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1992 studio anthology by Alice in Chains

Dirt
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Studio anthology past

Alice in Chains
Released September 29, 1992 (1992-09-29) [1]
Recorded April–July 1992[2]
Studio
  • Eldorado (Burbank)
  • London Span (Seattle)
  • 1 on 1 (Los Angeles)
[two]
Genre
  • Grunge[3] [4]
  • heavy metal[5]
  • alternative metal[6]
  • alternative rock[7]
Length 57:37
Characterization Columbia
Producer
  • Dave Jerden
  • Alice in Chains
Alice in Chains chronology
Sap
(1992) 		Dirt
(1992) 		Jar of Flies
(1994)
Singles from Dirt
  1. "Would?"
    Released: June xxx, 1992
  2. "Them Bones"
    Released: September viii, 1992
  3. "Angry Chair"
    Released: Dec six, 1992
  4. "Rooster"
    Released: March fifteen, 1993
  5. "Down in a Hole"
    Released: August 30, 1993

Dirt is the 2nd studio album by the American rock ring Alice in Chains, released on September 29, 1992, through Columbia Records. Peaking at No. half-dozen on the Billboard 200 nautical chart, the album was also well received by music critics. It has since been certified four-times platinum past the RIAA and gone on to sell five million copies worldwide, making Dirt the band'south highest selling album to date.[eight] Information technology was also the band's last album recorded with all four original members, as bassist Mike Starr was fired in January 1993 during the tour to back up the album.[9] [x] The album spawned 5 singles: "Would?", "Them Bones", "Angry Chair", "Rooster", and "Downwardly in a Hole", all with accompanying music videos. Dirt was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Hard Stone Performance. The music video for "Would?" was nominated for an MTV Video Music Laurels for Best Video from a Pic, every bit the song was featured on the soundtrack to Cameron Crowe's 1992 film Singles.

The songs on the anthology focused on depression, pain, anger, anti-social beliefs, relationships, drug habit (primarily heroin), war, death, and other emotionally charged topics. The runway "Iron Gland" features Tom Araya from Slayer on vocals. Near of the music from the album was written by guitarist Jerry Cantrell, just for the offset time vocalist Layne Staley wrote two songs by himself ("Hate to Feel" and "Angry Chair"), both also featuring Staley on guitar. Rolling Stone listed the anthology at No. 26 on its list of the 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time.[11] Dirt was included in the 2005 book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before Y'all Die. Information technology was voted "Kerrang! Critic'south Choice Album of the Year". Guitar World named Clay as the best guitar album of 1992. Loudwire named it as one of the best Metallic albums of the 1990s, and Rolling Stone ranked it at No. half dozen on its listing of "fifty Greatest Grunge Albums" in 2019.

Alice in Chains' 4th studio anthology, Black Gives Way to Blue, was released on the 17th anniversary of Clay, on September 29, 2009.

Groundwork and recording [edit]

The recording of Dirt began in the spring of 1992. Producer Dave Jerden, who had previously worked with the band on their debut, Facelift, wanted to work with them once again. He admired vocalist Layne Staley'south lyrics and voice, and lead guitarist Jerry Cantrell'southward guitar riffs. The track "Would?" produced, engineered and mixed by Rick Parashar, was recorded before the album, and start appeared on the soundtrack to the 1992 film Singles.[12] Clay was recorded at Eldorado Recording Studio in Burbank, California, London Bridge Studio in Seattle, and One on One Studios in Los Angeles from April to July 1992.[ii]

Clay was recorded during the Los Angeles riots that erupted following the acquittal of four LAPD officers caught on camera beating unarmed black motorist Rodney King.[13] The riots started on the start twenty-four hour period of recording. The band was watching TV when the verdict for the incident was appear.[thirteen] Jerry Cantrell was in a store buying some beer when a man came in and started looting the place. Cantrell also got stuck in traffic and saw people pulling each other out of their cars and chirapsia them.[14] The band tried to become out of the town without getting hurt while LA was protesting confronting police brutality. They took Slayer vocalist Tom Araya with them and went to the Joshua Tree desert for iv or five days until things calmed downwardly, then moved dorsum into the studio and started recording the album.[13]

When recording the album, Staley had previously checked out of rehab and quickly went back to using heroin.[12] Staley later went cold-turkey on his own while reading The Bad Place, by horror novelist Dean R. Koontz.[12] Jerden afterwards said that he was told Staley felt animosity toward him dating back to the Dirt sessions due to Jerden repeatedly recommending to Staley that he get sober at the time.[xv] Jerden said, "Apparently he got all mad at me [during the Dirt sessions] ... And what'due south my job as a producer? To produce a record. I'm non getting paid to be Layne's friend."[15]

