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6[[caption-width-right:308:Alice in Chains in the Du Vall era since 2005.[[note]]L-R: Mike Inez, Music/JerryCantrell, William Du Vall and Sean Kinney.[[/note]]]]
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8[[caption-width-right:308:The band in the Staley era from 1987 to 1996.[[note]]L-R: Kinney, Cantrell, Layne Staley and Inez.[[/note]]]]
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11Influences:
12+ Music/{{Metallica}}, Music/{{Slayer}}, Music/BlackSabbath, Music/VanHalen, Music/BlueOysterCult, Music/KingsX, Music/LedZeppelin, Music/ThinLizzy, Music/AliceCooper, Music/EltonJohn, Music/{{Heart|Band}}, Music/{{Queensryche}}, Music/{{Budgie}}, Music/{{Motorhead}}, Music/SexPistols, Music/ThePixies, Music/IronMaiden, Music/{{MercyfulFate}}, Music/TheMisfits, Music/{{Melvins}}
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15Related Acts:
16+Mad Season
17+Alice N' Chainz
18+Spies4Darwin
19+Music/BlackLabelSociety
20]
21
22->''"Into the flood again\
23Same old trip it was back then\
24So I made a big mistake\
25Try to see it once my way"''
26-->-- "'''Would?'''"
27
28Alice in Chains is a {{grunge}}[=/=][[HeavyMetal metal]] band from UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, UsefulNotes/{{Washington}}, known for their legacy as one of the biggest acts of [[TheNineties the early '90s]].
29
30Founded in [[TheEighties 1987]] by frontman Layne Staley and guitarist Music/JerryCantrell, they are most known for their dark, gloomy sound and vocal harmonies between Staley and Cantrell. They were arguably the first band of the grunge scene to achieve commercial success with their debut album ''Facelift''. During this time, their anthemic hit "Man in the Box" received significant play on Creator/{{MTV}}'s ''Series/HeadbangersBall'' block, giving them an audience among metal fans. Their next release was an acoustic EP called ''Sap'' in 1992, probably best known for the song "Got Me Wrong," which was featured in ''Film/{{Clerks}}''.
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32Their follow-up full-length album, ''Dirt'', was released later the same year, and became a success with the mainstream audience, due in part to Music/{{Nirvana}}'s release of ''Music/{{Nevermind|Album}}'' and the breakout of grunge. They released another acoustic EP in 1994, titled ''Jar of Flies'', which quickly topped the ''Billboard'' 200 chart, making it the first-ever EP to reach the number one spot (it remained the only EP to gain this distinction until Music/LinkinPark & Music/JayZ released ''Collision Course'' in 2004). One year later, they released a self-titled studio album, which reached #1 again and is often considered the last album of the grunge era.
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34The self-titled album came around the same time that Staley's heroin addiction began to overwhelm him and caused tension within the band. By 1996, the group disbanded and Cantrell went ahead to release his first solo album, ''Boggy Depot''. In 1999, the group reunited to produce a GreatestHitsAlbum/box set with several new songs. Despite teasing a full-on reunion, Staley's heroin addiction culminated in him dying from an overdose in early April 2002. Staley's corpse would not be discovered until two weeks later (April 20, 2002[[note]]according to coroners, he actually died on April 5, ironically on the eight-year anniversary of the death of fellow grunge singer Music/KurtCobain[[/note]]). After Staley's death, Alice in Chains officially disbanded.
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36Even after his death, Layne Staley remains a major inspiration for many artists today, with many singers such as Sully Erna of Music/{{Godsmack}} (the band claims that their name is not a reference to the AIC song[[note]]despite the fact they started off as an [=AiC=] cover band[[/note]] of the same name, but even if it's genuinely not, the connection is hard to avoid making), Aaron Lewis of Music/{{Staind}}, and Chester Bennington of Music/LinkinPark citing him as a major influence. In addition, Jerry Cantrell's second solo album, ''Degradation Trip'' and Music/{{Metallica}}'s ''Death Magnetic'' were both dedicated to him.
