![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It carries on the messy sonic sprawl of Radio City, but with bleaker lyrics. Third by Big Star was recorded at a time when Alex Chilton was tired of getting screwed around by various record companies.Similarly, many other '60s bands, including The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones and The Who, became Darker and Edgier during/after the peak of psychedelia. Though light, silly songs remained ("Back in the U.S.S.R", "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da", "Birthday") many songs on the album were quite dark, such as "Julia", about the death of John Lennon's mother, "Blackbird", about racism, and especially "Revolution 9", a nightmarish sound collage. The Beatles went this direction with The White Album.The band's latest material, with William DuVall having replaced the late Layne Staley on vocals, has still kept the tradition going. Their 1995 self titled album is easily one of the darkest, most depressing albums ever released into mainstream. The album that followed, 1992's Dirt, was a far bigger transition, with the music being their first attempts at doom metal and the lyrics focused on war, death, depression, and especially heroin addiction. The first incarnation of the current Alice in Chains was Glam Metal in the vein of Guns N' Roses, and their debut album Facelift took it even further, with a much heavier sound clearly in Heavy Metal territory, but still very glam. But this trope even applies to the band's discography, as they got much heavier with each release their predecessors Alice 'n' Chainz were pure Glam Rock in the vein of Poison. Of all the Seattle grunge-era bands, Alice in Chains were this compared to the other three bands from the "Big 4", with a lot of their music even qualifying as Doom Metal. ![]()
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