"Hate to Feel" is the tenth track on American rock band

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' album ''

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'' (1992). The song was included on the compilation albums ''

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'' (1999) and '' The Essential Alice in Chains''. It has also been the ninth track on later prints of the album and eleventh on others. Some editions of ''Dirt'' may merge this song with the then-unlisted 43-second track "Iron Gland".

Origin and recording

In the

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of 1999's ''

'' box set collection, guitarist

Jerry Cantrell Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. (born March 18, 1966) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is best known as the founder, lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist, and main songwriter of the rock band Alice in Chains. The band rose to internation ...

said of the song:

Again, a lot of pride in seeing Layne grow as a guitarist and songwriter to create something so heavy. He's always been so honest in his songs, which is like all of us. We don't bullshit in our music, we always pushed each other to say it as it needed to be said. We've always been ''fully'' for letting it all out.

Reception

Ned Raggett of

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said that the song "shows Alice in Chains in woozy, murkily descending riff mode, taking its time to grind down into the ground" and added, "The near-constant theme on ''Dirt'' about drugs, specifically heroin, doesn't disappear here: 'Used to be curious, now the shit's sustenance'."

Live performances

A live performance of "Hate to Feel" can be found on the " Angry Chair" single.

Personnel

Layne Staley Layne Thomas Staley (born Layne Rutherford Staley; August 22, 1967 – April 5, 2002) was an American musician, songwriter and the original lead singer of the rock band Alice in Chains, which rose to international fame in the early 1990s as part ...

– lead vocals, rhythm guitar *

– vocals, lead guitar * Mike Starr – bass *

Sean Kinney Sean Howard Kinney (born May 27, 1966) is an American musician, best known as the drummer and co-founder of the rock band Alice in Chains. Kinney also founded the short-lived supergroup Spys4Darwin, and has collaborated with other artists such ...

– drums

References

External links

* Review of "Hate to Feel"at

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