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Media Type: CD
Artist: ALICE IN CHAINS
Title: JAR OF FLIES
Street Release Date: 01/25/1994
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP | | | Product Details: | | | Audio CD Release Date:
| January 25, 1994 | | Studio:
| Sony | | Number Of Discs:
| 1 | | Format:
| EP | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 269 reviews |
| | | Track Listing: | | | 1. | Rotten Apple | | 2. | Nutshell | | 3. | I Stay Away | | 4. | No Excuses | | 5. | Whale & Wasp | | 6. | Don't Follow | | 7. | Swing on This | |
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Best 7 songs ive heard in a whileJun 11, 2010
This EP as a whole is some of the bands best work, from Layne's beautiful voice to Jerry's amazing guitar work...
loved all the songs but Rotten Apple has to be my fave
Highly recommend it
AIC Can Do Acoustic, Too!May 23, 2010
Alice in Chains has been praised for the heavy guitar riffs from Cantrell and the voice of Staley, but this EP shows that not only can they play metal, but they sure can create some cool acoustic songs. (What would've made this CD cooler is if they included the songs from "Sap" on here, too.) Don't miss out on this, there are some great tracks on here!
0 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Yet another AIC album.Apr 25, 2010
This album sounds just like all the other AIC albums including the new one. Depressing, stale stoner grunge crap. Nirvana was grunge get over it.
 I had a hard time figuring out this e.p.Aug 19, 2009
I remember the first night I heard "No Excuses" I was delivering a pizza, and I couldn't figure out at first if it was electric, or acoustic because the production is that stripped down. That's the way it is on all these songs, and it's not a bad thing. I at first thought it was done up in the same fashion as "SAP" was in 92, but then when I heard the guitar solo on "No Excuses" I knew it was electric; it was just missing the grunge. Not saying that Alice left the grunge scene behind them the first song on here "Rotten Apple" is still rather grungy, and so is "Nutshell". "I Stay Away's" video should've won for best video of the year in 94 as it looked like one of those claymation puppets that Rankin/Bass are responsible for exposing to the world. "I Stay Away" is probably the most adventurous the group ever got as they incorporated a string section into the song which makes it "Classic Rock". However, the best is saved for last as the group takes on jazz with "Swing On This". I don't know why this was released unless it was a tie over until Layne Staley got out of rehab for battling the heroin demon, or if this was planned, but regardless it made it to number 1 on the album charts making Alice In Chains one of the big groups of grunge. This would cement them as the third most important group in Seattle's music heritage(mind you Soundgarden and Pearl Jam will always be numbers 1 and 2). Unfortunately, grunge would die out on April 8th, 1994 as Kurt Cobain would die, so this is a peer into the future of grunge, and still retaining the edge. It's definitely worth a check out.
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the cats pajamas... oh yea, im serious.Aug 11, 2009
truly great. you cannot dismiss the power of layne's voice. he just sounds so tormented. imagine a person who has been tortured for days whithout making a peep, and then suddenly lets out one hellacious scream. if anyone can hold a candle to chris cornell, its layne staley. and like cornell, as hard as he pushes it, its like focused chaos. cantrell provides perfect harmonization with layne, not to mention the great cord progression. one part of this album that gets me every time is when Dont Follow kicks off with the harmonica solo. its as spellbinding as a harmonica is capable of, and then layne hits the gas on his twin turbo vocal cords. there are only about 10 songs i know of that give me chills as if i was touched by an angel, and this is one of them. yea corny i know. even my beautiful words cant describe this album. ha, i just topped myself. enjoy at full volume. by the way, exit music (for a movie) by radiohead. wowzers. i get chills just thinking about that one. even pink floyd couldnt take you as far away. ok, im done
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