Soundgarden vs. Alice in Chains [Archive]

Medvedenko

10-14-2005, 03:57 PM

Alice in Chains...>Nirvana...and I love both bands.
I was in high school when these bands were on the top of the world.
I also liked Soundgarden and thought they were interesting and have their CD's.

Alice in Chains was my favourite band through out highschool. I graduated in 94. The Album Dirt is still in my top 10.

Cant_Be_Faded

10-14-2005, 04:03 PM

Soundgarden's first album was crap, decent crap, but crap. Superunknown was very overrated. Soundgarden's best CD was their last. Most of those songs are uber.

Alice in Chains had more quality per CD. I was just listening to them last night and remembered how bad ass they were.
One time i saw Jerry Cantrell in concert, he was opening for Metallica. I kept my fingers crossed that he'd bust out an Alice song.

batman2883

10-14-2005, 04:06 PM

Sound fucking Garden baby....>Black hole sun, wont you come...and wash away the rain

Medvedenko

10-14-2005, 04:09 PM

Yeah, Soundgarden had some great songs but the pure doom factor and innsular music Alice was dropping was gold.

Sap
Facelift
Dirt
No excuses
all great albums.

Cant_Be_Faded

10-14-2005, 04:12 PM

Unplugged was awesome as well.

midgetonadonkey

10-14-2005, 04:13 PM

One time i saw Jerry Cantrell in concert, he was opening for Metallica. I kept my fingers crossed that he'd bust out an Alice song.

I was at the show. I missed most of his set though because we parked like 2 miles from Retama Park. I think I caught about 20 minutes of it. I'm glad he didn't play any Alice songs. It wouldn't be the same without Staley singing them.

Cant_Be_Faded

10-14-2005, 04:15 PM

I was at the show. I missed most of his set though because we parked like 2 miles from Retama Park. I think I caught about 20 minutes of it. I'm glad he didn't play any Alice songs. It wouldn't be the same without Staley singing them.

This was back in 96, right? Haha, i was like 13

it was my first concert.

Was Days of the New the first opening act?

We missed like 1/4 of Cantrell's set. I had heard his single on MTV, and did not like it, but after hearing him perform his songs live, I got the CD the next day. I thought it was so fascinating how listening to a band live can change your persepective of how they sound.

JMarkJohns

10-14-2005, 04:28 PM

Alice is the most musically talented hard rock band of all time. They could do anything they wanted and it sounded great.

Both are great bands, but the brilliance of Alice In Chains puts them over the top.

Jar of Flies, Unplugged are the greatest acoustic rock albums ever...

midgetonadonkey

10-14-2005, 04:30 PM

This was back in 96, right? Haha, i was like 13

it was my first concert.

Was Days of the New the first opening act?

We missed like 1/4 of Cantrell's set. I had heard his single on MTV, and did not like it, but after hearing him perform his songs live, I got the CD the next day. I thought it was so fascinating how listening to a band live can change your persepective of how they sound.

It was in '97. I'm glad I missed Days of the New, they suck. It was a cool show, I had about 15 joints rolled up for it. It was a kick ass show.

Cant_Be_Faded

10-14-2005, 04:39 PM

It was in '97. I'm glad I missed Days of the New, they suck. It was a cool show, I had about 15 joints rolled up for it. It was a kick ass show.

97, huh? Damn, that really wasn't too long ago. I thought it was wayyyy back.

I wasn't smoking then, but it woulda been awesome to smoke it up in that huge lynch mob surrounding the stage.

I remember Jerry Cantrell asked this chick to take her shirt and bra off, and she did, and then he said her bra was fuckin dirty looking
hahahahaha

Gatita

10-14-2005, 04:41 PM

I remember Jerry Cantrell asked this chick to take her shirt and bra off, and she did, and then he said her bra was fuckin dirty looking
hahahahaha

:lol

Shelly

10-14-2005, 04:42 PM

Unplugged was awesome as well.

That is the best Unplugged ever!

ChumpDumper

10-14-2005, 04:49 PM

Alice in Chains.

Bonus points for untimely death.

