Metal Reviews

It's always interesting to dissect the notion as to why an album is a favourite? Is it the pure emotional value? The simplicity of an album or the opposite of its simplicity? Is it the pure nostalgia of the album? Was it because you listened to it with your love in your arms? Was it because it got you through difficult times? Was a transcendental experience that cannot be compared to any other experience in life? Is it really the musical value that that particular album has or is it so much more than? Is it still growing on you? Or has it ran it course and you haven't returned to it in a very long time?

well when i was a kid i was pretty fucked up and alice in chains didnt really help. that shit is depressing. but they definately impacted my life and i feel their music is great and they hold my number one spot as far as favs go.

there was a time when i couldnt listen to them because the music and lyrics just smacked me with emotions i couldnt deal with. as i got older and harder as a person that faded and i can listen again.

now i still look for music with the same lyrical themes. 40 watt sun was able to affect me emotionally like nothing has really done since AiC. the inside room is a great album. Sentenced is another favorite. Tiamat too, well, some stuff of theirs.

Some of Sentenced material is quite great. I loved Alice in Chains's last album. I thought it was fantastic. Haven't given their other albums a good chance although I also thought Dirt, as expected, was excellent.

Check em out man. Facelift is awesome. Check out love hate love on YouTube. That's from facelift and arguably layne staleys best vocal performance. The third album the self titled is dark and moody and awesome. The new album is great like you said. And if your feeling like just chilling out the unplugged album is fantastic. I could go on and on about AiC.

Sentenced is really good. The cold white light especially. I've really been digging tiamats skeleton skeletron lately. I'm going thru a goth phase.

For me, I think my taste in music is always slowly changing, and my favourite albums are either a) the ones that click with my current taste most strongly, or b) the ones that appealed to my past taste in music and my current taste in music, the ones that've been with me for a while. Like The Mars Volta appeal to the past noodles who liked ultra dramatic, complicated, and ambitious prog rock as well as the nowadays noodles that likes groovy rhythms and big hooks.

Also lyrics that I can relate to help a lot.

I'm the opposite of noodles... my taste in tunes hasn't changed in thirty years, and I don't see it changing anytime soon.

Some crushed have faded, over have stayed the same (most of them) while new ones came to thicken my "list", and by new ones I mean new to men I'm more into exploring the past than living the present, I realized.

As for the albums, those I really loved once, I still love now. Sure it's not the same urge as I know every single aspect of it, it's more like meeting old friends you haven't seen in a while, nice, cosy but epic all the same.

I agree with that. I would say it's their best and one of the best debuts ever. As for the main topic, it depends on how good the songs are, the music and the over all flow of the album. I never had an album become my fav cos of any other reason.