Degradation Trip is truly a work of art if any of y'all haven't got around to it. harrowing stuff but beautiful
wasn't sure about it on my first listen, was expecting something like Deg Trip and got something more like radio rock haha. I'm sure it'll grow tho, Jerry doesn't miss
Dirt 30th anniversary box set up for preorder. - Box with lid filled with metal shavings, Move shavings around to create your own dirt design using magnetic cover figurine - Resin cover figurine fits atop vinyl records on your record player - Dirt on Orange 2LP for the first time with remastered audio - Dirt on CD with remastered audio - Five 7” singles with brand new artwork on various colored vinyl: "Them Bones," "Down in a Hole," "Rooster," "Angry Chair" and "Would?" - 80 page hardbound book - Exclusive Dirt-inspired art prints by Cody Melick, Victor Melendez, Brent McKee, and Eric Wolfe Sahlsten - 2-sided foldout poster - 8x10 band photo glossy - Four reprinted show posters - Reprinted set list - Dirt Tour laminate
Damn, that’s one hell of an anniversary album! Yeah this album is a stone cold classic from front to back.
I actually like the self-titled album the least. It's been very hard for me to gel with, every time I've tried.
I've become more and more interested in the s/t recently, partly because it's pretty obvious why someone might not click with it. It's arguably ten minutes too long. It meanders, the vocals are more spacey, the belted semi-anthemic cathartic choruses are mostly stripped away. Dirt 2, it is not. But if you can settle into its depressive haze then you probably love it. I'm one of those. I think it defies criticism in that way; its flaws are its strengths and all that. I also like that Layne's voice was a little more effected and submerged in the mix, just like I think it's cool that a similar thing was done at times with Maynard's voice on Ænima a year later. If Layne's yelling out his pain on Dirt, he's more submitted to it on the s/t. It seems like an authentic snapshot.