Staley was non the merely one who went through heavy drug use; drummer Sean Kinney and bassist Mike Starr were too struggling with alcohol habit.[16]

Dave Jerden got the album'south famous guitar tone by blending three different amps - a Bogner Fish preamp for the low end, a Bogner Ecstacy for the mid frequencies, and a Rockman Headphone amp for the loftier frequencies.[17]

Music and lyrics [edit]

With songs written primarily on the road, the material is darker than Facelift.[19] "We did a lot of soul searching on this album. There's a lot of intense feelings."[19] Cantrell said, "Nosotros deal with our daily demons through music. All of the poison that builds up during the day we cleanse when we play".[xx] Drug use was front and center as a lyrical theme on the anthology. Three tracks ("Sickman", "Junkhead" and "God Smack") specifically reference heroin use and its furnishings.[21]

Staley revealed that the album is semi-conceptual and that there are two bones themes in it. The showtime theme is about "dealing with kind of a personal ache and turmoil, which turns into drugs to ease that pain, and being confident that that was the answer in a way. Then afterwards the songs outset to slip down closer and closer to hell, then he figures out that drugs were not, and are not, the way to ease that pain. Basically, information technology's the whole story of the last three years of my life." Staley described the other theme as being nigh "painful relationships and involvements with persons."[21]

Staley later expressed regret about the lyrical content of some songs on Dirt, explaining, "I wrote about drugs, and I didn't remember I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them ... I didn't desire my fans to remember that heroin was cool. But and so I've had fans come to me and give me the thumbs up, telling me they're high. That'southward exactly what I didn't desire to happen."[22]

Cantrell said in 2013: "That darkness was e'er part of the band, but information technology wasn't all nigh that. In that location was e'er an optimism, even in the darkest shit we wrote. With Dirt, it'south not like we were maxim 'Oh yeah, this is a good thing.' Information technology was more of a alert than anything else, rather than 'Hey, come and check this out, it'south great!' We were talking nearly what was going on at the time, but within that there was e'er a survivor chemical element – a kind of triumph over the darker elements of being a human being. I yet think nosotros have all of that intact, but peradventure the percentage has shifted."[23]

Cantrell told RIP magazine in 1993 that non all of the lyrics have drug references:

I think "Sickman" is not that bad. I thought most of the hassle would come from "Junkhead" and "Godsmack". Those songs are put in sequence on the second side those five songs from "Junkhead" to "Angry Chair" for a reason: Because it tells a story. It starts out with a really young naive attitude with "Junkhead", similar drugs are great, sex is great, stone'n' roll, yeah! So, as it progresses, at that place's a niggling scrap of growing upward and a picayune bit of a realization of what it's about, and that ain't what information technology's most. I've been using this phrase a lot, just it makes a lot of sense: It's really piece of cake to die; it'due south really hard to live. Information technology takes a lot of guts to live. Information technology doesn't have a lot of guts to die. Those v and "Sickman" are the only ones talking well-nigh that type of mentality [drugs]. The rest of the stuff is not similar that at all. "Pelting When I Die" is a song to a girl. There'south a lot of stuff on it. A good portion of it is a story, and it's meant to be that fashion. It's kind of overwhelming and unpleasant at times, unsettling mayhap, merely that's why all those songs are together. Even if it'due south agonizing, it's not something everyone else needs to worry about or the way somebody else needs to alive their life.[24]

In the liner notes of 1999's Music Bank box gear up collection, Cantrell cited "Junkhead" and "God Smack" equally "the almost openly honest" songs about drug use.[ten]

Cantrell said he wrote "Them Bones" nigh "mortality, that one of these days we'll end up a pile of bones."[10] He told RIP magazine in 1993: "'Them Basic' is pretty cutting and stale. Information technology's a piddling sarcastic, but information technology'southward pretty much about dealing with your mortality and life. Everybody'southward going to die someday. Instead of being agape of it, that's the style it is: so enjoy the time you lot've got. Live as much as you can, have as much fun as possible. Confront your fear and alive. I had family members die at a adequately early age; so I've always had kind of a phobia almost it. Expiry freaks me out. I think it freaks a lot of people out. It's the end of life, depending on your views. It's a pretty scary thing. "Them Bones" is trying to put that thought to remainder. Utilise what yous have left, and use it well."[24]

