So accurate. When I first started listening to them I knew nothing about Layne. I just remember thinking "damn his voice makes me feel some kind of way......" Then I did some research and found out what happened to Layne and I was heartbroken....but yet not all that surprised.
@@x_aj_x1157 I bought Dirt the day it came out, and even then, his voice was extremely haunting. It’s a quality in his voice that you just can’t find in almost any other singer. It’s what set him apart, along with the power he could put out when needed. Singers like Layne and also Peter Steele, just had this “it” factor to their voices that make them so engaging and as I said, haunting, to listen to.
He is all emotion in his songs.. funny how Jerry could write the songs and Layne could sing the F#@% out of them. They were all on the same page with the songs!
Nirvana didn't create "grunge", they just made it mainstream in the 90''s. Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden are the Big 4 and they are all different from eachother. They are all from Seattle so they all got lumped in to the "grunge" genre(the Seattle sound) . AIC and Soundgarden lean towards the more metal side, Nirvana leans to punk rock and Pearl Jam leans to classic rock. Grunge music is usually with moody and dark/deep music and lyrics. This song is about Andrew Wood the singer from Mother Love Bone who OD'd.
Agreed with everything you said here except that maybe Facelift started the explosion, Man in the Box in particular, instead of Nirvana in my opinion anyway 🤘🏽
Eddie was from California but Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament had been in Seattle for many years as part of one of the original “grunge” bands Green River and later Mother Love Bone. I believe Stone was actually born in Seattle. Now Stone Temple Pilots formed in San Diego California but Pearl Jam really didn’t
I agree Scott had a great voice. I’d like to add Ben McMillan to this list. He technically was the best singer out of this group but he was there at the beginning and was a big part of the “grunge” ( I hate that word lol) scene. His bands Skinyard and Gruntruck were solid bands even if they never gained the success. Skinyard was an influence on Soundgarden I believe. Matt Cameron was the drummer for Skinyard in the beginning and eventually in Soundgarden and Pearl Jam. Layne once said Gruntruck was a favorite band of his. Layne is my favorite out of them all though 🤘🏽
@@dickwarden6738 I wouldn't say it blows, but it's just decent. Each band involved have better songs, and Hunger Strike was just decent. But people have built it up to this mythical status that I just don't get.
Like other people said "Love Hate Love" at Moore live is a MUST! Other incredible songs are "Rain When I Die", "Sunshine" and "Man in the Box" but really all songs from their two albums "Dirt" and "Facelift" are winners!
Spent most every night of my sophomore year at university drinking myself to sleep to Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Pearl Jam. Occasionally I would slip into a two or three day "breath of fresh air" toking myself to sleep listening to Pink Floyd and Led Zepplin. Without that music to get me through the fall and winter of 2001, who knows what I would have done. I had reached my early 30's and everyone my age had turned into their parents and anyone younger than me looked at me as that "old" creep. This music kept me moving forward... Thank you to Grunge AND classic rock...
Guys, you're young. You don't get it. Heavy metal into Grunge was the soundtrack of Generation Xs adolescence. This power is what we grew up with. But grunge was also called grunge because they were speaking inconvenient truths, and conveying how jaded we were (and still are) about the world around us.
Yeey! Alice in chains! One of the greatest band! I love them since my childhood so listen: react to "Love Hate Love" at Moore live, "Bleed the Freak" from the same performance, "Nutshell" and "Down in a Hole" from Mtv Unplugged, and msny many others!
Rooster, Man In The Box, Down In A Hole, Nutshell, Them Bones, Damn That River, Bleed The Freak, We Die Young.... DO IT 👍🏻 I love ALICE IN CHAINS, Layne had an incredible voice and it’s ICONIC, welcome my friends 🔥 I do agree that it is a blend of musical styles, but grunge really in my opinion is just a genre of music that does not have to follow a specific pattern. It can be all over the musical spectrum, you just pour your heart into it and give it that high energy, grunge was absolutely underground
Yes Layne Staley has a hell of a voice. Unique to say the least. Gotta do Love Hate Love from Live at The Moore also Man In A Box from same. His powerful range, unique voice will truly amaze you. Jerry and his voice and riffs are off the chain also. This song from from MTV UNPLUGGED, just awesome. Any song from that UNPLUGGED session is 💣 One thing about Laynes vocals is you feel him not just hear him. Can never get enough of Alice In Chains ✌❤🤘
Being in the upper corner of the states, Seattle never had the big bands going there. But okay weather and cheap living costs had a 100 plus guys who wanted to make it finding each other there. Knowing each other, playing together, helping each other, not caring about the rest of the country
"Rooster" is a must for AIC, then..."Man In A Box". Grunge is a Vibe... you either feel it or you don't. Us Gen X'ers felt it and still do! All the grunge guys were seriously talented, intellectual, VERY deep souls and all were EQUALLY talented.... last group standing is Pearl Jam. Look forward to some more Grunge.... RIP, Chris, Kurt, Layne, Chester....
