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Podcast: Comics In Motion
Episode: Mandatory Music and CD: Dirt by Alice in Chains
Description: Dirt Review from All Music
Dirt Review by Steve Huey
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
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