Cantrell was inspired to write "Dam That River" afterward a fight he had with Sean Kinney, in which Kinney bankrupt a coffee table over his head.[24] [10] The lyrics to "Rain When I Die" were written by Cantrell and Staley about their respective girlfriends.[21] "Sickman" came together later Staley asked Cantrell to "write him the sickest tune, the sickest, darkest, most fucked up and heaviest thing [Cantrell] could write."[10]

"Rooster" was written past Cantrell for his father, Jerry Cantrell Sr., who served in the Vietnam War and his childhood nickname was "Rooster".[25] [10] Cantrell described the vocal as "the start of the healing process between my Dad and I from all that damage that Vietnam caused."[x]

Discussing the championship track "Clay", Cantrell stated that "the words Layne put to it were so heavy, I've never given him something and non thought it was gonna be the nigh bad-assed affair I was going to hear."[x] Staley said he wrote the vocal "to a sure person who basically buried my ass".[21]

The 43-second "Iron Gland" was developed out of a guitar riff that Cantrell would play that annoyed the other band members, so he created the song (adding in a reference to Black Sabbath's "Iron Man") and promised to never play the guitar riff again,[ten] although the rails is played as intro music in concert.[26] It features Tom Araya of thrash metallic ring Slayer on vocals, likewise as Layne Staley. "Detest to Feel" and "Aroused Chair" were both equanimous solely by Staley, who also played guitar on both tracks,[27] and Cantrell has expressed his pride in seeing Staley grow as a songwriter and guitarist.[10]

"Downwardly in a Hole" was written by Cantrell to his long-time girlfriend, Courtney Clarke.[28] Cantrell explained the vocal in the liner notes of 1999's Music Banking concern box prepare: "["Down in a Hole"]'s in my superlative three, personally. Information technology'due south to my long-time love. It's the reality of my life, the path I've chosen and in a weird way it kind of foretold where we are right now. It's hard for usa to both sympathize...that this life is not conducive to much success with long-term relationships."[x]

The album's terminal track, "Would?", was written by Cantrell as a tribute to his friend and belatedly lead singer of Mother Beloved Bone, Andrew Wood,[29] who died of a drug overdose in 1990.[30] Cantrell said the song is also "directed towards people who pass judgments."[x]

Packaging and championship [edit]

The album'southward cover art features a woman half buried in a cracked desert landscape. The cover was photographed past Rocky Schenck, who also created the prototype along with the anthology's art director, Mary Maurer.[31] Information technology was the ring's idea to take a nude woman half-buried in the desert for this cover, and she could be either expressionless or alive.[31] The band discussed the type of adult female they wanted and Schenck began casting shortly subsequently. Schenck submitted a photograph of model/extra Mariah O'Brien and the ring chose her.[32]

The comprehend shoot took place at Schenck'due south Hollywood studio on June 14, 1992, with the supervision of drummer Sean Kinney.[33] After the eight hour photograph session, O'Brien went to the bathroom and left her wig embedded in the clay. Schenck then snapped a few photos, which were after used for the 1999 box set Music Bank.[31]

For many years, fans believed that the model on the cover was Staley'south then-girlfriend, Demri Parrott, but Schenck revealed to Revolver Magazine in 2011 that the girl was actually Mariah O'Brien, with whom he had previously worked on the cover of Spinal Tap's single "Bitch School".[31] The mag also published behind the scenes photos from the shoot featuring O'Brien.[31] Schenck told Revolver Magazine:

Everyone always asks if that is Demri Parrott on the "Dirt" Comprehend. I recall Demri'due south name might accept been mentioned as a possible model once or twice, but it was never a serious consideration.[31]

In an interview with the Canadian magazine Yard.E.A.T. in December 1992, Layne Staley said about the cover:

This album cover... I like to refer to information technology as "revenge". The song 'Dirt' was written to a certain person who basically buried my ass, and then the woman on the album cover is kinda the portrayal of that person being sucked downwards into the dirt (laughs), instead of me. The picture is the spitting image of her, and that wasn't even planned. Really, I was pretty angry about it when I starting time saw it – she's non happy about it either (laughs). It was real eerie.[21]

The comprehend was referenced on the music video for Alice in Chains' 2009 unmarried "A Looking in View". At the half-dozen:55 mark of the video, a woman (played by Sacha Senisch) is seen lying on a cracked desert flooring similarly to Dirt'south embrace.[34] "A Looking in View" was featured on Alice in Chains' quaternary studio album, Black Gives Manner to Blue, released exactly 17 years afterward Dirt, on September 29, 2009.[35]