@@matthewdrake4385 Linkin Park, the band as a whole, was "Alternative".... So I was speaking of JUST Chester with the grunge boys for his vibe(for lack of better words) and lyrical style. Plus his affiliation/ friendship with Chris always makes me think of him when remembering Chris, Kurt and Layne.... And yes, he is dearly missed as well. Peace.
The riff in this song is popular bumper music on radio stations coming back from commercials. If you listen to radio that's probably why it sound familiar
Their album "Dirt" is ALL fire. Just choose a song and you are good. It is one of my all time any genre albums. But they have so many great tunes on as many albums. Edit: And of course RIP Layne! You are greatly missed!!!!
Similar band is Stone Temple Pilots. They were INCREDIBLE live, singer Scott Weiland controls a crowd like Freddie Mercury. Please react to this RUclips clip: [HD] STP - Plush & Trippin (2001 Live TV RoLLing RoCK PA)
Great reaction. AIC has so many amazing songs, but this is definitely one of the best ones to listen to as an introduction to the band. It’s super catchy and really showcases the individual abilities of all four members. As good as Layne’s voice is (and it’s unreal), this song barely showcases what he’s really capable of. He stays within the song, sharing vocal duties with Jerry, while they harmonize incredibly well (an AIC trademark), which is what gives this song such great overall balance. Wait till you really hear his range on some other tracks though. Layne is the only singer I know that physically gives listeners goosebumps with his power.
AIC's first album face-lift was arguably the first "grunge" album that came out before the term grunge even existed. And it's a banger of an album . So is their second studio album DIRT. This was a great reaction, you guys have to do more Alice!
Alice in Chains had their first major label album end of the 80s, when there was not even the word "grunge" for that kind of music. Check also their songs "man in the box" and the live version of "love hate love".
Hi dudes, i highly recommend checking out the MTV unplugged show of Alice in Chains and in particular the song „Down in a hole“. This song is heartbreaking and brilliant at the same time especially considering the state Layne Staley was already in due to his heroin addiction. All the best
The rift you heard from pure awesomeness!!! Grunge it’s hard rock with some real meaning. This song is about drug abuse and wanting to come out of it, but wondering if people would still except him. grunge.is where it’s at if you want likes and subscriptions. Please have the words in front of you to the songs because they’re usually pretty deep in meaning, even though you can’t understand hardly a word they’re saying
Actually THE PIXIES are the first band considered "grunge", If The Pixies didnt form as a group in UMASS, you never would have had Nirvana, Soundgarden, Radiohead, Stone Temple Pilots, and of course Alice in Chains. BOTH NIRVANA and RADIOHEAD have stated without the Pixies their bands wouldnt have existed in separate MTV interviews
Layne Staley's voice puts all others in his genre (grunge) to freaking shame. He is just a freaking rock legend. I truly cried for days when we lost him. But I listen to him with awe and joy always!
Bleed the freak, real thing, junkhead, rooster, down in a hole, don't follow, dam that river, godsmack... and many many more. Don't forget about the band called Mad Season, created by Layne from alice in chains, Mike from pearl jam and guys from screaming trees. This is the best band that ever have been created
You guys come up with great observations. My kids were teenagers in the 90's . Their generation came up with some really good bands. We let them rock on!!
Nirvana didn't create grunge, the media did. The term grunge appeard to classify in some way the music that was emerging from seattle in the late 80s. If i remember well Alice in Chains was the first band of that new seattle sound to sign with a record company, even before nirvana.
Even though Alice In Chains came from the grunge scene, they were deemed more as hard rock. They were my favorite rock band back then..timeless actually.
