Facelift
by Alice In Chains

Facelift by Alice In Chains
Year: 1990
Release date: 1990-08-21
Overall rank: 1,288th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 415 votes)
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Award Top 20 albums of 1990 (19th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (235th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,288th)

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Alice In Chains bestography

Facelift is ranked 3rd best out of 17 albums by Alice In Chains on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Alice In Chains is Dirt which is ranked number 205 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 7,410.

Alice In Chains album bestography « Higher ranked (559th)
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This album (1,288th)
Facelift
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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 1,288th | 1990s rank: 235th | 1990 rank: 19th

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Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 415 votes)
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03/02/2026 20:10 Juneof44  Ratings distribution  2,59069/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.4/100, a mean average of 76.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.1.

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From 08/26/2025 23:56 | #310710
This is some great grunge before Nirvana kicked open the door to the grunge movement. In my opinion, this is Layne's strongest vocal performance, Confusion especially. This obviously contains their first hit, Man In The Box, but We Die Young, It Ain't Like That, Love Hate Love, and Put You Down are on par with the best songs AIC ever recorded. The only reason it's not a 100, is that Sunshine and Real Thing are good, not great songs. Regardless, if you like Alice In Chains, this is a must own.
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From 05/20/2025 13:04 | #309077
A classic grunge/hard rock/metal debut album that introduced the world to Alice In Chains and it was on the US Billboard 200 albums chart for a total of 60 weeks.
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75/100
From 06/16/2023 09:25 | #297620
Good early grunge album, much better in the first half than the second, my favorite tracks are We Die Young, Sea Of Sorrow and Love, Hate, Love.
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90/100
From 12/16/2022 16:35 | #292016
Took me over a decade to really appreciate and enjoy this album. Used to only like it for We Die Young, Man in the Box and Bleed the Freak. Now, I hear Layne giving it his all on every song and lots of unexpected twists and turns in the music (e.g. the chorus in Sunshine is not what you'd expect from the rest of the song).
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85/100
From 05/06/2019 10:40 | #235891
Marco do grunge e do rock!
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From 07/01/2018 10:17 | #217579
Early AIC, full of classics. Doesn’t get enough love, at least here.
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95/100
From 06/06/2017 02:52 | #192111
Some may not agree but this is the best Alice in chains album. While a couple songs arn't great, the other songs more than make up for it. This is a solid album and captures more of what the band really is to me in a time before they were just a little too polished
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From 03/03/2017 14:56 | #186747
Not closely as good as Dirt, but carries a lot of the same qualities, that make this band so extremly special.
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From 07/17/2016 16:53 | #171456
Great start, it loses quality after the first songs. It's a shame because there are three great songs at the beginning.
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From 08/19/2015 04:03 | #147965
I personally prefer this to Dirt. It may not be too consistent, but it has some great grunge songs.
Best tracks: Man in the Box, It Ain't Like That, Bleed the Freak
Worst tracks: Sunshine, Real Thing
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