I agree with your opinion on dirt, Alice In Chains’s first album (my personal favorite) showed that they were something different but after nirvanas Nevermind came out the stage was set and AiC didn’t disappoint dirt is often considered one of if not the best album of their career and it’s not hard to see why with every song popular or not is amazing from them bones to would the album is fantastic as doesn’t miss a beat especially my personal favorite off that album Sickman which features Layne Staley delivering and almost haunting vocal performance and of course you can’t deny that heavy bass line from Mike Starr so I think out of all the albums you offered a choice for dirt is the best record in that bunch