Read the comments... everyone’s right and picked excellent songs!!! Layne’s voice is one of a kind.... Rooster and Nutshell Unplugged are MUST DO videos... welcome to the realm of grunge!!
Ahhh finally AIC! Check out other proper tunes (different genres though) such as It's A Long Way There by Little River Band, The Last Days of May by Blue Oyster Cult, Anesthetize by Porcupine Tree (that one is an EXPERIENCE)
So glad you started checking out grunge. As others have said, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and their various members' side projects are the ones to explore. I recommend Outshined by Soundgarden.
The backstory with Would? ... guitarist Jerry Cantrell wrote the song for Andy Wood, singer of Mother Love Bone after Andy died of an overdose in 1990 just as Mother Love Bone was going to hit big. After Andy died, Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament dissolved Mother Love Bone and re-emerged as Pearl Jam. Would? as a title is a play on Andy Wood's name. Layne sang the hell out of Would? and Rooster on the album, official videos and concerts in 91-93. Would? appeared on the Singles soundtrack because Seattle, Washington as big as the town is, musically it's a small town. All the bands that came out of the Seattle scene knew each other and went to see each other play the club circuit. Cameron Crowe was married to Nancy Wilson of Heart and he wanted to make a movie about the Seattle music scene and made Singles where a fictional band, Citizen Dick opened for Alice In Chains. They used It Ain't Like That from the Facelift album and Cameron Crowe gave them money to demo songs... AIC took the money, they demoed the 6 acoustic songs that are on SAP EP and two songs Rooster and Would? that ended up on the Dirt album. Cameron Crowe picked through the songs and used Would? out of the bunch. Jerry thought the song was strong enough to be included on the Dirt album and that's how Would? ended up on the Singles soundtrack and the same version ended up on Dirt. Whenever you see Bad Animals Studios in the liner notes, at the time the album was recorded, Bad Animals Studios was owned by Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart. Nancy Wilson was married to Cameron Crowe between 1986 and 2010. Jerry was fine doing backing vocals on the early songs like the ones they played in their clubbing days and on Facelift like the Call and Return of the chorus on Man in the Box until one day when he was trying to write songs for the SAP EP and the Dirt album, Layne looked at the lyrics and encouraged Jerry to sing more because after all, they were Jerry's lyrics. He should sing them. When Layne and Jerry sang together they achieved the perfect pitch of two voices making one voice. Layne Staley's vocal range can run rings around any other grunge singer in my opinion. Layne could sing the phone book and never hit a wrong note. Even at the end of his life, with no teeth and a lisp, his voice, wit and humor were all still there. Layne's voice and vocal range was so powerful he did NOT need auto tune or pro-tools until he lost his teeth and had a lisp around 1998, and even then he still killed the vocals. Barrett Martin (who played with Layne in Mad Season) said that when he stood to the side of the stage, he could hear the sound of Layne’s vocal resonance come out of Layne's body LOUDER than it did coming out of the speakers, Layne's voice was that powerful. No one noticed he had died on April 5, 2002, because he never answered the phone nor opened the door. It took inactivity over the span of two weeks for his ACCOUNTANT to notice something was wrong and called Alice In Chains manager Susan Silver who called Layne's mother to alert her to the situation who then called 911 on April 19, 2002. And to pour salt in the wound, MTV (and the music industry) has more or less blackballed Layne (and yet, they laud over Kurt Cobain every April 5th, because Kurt was the "face of grunge", meanwhile Layne gets a "by the way"). The Grammys went so far as to invite Jerry, Mike and Sean to the Grammy show in 2003 and then refused to put Layne's picture up in the memorial of the musicians who died in 2002. (Or they "forgot" to) which pissed Jerry, Mike and Sean off and they walked out on the show. Though I do applaud MoPOP including Layne Staley and Mike Starr when they inducted Alice In Chains in the MoPOP Museum of Pop Culture. It's more recognition of Layne (and Mike) than the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (thanks to Rolling Stone's criticisms of Layne and his addiction) and the Grammys (who FORGOT him when he died) have EVER done. Layne's story is more tragic and haunting because you can actually watch and hear him deteriorate over the 12-year span: from the mild use of drugs in 1990 all the way through 1996 when he was deep into a heroin addiction to dropping to 90 pounds by 1998 to 86 pounds when he died in 2002. Layne kept his humor and wit even to the end of his life.
