'Jar' is one of the greatest EPs EVER! This thing really shows just how talented AIC are. Not only could they rock with electric guitars, but they can do it with acoustic instruments as well!!
'Jar' really throws down the gauntlet... of the 'Big Four of Grunge' acts, which is most musically diverse???
I would take Nirvana out of the running since they didn't last long enough to accumulate a large enough number of songs.
Pearl Jam? Well they are limited to only having one baritone vocalist (Vedder) without a lot of range so I am going to take them out of the running (besides I don't really like Pearl Jam to be honest and have always preferred Mother Love Bone anyways...)
So this leaves a battle royale between AIC and Soundgarden. SG certainly changed from punkish grunge (first two records) to Alternative Metal ('Louder Than Love' & 'Badmotorfinger') to dark psycehedlic rock. But SG never really tried doing any sort of acoustic type stuff, the way AIC did with 'Jar'. Chris Cornell certainly has the vocal chops to try different things (and he did during his solo career) but one gets the feeling that SG just always felt more comfortable being a 'electric only' type of band. Like they needed to have huge stacks of amplifiers to play and stuff.
AIC went for broke and went where-ever they felt like going and 'Jar' is a testament to that. In fact after listening to this I am giving them a lot more credit as a band in general!
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