. IT will never happen again.... this coming from a hair rock prog rock fan. A definative recording representative of THE grunge era.(sorry Jim....)

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forgot how great....

DetroitDoll

saw then in concert this summer and had to have this!

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Excellent Album!!

Geezer

This is a hard rock masterpiece. Anyone who is a fan of hard rock or heavy metal will love this album. Musically and lyrically, a five-star rocker!

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Download the whole thing

OblongRobber

For those who only want the hits: This whole album will melt your brain. Get it. One of the best albums of the 90s.

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new licensing agreements

misterrosewater

So I'm not too keen on not being able to download Rooster without the entire album, most tracks of which I already have. So this is what happens when the devil comes to cash in that contract.

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Dirt is Alice in Chains’ major artistic statement and the closest they ever came to recording a flat-out masterpiece. It’s a primal, sickening howl from the depths of Layne Staley’s heroin addiction, and one of the most harrowing concept albums ever recorded. Not every song on Dirt is explicitly about heroin, but Jerry Cantrell’s solo-written contributions (nearly half the album) effectively maintain the thematic coherence — nearly every song is imbued with the morbidity, self-disgust, and/or resignation of a self-aware yet powerless addict. Cantrell’s technically limited but inventive guitar work is by turns explosive, textured, and queasily disorienting, keeping the listener off balance with atonal riffs and off-kilter time signatures. Staley’s stark confessional lyrics are similarly effective, and consistently miserable. Sometimes he’s just numb and apathetic, totally desensitized to the outside world; sometimes his self-justifications betray a shockingly casual amorality; his moments of self-recognition are permeated by despair and suicidal self-loathing. Even given its subject matter, Dirt is monstrously bleak, closely resembling the cracked, haunted landscape of its cover art. The album holds out little hope for its protagonists (aside from the much-needed survival story of “Rooster,” a tribute to Cantrell’s Vietnam-vet father), but in the end, it’s redeemed by the honesty of its self-revelation and the sharp focus of its music. [Some versions of Dirt feature "Down in a Hole" as the next-to-last track rather than the fourth.] – Steve Huey

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