Just came across your reviews. As a kid of the 80s / 90s... just wanna say thank you for keeping AIC and Layne Staley alive. Dirt is probably the heaviest / darkest, most raw / honest... and just flat out best albums of not just the grunge era... but all time. Music is pure energy that transcends politics, religion, race... and most importantly... time. This album can be hard to listen to for me at times b/c I've also struggled with mental darkness and I lost friends to drugs during that time... but I've learned to respect the darkness and embrace the light. Much love and respect my brothers. @hvybalance
"Rooster", "I Stay Away", "Down In A Hole", "Man In A Box", "Them Bones"
Yes! All of these.
A couple of my favorites I would add are "We Die Young," "It Ain't Like That," and "Nutshell."
Yes
Rotten Apple!
"Man In a Box".....
Layne Staley’s voice will break your heart. You may or may not know why but it will. ❤️
So accurate. When I first started listening to them I knew nothing about Layne. I just remember thinking "damn his voice makes me feel some kind of way......"
Then I did some research and found out what happened to Layne and I was heartbroken....but yet not all that surprised.
@@x_aj_x1157 I bought Dirt the day it came out, and even then, his voice was extremely haunting. It’s a quality in his voice that you just can’t find in almost any other singer. It’s what set him apart, along with the power he could put out when needed. Singers like Layne and also Peter Steele, just had this “it” factor to their voices that make them so engaging and as I said, haunting, to listen to.
He is all emotion in his songs.. funny how Jerry could write the songs and Layne could sing the F#@% out of them. They were all on the same page with the songs!
kim: great interpretation....never thought of his voice this way.....so damn true.
Man, he was talented! Such a sad story about Layne:( That AIC Unplugged is my favorite one ever performed.
Nirvana didn't create "grunge", they just made it mainstream in the 90''s. Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden are the Big 4 and they are all different from eachother. They are all from Seattle so they all got lumped in to the "grunge" genre(the Seattle sound) . AIC and Soundgarden lean towards the more metal side, Nirvana leans to punk rock and Pearl Jam leans to classic rock. Grunge music is usually with moody and dark/deep music and lyrics. This song is about Andrew Wood the singer from Mother Love Bone who OD'd.
THANK YOU!
Agreed with everything you said here except that maybe Facelift started the explosion, Man in the Box in particular, instead of Nirvana in my opinion anyway 🤘🏽
Think Pearl Jam formed in San Diego, not Seattle. The others were from there. Soundgarden released their debut first.
Eddie was from California but Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament had been in Seattle for many years as part of one of the original “grunge” bands Green River and later Mother Love Bone. I believe Stone was actually born in Seattle. Now Stone Temple Pilots formed in San Diego California but Pearl Jam really didn’t
Your right about STP being from San Diego, but I knew there was a San Diego connection in Pearl Jam as well. Just wasn't sure exactly.
Layne Staley, Chris Cornell, Kurt Corbain and Eddie Vedder....the voices of grunge.
And Scott Weiland too I'm my opinion
I agree Scott had a great voice. I’d like to add Ben McMillan to this list. He technically was the best singer out of this group but he was there at the beginning and was a big part of the “grunge” ( I hate that word lol) scene. His bands Skinyard and Gruntruck were solid bands even if they never gained the success. Skinyard was an influence on Soundgarden I believe. Matt Cameron was the drummer for Skinyard in the beginning and eventually in Soundgarden and Pearl Jam. Layne once said Gruntruck was a favorite band of his. Layne is my favorite out of them all though 🤘🏽
Ben wasn’t technically the best singer, typo there lol
Only one of them is still alive...we have to be grateful we lived during their lifetimes...
Second Tier: Scott Weiland, Mark Lanagan, and Billy Corgan
Down in a Hole by them is a masterpiece in my opinion
Unplugged version is next level.
It’s my favorite AIC song
And Hot Dogs are a masterpiece food.
The unplugged version is my favorite live performance by any band ever
The entire Dirt album is a masterpiece from start to finish.
Grunge masterpiece - Temple of the dog - hunger strike.
YES!!!
Facts anything w Chris Cornell rly lol
Over the fuck rated. That song blows
@@dickwarden6738 I wouldn't say it blows, but it's just decent. Each band involved have better songs, and Hunger Strike was just decent. But people have built it up to this mythical status that I just don't get.
