Alice In Chains

[Verse Chorus Verse]

I bought it first day, still gets spins from me. Solid, good album.

A Looking In View and the title track are great.

Haha, I've been listening to it non-stop since the day it came out.

Since my purchase of the album, my love for Alice has been rekindled. I've been digging out my old cds of them.

I've been the same. I've never been the biggest Alice fan, maybe I'd go on a kick every once in a while, but I've been listening to Dirt and the Self-Titled a lot.

[FunkyMonkey]

I have to say the opening track is an odd choice to open the album.   I tend to just skip straight to Check My Brain.

It's a slow epic build up of a song, I think it actually opens the album very well.

yea.. I tend to like the opening track of the album to grab you by the balls.   I think Check My Brain or A Looking in View would have done that perfectly.  But different strokes. 

You have to think about what this album is all about -- I don't know if opening with Check My Brain was what they had in mind.  Look at the lyrics for "All Secrets Known" and it gives you a clue...

Hope,
A new beginning
Time,
Time to start living
 
Like just before we died

There's no going back
To the place
We started from

[Jim Bob]

yea i know lyrically it makes sense to start off the album, I just can't get into the track.

[FunkyMonkey]

Here is a video interview with Alice In Chains on CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/showbiz/2009/10/02/quan.alice.in.chains.cnn?iref=videosearch

[FunkyMonkey]

An interview with Jerry Cantrell:

http://www.inkedmag.com/music/q-jerry-cantrell/

[FunkyMonkey]

ALICE IN CHAINS' 'Black Gives Way To Blue' Cracks U.S. Top 5 - Oct. 7, 2009

ALICE IN CHAINS's first all-new album in 14 years, titled "Black Gives Way To Blue", sold 126,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 5 on The Billboard 200 chart (behind latest albums from PARAMORE, MARIAH CAREY, BARBRA STREISAND and BREAKING BENJAMIN).

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=128307

[SpecialAgentCooper]

Well Maynard was really good friends with Layne, and lets face it Maynard is an amazing singer and it's not too hard to replace someone when you knew them on such a personal level and you're fuckin talented like that...anyway.

[PJ]

maynard is not the singer of AIC
he only did some shows and appearances..

[Jim Bob]

ALICE IN CHAINS' 'Black Gives Way To Blue' Cracks U.S. Top 5 - Oct. 7, 2009

ALICE IN CHAINS's first all-new album in 14 years, titled "Black Gives Way To Blue", sold 126,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 5 on The Billboard 200 chart (behind latest albums from PARAMORE, MARIAH CAREY, BARBRA STREISAND and BREAKING BENJAMIN).

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=128307

I figured it would have sold a few more the first week.     Guess its just the times.

[LunsJail]

ALICE IN CHAINS' 'Black Gives Way To Blue' Cracks U.S. Top 5 - Oct. 7, 2009

ALICE IN CHAINS's first all-new album in 14 years, titled "Black Gives Way To Blue", sold 126,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 5 on The Billboard 200 chart (behind latest albums from PARAMORE, MARIAH CAREY, BARBRA STREISAND and BREAKING BENJAMIN).

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=128307

I figured it would have sold a few more the first week.     Guess its just the times.

I would have thought the same thing. The people at my local record store said it was flying off the shelves. But I don't know what their definition of "flying off the shelves" is anymore.

[FunkyMonkey]

THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY: The fourth quarter?s first Super Tuesday had its share of surprises, topped by Fueled by Ramen?s latest chart-topper in Paramore?s 185k-selling sophomore album?marking another #1 record for producer and new WMG Chief Creative Officer Rob Cavallo. Performing better than expected were #2 Barbra Streisand (Columbia), whose first album in six years bowed with 177k; #4 Breaking Benjamin (Hollywood, 136k); and the reformed Alice in Chains (Virgin), which debuted at #5 with 128k.

Hits Daily Double

[Chief]

Finally just listened to it and it is pretty sweet. Very heavy too!  I'm so happy Alice is back even without Layne.. i got chills listening to black gives way to blue.
I hope they are proud of themselves!

