Alice in Chains 'Vs' Nirvana

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Nirvana have always seemed to be such a better band to me. I liked the fact that punk and pop played a bigger part in their music, synergising and coming together in a perfect way. I never really liked AIC, just seemed really generic and dull.

Then again I am a Nirvana obsessive ex-bootleg collector so i'm pretty fucking biased.
 
Id have to say Alice in Chains. There songs are overall alot better and there music is great. Lyrically they blow Nirvana out of the water. I especially love Alice in Chains unplugged and i got the DVD of it not long ago. I couldnt find it anywhere before and noone i knew had it.

When i was growing up though Kurt Cobain sort of my idol until i turned 14 or so. Then it was any music that went with shrooms :). I had every album of theirs except bleach and i had about 6 Nirvana and Kurt Cobain t-shirts. Nirvana unplugged is by far their best album. I can't say i liked in utero except for a few songs.

I like em both but Nirvana is way overrated. Alice in Chains are by far the best of the 2.
 
Nirvana stand alone at the top of the mountain. But alice in chains are incredible act too.
I really connected with both bands lyrical content from AIC 'dirt' 92 and all Nirvanas album.
Even to seperate them in an unplugged set was difficult , a specail mention to AIC in 96's unplugged for 'nutshell' 'angry chair' 'frogs' and in particular 'brother' with the brilliant harmonies from Layne and Jerry.
RIP- Kurt & Layne.
PS- I have tix to see Alice in chains next month with new singer . Ill write a gig review.
 
I have always been a much bigger fan of Layne Staley's works than Kurt Cobain. Even within AIC, I did not like some of Jerry's written material, though his guitar effort worked with the bands dynamics. Nirvana did have some good songs, Layne's lyrics and voice was better. My ears enjoyed Layne more.

Layne's lyrics moved me in ways that other lyricists have not done for me.

Definitely check out Mad Season - Above (1995) - that is a great piece of work.

No Layne, No Chains.
They need to change the name of the band (but that is a whole different story; that new guy is unbearable for my ears). New Era AIC is not getting any support from myself and many others. It is too bad Jerry went this direction.
 
damn right, Mad Season was good, depressing even by AiC standards but good, AiC owns nirvana even though they are less accessible, both had their high points but overall alice in chains had more melodious songs

while we're at it, how about soundgarten? Chris Cornell was the most talented male vocalist to come out of the nineties
 
Since I've accepted opiates as an accent of life, I dig Nirvana again... like I did when I was a teenager.
 
Alice in Chains could technically be described as a better group. However, it's a shame that the two groups are lumped together in that hazy definition of early/mid nineties "grunge" category, when Nirvana had a totally different sound and in the case of In Utero completely unpredictable styles from song to song. A lot of Alice in Chains songs have the quality of being more hypnotic than Nirvana's most hypnotic songs. I like both groups, but Nirvana just hit me harder and In Utero was the first tape I ever bought when I was a kid. Can't personally put Alice in Chains over Nirvana. Too many memories.
 
yeah...

Check out "Sludge Factory", "Bleed the Freak", and "God Am"

edit: meant for mrjackjones
 
AIC of course
Cantrell & Laney are gods of grunge.... screw Nirvana! :D (kidding, they had great tracks too). I have been loving Nirvana for long time than I discovered AIC & Soundgarden and forgot about all Niravan tapes I owned.
 
I think that Layne has the best voice in Rock in years, probably since Jim Morrison of "The Doors" in my opinion. But then there is Maynard, and I sure like his voice a whole a lot; Im a big Tool/APC fan. I do not think Chris Cornell, and other Seattle sound compare to Layne Staley.

I do like Mark Lanegan and he is from Seattle (check out his Bubblegum-2004 album).

Layne did a lot with his voice, Man in the Box, to Junkhead, toned down for Rotten Apple and Nutshell, Frogs, etc.

There are so many good tracks.

From Mad Season-Above-1995, check out Wakeup and Artificial Red; though the entire album is sick.
 
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i like nirvana a lot better than aic (but i dig aic.)
nirvana just has a lot more energy and attitude and i connect with their shit much more.
aic is a downer to listen to unless i'm jammed (still enjoy them though).
nevermind is one of the greatest albums of all time (dirt too but maybe 50 spots down on the list.)
 
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