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38The band reformed in 2005 for a tsunami benefit concert and began touring with a number of guest vocalists, including [[Music/{{Pantera}} Phil Anselmo]], [[Music/{{Tool}} Maynard James Keenan]], [[Music/{{Metallica}} James Hetfield]], [[Music/LinkinPark Chester Bennington]], [[Music/SkidRow Sebastian Bach]], and [[Music/{{Heart|Band}} Ann Wilson]]. They chose William [=DuVall=] as their official new vocalist in 2006 and released their first new album in 14 years, ''Black Gives Way to Blue'', in September of 2009. The album peaked at #5 on the Billboard chart and has sold in excess of 500,000 copies.
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40On March 8, 2011, former bassist Mike Starr was found dead in Salt Lake City, UsefulNotes/{{Utah}}.
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42Their fifth album, ''The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here'', was released on May 28, 2013. By its second day, it reached #1 on the iTunes' rock album chart. Their sixth album, ''Rainier Fog'', was released on August 24, 2018. It debuted at Number 12 on the Billboard 200 and Number 1 on the Hard Rock charts. Even over a decade and a half since the untimely demise of one of their most established members, the band continues their stride and stands strong.
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44See also [[Music/JerryCantrell Jerry Cantrell's solo work]].
45----
46!!Lineup:
47'''Current Members:'''
48* William [=DuVall=] - vocals, rhythm guitar
49* Music/JerryCantrell - vocals, lead guitar
50* Mike Inez - Bass
51* Sean Kinney - Drums
52
53'''Former Members:'''
54* Layne Staley - vocals, rhythm guitar 1987-2002
55* Mike Starr - bass, 1987-1993
56
57!!Studio Discography:
58* ''Facelift'' (1990)
59* ''Sap'' (1992)
60* ''[[Music/DirtAlbum Dirt]]'' (1992)
61* ''Jar of Flies'' (1994)
62* ''Alice in Chains'' (1995)
63* ''Black Gives Way to Blue'' (2009)
64* ''The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here'' (2013)
65* ''Rainier Fog'' (2018)
66----
67!!"Gonna end up a big ole page of them tropes":
68
69* AliceAllusion: If their name is of any obvious indication. Not to mention that one of their tour posters feature Alice with the Cheshire Cat.
70* AntiLoveSong: "Love Song", the cacophonic hidden track on ''Sap'', is about someone who's emotionally done with their relationship. While they still feel something for the other person, they're in too much personal turmoil to make it worthwhile.
71* AteHisGun: "Dirt" mentions this. [[{{Squick}} And scraping brains from the walls]].
72* BadassBoast: comparatively rare in their lyrics compared to some metal bands, but still there:
73** From "Last of my Kind": " A wolf alone upon the hillside / I live on what they throw away/ I go to sleep behind the 8 ball/ I live to fight for one more day"
74** And "Phantom Limb": "My regrets are many, true.../ Still so much worse lies ahead.... for you!"
75* BerserkButton: Making fun of his addiction was a surefire way to make Layne Staley extremely angry. When ''The Rocket'' (a now-defunct Seattle-area music 'zine) wrote an article on the retirement of Alice in Chains' longtime manager that included the words "But who's to wipe and change Alice in Chains now?", Layne evidently took great umbrage at this and sent them [[{{Squick}} a jar of urine and a bag of human feces]] with an attached note that read "[[VerbThis Wipe and change this]], motherfuckers!" The staffers, as grossed out as they were, were also relieved at the time, as Layne had long since disappeared from the public eye and was the subject of numerous rumors about his health and the depths of his addiction. When it arrived in the mail, they instantly knew it was from him, because it was ''exactly'' the sort of thing Layne would do.
76* BigRockEnding: A particularly disturbing variety in "Head Creeps". Kinney's drum fills become chaotic, slowing down behind the guitar's dissonant squeals. "Hate to Feel" has a similar ending.
77* {{Bowdlerise}}: In the radio and video edit versions of "Man in the Box," the word "shit" is censored and rewritten in the lyrics, so that they say "Buried in my ''pit''" in the first verse, and "Shove my nose in ''spit''" in the second verse. Ironic, as the song is about censorship.
