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

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• dnc Member Posts: 56,825

  September 2020

  #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.
  
  

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• YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 36,892

  September 2020

  #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.

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• YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 36,892

  September 2020

  #7 Alice in Chains – Jar of Flies

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

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• dnc Member Posts: 56,825

  September 2020

  #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...

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• GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516

  September 2020

  #7 Alice in Chains – Jar of Flies

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

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• YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 36,892

  September 2020

  #7 Alice in Chains – Jar of Flies

  dnc said:

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  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
  
  
  

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• chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,519

  September 2020

  #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.

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• dnc Member Posts: 56,825

  September 2020

  #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.

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• chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,519

  September 2020

  #7 Alice in Chains – Jar of Flies

  dnc said:

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  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.

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• Mad_Son Member Posts: 10,194

  October 2020

  #10 Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness

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

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• Tequilla Member Posts: 20,006

  October 2020

  #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

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• YouKnowIt Member Posts: 545

  October 2020

  #7 Alice in Chains – Jar of Flies

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

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