![Rock group Alice in Chains. Left to right Jerry Cantrell, guitar; Layne Staley, vocals, Michael Starr, bass and Sean Kinney in Hollywood for rehearsal July 1991. (Photo by Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)]()
Alice In Chains are widely revered by hard rock fans (and guitarists especially), though their critical standing is secretly kind of a wash. They weren't lambasted like Stone Temple Pilots, but they weren't lavished upon like Nirvana, or Pearl Jam, or Soundgarden's eventual breakthrough,
Superunknown, either. Most '90s alt-scholars agree that
Dirt was their magnum …
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