Alice In Chains with Layne is an emotion. RIP Layne and Mike🥺
Like other people said "Love Hate Love" at Moore live is a MUST!
Other incredible songs are "Rain When I Die", "Sunshine" and "Man in the Box" but really all songs from their two albums "Dirt" and "Facelift" are winners!
My favorite live video of all time
AUDIOSLAVE IS ALSO A MUST...! "Show Me How To Live", "Like A Stone", "I Am The Highway"
“Burden in my Hand” & “Rusty Cage” too ♥️♥️
Burden and Cage are Soundgarden not Audioslave
@@matthewdrake4385 I didn't say anything because it's still Chris...
Check out Man in the Box next
If you want something mind blowing - their live version of Love Hate Love
Nutshell live unplugged always makes me cry. You can see layne literally dying. Sad he’s not here anymore and his addiction was too much for him.
Studio version is always better to hear first
@@sondersonics7534 agreed.
the songs to react to by this band: love hate love (live at the moore), down in a hole, rooster and nutshell
Pearl Jam, Alice in chains, Nirvana, Soundgarden & Stone Temple pilots... take the trip
Add Audioslave ♥️♥️
STP, so effing good. Scott, RIP
Can't forget Screaming Trees
@@ledgm108 Let’s break them and easy
Superheaven, downface, silverchair, mad season, live, satchel, sprinkler, moist......
For me this is one of the best songs ever written......its been my fav for 30 years......
Spent most every night of my sophomore year at university drinking myself to sleep to Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Pearl Jam. Occasionally I would slip into a two or three day "breath of fresh air" toking myself to sleep listening to Pink Floyd and Led Zepplin. Without that music to get me through the fall and winter of 2001, who knows what I would have done. I had reached my early 30's and everyone my age had turned into their parents and anyone younger than me looked at me as that "old" creep. This music kept me moving forward... Thank you to Grunge AND classic rock...
My fave Man in a Box by Alice in Chains
Guys, you're young. You don't get it. Heavy metal into Grunge was the soundtrack of Generation Xs adolescence. This power is what we grew up with. But grunge was also called grunge because they were speaking inconvenient truths, and conveying how jaded we were (and still are) about the world around us.
Yeey! Alice in chains! One of the greatest band! I love them since my childhood so listen: react to "Love Hate Love" at Moore live, "Bleed the Freak" from the same performance, "Nutshell" and "Down in a Hole" from Mtv Unplugged, and msny many others!
Rooster, Man In The Box, Down In A Hole, Nutshell, Them Bones, Damn That River, Bleed The Freak, We Die Young.... DO IT 👍🏻
I love ALICE IN CHAINS, Layne had an incredible voice and it’s ICONIC, welcome my friends 🔥
I do agree that it is a blend of musical styles, but grunge really in my opinion is just a genre of music that does not have to follow a specific pattern. It can be all over the musical spectrum, you just pour your heart into it and give it that high energy, grunge was absolutely underground
One of my top five songs of all time..
Yes Layne Staley has a hell of a voice. Unique to say the least. Gotta do Love Hate Love from Live at The Moore also Man In A Box from same. His powerful range, unique voice will truly amaze you. Jerry and his voice and riffs are off the chain also. This song from from MTV UNPLUGGED, just awesome. Any song from that UNPLUGGED session is 💣 One thing about Laynes vocals is you feel him not just hear him. Can never get enough of Alice In Chains ✌❤🤘
Being in the upper corner of the states, Seattle never had the big bands going there. But okay weather and cheap living costs had a 100 plus guys who wanted to make it finding each other there. Knowing each other, playing together, helping each other, not caring about the rest of the country
Have fun going down the road of masterpieces lol
“Rain When I Die” hands down my favorite!
"Love Hate Love" live at Moore is the ultimate live performance from Alice n Chains!
"Rooster" is a must for AIC, then..."Man In A Box". Grunge is a Vibe... you either feel it or you don't. Us Gen X'ers felt it and still do! All the grunge guys were seriously talented, intellectual, VERY deep souls and all were EQUALLY talented.... last group standing is Pearl Jam. Look forward to some more Grunge.... RIP, Chris, Kurt, Layne, Chester....
Weiland too. Chester wasn't grunge, but he is dearly missed.
