Jar of Flies is just flat-out awesome

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  • restlesssoul
    restlesssoul Posts: 6,952
    i love this album too. its their best. so great to just throw on and cook to.
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  • Gators76
    Gators76 Posts: 160
    Love the album. Finally just added it to my Ipod.
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  • reachdown12
    reachdown12 Posts: 693
    i positively love this album. everything from the saddening, haunting vibes and all. so beautiful.

    and Whale and Wasp is one of the most beautiful and haunting instrumentals. Ever. that song is other worldly, i mean..there is no need for words in that one..and the emotions it conjurs..unbelievable.
    "Everyone wants to be the sun that lights up your life, but I'd rather be your moon so I can shine on you during your darkest hour when your sun's not around."
  • kenny olav
    kenny olav Posts: 3,319
    I remember the day I got that disc.... vividly. Just chillin listening to Whale and Wasp especially. And Nutshell... wow.

    what a year that was too...

    Superunknown
    Jar of Flies
    Vitalogy
    Nirvana Unplugged
    STP's Purple

    many more... Veruca Salt, Weezer...

    yeah but still sucks what happened with Kurt...
  • azwyldcats
    azwyldcats Posts: 711
    much better than jars of clay
    And I'm not living this life without you, I'm selfish and clear
    And you're not leaving here without me, I don't wanna be without
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  • pjalive21
    pjalive21 St. Louis, MO Posts: 2,818
    Kenny Olav wrote:
    I remember the day I got that disc.... vividly. Just chillin listening to Whale and Wasp especially. And Nutshell... wow.

    what a year that was too...

    Superunknown
    Jar of Flies
    Vitalogy
    Nirvana Unplugged
    STP's Purple

    many more... Veruca Salt, Weezer...

    yeah but still sucks what happened with Kurt...

    man thats when rock music was something....
  • analogueaddict72
    analogueaddict72 Posts: 307
    Absolutely Brilliant, a truly amazing album, a melacholic beauty.
  • MotorCityMike
    MotorCityMike Posts: 73
    Funny how a band's best album might very well be an EP , rather than a LP, eh? This was the album that fully turned me on to AiC. I rocked Facelift and Dirt, but this 7 song wonder took my fandom to the next level. To this day, i don't know a sadder song than Don't Follow. And i couldn't listen to that track without listening to Whale and Wasp lead into it.
  • DCGARDEN
    DCGARDEN Posts: 515
    Truly one of the best albums ever
    I'll keep taking punches
    Untill their will grows tired
  • mole1985
    mole1985 Posts: 1,119
    I think the acoustic stuff is Alice at their best
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  • Stardog Champion
    Stardog Champion Posts: 19
    IMO Jar of Flies is their most intense album as artists. The raw emotion that is put into each song, beginning to end, is unrivaled. If you can name me a song that can move you in such a haunting way as "Don't Follow" please tell me now so I can go buy it. However I think their best album as musicians is their final self-titled album. After relistening to all their albums in the past week I just can't believe some people don't accept this as their most talented work. The album starts off with a punch with the amazing "Grind" and, unfotunately, ends with the perfect song "Over Now." It also shows Layne's true songwriting talent with the dark and heavy "Sludge Factory." I love all their albums, but 'Tripod' is proabaly my personal favorite.
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  • didem
    didem Posts: 50
    I like DIRT the most.....
    their unplugged was so cool too...
    no brain no pain....
  • Kryptos
    Kryptos Posts: 34
    I'd rank their albums like so...
    Unplugged
    Dirt
    Sap
    Jar of Flies
    Tripod
    Facelift
  • not4u
    not4u Posts: 512
    cantrell is a crock
    we don't want war, but we still want more?
  • VEDHEAD27
    VEDHEAD27 Posts: 3,091
    JAR OF FLIES is undoubtly one of the most gorgeous works of art out there. :o No way I could possibly praise it enough. This album always stirs something up in me. The power, the pain, the beautiful sadness...it's all absolutely stunning and always, ALWAYS has such a strong effect on me. It just digs itself into you. So hypnotizing, so super chilled out. I remember Kirk Hammett once saying that AIC had the gift of taking incredibly dark material and tranforming it into something beautiful. It's so true...and I think JAR OF FLIES really showcases that to the extreme. Like Stardog Champion said, it really is one of their if not THE most intense album. The raw emotion captured in this one is unsurpassed.

    To me JAR OF FLIES is also the AMAZING/soulful/in a league all their own AIC proving they are all about quality as opposed to the quantity. I mean this just blows my mind....7 songs?! 7! But the intoxicating album has enough power, bone chilling emotion and raw, real-my insides are in a fuckin knot intensity many full length albums could only dream of possessing. And these 2 voices together?!:o Please. Nothing else in the world can compare.

    I agree....it is absolutely "flat-out awesome"...to say the very, very least!!! :o
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  • VEDHEAD27
    VEDHEAD27 Posts: 3,091
    P.S. DONT FOLLOW owns such a humongous part of my AIC worshipping soul!
    *sigh*

    DONT FOLLOW!!!!!!!
    :o:(:o
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  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    This thread is making me want to listen to it now.

    * * Rotten Apple Bassline kicks in * *

    Ahhh much better :D
    NERDS!

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