Release and commercial performance [edit]

Upon its release in September 1992, Dirt peaked at number vi on the Billboard 200 and charted for 102 weeks,[36] [37] ending at number 196 in the week of September 24, 1994.[38] Clay granted Alice in Chains international recognition, and the album was certified four times platinum status in the The states,[39] platinum status in Canada[forty] and aureate status in the Great britain.[41] The album had sold 3,358,000 copies in the Usa as of 2008.[42] A remastered reissue of the album was released on vinyl on Nov 23, 2009.[43] [44]

Reception and legacy [edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [45]
Chicago Tribune [46]
Christgau's Consumer Guide B[47]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music [48]
Entertainment Weekly A[49]
Kerrang! 5/5[50]
Q [51]
The Rolling Rock Album Guide [52]
Spin Culling Record Guide 7/ten[53]
Vox 8/10[54]

Dirt received critical acclaim, and is considered by many critics and fans akin as the grouping'south best anthology. In a retrospective review, Steve Huey of AllMusic said "Dirt is Alice in Chains' major creative statement and the closest they e'er came to recording a flat-out masterpiece. It'south a primal, sickening howl from the depths of Layne Staley's heroin addiction, and 1 of the about harrowing concept albums ever recorded. Not every vocal on Dirt is explicitly nigh heroin, but Jerry Cantrell's solo-written contributions (almost half the anthology) effectively maintain the thematic coherence—almost every song is imbued with the morbidity, self-cloy, and/or resignation of a self-aware yet powerless addict."[45]

Michael Christopher of PopMatters praised the album saying "the record wasn't celebratory by whatsoever means – only you'll be hard pressed to find a more brutally truthful piece of work laid down – and that's why it volition e'er be one of the greatest records e'er made."[55] Chris Gill of Guitar Earth chosen Dirt "huge and foreboding, yet eerie and intimate," and "sublimely dark and brutally honest."[56] Don Kaye of Kerrang! described Dirt as "brutally truthful and a fiercely rocking testimonial to human being endurance".[50]

Dirt is often considered every bit one of the about influential albums to the sludge metallic subgenre, which fuses doom metal with hardcore punk.[55] [57] Information technology was voted "Kerrang! Critic's Option Album of the Yr" for 1992.[58]

Dirt included the top-30 singles "Would?", "Them Bones", "Angry Chair", "Rooster", and "Down in a Pigsty", all of which had accompanying music videos. The anthology remained on Billboard'due south charts for virtually two years.[59] [60]

At the 1993 Grammy Awards, Dirt received a nomination for Best Difficult Rock Performance.[61] The band also contributed the song "Would?" to the soundtrack for the 1992 Cameron Crowe film Singles, whose video received an award for Best Video from a Film at the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards.[62]

Clay was likewise included in the 2005 volume 1001 Albums Y'all Must Hear Earlier You Die.[63]

In 2008, Dirt was ranked every bit 5th best album in the last two decades by Close-Up magazine.[64]

In 2011, Joe Robinson of Loudwire named Dirt as i of the all-time metallic albums of the 1990s, alongside other albums such as Megadeth'south Rust in Peace and Tool'south Ænima, writing "In the boxing between metal and grunge, Alice in Chains are a rare ring that is embraced by fans of both genres. The nigh metallic of the Seattle bands, they were marketed every bit metal for 1990's 'Facelift,' then touted every bit grunge for 1992's 'Clay.' The ring members themselves didn't carp much with labels, they only churned out some of the finest alt-metallic with classics like 'Would?,' 'Rooster' and 'Them Bones' leading their charge all the way to the headlining spot on Lollapalooza '93."[6]

In October 2011, the album was ranked number ane on Guitar World magazine's top ten list of guitar albums of 1992, with The Offspring's Ignition in second place and Bad Religion'southward Generator in third place.[65]

In June 2017, Dirt was ranked at No. 26 on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time".[xi] In April 2019, Rolling Stone ranked the album at No. 6 on its list of the "l Greatest Grunge Albums".[66]

Tour [edit]

Staley performing with Alice in Chains in Boston in 1992

Alice in Chains was added equally openers to Ozzy Osbourne'due south No More Tours tour. Days before the tour began, Staley broke his foot in an ATV accident, forcing him to employ crutches on stage.[56] During the tour, Starr was fired following the Hollywood Rock concert in Rio de Janeiro on Jan 22, 1993 and was replaced by one-time Ozzy Osbourne bassist Mike Inez.[67] [68]

