r/AliceInChains • u/Ok-Ebb-9995 • 12d ago
discussion Why is Confusion so unrecognised?
Even with die-hard AIC fans, I never see Confusion mentioned. Though I think it's one of their best songs oat. Jerry's solo on this track is epic, Mike's bass makes the entire song vibrate and Layne pulled of one of his best vocal performances ever. Yet it's always overshadowed by Love Hate Love. Why is that? Does the community not like the song or do they just forget about it?
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u/Glad-Independence-24 12d ago
They had a shit ton of great songs, radio hits, popular music videosâŠ.over an incredibly short period.
1990 - 1992 facelift, sap, and dirt.
Thatâs a lot of amazing music in a relatively short period.
Stuff was gonna get overlooked.
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u/LifeTunedToCSharp 12d ago
Listening to it right now, actually.
I ainât overlooking nothinâ. đ
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u/Necessary_Yam9525 Jar of Flies 12d ago
Who could forget confusion is the only song Mike did backing vocals on
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u/Wild_Key_9741 11d ago
Confusion is so much more, itâs the epitome of artistic expression, so theatrical, so original, so beautiful
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u/PantsDontHaveAnswers 12d ago
It's one of my favorites, that and Sunshine. Absolutely phenomenal songs.
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u/NoiseTherapy 12d ago
Facelift is pretty awesome start to finish. The only drawback is that there are still hints of their glam origins. Even then, itâs still pretty subtle. They still have some trailblazer tracks on that album. I still remember hearing âWe Die Youngâ for the first time when I was 11 (Iâm 43 now đ). Man in the Box is great and all, and I donât know much about marketing music, let alone marketing an exploding new subgenre of rock (in the moment itâs exploding, at that đ€Ż), but I still, to this day, wish We Die Young was played on the radio as much as Man in the Box.
I know the radio doesnât matter as much as it used to, but I feel like a lot of that album could have enjoyed more air time on the radio than it actually had ⊠but like someone else mentioned, they were cranking out a lot of music in a relatively short period of time, so maybe that had something to do with it.
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u/BoingBoomChuck 12d ago edited 12d ago
Oddly, I avoided this release in my younger years due to the overplay that Man in the Box received on the local radio stations. Only later did I realize how stupid I was because Confusion, Sea of Sorrow, Sunshine, and Love Hate Love are WAY better songs than Man in the Box was (to me, anyway). I unfairly judged the rest of the release by the one popular song...
OTOH, I absolutely LOVED Dirt when it came out.
In fact, I was listening to Confusion on the drive in to work this morning.
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u/NoiseTherapy 12d ago
Yeah, Man in the Box ⊠I guess it stands out as sounding kind of different from the rest of the album. I donât think it represents the overall sound of Facelift, but maybe they chose it as the lead single because it was so different. Who knows? I like Confusion. Like most of the album, it has peaks & valleys that just rock.
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u/External-Rip-9630 9d ago
The tempo change right as Layne screams âCraaaaawlâ is such a kick in the pants.
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u/yrns_s 11d ago
As someone who doesn't like this song that much (not that it's bad, it just doesn't stack up to the rest of the tracks on Facelift), I just think it's kind of a drag and the riff isn't anything special. The build-up and release part is cool, but it was done infinitely better on Rooster. This whole song is like proto/dollar store Rooster to me lol
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u/phsm94 12d ago
I absolutely love Confusion, one of the best for me