Alice in Chains Sucks

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3.7 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Is it possible this is the Actual Most Depressing Grunge Band out of all the depressing grunge bands to ever exist? Turns out some bands never recover from finding out they aren't good enough to make it in hair metal. But that only explains how a group of guys could wind up making music this miserable and boring. What in the hell compels anyone else to waste time listening to it? Tune in to today's episode as Mark and Tyler consider these and other great mysteries of "the Seattle sound." But wait! Make sure to listen all the way to the end for details on how you have a chance to appear as a guest on a future episode of the podcast!

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0:00.0	This is going to be the most depressing episode.
0:13.2	I feel sad just sitting down.
0:15.3	Yeah.
0:16.3	Grunge music is sad.
0:18.5	Every band that did Grunge music is sad.
0:22.1	It's interesting because you're right, obviously.
0:24.4	So much grunge music is just the most depressing shit ever.
0:28.5	What's interesting is how many of the Seattle Grunge bands started off trying and usually
0:36.8	failing, but trying to be pretty straightforward hair, metal slash sunset strip metal.
0:42.8	Well, that's what they were supposedly counter-cultureing, right?
0:47.8	Isn't that like that lot of...
0:48.8	Yeah, I think that's just a false narrative, though.
0:51.4	And I think a lot of the people at the time on both sides of it have said that.
0:55.7	I mean, I know that Kurt obviously talked about hating hair metal or whatever, but that's
1:00.2	just one dude.
1:01.2	I mean, Allison Chains hit from Seattle before, anyway, I've heard, Nirvana.
1:08.6	Allison Chains paved the way somehow.
1:12.2	I think so.
1:13.2	Man in the box was the first hit to come out of Seattle.
1:15.4	It's probably the reason why Nirvana became anything at all.
1:19.6	They definitely were listening to Hair Metal and Slash was definitely listening to Allison
1:23.8	Chains and Sound Garden for sure.
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