British Singer Seal Names His Favorite Grunge Band

Whenever the time period “grunge” is referenced in popular culture, Nirvana and Kurt Cobain are normally the examples related to it. However, British singer Seal’s favourite group from the Seattle grunge scene is a distinct one, and he believes they’re underrated.

Seal bought on the subject of grunge throughout a latest installment of Amoeba Music’s What’s In My Bag? Seal selected a big selection of data for the video, starting from Neil Young to Kate Bush, David Bowie and extra. But an artist that many could not have anticipated Seal to be a fan of is Alice in Chains.

“Facelift was the first one, and it has ‘Man in the Box’,” Seal mentioned as he held up a duplicate of the band’s sophomore album Dirt. He defined that Alice in Chains are essential to him as a result of grunge was beginning to take off in Seattle across the time that he left England, which can also be when his personal profession was beginning. He remembered having a dialog in regards to the Seattle bands with a taxi driver in Los Angeles, who was the very first particular person to play “Man in the Box” for him. He’d already heard of Nirvana and Pearl Jam, however this was his first style of Alice.

“I heard Layne [Staley]’s voice, Layne and Jerry [Cantrell] singing together with those close harmonies, and — yes,” Seal recalled. “So, out of that whole grunge period, they were by far, by far my favorite, and I think the most underrated, Alice in Chains. There were some great songs on here, like the obvious one being ‘Rooster.'”

While Alice in Chains skilled their justifiable share of success within the ’90s, they’re definitely not acknowledged within the mainstream the best way bands equivalent to Nirvana nonetheless are at this time — so Seal has some extent in calling them underrated. The musician acknowledged the darkness, the heaviness and the fantastic thing about Alice’s music, however added that it had a “sexiness” to it as effectively.

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“They had something that all of those other bands from that era — that grunge era — they had something truly unique. They had a soul that was almost like an R&B type soul, that, even though it didn’t sound like R&B, but that guttural soul, as opposed to just kind of being in your head,” he praised.

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