ZStomp

10-14-2005, 05:33 PM

Chains

ObiwanGinobili

10-14-2005, 05:34 PM

we should turn this into a poll so we can have a visual on how kickass AIC is....... :fro

Cant_Be_Faded

10-14-2005, 05:34 PM

I agree :tu

mavsfan1000

10-14-2005, 05:39 PM

I thought AIC was underrated. I would like to see a poll between AIC and Nirvana. That would be interesting

Shelly

10-14-2005, 05:48 PM

I would still vote AIC or Nirvana.

I was never a big Nirvana fan to begin with.

mookie2001

10-14-2005, 06:00 PM

LOL
its lame as hell this is even a thread
this is even a bigger slaughter than zeppelin slaughtered acdc
alice in chains
not even close

ObiwanGinobili

10-14-2005, 06:01 PM

AIC vs. Nirvana?

still go AIC.

AIC vs. Nirvana vs. soundgarden???

1. AIC
2. Nirvana
3. Soundgarden

Cant_Be_Faded

10-14-2005, 06:03 PM

If the lead singer injects copious amounts of heroin daily, then the band gets bonus points.

Chris Cornell was always too busy doing his hair.

midgetonadonkey

10-14-2005, 06:14 PM

AIC vs. Nirvana?

still go AIC.

AIC vs. Nirvana vs. soundgarden???

1. AIC
2. Nirvana
3. Soundgarden

If you bring in Nirvana you have to also bring in Pearl Jam and they top that list.

Uncle Donnie

10-14-2005, 06:31 PM

If you bring in Nirvana you have to also bring in Pearl Jam and they top that list.

Hell no. I'd rank Pearl Jam below any of those three.

ObiwanGinobili

10-14-2005, 06:32 PM

If you bring in Nirvana you have to also bring in Pearl Jam and they top that list.

yes.
Pearl jam would go #1 and knock everyone else down a spot.

midgetonadonkey

10-14-2005, 06:34 PM

Hell no. I'd rank Pearl Jam below any of those three.

Blashpemy!!

LuvBones

10-14-2005, 06:55 PM

Spurfect got me into Alice in Chains.. they have our vote. She got Layne's autograph too before he died. :(

mavsfan1000

10-14-2005, 06:56 PM

Pearl Jam is way overrated. Ten is overrated. I've heard all the songs and have heard better cd's. The stuff gets old quick. VS was probably my favorite cd of theirs. AIC is way better though.

mookie2001

10-14-2005, 06:59 PM

pearl jam is overrated if you judge on the popularity of ten
not their music as a whole

Shelly

10-14-2005, 07:18 PM

Blech--I hate Pearl Jam!

slayermin

10-14-2005, 07:42 PM

Alice is/was one of my favorites of all-time. Facelift is incredible.

My favorite song of all time from Alice is "Sunshine."

I love Soundgarden too and I was fortunate enough to see them during the Superunknown tour at Sunken Gardens. I never did get to check out Alice.

Spurfect

10-14-2005, 07:43 PM

Spurfect got me into Alice in Chains.. they have our vote. She got Layne's autograph too before he died. :(

you beat me to it! Alice in Chains of course :) RIP Layne :(

ObiwanGinobili

10-14-2005, 07:58 PM

you beat me to it! Alice in Chains of course :) RIP Layne :(

where have you been?? :)
i swear batman is going thru serious spurfect withdrawls.... it;s sooo pathetic.
:lol

Spurfect

10-14-2005, 11:14 PM

where have you been?? :)
i swear batman is going thru serious spurfect withdrawls.... it;s sooo pathetic.
:lol

working like a dog. my first day off will be this Sunday, after 13 days straight of working. And that's only cause the Disaster Recovery Center decided to be closed on Sundays. Otherwise I'd still be working. FEMA is keeping my ass busy. speaking of that I gotta go to bed :sleep sorry batman! lol :lol

MannyIsGod

10-15-2005, 01:49 AM

1. Pearl Jam (as a band better than Nirvana)
2. Nirvana (Kurt was the best talent of the era)
3. Alice
3a. The Smashing Pumpkins
5. STP (if Scott Weiland would have put down the needle, they could have been at the top of this list)
6. Soundgarden (Cornell is an amazing songwriter, but there was also a lot of so so stuff Soundgarden put out)

BTW, Alice's unplugged album is awesome, but Nirvana still holds the best unplugged album. That thing is awesome. Kurt's songwriting is really on display there.