All Alice in Chains Albums Ranked! 

Will always love Tripod (self title) the most. So many great memories to that record.

Black Gives Way to Blue is the best comeback album in history.

I've been a huge Alice in Chains fan since I was 13 or 14, I agree they're easily the best of the big 4 grunge bands. Facelift is my favorite of their albums by far, every song is great (including Man in the Box, I've just heard it too many times). Don't sleep on the final few tracks; Put You Down, I Know Somethin, and Real Thing are some of my favorites. I bought the first 5 releases on CD and got lucky one day and found their Unplugged DVD at Goodwill. I haven't listened to any of their music without Layne (except Your Decision, which I liked). I need to listen to those albums someday I agree with the placements for those albums with Layne, they're spot on

Self titled is easily the one I've listened to the most

I'm going to rank all of the albums with Jerry. Nobody does it but that's my rank anyways ^-^ I differentiate the two eras of AiC music journey and implement Jerry's solo records in between. 1. Jar of Flies (AiC at their peak) 2. Tripod/ST (oddest, trickiest, weirdest and heaviest to me) 3. Dirt (Best songs in terms of composition. AiC in their most powerful period) 4. Degradation Trip vol. 1-2 (personal memories glued to this one. Feel the Void, Pig Charmer, Castaway, 31/32 just let me with tears every time I listen to them) 5. Facelift (this was my first AiC album. Loved it from the start but then I feel my tastes started to change towards something less straight-forward. Great songs here btw. But I never considered Facelift the best one in their discography) 6. Black Gives Way to Blue (the best album in terms of mixing. It's such a powerful tape. Great songs, great energy and it's diverse. Later, the songs' length and lack of arrangements will become a problem to me personally) 7. Brighten (I feel this is the album Cantrell kept in mind while working on Rainier Fog. His country/redneck (as he claimed himself) side shines bright and proud here. The album is entertaining! Black Heart and Evil Done is a perfect example. Noticed the reference in the solo to his tune Hurts, Don’t It but in more optimistic mood. Like Jerry remembers his bad days and reflects the experience so many years later with his new works. As if he said: ’Shit was bad but life goes on and so should we all’. That little detail made this record very beautiful to me) 8. The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here (It could be such a powerful turn from BGWtB. Hollow, Stone, Self-titled, especially Breath on a Window and Hung on a Hook had so many moments to resolve into something so captivating but I feel those moments just stuck and guys put them as it is. Songs seemed to be not composed right. As an example, Breath on a Window had a beautiful ending but all those long minutes before it wasn’t glued to it, there was no decent preparation for this resolution to come and slay.) 9. Rainier Fog (I anticipated this one since The One You Know came out. The 1st single was powerful and fresh. But the full album felt powerless and viped out. You had songs that were written ‘in the style of AiC’ by DuVall and more acoustic epics/almost country ballads by Jerry. The album was polarized and that was a good thing after the previous record. At the same time you could tell that Jerry wants his own different thing to go on. And Fly would be perfect in the context of Brighten. The heavier ones like Red Giant had those guitars but its’ length made it boring and bland af. Can’t not mention bass work by Mike on Drone. It’s brilliant.) Happy new release Day from Mr. Cantrell, folks!

Facelift and Dirt are timeless albums. So freaking good.

I love that you actually kind of talk through the history and progression of their careers and offer some actual insight into some of the songs instead of just blandly ranking the albums. Great job sir.

Ahhh, I didn't know you liked Alice In Chains! I'll admit, I don't know everything about them but this band really spoke to me growing up and it still does. I used to have a few of their albums on vinyl but unfortunately I was struggling financially and had to sell all my shit, move out of Montreal and move back home to Newfoundland. I'm glad to be home but I'm kinda in a rut rn. Listening to music like this helps me cope.

I love the fact you're doing this video, like it's not even an algorithm thing, you're just doin what you wanna do lol respect!

Every body gets Dinosaurs wrong. It's easily their best album with Duvall and and I'd even put it ahead of tripod.

For me, God Am crushes it

I know it’s one of their hits but Would? Is still probably my favorite song by them. And The Angry Chair video is one of the darkest music videos I have ever seen. Really captures the feeling and emotion. At some point atleast on youtube there was this weird censored(?) or whatever bullshit version of the video where everything was covered with like flames and fire effects. Self-titled is also an S for me even though I feel that some tracks are kinda ”filler” almost like an interludes or whatever the correct term might be. I feel the album Dirt has same thing going on.. More I think about it, all their albums have some tracks like that but they don’t bring the experience or album down AT ALL. One of the greatest bands ever period.

Interesting list. Personally I would have put Tripod in S tier, much more mature than Facelift which I would have put in A. Then I've never been able to love Black Gives Way To Blue, but given your argument I want to give it another chance!

Alice in chains is one of the best bands of all time. Dirt is in the top 100 albums of all time list for me. I completely agree with your ranking... except for The Devil put dinosaurs here. I would put it in B tier, but that because I like long and droney songs.

great band!

OVER STIM U LAY SHIN STAY SHUN. I miss that intro.

I was at that St Aug show too!

Remember when MTV brought unplugged back and it was like Lauryn Hill, Jay-Z and Dashboard Confessional? Oh man...

Dude, Alice in chains and Unsolved Mysteries Stack episodes....we love the same shit.