As is mentioned above, I love this season. I even have music I save up for it.
This music isn’t something I can’t listen to any other time of the year, but it is especially poignant for fall: The cold temperatures, the wind, the moisture falling from the sky in its various forms just add to the mood of some songs and even some bands.
Like today’s band, Alice in Chains.
Wow does not describe their music very well, so let us look for another word.
Moody? Nope. Gloomy? Nope. Junkyrock? Nope.
Aha, I’ve got it: Mindf*ck.
Yep, that just about says it all.
Even Michele of A Small Victory agrees with me on this one, deeming AIC the band she would choose from this genre/era if she had to choose.
A recommend not to be taken lightly, if I do say so myself, since hers is the only music collection that I know of which would put mine to the test.
She is also fed up with the RnR Hall of Fame and is starting her own and is taking nominations. Who did I nominate, you might ask?
Well, Rush, of course, and then Alice in Chains.
So here we go with today’s tunage, something you probably won’t hear on the radio (cause that’s how I roll, donchaknow):
Rain When I Die – Alice in Chains
The lyrics for this one were penned by the now passed on Layne Staley. He died on April 5th, 2002 of a speedball overdose. Sadly, his corpse wasn’t discovered until two weeks later.
Oddly enough, or maybe prophetically, it did rain on the 5th, but not on the 4th or the 6th of that month.
Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain also died on April 5th a few years earlier, so you can imagine the weirdness that goes on here in Seattle around that time. I prefer to remember Staley on that day as neither Cobain or Nirvana impressed me that much.