78** At least the above example tries to make some sense. There's another hilariously bad radio edit where the aforementioned curse words are just edited in reverse instead of actual words. Staley's upward inflections in the words are also reversed [[AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle and it sounds very off]].
79* BreakupSong: "Down in a Hole" was Cantrell's way of admitting to his long-time girlfriend that the life he had chosen as a member of a major touring act was simply not something that would allow him to maintain the relationship. "Heaven Beside You" was written about the end of the same relationship.
80* CarefulWithThatAxe: Layne's screams at the beginning of "Them Bones" and one in the middle of "Sickman."
81* CircusOfFear: The video for "I Stay Away", made even creepier by the use of somewhat grotesque puppets. The song itself doesn't really have much to do with the trope.
82* ConceptAlbum:
83** The eponymous album; with the exception of two of the singles (and "Over Now"), every song on it was written by Layne Staley about addiction.
84** To a lesser extent, ''Dirt'', as many of the lyrics are in some way about a gloomy topic like death, depression, or addiction ("Rooster", which is about Jerry's father's experiences in Vietnam, and "Down in a Hole" about a failed relationship are both depressing enough to qualify; "Dam That River", which was about an incident where Cantrell and Kinney got into a fight that ended with the latter smashing the former over the head with a coffee table, may be the lightest song lyrically, and that's if you don't interpret it as having a DualMeaningChorus about Gary Ridgway dumping his kills in the Green River).
85* CoverDrop: The music video of "Grind" from the self-titled album features a three-legged dog (named "Sunshine" by the band) identical to the one on the album's cover.
86* DarkerAndEdgier: Their first album, while dark and moody, still had traces of their old glam sound. ''Dirt'' dispensed with the glam elements and cranked up the angst and despair. The SelfTitledAlbum manages to go even further, with an extremely bleak atmosphere throughout and some of the darkest lyrics in the band's catalog.
87* DestructiveRomance: The narrator of "Sea of Sorrow" is escaping one of these while telling their ex that without them, their problems are theirs alone and they no longer have a crutch to rely on while they continue being dysfunctional.
88* {{Determinator}}: Kinney almost didn't play on ''Facelift'' because he had broken his hand; Greg Gilmore of Mother Love Bone was slated to do session drums for the album. The producer felt that it wouldn't be the same without Kinney, however, and so Kinney wound up taking his cast off and recording drums with a broken hand, a bucket of ice by his side at all times for whenever the pain became unbearable.
89* DoomMetal: They could be seen as a more {{alternative|Metal}} take on the genre, especially in ''Dirt'' and ''Alice in Chains'', given the slow tempos, heavy [[invoked]]{{Epic Riff}}s and serious subject matter. However, select songs such as "Hate to Feel" can be considered straight-up doom.
90* DrugsAreBad: Very, ''very'' bad; many of their songs, especially on ''Dirt'', are about drugs' destructive influence and the pain they've caused. This becomes [[invoked]]HarsherInHindsight when you consider that Layne Staley and Mike Starr later died from drug overdoses.
91* DualMeaningChorus:
92** There are multiple theories on the meaning of the chorus in "Would?" and also several regarding "Dam That River"; the latter is definitely referring to the uncontrolled bleeding from a head wound that Sean Kinney gave Jerry Cantrell after he smashed him over the head with a coffee table (confirmed by [[invoked]]WordOfGod), but it could very well be referring to Gary Ridgway's habit of dumping the bodies of his victims in the Green River as well.
93** "God Am" has ''three'' potential meanings. It's obviously a pun on the word "goddamn", but it also refers to the well-known name of God which is often translated as "I Am". It could also be construed as a way of emphasizing the idea of God being far beyond human understanding, using broken {{Engrish}} like a small child might.
94* DyingAlone: Layne Staley ended up dying in his apartment alone--it took two weeks before anyone even realized he was dead.
95* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: AIC started out in the late 80s as a glam metal band, which is very apparent in early demo songs like "I Can't Have You Blues" and "Social Parasite". ''Facelift'' had all of the standard AIC elements firmly in place, but their glam roots were ''extremely'' prominent, especially in the songs on the album's latter half. Additionally, while the lyrical content was hardly sunshine and rainbows, it wasn't nearly as bleak and depressing as on subsequent albums.
96* EmbarrassingMiddleName: As a teenager, Layne changed his middle name to Thomas (after [[Music/MotleyCrue Tommy Lee]]) because he hated his given one: Rutherford.
97* EpicRocking: They have several songs between six and eight minutes long. The only song over eight minutes is "Frogs" at 8:18.
98* EtTuBrute: "Again".
99-->''Hey, let them do it again, yeah''\
100''Hey, you said you were my friend''\
101''Hey, turn me upside down, Oh''\
102''Hey, feelin' so down.''
103* FakeOutFadeOut: "Rain When I Die" does this.
104* FunkMetal: “I Know Something (‘Bout You)” flirts with this.
105* GenreBusting: Have incorporated influences ranging from DoomMetal, {{Grunge}}, AlternativeRock, HardRock, HardcorePunk, {{Blues}}, and even CountryMusic into their sound at various points. AlternativeMetal is really the only genre label that is relatively uncontroversial when describing them.
106* GoneHorriblyRight: After his parents' divorce, Layne became convinced that his father would return if he became a celebrity. Fast-forward 15 years, Layne is a famous rock star, his father does get in contact with him...and then ''both'' of them fell into heroin abuse.
107* GriefSong: "Get Born Again", "Would?", "Down In A Hole", and "Died". And especially "Over Now." And a good portion of ''Black Gives Way to Blue'', especially the title song.
108* HairMetal: Started out as this, as some 1980s demos will demonstrate; while they obviously shed all traces of it later on, there were still some very noticeable traces left over from that era on ''Facelift'', particularly on the second half.
109* IAmTheBand: Jerry Cantrell has been this since Layne's death. Sean Kinney is the second most prominent member having also been there since the beginning.
110* ImportantHaircut: About the same time Layne began using heroin, he cut off his signature dreadlocks.
111* InNameOnly: To no one's surprise, there are some that categorically refuse to accept the "new" Alice in Chains, having derided [=DuVall=]'s voice and songwriting talents as less than Staley's well before ''Black Gives Way to Blue'' was released (even though Cantrell has done most of the singing since that album).
112* LeadSingerPlaysLeadGuitar: Zig-zagged. Cantrell, who is largely the only member to perform guitar, plays the lead parts in comparison to Staley and [=DuVall=]'s occasional, more rhythmic guitar inputs. Cantrell is predominantly the lead singer in the [=DuVall-era=] material, but [=DuVall=] takes that role for current live performances of the Staley-era work, on top of never playing guitar in it.
113* LighterAndSofter: Downplayed with the William [=DuVall=] albums. Musically, they have the same heavy guitar riffs and pummeling sound as the Layne Staley albums. However, the lyrics and songwriting are decidedly less negative and despairing. This could probably be attributed to the band, as a whole, being much older and wiser (not to mention, mostly drug-free) by the time of their late-2000s comeback.
114%%* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Jerry in a nutshell.
115* TheLostLenore: Demri Lara Parrott, Layne's ex-fiancee. After her own steady slide into addiction culminated in a fatal overdose in 1996, Layne fell into a severe depressive low and was placed on suicide watch; Mark Lanegan, who was a close friend of Staley's, specifically pinpointed this as the point where Layne just stopped caring about life and majorly accelerated his decline.
116* LoudnessWar: Both ''Black Gives Way to Blue'' and ''The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here'' are extremely loud in comparison to the Staley-era albums.
117* LyricalDissonance:
118** "No Excuses" sounds like an upbeat song, but its lyrics are about Layne's addiction alienating him from the band.
119** "Real Thing", the closing track of ''Facelift'', is about a drug user[[note]]Not based on Staley; ''Facelift'' was recorded before his heroin addiction that started to take a toll on him, and the lyrics make subtle references to cocaine being the drug in question.[[/note]] who rejects his friends' concern for help. Just like other songs on the second half of ''Facelift'', the song retains the album's glam-esque style despite the gloomy lyrics.
