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Alice in Chains – Man in the Box (4:44)

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“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”.
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  • Facelift
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  • Nothing Safe: Best of the Box
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  • Music Bank
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  • Greatest Hits
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  • xtreEmee

    classic tune! miss the 90's

    Thursday evening

  • chlorres

    so brilliant, so talented, such a wonderful vocal abilities Layne has...we miss you. RIP dear **

    last week

  • Candyscar

    I've only just noticed this now, but the riff and beat in this song sound a lil like Faith no Mores "we care a lot"

    last week

  • shirtfront34

    Haha just jumped into your radio station and it kicked off with Man in a Box. Gotta be happy with that :-)

    last week

  • abunono

    Troll sat alone on his seat of stone

    last week

  • promisedeyes

    The anti-censorship message is just as great as the song.

    17 days ago

  • Lind_L_Tailor

    Quite possibly Layne's best vocal performance.

    19 days ago

  • kylede2011

    HEAVY

    24 days ago

  • niabadir

    Great)

    24 days ago

  • RevolutionECW

    Greatest Song!!!

    last month

  • sebadagostino

    Great tune!

    last month

  • moresweetb

    Still love this song.)

    last month

  • SeattleMarie

    That bands rips out my heart strings!

    last month

  • atlastimadeit

    It Bloody Rips

    last month

  • chlorres

    ....still no one can sing like Layne could ...such a brilliant artist...I fall in love at this song long, long time ago& can't get enough......+ agreed--adrenaline shot,oh yea * ( Cantrell is kicking ass too with his solo...*)

    last month

  • minerfffa

    still better than an adrenaline shot [2]

    last month

  • ryyggin

    Jerrys solo :))) Brilliant track!

    March 2012

  • uncertainty__

    Это просто гениально! Голос Лэйна завораживает.

    March 2012

  • giggleloop1

    Damn good track!!

    March 2012

  • naurish

    Live performance sounds much better.

    March 2012
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