During June–August 1993, Alice in Chains joined Primus, Tool, Rage Against the Machine and Babes in Toyland for the alternative music festival Lollapalooza, which was the last major tour the band played with Staley.[69]

Track listing [edit]

"Sickman", "Junkhead", "Dirt" and "God Smack" are credited to Cantrell/Staley with no specification for lyrics or music. "Rain When I Die" is credited to Cantrell/Staley/Kinney/Starr,[70] and it was after stated that Cantrell and Staley wrote the lyrics.[21]

No. Championship Writer(s) Length
1. "Them Bones" Jerry Cantrell 2:30
two. "Dam That River" Cantrell 3:09
3. "Rain When I Die"
  • Cantrell
  • Layne Staley
  • Sean Kinney
  • Mike Starr
 six:01
4. "Downwardly in a Hole[I]" Cantrell five:38
5. "Sickman"
  • Cantrell
  • Staley
 5:29
vi. "Rooster" Cantrell 6:15
7. "Junkhead"
  • Cantrell
  • Staley
 5:09
viii. "Dirt"
  • Cantrell
  • Staley
 5:16
9. "God Smack"
  • Cantrell
  • Staley
 3:56
ten. "Intro (Dream Sequence)/Iron Gland[Two]" (sometimes unlisted or listed as "Untitled")
  • Tom Araya
  • Cantrell
 0:43
11. "Hate to Feel" Staley v:15
12. "Angry Chair" Staley 4:48
thirteen. "Would?" Cantrell 3:28
Total length: 57:37

^ I On early U.Due south. and Canadian pressings, "Down in a Hole" appeared equally track 12 placed between "Aroused Chair" and "Would?".[71] [72] Electric current U.S. and Canadian editions of the CD and the Vinyl have "Down in a Hole" as the fourth track, located between "Rain When I Die" and "Sickman",[1] [73] [43] which was the track listing that the ring originally intended before the tape visitor inverse the order.[24] [21]

^ Two Track 9 or x, "Atomic number 26 Gland", appears without a title on the anthology. The title appeared on the compilations Nothing Safe and Music Bank. The iTunes Store lists information technology incorrectly as "Atomic number 26 Man". Before the proper noun "Atomic number 26 Gland" was revealed, it was labeled in some online databases as "Intro (Dream Sequence)". On editions in which "Downwardly in a Hole" is track iv, "Atomic number 26 Gland" is track ten. The track is unlisted on some versions of the anthology, and some editions remove the track completely or merge it with "Hate to Feel". On the dorsum cover of the edition in which "Iron Gland" is track 9, "Hate to Feel", "Angry Chair", "Downwards in a Hole" and "Would?" are listed from nine–12. However, when the CD is played, the songs are on tracks 10–13.

Outtakes [edit]

The songs "Fear the Voices" and "Lying Season" were featured on Alice in Chains' 1991 demo record that featured songs from Sap and Dirt.[10] Both of these songs were later included on the band'southward 1999 box set, Music Banking concern. "Fright the Voices" was released equally a unmarried in 1999 to promote Music Bank and became a radio hit that aforementioned year. Regarding the ii songs, Cantrell said that they came from a time when the ring was still developing its sound.[10]

Personnel [edit]

Alice in Chains

  • Layne Staley – lead vocals, rhythm guitar on "Hate to Experience" and "Aroused Chair", production, sun logo/icons
  • Jerry Cantrell – co-pb vocals on "Down in a Hole", "Aroused Chair" and "Would?", backing vocals, lead guitar, audio-visual guitar on "Downwardly In a Pigsty", product
  • Mike Starr – bass, product
  • Sean Kinney – drums, product

Additional personnel

  • Tom Araya – vocals on "Iron Gland"

Technical personnel

  • Dave Jerden – production (except on "Would?"), mixing
  • Rick Parashar – production on "Would?"
  • Bryan Carlstrom – engineering science
  • Annette Cisneros – applied science, mixing
  • Ulrich Wild – engineering
  • Steve Hall and Eddy Schreyer – mastering
  • Mary Maurer – art direction, visual effects
  • Doug Erb – encompass pattern
  • David Coleman – logo
  • Rocky Schenck – photography

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

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External links [edit]

  • Dirt at Discogs (list of releases)
  • Dirt at AllMusic

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