@@matthewdrake4385 Linkin Park, the band as a whole, was "Alternative".... So I was speaking of JUST Chester with the grunge boys for his vibe(for lack of better words) and lyrical style. Plus his affiliation/ friendship with Chris always makes me think of him when remembering Chris, Kurt and Layne.... And yes, he is dearly missed as well. Peace.
Great band, deep rabbit hole.
RIP Layne Staley. ❤🕊🙏
Dude on the rights face when listening to this perfectly represents the song
The riff in this song is popular bumper music on radio stations coming back from commercials. If you listen to radio that's probably why it sound familiar
Their album "Dirt" is ALL fire. Just choose a song and you are good. It is one of my all time any genre albums. But they have so many great tunes on as many albums. Edit: And of course RIP Layne! You are greatly missed!!!!
Similar band is Stone Temple Pilots. They were INCREDIBLE live, singer Scott Weiland controls a crowd like Freddie Mercury. Please react to this RUclips clip: [HD] STP - Plush & Trippin (2001 Live TV RoLLing RoCK PA)
Great reaction. AIC has so many amazing songs, but this is definitely one of the best ones to listen to as an introduction to the band. It’s super catchy and really showcases the individual abilities of all four members. As good as Layne’s voice is (and it’s unreal), this song barely showcases what he’s really capable of. He stays within the song, sharing vocal duties with Jerry, while they harmonize incredibly well (an AIC trademark), which is what gives this song such great overall balance. Wait till you really hear his range on some other tracks though. Layne is the only singer I know that physically gives listeners goosebumps with his power.
Stunning vocalist
AIC's first album face-lift was arguably the first "grunge" album that came out before the term grunge even existed. And it's a banger of an album . So is their second studio album DIRT.
This was a great reaction, you guys have to do more Alice!
Alice in Chains had their first major label album end of the 80s, when there was not even the word "grunge" for that kind of music. Check also their songs "man in the box" and the live version of "love hate love".
They formed in 1987. Grunge became grunge in 1991. The crem de le creme year for grunge album releases.
Hi dudes,
i highly recommend checking out the MTV unplugged show of Alice in Chains and in particular the song „Down in a hole“. This song is heartbreaking and brilliant at the same time especially considering the state Layne Staley was already in due to his heroin addiction.
All the best
The Unplugged series also included Pearl Jam and Nirvana, great performances as well. STP did one too, but never released it as an album (yet?).
Woohoo! Now you need to listen to Love Hate Love! Live performance will blow your mind! ❤️
RIP Lane Stanley 🙏
keep on the grunge train.
Alice is truly a good representation
Please try No Excuses.
One of my favorites by Alice In Chains.
The rift you heard from pure awesomeness!!! Grunge it’s hard rock with some real meaning. This song is about drug abuse and wanting to come out of it, but wondering if people would still except him. grunge.is where it’s at if you want likes and subscriptions. Please have the words in front of you to the songs because they’re usually pretty deep in meaning, even though you can’t understand hardly a word they’re saying
Down in a hole - MTV unplugged is one of the big moments in music
Great band welcome to the journey!
Layne, Greatest rock single all time................
Love this song 😎🤘🥣🔥💥♥️👍 absolutely love your description of the experience of listening to this song.
Welcome to the Seattle sound of the nineties! Nirvana. Alice in Cains. Soundgarden. Pearl Jam...to name but a few.
RIP Layne Staley. He had an amazing voice. ❤
RIP Layne Staley, one of the greats.
Actually THE PIXIES are the first band considered "grunge", If The Pixies didnt form as a group in UMASS, you never would have had Nirvana, Soundgarden, Radiohead, Stone Temple Pilots, and of course Alice in Chains.
BOTH NIRVANA and RADIOHEAD have stated without the Pixies their bands wouldnt have existed in separate MTV interviews
I love the the unplugged version more
Hey brothers. You guys will luv chains, I’m gonna worn you guys, this music is deep ¡ like ocean deep! Enjoy bros!!!
Hey bro. It’s Andy your brother! hahahah crazy finding you here bro. We both have amazing taste is music so it makes sense! Luv ya bro!
Grunge is just a media term. It's just great hard rock in reality
One of rocks best voices
Layne Staley's voice puts all others in his genre (grunge) to freaking shame. He is just a freaking rock legend. I truly cried for days when we lost him. But I listen to him with awe and joy always!
