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"Nutshell" is a song by Alice in Chains that originally appeared on the band's 1994 extended play Jar of Flies. The band played it on MTV Unplugged in 1996, and this rendition of the song was included on the compilation album Music Bank (1999), as well as The Essential Alice in Chains (2006). [ 1 ]
Jar of Flies is the third studio EP by American rock band Alice in Chains.It was released on January 25, 1994, by Columbia Records.The band's second acoustic EP, after 1992's Sap, it was the first acoustic EP in music history to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, with the first week sales exceeding 141,000 copies in the United States.
Layne Thomas Staley (born Layne Rutherford Staley; August 22, 1967 – April 5, 2002) [2] [3] was an American singer and songwriter who was the original lead vocalist of Alice in Chains, which rose to international fame in the early 1990s as part of Seattle's grunge movement.
"No Excuses" is the lead single from American rock band Alice in Chains' third EP, Jar of Flies (1994). Written by guitarist and co-lead vocalist Jerry Cantrell, the song was well received by music critics and was a charting success, becoming the first Alice in Chains song to reach No. 1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, spending a total of 26 weeks on the chart.
Alice in Chains 4:48 Nothing Safe: Best of the Box (June 29, 1999) 4:46 Music Bank (October 26, 1999) 4:47 Greatest Hits (July 24, 2001) 4:48 The Essential Alice in Chains (September 5, 2006) 4:49 Unplugged CD (July 30, 1996) 10 April 1996 Majestic Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn (Song cut from the MTV broadcast) Wright / Alice in ...
The original lineup in a 1988 promo. From left: Jerry Cantrell, Sean Kinney, Mike Starr, Layne Staley. Before the formation of Alice in Chains, Layne Staley, a drummer at the time, [13] [14] landed his first gig as a vocalist when he auditioned to sing for a local glam metal band known as Sleze after receiving some encouragement from his stepbrother Ken Elmer.
In 2011, Alice in Chains began work on their fifth studio album, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, which was released on May 28, 2013. [14] Alice in Chains' sixth studio album, Rainier Fog, was released on August 24, 2018. [15] As of 2019, Alice in Chains has had 18 Top 10 songs and five No. 1 hits on Billboard ' s Mainstream Rock chart. [16]
Alice in Chains (sometimes informally referred to as the Dog Album or Tripod) is the third studio album by American rock band Alice in Chains. It was released on October 31, 1995, by Columbia Records , and was the follow-up to the highly successful Dirt (1992).