Nasty sticks out like a sore thumb, as you might imagine, as it is stylistically nothing like the rest of the darker material included here. That track, which eventually made it onto. "Liquid Calm" lightens the musical mood a bit, incorporating some nice acoustic guitar atop a pretty cool bass line, but this and "Just Fade Away" are really the only stylistic changes the band utilizes throughout the record with the exception of the demo for "White Lies/Black Truth", which was added as bonus material for this reissue. Walsh's vocals retain the angst used throughout the rest of this record, and he gets fairly screamy at the end of the track, wailing away as the song closes. "Just Fade Away" is a faster number than most of the music here, and traces of the old Slik Toxik can be found more here than on any other new song here, as there is a sleazy style mixed in with a funky bass line and some aggressive, albeit down-tuned, guitar work. The same can be said on a couple of other really good cuts like "Voodoo" and "Mother Machine". Walsh's vocals have an angry edge to them on this material, which actually works really well, and again the doomy, down-tuned guitars are fine with me. "Dive" is similar in its approach, although it sounds more likeAiC's second album, coming across as a fairly close relative of songs like "Rooster" or "Down In A Hole". The music has that heavy, sludgy, swirling style that Alice In Chains used so effectively, grinding away on the rhythm guitar and pounding relentlessly on the drums while also managing to work in a pretty cool guitar solo. Walsh will never be mistaken for Layne Staley, but that's okay because I think Walsh has a really cool voice himself. The two singles, "Dive" and "Twenty Something" are solid heavier material, with "Twenty Something" reminding me quite a bit of Facelift-era Alice In Chains musically, which is a good thing, as I am definitely an AiC fan. I'm talking the better attempts here think Skid Row on Subhuman Race, not Wildside's second album (ugh!).or especially if you were open to the metallic-grunge of a band like Alice In Chains, in particular. While it is definitely not the sleazy fun of Doin' The Nasty, there is still some decent material on this record, especially if you liked any of the harder, darker material many hair bands started putting out to try to survive the grunge movement. Anyway, while this was briefly available in 1994, it is now once again widely available through Perris Records, and I am glad it is. It wasn't until I searched YouTube and found the video for "Dive" was I even aware it existed. From what I have been told, and according to the Perris press release, both "Twenty Something" and "Dive" were released as singles, but I had never actually heard them. Perris has taken the original album, cleaned up the production a bit, added on a left-over demo from 1989, and presented the public with Irrelevant, which is probably an apt title since that is exactly how the band had to feel in 1994 when this record was recorded and then shelved.
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