Bleed the freak, real thing, junkhead, rooster, down in a hole, don't follow, dam that river, godsmack... and many many more. Don't forget about the band called Mad Season, created by Layne from alice in chains, Mike from pearl jam and guys from screaming trees. This is the best band that ever have been created
You guys come up with great observations. My kids were teenagers in the 90's . Their generation came up with some really good bands. We let them rock on!!
Layne Staley had the voice of a fallen angel. RIP
Nirvana didn't create grunge, the media did. The term grunge appeard to classify in some way the music that was emerging from seattle in the late 80s. If i remember well Alice in Chains was the first band of that new seattle sound to sign with a record company, even before nirvana.
No one ever says to do Sludge Factory... It's a great song, especially the MTV Unplugged version, fck up and all..
Even though Alice In Chains came from the grunge scene, they were deemed more as hard rock. They were my favorite rock band back then..timeless actually.
Hands down they rested a new sound! Perfect band! Vocals are phenomenal! All of these guys did well in th II s band. Miss them
Love this song!!!! Song in memory of a friend that died of a heroin overdose. Tragically singer would meet same fate.
More AiC. Bleed the Freak live at the Moore 🗣️🎙️🔥 🖤Layne Staley🖤
Hell yeah! Enough said
Lane, top 5 vocalist all time imo
Grunge was the last genre of Rock and Roll. Not many artists making rock and roll music on this level since the grunge era ended.
i really feel like rock and roll took a critical hit when kurt died and it hasnt really recovered ever since
U r not the only one everybody whilo listen to this song gets deja vu
Read the comments... everyone’s right and picked excellent songs!!! Layne’s voice is one of a kind.... Rooster and Nutshell Unplugged are MUST DO videos... welcome to the realm of grunge!!
Love hate love live at the Moore.. amazing
Ahhh finally AIC! Check out other proper tunes (different genres though) such as It's A Long Way There by Little River Band, The Last Days of May by Blue Oyster Cult, Anesthetize by Porcupine Tree (that one is an EXPERIENCE)
Layne is the heart of the band! Is sad is passed away. Even now 20 years is still sad to remember your career.
"Dam That River" and "We Die Young"
So glad you started checking out grunge. As others have said, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and their various members' side projects are the ones to explore. I recommend Outshined by Soundgarden.
RIP Layne and Mike....the evil of drugs. So talented and yet lost....miss these guys, peace ☮️
Alice in Chains has a lot of really great songs.
Love AIC... Try "Down in a Hole", "Grind", "I Stay Away", "Man in the Box", "Angry Chair", "Sludge Factory", "No Excuses"... Incredible band...
"Nutshell live", "I stay away", "Rooster", "Shame in you", "No excuses", "Again", "Don't follow" are just a few you guys should check out as well.
Layne was my all time favorite singer also love early Scott Weiland
Man in the box. Alice in. Chains
"Rooster", "Man in a box", "I stay away"
Grunge has some 50s and a bit 60s rock
One of my favorites is "Low" which he did with Mad Season. Astounding!
All I can say is ROOSTER!! Cool story 🖤💥💨
Unplugged version really good
I saw them 6 times live. I got stories on top of stories. I’ve been doing this for decades. I’ve seen a fucking LOT of concerts.
The backstory with Would? ... guitarist Jerry Cantrell wrote the song for Andy Wood, singer of Mother Love Bone after Andy died of an overdose in 1990 just as Mother Love Bone was going to hit big. After Andy died, Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament dissolved Mother Love Bone and re-emerged as Pearl Jam. Would? as a title is a play on Andy Wood's name. Layne sang the hell out of Would? and Rooster on the album, official videos and concerts in 91-93.
Would? appeared on the Singles soundtrack because Seattle, Washington as big as the town is, musically it's a small town. All the bands that came out of the Seattle scene knew each other and went to see each other play the club circuit. Cameron Crowe was married to Nancy Wilson of Heart and he wanted to make a movie about the Seattle music scene and made Singles where a fictional band, Citizen Dick opened for Alice In Chains. They used It Ain't Like That from the Facelift album and Cameron Crowe gave them money to demo songs... AIC took the money, they demoed the 6 acoustic songs that are on SAP EP and two songs Rooster and Would? that ended up on the Dirt album. Cameron Crowe picked through the songs and used Would? out of the bunch. Jerry thought the song was strong enough to be included on the Dirt album and that's how Would? ended up on the Singles soundtrack and the same version ended up on Dirt.
