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Posted on 1/25/26 at 3:25 pm to boomjosh
Nutshell for the win
Posted on 1/25/26 at 4:01 pm to Polycarp
Definitely this
Posted on 1/25/26 at 4:36 pm to Alyosha
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Truly genuine question here and will get DVed but I’ve been curious for years about this. I wish someone can explain to me the obsession over AIC. Is this more of a southern thing?
I grew up during the grunge era on the west coast and immersed in the grunge/Seattle scene. AIC was a respected band, but I never encountered a conversation where they were mentioned as the best or among the top. Sort of faded from my memory until encountering this board and they’re often brought up.
It is strange,,,,,On this board AIC rules as the kings of grunge and Layne Staley was the best singer of his generation....any time this comes up, AIC and Staley are always considered the GOATs
I love AIC but they seemed a distant to Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden
This post was edited on 1/25/26 at 4:37 pm
Posted on 1/25/26 at 5:31 pm to Alyosha
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Truly genuine question here and will get DVed but I’ve been curious for years about this. I wish someone can explain to me the obsession over AIC. Is this more of a southern thing?
I’ve always liked Pearl Jam the most from the start in the early 90’s. I have come to appreciate and like Alice In Chains more over the last Decades. Love them both way more than Nirvana. Soundgarden and Nirvana kinda even. I love all the Super Groups that formed from Soundgarden and Pearl Jam a lot.
ETA- but don’t ever say you like Pearl Jam here. They have all decided to hate them because one or two posters told them too
This post was edited on 1/25/26 at 5:47 pm
Posted on 1/25/26 at 5:43 pm to Alyosha
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Truly genuine question here and will get DVed but I’ve been curious for years about this. I wish someone can explain to me the obsession over AIC. Is this more of a southern thing?
I grew up during the grunge era on the west coast and immersed in the grunge/Seattle scene. AIC was a respected band, but I never encountered a conversation where they were mentioned as the best or among the top. Sort of faded from my memory until encountering this board and they’re often brought up.
AIC had a harder edge and appealed to a wider audience, including metalheads like me. They could also play their instruments a lot better.
Posted on 1/25/26 at 6:42 pm to A12 Oxcart
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Kurt's voice is barely in tune and they added extra musicians, but still managed to sound lame.
..as opposed to Layne's voice in that performance..
Posted on 1/25/26 at 11:26 pm to A12 Oxcart
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including metalheads like me.
That makes sense. Was not a metal head so that was the appeal?
Posted on 1/26/26 at 9:25 am to boomjosh
AIC. They were all sick with a stomach bug and or dopesick during the performance. Still awesome.
Posted on 1/26/26 at 10:44 am to boomjosh
I may be the outlier here. I prefer AIC night and day over Nirvana but comparing the two unplugged performances, I'm going with Nirvana. I'll even get slayed for this but AIC unplugged just isn't that great. It's not. Nirvana's reached such an iconic performance because it's just a better sound and performance.
This post was edited on 1/26/26 at 10:45 am
Posted on 1/27/26 at 11:21 am to Alyosha
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AIC was a respected band, but I never encountered a conversation where they were mentioned as the best or among the top
WUT! They are widely considered part of the Big 4 of grunge.
Posted on 1/27/26 at 11:29 am to Alyosha
quote:Yes. I always viewed them as metal and didn't care about the "grunge" label. AiC by far the best of the Seattle bands.
as not a metal head so that was the appeal?
Posted on 1/27/26 at 12:06 pm to Big Scrub TX
Alice In Chains was great, but I wouldn’t have loved to have seen it a few years earlier before Laney Staley started to fall apart. For that reason, I’m gonna go with Nirvana.
Posted on 1/27/26 at 6:16 pm to boomjosh
I just loved AIC's sound more. The harmonies and the sort of creepy vibe they had combined with the heaviness of Cantrell's guitar. Nirvana's Unplugged performance was probably more of a surprise to me because I always thought they absolutely sucked arse in their regular live performances and I didn't think they could pull off unplugged
Posted on 1/27/26 at 6:20 pm to Corso
AIC in a close one. Love both.
Posted on 1/27/26 at 7:32 pm to Alyosha
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That makes sense. Was not a metal head so that was the appeal?
Again, as someone who was a young metalhead at that time and an old metalhead now I've never heard anyone outside of this board call AIC metal. Dirt had a harder edge than most alt rock at the time but that doesn't make them metal.
Posted on 1/27/26 at 7:42 pm to Brosef Stalin
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Again, as someone who was a young metalhead at that time and an old metalhead now I've never heard anyone outside of this board call AIC metal. Dirt had a harder edge than most alt rock at the time but that doesn't make them metal.
As someone who was never a metalhead and came up in the 80s and into the 90s on punk/post-punk/indie.. I think that was probably an easy/lazy bucket to put them in... similar to Soundgarden... neither were my taste or had the more punk/garage tendencies as Nirvana and Mudhoney... which I preferred..
Plus the dudes who were in to metal, seemed to dig them...
This post was edited on 1/27/26 at 7:43 pm
Posted on 1/27/26 at 7:55 pm to boomjosh
Nirvana
...but neither were very good.
...but neither were very good.
Posted on 1/27/26 at 8:04 pm to boomjosh
Hot take… AIC is so much better than Nirvana.
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