5 Essential Alice In Chains Songs

4. Hate To Feel - Dirt 1992

If you fall for this song, then you are truly meant to be, an Alice fan. It is grinding, desperate, disjointed and bleak. Pretty much as painfully slow and truly fucked up as it gets. This is heroin in music form. There are other songs like this, non-instant and dissonant masterpiece across the bands catalog, from 'Love, Hate, Love', on 'Facelift' to 'Lab Monkey', from 'The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here', to name just two. If you can hang with these type of tracks, and not just the more, straight forward Hard Rock tracks in the bands arsenal, then you are going to be just fine. It does take time with these songs but when they click, it all makes sense and they become the ones you prefer. There are hooks, but you have to let them catch you and slowly embed themselves into you. The harmonies are in full freakish mode here and that solo is just insane and twisted. The bass is so bruising, at the bottom end. Sean Kinney, shows that even in really low tempo music, drumming can be made very interesting and add to the overall song rather than just keeping time.