[FunkyMonkey]

Alice in Chains Interview

Thursday, 8 October 2009

HG: There will always be fans who love the old records that you're not going to reach.

William DuVall: And that's ok. This is an invitation and you don't have to take it. But it's an invitation that's coming from a really, really truthful and very, very profound place. I think the people that take it and the people that show up to the party are going to really be rewarded. And they have been rewarded, and they're digging it.

Sean Kinney: Seeing Will just give his all every night and going at it and turning people around who have a closed mind [as to] why we're doing this is amazing. I understand [fans have] a little bit of fear and that people connected to the records we've done so strongly and I honour that completely. But it's a little rude for people who listen to those records and bond with them to try to pass judgement on us and say we don't have the right to do something.

The truth is that all of these things that they care about so much didn't happen to them: it actually happened to us. It was actually our real life. My friend's dead and I live with that every day. We've all lost people and everybody will in life. And just because you loved our record so much doesn't mean you can't move on. If we can find a way to move on and they can't then I just kind of feel sorry for people at that point. This happened to us and we can move on with our heads up and are doing it in the most honourable and genuine fashion. And you can't because you just listened to a record? That's a little sad.

HG: The first lines of 'Black Gives Way to Blue', "Hope, a new beginning. It's time to start living like just before we died" are the perfect way to open the album.

SK: And then we tell you the fact that we know, that you think you know, "there's no going back to the place we started from". We're not trying to. We've already been there. It's pointless. We're trying to move on.

It feels really good to be doing this. We mean what we're doing. We have given everything we have to doing this and I feel we've won - it's already a triumph. So as long as you believe in what you're doing, and we collectively do, that's all that matters.

http://www.rte.ie/arts/2009/1008/aliceinchains.html

[Jim Bob]

Sean Kinney: Seeing Will just give his all every night and going at it and turning people around who have a closed mind [as to] why we're doing this is amazing. I understand [fans have] a little bit of fear and that people connected to the records we've done so strongly and I honour that completely. But it's a little rude for people who listen to those records and bond with them to try to pass judgement on us and say we don't have the right to do something.

The truth is that all of these things that they care about so much didn't happen to them: it actually happened to us. It was actually our real life. My friend's dead and I live with that every day. We've all lost people and everybody will in life. And just because you loved our record so much doesn't mean you can't move on. If we can find a way to move on and they can't then I just kind of feel sorry for people at that point. This happened to us and we can move on with our heads up and are doing it in the most honourable and genuine fashion. And you can't because you just listened to a record? That's a little sad.

love this part.   so much truth there, not just for AIC fans, but for all fans of music.

[Verse Chorus Verse]

ALICE IN CHAINS' 'Black Gives Way To Blue' Cracks U.S. Top 5 - Oct. 7, 2009

ALICE IN CHAINS's first all-new album in 14 years, titled "Black Gives Way To Blue", sold 126,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 5 on The Billboard 200 chart (behind latest albums from PARAMORE, MARIAH CAREY, BARBRA STREISAND and BREAKING BENJAMIN).

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=128307

BEHIND MARIAH CAREY AND BARBARA STREISAND?! Jesus Christ!

[FunkyMonkey]

Alice In Chains announce new single

To coincide with Alice In Chains European tour, the band have announced that they will be releasing new single 'Your Decision' on 16 November 2009 in the UK.

[Chief]

i really like the mellower songs, esp black gives way to blue and my new favorite is acid bubbles!

[mrlee]

Saw a video on MTV2 Rock Chart of one of their new songs. Cool video but didnt like the song unfortunately.

[Falcon]

Jerry Cantrell and Mike Inez are scheduled to be on nationally syndicated Jim Rome Show Friday 10/16 between 9am and 12pm PST..

"Check My Brain" is in heavy rotation (still) here....

[Falcon]

Jerry and Mike going on Rome right now, 11am PST.