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About This Track
“Man in the Box” is a single by the grunge group Alice in Chains. It was released in 1991 and featured on their debut full-length album Facelift. In the liner notes of 1999’s Music Bank box set collection, Jerry Cantrell said of the song, “That whole beat and grind of that is when we started to find ourselves; it helped Alice become what it was.” The song makes use of a talk box to create the guitar effect and has Cantrell’s famous guitar solo.
The song was #19 on VH1’s 40 Greatest Metal Songs. It’s solo was rated the 77th greatest guitar solo by Guitar World. It was #50 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s in 2006. It is widely considered to be one of the band’s signature songs, even though it only peaked at #18 on the mainstream rock charts at the time of its release. The MTV music video for the track was directed by Paul Rachman who also directed the 2006 feature documentary American Hardcore.
“Man in the Box” has been featured in several movies, including The Perfect Storm. The song was also used in several versions of trailers for the 2004 movie Collateral (though it was not included on the movie’s soundtrack), as professional wrestler Tommy Dreamer’s theme song and in Jerry Bruckheimer’s television series Cold Case. It has also been used for hockey games when a penalty is called on the away team, and the skater must go to the penalty box. Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine turned this song into a Lounge style on their 2005 album “Aperitif for Destruction”.
The song was #19 on VH1’s 40 Greatest Metal Songs. It’s solo was rated the 77th greatest guitar solo by Guitar World. It was #50 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s in 2006. It is widely considered to be one of the band’s signature songs, even though it only peaked at #18 on the mainstream rock charts at the time of its release. The MTV music video for the track was directed by Paul Rachman who also directed the 2006 feature documentary American Hardcore.
“Man in the Box” has been featured in several movies, including The Perfect Storm. The song was also used in several versions of trailers for the 2004 movie Collateral (though it was not included on the movie’s soundtrack), as professional wrestler Tommy Dreamer’s theme song and in Jerry Bruckheimer’s television series Cold Case. It has also been used for hockey games when a penalty is called on the away team, and the skater must go to the penalty box. Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine turned this song into a Lounge style on their 2005 album “Aperitif for Destruction”.
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Shouts
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Dariusz1963_ wrote:
genialne !!
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freeaj1983 wrote:
hell yeah!
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Korner88 wrote:
Epic!
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wmcfaul wrote:
man=box woman=? ?=bag
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kokitora wrote:
\m/
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Zesby wrote:
That singing is pure sex.
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sadwich wrote:
cant get enough of this track
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brunalavigne09 wrote:
ésta musica é muito lokaaaaa =D
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JulienkfanBR wrote:
>D
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xtwntraphq wrote:
Legendary.
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BMWPRETTY wrote:
Spank!
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PearlJuniper wrote:
Friends don't let friends get friends haircuts
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G0DSTAR wrote:
A classic.
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i_love_amber wrote:
yeeeaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh .. !
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keanequeen wrote:
Feed my eyes Can you sew them shut? Jesus Christ Deny your maker //////////////// FODAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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chr1sty1 wrote:
everything and everything about this band is a perfectly genus combination of vocals, lyrical, instrumental, and composition of mass orgasm proportions!! best i can explain anyway.
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chr1sty1 wrote:
I want to have his baby!! Sexiest music ever!!
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p1cq wrote:
Grunge <3
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i_love_amber wrote:
.... i love this song ........... mmmmmhhhhhhhmmmmm!
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oldiesfanjohn wrote:
damn,what guitarwork,powerful vocals...one of the earliest grunge videos I recall....it`s got that--FUCK CENSORSHIP-aura about it!
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