Always a fan of Alice in Chains.

I've been digging into a lot of Alice in Chains over the last week (and I'm not entirely sure that's a good thing, but at least it's not Boards of Canada). Of course I'd heard "Man in a Box", and Guitar Hero introduced me to "Them Bones" and "Rooster" got enough airplay that I was familiar with it.

"No Excuses" I heard one day on the radio coming home from work and it intrigued me enough that I remembered enough lyric fragments to look it up once I got home. I wasn't expecting Alice in Chains! And now that I've been diving back through their archives I find I also had heard "I Stay Away" and "Heaven Beside You".

But "No Excuses" remains at the top of my list. Something about the melody, the harmonies... this feeling of weariness and resignation, but with a ray of optimism in there that someday things will be better.

One of my favorites is "Down In a Hole", from the album Dirt. Also on that album is "Angry Chair." I think you might like both of them.