Jerry Cantrell - Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2
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Music CD Cover Artist: Jerry Cantrell Brand: CANTRELL,JERRY Edition: Music CD Format: Enhanced, Limited Edition CD Release Date: 2002-12-10 Music Label: Roadrunner Records Soundtracks: Music CD 1
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Free Music Notes for Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2 Album
Free Music Review: Plodding, with indistinct songs
Hit: 2 Stars
Degradation Trip is monstrous: 25 tracks, with many of them clocking in at over 5 minutes. This is precisely what turns DT from an album into a two and a half hour endurance contest. The songs, most of which are heavy, thunderous, and slow, all blur into one another. After having this album for over two years now I still can't recall that many lyrics or riffs from the individual songs, as they all sound the same. This is also what brought down Alice in Chains' 1995 self-titled album: overlong, indistinct songs.
That's not to say there aren't any good tracks on here. Angel Eyes, Solitude, Chemical Tribe, and Anger Rising are all great tracks. Psychotic Break, Mother's Spinning In Her Grave, Hellbound, She Was My Girl, Locked On, and Spiderbite are okay. The thing is, all these songs are on the one-disc version of DT. This two-disc version, however, adds two instrumental tracks, one of which is great (Hurts Don't It) and one of which is okay (Feel the Void), as well as Siddhartha and Give It a Name, which are okay rockers.
I wanted to like this album, but I couldn't get into it. When almost every song has the same slow tempo and same guitar tone, and there are so many songs, it's not so much an album as it is a tossed-together collection of music (like The Clash's disastrous 36-track album Sandinista). I would definitely recommend Cantrell's Boggy Depot over this. If, however, you feel compelled to own this album, I'd recommend getting the one-disc version, as it has the worthwhile songs and much less filler.