Alice In Chains
MTV Unplugged

THE REVIEW

Raw, emotional, toxic... and above all, perfectly grunge!
Staley, Cantrell, Starr, and Kinney on July 30, 1996, on the MTV stage, conceived the most beautiful Unplugged in the history of grunge music! No Nirvana can compare! These are Alice In Chains!!!

A record that has it all... simply beautiful!
An acoustic work like few others, on which we could use various adjectives and listening situations: an album for dreaming, for relaxing, for taking a trip after a joint, to understand what grunge really was, the real one, born in Seattle.

"Smoothed" guitars, "dry" drums, "cavernous" bass, and a unique voice in the world like Layne Staley's, hoarse, aggressive, addict-like, warm... a great band, which, for various drug-related reasons, leading to the singer's death, had to disband, leaving a mark on a "rebellious" generation born in the early '90s.

The most beautiful tracks are certainly the unforgettable "Heaven Beside You", the wonderful "Rooster", the dark "Down In A Hole" and "Would?", with its powerful bass line introducing Staley's "lost" voice.
The performances of "Sludge Factory" should also be praised, where Layne seems to have taken a hit before grabbing the microphone, "Frogs" with its initial horror-style guitar arpeggio executed masterfully, "Over Now" with its counter feeling, and "No Excuses", at the end of which the "chained" ones treat us to the opening riff of Metallica's "Enter Sandman".

The last, wonderful, must-see masterpiece by Alice In Chains, with a setlist worthy of a Greatest Hits.