{"id":1690,"date":"2024-01-27T13:21:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T18:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rthomas.xyz\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2024-10-09T23:40:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T03:40:20","slug":"jar-of-flies-30th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rthomas.xyz\/?p=1690","title":{"rendered":"Jar of Flies – 30th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It was late 1993 when I watched MTV one weekend, I was in the 5th grade at 11. I think it was The Headbangers Ball I was watching when the VJ did a music break to tell the viewers the news of what the bands were doing. And the VJ said that Alice In Chains is making an acoustic album. Again, this was late 1993, and I was guessing they wouldn’t have it out until the summer of 1994. Way back before the internet was available to almost everybody and social media, you had to get your music news from MTV, VH1, and music magazines, such has Rolling Stone. The latter, I haven’t read that magazine since 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While we were freezing our asses off in the ruthless weather in January 1994, Jar of Flies came out. Since I didn’t have a CD player at the time, I got it on cassette. And the album was a great sound to my ears. I enjoyed Rotten Apple, Nutshell<\/em>, and I Stay Away. Although I looked down on violins and violas, I think those instruments did justice for the song. One thing I wouldn’t say I liked about I Stay Away is the chorus lyrics. It reminds me of a song made six years later that I hate called Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus. The music video for I Stay Away is the shit. I also saw the puppets they used in that video at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. But sadly, my dumbass didn’t take a photo of it. Here’s someone else’s photo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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