BURY ME SOFTLY IN THIS WOMB
I GIVE THIS PART OF ME FOR YOU
SAND RAINS DOWN
AND HERE I SIT
HOLDING RARE FLOWERS IN A TOMB
Dirt
is the second
studio album
by the American rock band
released on
September 29, 1992,
by Columbia Records.
It was the band's
last album recorded
with all four original members,
as bassist
Mike Starr
was fired in
January 1993
during the tour
to support the album.
The majority of the songs
were written by guitarist
Jerry Cantrell,
but for the first time,
vocalist
Layne Staley
wrote two songs by himself
("Hate to Feel" and "Angry Chair"),
featuring himself on guitar.
The track
"Iron Gland"
features
Tom Araya
from
Slayer
on vocals.
The album's lyrics
explore depression,
pain,
anger,
anti-social behavior,
relationships,
drug addiction
(primarily heroin),
war,
death,
and other
emotionally
charged topics.
Dirt
received critical acclaim
and charted in
Australia, Canada, the Netherlands,
Finland, Germany, New Zealand,
Norway, Sweden,
and the
United Kingdom.
In the US,
it peaked at
number 6
on the
Billboard 200 chart.
The album spawned
five singles:
"Would?",
"Them Bones",
"Angry Chair",
"Rooster",
and
"Down in a Hole",
all with accompanying
music videos.
Dirt
was nominated for
the Grammy Award
for Best
Hard Rock Performance.
It is certified
5× platinum
by the Recording Industry
Association of America
(RIAA),
making it
Alice in Chains'
most commercially
successful album.
Dirt
is often considered
a landmark album
of the grunge era
and been included in
numerous best album lists.
According to a writer
of Pitchfork,
the album made
Alice in Chains "
one of the most
famous bands in the world".
In 2022,
the album returned to
the Top 10 of the
Billboard 200 chart
at number 9
following the release of its
30th anniversary reissue.
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