Whenever you see Bad Animals Studios in the liner notes, at the time the album was recorded, Bad Animals Studios was owned by Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart. Nancy Wilson was married to Cameron Crowe between 1986 and 2010.
Jerry was fine doing backing vocals on the early songs like the ones they played in their clubbing days and on Facelift like the Call and Return of the chorus on Man in the Box until one day when he was trying to write songs for the SAP EP and the Dirt album, Layne looked at the lyrics and encouraged Jerry to sing more because after all, they were Jerry's lyrics. He should sing them. When Layne and Jerry sang together they achieved the perfect pitch of two voices making one voice.
Layne Staley's vocal range can run rings around any other grunge singer in my opinion. Layne could sing the phone book and never hit a wrong note. Even at the end of his life, with no teeth and a lisp, his voice, wit and humor were all still there. Layne's voice and vocal range was so powerful he did NOT need auto tune or pro-tools until he lost his teeth and had a lisp around 1998, and even then he still killed the vocals.
Barrett Martin (who played with Layne in Mad Season) said that when he stood to the side of the stage, he could hear the sound of Layne’s vocal resonance come out of Layne's body LOUDER than it did coming out of the speakers, Layne's voice was that powerful.
No one noticed he had died on April 5, 2002, because he never answered the phone nor opened the door. It took inactivity over the span of two weeks for his ACCOUNTANT to notice something was wrong and called Alice In Chains manager Susan Silver who called Layne's mother to alert her to the situation who then called 911 on April 19, 2002.
And to pour salt in the wound, MTV (and the music industry) has more or less blackballed Layne (and yet, they laud over Kurt Cobain every April 5th, because Kurt was the "face of grunge", meanwhile Layne gets a "by the way"). The Grammys went so far as to invite Jerry, Mike and Sean to the Grammy show in 2003 and then refused to put Layne's picture up in the memorial of the musicians who died in 2002. (Or they "forgot" to) which pissed Jerry, Mike and Sean off and they walked out on the show. Though I do applaud MoPOP including Layne Staley and Mike Starr when they inducted Alice In Chains in the MoPOP Museum of Pop Culture. It's more recognition of Layne (and Mike) than the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (thanks to Rolling Stone's criticisms of Layne and his addiction) and the Grammys (who FORGOT him when he died) have EVER done.
Layne's story is more tragic and haunting because you can actually watch and hear him deteriorate over the 12-year span: from the mild use of drugs in 1990 all the way through 1996 when he was deep into a heroin addiction to dropping to 90 pounds by 1998 to 86 pounds when he died in 2002. Layne kept his humor and wit even to the end of his life.
Just came across your reviews. As a kid of the 80s / 90s... just wanna say thank you for keeping AIC and Layne Staley alive. Dirt is probably the heaviest / darkest, most raw / honest... and just flat out best albums of not just the grunge era... but all time. Music is pure energy that transcends politics, religion, race... and most importantly... time. This album can be hard to listen to for me at times b/c I've also struggled with mental darkness and I lost friends to drugs during that time... but I've learned to respect the darkness and embrace the light. Much love and respect my brothers. @hvybalance
Great Band, great song..lots of awesome hits to check out...another awesome grunge band I so suggest is Soundgarden, "Rusty Cage"
Love Hate Love.....Live at The Moore!! LIVE version only!!!
Agree. Temple of the Dog. Hunger Strike. Two geniuses, Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder 🖤🖤🖤
This is a great song, good beginning
Also stains and puddle of mud!!! Great bands!!
Staind
Rain when I die by these guys is an absolute must! Great harmonies!! ✌
While watching another video, one of the reactors described this song as a fusion of Jazz and Metal -- I thought that was a pretty good descriptor.
I have just discovered Alice in Chains myself where have I been!!!! Love them x
Man in a Box
Let's not forget bassist Mike Starr rip. This riff is really similar to a Godsmack track tho I can't think which
You can see Alice n Chains, Pearl Jam, and Sound Garden canbe seen in the movie "Singles".
Alice In Chains unplugged is a masterpiece