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ALICE IN CHAINS PERFORMING “YOUR DECISION” ON KIMMEL

 Thursday, October 1st, 2009 at 1:30pm by

Are you sick of hearing about the new Alice in Chains album, Black Gives Way to Blue, yet? I know we – and pretty much every other metal and heavy rock media outlet – have been talking about it non-stop, but that’s because it’s a great record, and very likely marks the comeback of the decade. (Although Christian Hoard at Rolling Stone only gave it 2 1/2 stars out of a possible five. Three cheers for Rolling Stone once again going out of its way to prove its irrelevance to anyone other than yuppies, old men who are nostalgic for a heyday that never really existed the way they say it did, and bored people in waiting rooms.)

Here’s the band performing the new track “Your Decision” on Jimmy Kimmel last night. It’s a beautiful performance of one my favorite songs on the album. It’s hard not to interpet the lyrics – to this or most of the other songs on Blue – as being about Layne Staley, but regardless of whatever Jerry Cantrell and the rest of the band intended, it’s an excellent tune.

Black Gives Way to Blue is out now, and is apparently selling very well, at least by current standards. That makes me very, very happy.

-AR

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  • AIC por vida

    Its such a fuckin’ great album and I’ll say it again, Cantrell is one of the most underrated guitarist out there!! beautiful album, fuck!! for some reason’ Duvall’s “get up” bothers the hell outta me, quit dressing too cool for school and get with the band! I know right? If it’s not his constant vocal comparsion to Layne it’s another…fuck it, he does good, not great but pretty good

  • bucketochicken

    Glorious. I’m so happy with this album… It’s even better than what my high expectations were. For me, it’s easily album of the year (sorry, Mastodon, but you’re #2 now). It gets better and richer and catchier with every listen. I can’t wait to see them live and to rock this shit on a real stereo/in the car.

    Somewhere Layne is smiling.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Shepler/42201010 Chris Shepler

    I love this album… Christian Hoard’s “review” might be the worst I have ever read…. My 5 year old cousin could have did a better job.

    • metalguy

      WHIIIIIR!!!! grammar police!
      “… cousin could have DONE better.” your tense are wrong.
      now give me a pic of your girlfriends tits

    • Mike

      That was a remarkably shitty review. The guy missed the entire point of the band. Had the album met his specifications, we would have had another album about heroin (even though the band members are clean, as far as I know) and a bunch of pop songs made for mainstream radio. Fuck Rolling Stone

    • SonOF

      Agreed. How can you write a one tiny paragraph review about an album that is this anticipated, regardless of how good you think it is?

  • You Don’t Know Me

    Rolling Stone prints a ONE PARAGRAPH review for this album? Rolling Stone proves once again that they have no idea what they’re talking about.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Gavin/1396340262 Mark Gavin

    Rolling Stone can eat a dick. That magazine refuses to get with the times and keeps publishing the same bullshit over and over. I care more about the seasoning on Dino Cazares’ babies (probably cajun) than I do Sean Penn’s political stance. Seriously, fuck Rolling Stone.

  • Kyle

    Great record. Take it easy on Rolling Stone; I’m sure they were just too busy prepping the Jonas Brothers special edition issue and couldn’t dedicate the time necesssary to properly digest this record.

  • Gaia

    Great song, I’ll be sure to buy album soon.

  • zhitnik

    Picked it up two days ago. Not album of the year, but pretty close. I give it a 7.5/10. Good pretty much all the way through, with a couple really high points that just blow me away. Acid Bubble gave me goosebumps the first time I heard it (and still does), and the title track makes me want to cry when I hear it (it’s a good thing). Couple weaker songs like “Take Her Out”, but most chains albums had at least one or two songs I thought were meh. This album is very fucking refreshing to hear…sounds like a natural progression from the purple album (a little lighter, but how can you get any darker than their last LP). A must buy for anybody who grew up in the early 90′s listening to rock music, and worth the consideration for pretty much everyone else.

  • http://www.twistedcritic.wordpress.com Chris

    I think Spin’s terrible review takes the cake: http://www.spin.com/reviews/alice-chains-black-gives-way-blue-virginemi
    The guy writes the band off as “alt-rock’s moribund ne’er-do-wells” in the first sentence, refers to Private Hell as one of the album’s most tender moments (what?) and for his encore, he seems to think DuVall is the main singer (“this comeback would register with more purpose had guitarist Jerry Cantrell assumed the vocal lead. Instead, DuVall warbles misanthropically over too many muddy, grunge-era grind-a-thons).

    Spot-on, buddy.

    • zhitnik

      Yea, it’s as if some magazines are like “okay Joe so you absolutely hate grunge era rock, right? Here, you got the new Alice in Chains review”.

      • Beard

        My God that was shit. And people complain about reviews on here…

        • brian roach

          Yea, wow, that is way worse than the Rolling Stone one, which just seems like a toss off. But this one they just get so many facts wrong, like, um, the singer?! I mean, do a little research at least, pretend you listened to the album or at least read the press release!! Best part of the review is referring to Elton John’s cameo as ’90′s retro’? What? Elton has been making records since the late 60s, early 70s right? So how is his appearance ’90s retro’?! Wow. Glad I don’t get ‘Spin’ or ‘Rolling Stone’ anymore! And they wonder why they are irrelevant!

  • ceth carter

    I am just so so happy these guys are beack and getting their due again and i am also really happy that they seem to have gotten a very capable second guitarist in the band with Duvall as well.

  • Deaner

    Lenny Kravitz fits really well with the band… I’m surprised his ego didn’t ruin the performance…

    But seriously though great performance, great song, great album

    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QU0BKUbflc Garske

      Hahaha, I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought this.

    • SonOF

      ha, whoops I made a similar comment later thinking I was original about it. Nice one, and agreed.

      • Deaner

        I saw that, I was thinking, “What an asshole, trying to steal my thunders…” But you’re cool

  • Sammy

    You are right on, Axl. This is a beautiful song. My kids like to get me CDs for birthdays, and I have one coming up. This one is on the list.

  • Kevin

    I had no idea that Howard Stern could play drums!!

    • MetalRod

      Oh dude, I thought that was Joe Perry !

  • MetalRod

    Fuck Rolling Stone.

  • twisted_freak

    Amazing Album, Can’t stop listening to it. Definitely one of my favourites of the year along with Mastodon’s Crack the Skye.

  • Perry Mason

    Good, great even, but its no ENDGAME.

  • Mike

    My albums of the year so far:

    1. Alice in Chains- Black Gives Way to Blue
    2. Mastodon- Crack the Skye
    3. Candlemass- Death Magic Doom

    It’s beginning to look like this will be my list at the end of the year as well.

  • http://www.solidsterecords.com NoCowNoFood

    Rules

  • SonOF

    Is it possible that William DuVall and Lenny Kravitz are indeed the same person?

    • Sammy

      I’ve noticed the remarkable similarity too.

  • Gatrios

    I heard a rumor that David Letterman raped and murdered a non-male staff member in 1990.

    • Deaner

      cool, I’ll pass that on

      • Deaner

        I think this now makes him 100X better than Leno, instead of just 99X

  • Sandy n Papo

    I ll never get tired of reading about this album and this band, it reminds me those old good times