HH Favorite Rock Album Round 1 (1991- present) - #7 Jar of Flies vs #10 Mellon Collie

YellowSnow

dnc

#7 Alice in Chains – Jar of Flies

This wasn't even released as a single and it's 1000x better than anything on the radio right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EKi2E9dVY8

JoF was the first EP in history to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Nuff said on that.

YellowSnow

#7 Alice in Chains – Jar of Flies

Jar of Flies was 30:49 long. Pretty close the running time of a typical LP (35 to 40 mins). CDs hold more space and in the CD era albums got too long and bloated.

YellowSnow

#7 Alice in Chains – Jar of Flies

I’m a little shocked by the early blow out here.

dnc

#7 Alice in Chains – Jar of Flies

YellowSnow said:

I’m a little shocked by the early blow out here.

Says the guy who didn't include AiC in his greatest rock bands tourney...

GrundleStiltzkin

#7 Alice in Chains – Jar of Flies

Tonight, Tonight and 1979 were good. Rest felt self-indulgent.

YellowSnow

#7 Alice in Chains – Jar of Flies

dnc said:

YellowSnow said:

I’m a little shocked by the early blow out here.

Says the guy who didn't include AiC in his greatest rock bands tourney...

Bully

chuck

#7 Alice in Chains – Jar of Flies

All seems right in the universe as long as I'm in this thread. I'm afraid to open some of them though.

Jar of Flies may be a shorty, but its hard to find anything post 70s with four songs better than Rotten Apple, Nutshell, I stay Away, and No excuses. That's two full albums worth of great songs for most good bands, on a 30 minute EP.

dnc

#7 Alice in Chains – Jar of Flies

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Tonight, Tonight and 1979 were good. Rest felt self-indulgent.

Bullet With Butterfly Wings might be self indulgent but IFL it. "The world is a vampire, set to drain" is one of the great (and sadly accurate) lines in music.

I also don't hate Zero.

I like the double album a lot though I would argue it only needed to be a single album.

But it's no Jar of Flies.

chuck

#7 Alice in Chains – Jar of Flies

dnc said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Tonight, Tonight and 1979 were good. Rest felt self-indulgent.

Bullet With Butterfly Wings might be self indulgent but IFL it. "The world is a vampire, set to drain" is one of the great (and sadly accurate) lines in music.

I also don't hate Zero.

I like the double album a lot though I would argue it only needed to be a single album.

But it's no Jar of Flies.

Totally agree. I love that song.

Mad_Son

#10 Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness

Jar of Flies is a great album but I honestly thought MCATIS would win.

Tequilla

#10 Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness

This is the better of the Pumpkins entries in my mind

Bullet with Butterfly Wings is a personal fave

YouKnowIt

#7 Alice in Chains – Jar of Flies

Too much fat not enough meat .... if MCATIS was one album I would have selected it....