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I think, since it was the last song on their last studio release, it feels like a really wonderful 'swan-song' for the original lineup of Alice in Chains, even though "Get Born Again" came after, and the aura surrounding the song definitely helps give it that effect.
I feel this song is an expansion on Laynes feelings towards his mother and father growing up. The song starts with a boy who has to follow all his parents tell him to do “turn around you say” and like a typical teen he rebels and is resistant and shows some “tude”.
- Man In The Box (Facelift, 1990) There are so many great things about the first ‘proper’ single to be culled from Alice In Chains’ debut LP. The strange, abrasive musicality – combining down-tuned riffage, talkbox guitar, and almost gothically droning vocals – was unlike anything mainstream rock fans had been exposed to before.
- Them Bones (Dirt, 1992) The opening track from Dirt shrieked its way into the popular rock consciousness three decades ago and has echoed there ever since.
- Down In A Hole (Dirt, 1992) A comparatively tender offering written about the long-term love of his life, Courtney Clarke, the story has it that Jerry Cantrell almost didn’t present Down In A Hole to the rest of Alice In Chains as he was unsure it was the sort of material the collective wanted to perform.
- Nutshell (Jar Of Flies, 1994) The depth of feeling in Alice In Chains’ music is always above and beyond, but surely even the hardest of hearts get choked up listening to this achingly bittersweet Jar Of Flies classic. ‘
Inspired by a recent post asking to discuss the songs on Dirt, I thought I'd do a series of posts on the tracks, one by one, starting with the first. "Them Bones" is the opening track to AiC's second album, their 1992 masterpiece "Dirt."
- "Would?" This is the one. Cantrell wrote "Would?" about his late friend, and Mother Love Bone frontman, Andrew Wood, who died of a drug overdose in 1990 at just 24 years old.
- "Man in the Box" "Man in the Box" is by far the band's most popular song, and it deserves every single rock-radio spin that it receives. This Grammy-winning hit from Facelift features Staley's most recognizable vocal part, a wordless howl that weaves itself into the main guitar riff in a way that's tremendously catchy.
- "Rain When I Die" AIC usually prefer to traverse the back roads of metal, hard rock and alt-rock, but they also excelled at down-the-middle grunge. After a jammy, psychedelic intro with plenty of wah-wah pedal abuse, "Rain When I Die" contains the most early-Nineties Seattle chorus on Dirt, while also maintaining their own signature flair.
- "Them Bones" AIC can bring the fucking heavy, and "Them Bones" is one of their foremost crushers. With palm-muted metal chugs that recall Pantera, a monster truck of a hook and guitar tones that are smothered in muddy distortion, this sinewy Dirt banger is 10 tons of pure hard-rock destruction that still makes room for piercing reflections on mortality.
Alice in Chains " Died " is a song by Alice in Chains and the final one recorded with vocalist Layne Staley before his death in 2002. The song was included on the compilation albums Music Bank (1999) and The Essential Alice in Chains (2006).
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The last 3 songs recorded by Layne Staley of Alice In Chains. The songs include "Get Born Again" and "Died" with AIC, along with a Pink Floyd cover.