120** "Check My Brain" has a relatively poppy chorus where Jerry (a former addict) wonders why the hell he ever moved to an environment like Los Angeles.
121* MadnessMantra: "Love Song."
122* MetalScream:
123** Sometimes used really effectively by Layne.
124--->''Heeeeeeere, here comes the rooster,''\
125''AH YEAH!''\
126''YOU KNOW HE AIN'T GONNA DIIIIIIIIIIIIIE!''
127** [[Music/{{Slayer}} Tom Araya]] provides one in his guest appearance on "Iron Gland."
128* MurderBallad:
129** "Dam That River", ''maybe''. It was definitely about Cantrell and Kinney getting into a fight that resulted in Kinney getting so angry that he picked up a coffee table and smashed Cantrell over the head with it, and the song was Cantrell's middle finger to Kinney in regard to that chain of events. A few may interpret it as having a dual meaning as a song about Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer, who was still active and at large at the time that the song was written and had racked up an immense body count in the King County area.
130** "Love, Hate, Love" is absolutely about a serial killer, however. The lyrics wouldn't be out of place in a Music/{{Slayer}} song.
131* NewSoundAlbum:
132** ''Dirt'' sounds ''very'' different from ''Facelift'', having a more DoomMetal sound and completely excising all of the last vestiges of their GlamMetal days.
133** The self-titled album was also different from ''Dirt'', with a few psychedelic influences and the heavier songs being more SludgeMetal than straight doom metal.
134** Naturally, after a long {{Hiatus}}, ''Black Gives Way to Blue'' also sounds unique from its predecessors.
135** The trope was finally averted by ''The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here'', which, while still sounding distinct and having its own voice, was just a natural streamlined progression from ''Black Gives Way to Blue''.
136* OutOfGenreExperience: "I Know Somethin (Bout You)" features some prominent funk influences, a sound found nowhere else in Alice In Chains' discography.
137* PluckyComicRelief: Layne. Like Kurt Cobain, he is regularly seen as a dour, morose figure, and while this was quite true during the final few years of his life, the reality is that for most of his life, Layne was a silly, lighthearted, fun dude with a goofy, irreverent sense of humor who would always come up with something ridiculous just to make his friends and bandmates laugh.
138* PowerBallad: "Down in a Hole", a love song from the perspective of a depressed and conflicted person.
139* PunctuatedForEmphasis: '''"IF! I! WOULD! COULD! YOU!"'''
140* ReCut: ''Dirt'' sort of got one almost immediately after its original release. The band looked at the tracklisting and noticed that "Down In A Hole" was the second to last track. Since they wanted the album to loosely tell a story from song to song[[note]]Although, contrary to popular belief, ''Dirt'' is not meant to be a full-fledged ConceptAlbum or RockOpera.[[/note]], they requested that the song be placed between "Rain When I Die" and "Sickman." Thus, all pressings of ''Dirt'' released after its first few months on the market have "Down In A Hole" placed as the fourth rather than twelfth track.
141* ReligionRantSong:
142** "Bleed the Freak" and "Get Born Again" are fairly straightforward "Christianity is silly" songs, especially the latter.
143** "God Am" is a pretty straightforward Type One example in its verses, with Layne asking God why He seemingly does nothing while horrible things are happening in the world.
144** "The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here" is a little ambiguous in that, while it mostly seems to be from the perspective of a holier-than-thou person and references both the titular belief and hatred of homosexuals ("Jesus don't like a queer") in the chorus, the song later argues that there's no problem with religious faith itself, but there is a problem with using religion to scare people.
