10 Rock Albums That Are Way Too Bloated

10. The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here - Alice in Chains

Alice in Chains didn't really have any business sticking around after Layne Staley passed away. Since the pain in his voice was such a big part of what made them special on albums like Dirt, it felt like the band should have died along with him, until William DuVall reenergized them and sparked their career resurrection on Black Gives Way To Blue. Alice was going to get a second chance, but the next record was a bit more sluggish than most would have liked to admit.

That's not to say that the Devil Put Dinosaurs Here is a bad record by any stretch. There's a good chance that Alice doesn't have a bad album in them, but this one does feel the most stretched out just for the sake of time. While Black Gives Way to Blue may have had problems with the loudness wars in its time, the way these tracks drag on pale in comparison to their earlier work, with riffs that are a little too weak to carry the entire song.

Since Jerry Cantrell was taking the reigns here, what we got was an Alice record trying to be doom metal, and there's a fine line between sludgy and just getting boring after a while. Then again, Jerry Cantrell was in the emergency room to correct back problems when writing this record, so it makes sense why the album might sound like this. Alice is in repair, and they needed to take it slower to get in touch with those grunge roots again.