Alowishus wrote:

I listened to it on Spotify. I am an AiC so i will buy it when i have some spare cash but i thought it was just alright.

You're an Alice in Chains? Pardon?

Anyway, I have a few points on this. First off, the music's as good as it ever has been, and there's still the same filler there has been in addition to the good songs. Jerry's still writing it and he's a very consistent songwriter.

Next up, the new guy isn't half as good as Layne was, and they shouldn't be replacing him like this. I understand the whole "We're not trying to replace him, we're just moving on" argument, but come the fuck on. Alice was a band and Layne died, whatever. But they made a record without Layne, it was called Degradation Trip and kicked ass, it was released as a Jerry Cantrell solo record. How the fuck can you say you aren't replacing the man when he was in the band, then he wasn't and you made a record without him under a different name, then you hired a guy who sounds a lot like him and started using the original name again? There's a word for what they are now, it's called a tribute band. I don't care if most of the band was in the original band, or if it's the same primary songwriter and they're still making new music; by hiring a Layne sound-a-like and using the old name again, they're imitating the old thems, and they're a tribute band. Even if they do sound good.

Anyway, I'm hugely against their trying to replace Layne like this, I think the man deserves some fucking respect. Regardless, the music still kicks a lot of ass, so I'll probably buy it.

Mouth: No, not at all. You either didn't actually read my post or you have very poor reading comprehension skills. I didn't bitch at all about them coming back without Layne, I bitched about them replacing him, which is what they are doing. Here's the part of my last post you didn't read:

I wrote:

Alice was a band and Layne died, whatever. But they made a record without Layne, it was called Degradation Trip and kicked ass, it was released as a Jerry Cantrell solo record. How the fuck can you say you aren't replacing the man when he was in the band, then he wasn't and you made a record without him under a different name, then you hired a guy who sounds a lot like him and started using the original name again?

You see, I'm fine with them going on without Layne, I don't mind them not breaking up because he died, but you don't seem to understand what happened. He didn't die, then they broke up, and now they got back together; he died, they broke up (unofficially), made a record under a different name, hired a guy who sings like him, and then started calling themselves Alice in Chains again. And sorry, I wrote Degradation Trip, I meant Boggy Depot

And to say that he contributed nothing to the band is just plain dumb. Sure he didn't write most of the music, but he did write a notable amount of lyrics, as well as provide a face and personality for the band. Musically he contributed very little. But if you accept that he contributed almost nothing musically, then how are you praising the "return of Alice"? Jerry always wrote ninety percent of the music, and he's made two solo records since they broke up. If you consider Alice to be Jerry's music, then they haven't been gone that long.

Also, if you'll notice, I said the music was good, I said I'dbuy the record. All I said was that it was pretty godamned disrespectful to replace Layne. i didn't say it was disrespectful to get another singer, or to keep making music, I said it was disrespectful to replace him, which is what they're doing. I have my reasoning for why they are replacing him and not just moving on, and if you have reasoning for why they aren't replacing him, I'd like to hear it; I promise I'm not trying to be arrogant, but I don't understand the argument that they aren't replacing him at all.

You should pop onto the IRC channel sometime, I'm usually there. I'd love to chat with you in there sometime. It's less like sending letters and more like actually talking to the person, which I think would do well for a conversation like this.

Oh, and don't worry about FreakofNature, he's a troll, one hundred and ten percent. Everything he's said is just meant to piss people off, ignore it.

Oh no, man, it's totally cool. Let's just all sit back and enjoy the wicked music they're making.

I think that was perfectly clear from what I said, and as I'm an English prodigy and a published author, I trust my writing skills over your reading comprehension. SO FUCK YOU.

Jeez, don't just assume I'm a huge dick next time. I might've used that dumb thing, but I figured in being that blatantly and ridiculously arrogant, it was obvious enough I wasn't serious.

It's okay, man.