145* ShellShockedVeteran: "Rooster" is about Jerry Cantrell's father's harrowing experiences during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. [[note]]The song's title comes from his father's lifelong nickname, as per WordOfGod. Fan theories include ideas that the 101st Airborne Division in which he served had a bald eagle in their insignia, and since bald eagles are unknown in Vietnam, the Vietnamese called them "chicken men".[[/note]]
146* SignatureStyle: Largely slower-paced material with a distinctly metallic bent, heavy usage of odd time signatures, relatively simple leadwork that involves large amounts of wah, and an extremely heavy focus on eerie vocal harmonies and tradeoffs. Jerry's riffing also tends to involve relatively unconventional usage of bends to create an uneasy, disorienting feel ("It Ain't Like That" and "Check My Brain" being good examples).
147* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: They were ''relentlessly'' cynical during the Layne Staley years. The William [=DuVall=] albums, though by no means idealistic, are much more optimistic (see the song "Lesson Learned", for an example of a more lyrically optimistic [=AIC=] song).
148* SludgeMetal: Starting with ''Dirt'', strengthening in ''Alice In Chains'', and now this is their default metal style upon their revival (listen to "Lab Monkey" or "Acid Bubble").
149* SopranoAndGravel: Their characteristic harmonies, usually with Layne/William having the strangled nasal whine and Jerry the smoother tone, though Jerry seems to do the nasal every once in a while. Also Ann Wilson, Chris Cornell, and Mark Arm's contributions to ''Sap''.
150* SpeechImpediment: Layne developed an "'s' as 'sh'" one in his later days, thanks to his missing front teeth and drug-induced high. This is most audible in the ''MTV Unplugged'' performance.
151* SpellMyNameWithAnS: In their glam days, was Alice 'N Chains spelled with an S or a Z? It doesn't help that Layne was inconsistent about it on their fliers.
152* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Drummer Sean Kinney sings lead vocals (actually just yelling the "lyrics" into a megaphone) on "Love Song" from the ''Sap'' EP. In fact, all the band members switch instruments on that track[[note]]Staley plays drums and Cantrell and Starr trade instruments[[/note]]. There's also old camcorder footage of them screwing around in their rehearsal space once, with Staley playing a very basic kick-snare-kick-snare beat and Kinney rolling around on the ground shrieking. They captioned it with a scroll which read: WARNING - SINGER DRUMMING, DRUMMER SINGING
153* SurrealMusicVideo:
154** From the Staley era: "We Die Young," "Angry Chair," "I Stay Away," and "Grind."
155** From the [=DuVall=] era (so far): "Lesson Learned" and "The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here."
156* TechnicianVersusPerformer:
157** Present in the Staley-era lineup with Cantrell as the Technician and Staley as the Performer. Cantrell, who had some knowledge of theory and used to be choir president in high school, wrote songs in a deliberate, involved manner in general. Staley, on the other hand, had little actual musical experience and was more or less self-taught; his few songwriting contributions were often unconventional in style due to this.
158** Averted with the current lineup, as [=DuVall=] was a guitar player first and foremost, and his writing contributions are typically more aggressive and reminiscent of their ''Facelift''-era material; Cantrell even mentioned how much of a paradigm shift it was.
159* TokenBlack: Averted with Will Duvall. His race is rarely (if ever) emphasized by the band, and fans simply see him as a worthy replacement for Layne Staley rather than “the black guy in an otherwise white band.”
160* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: "We Die Young" was inspired by Jerry Cantrell's reaction to watching young children dealing drugs while he was taking the bus to rehearsal after Kinney had kicked him out of their apartment following a fight.
161* UncommonTime: Many Cantrell-written tracks use this.
162** "Them Bones" alternates between 7/8 during the verses and 4/4 during the choruses.
163** "Rain When I Die" alternates between 6/4 during the verses and 4/4 during the choruses. "Hollow" from ''The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here'' is also written this way.
164** "Nothin' Song", off of self-titled, averts this. Although the verses have a weird drumbeat throughout, all of it is in 4/4. "God Am" from the same album also counts.
165** "All Secrets Known", off of ''Black Gives Way To Blue'', is written almost entirely in 6/4, save for a small interlude, which is in common time.
166** The second riff from "Acid Bubble", also from the aforementioned album, is written in 12/4, with a drumbeat in 4/4.
167** ''The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here'''s title track has breakdowns in 7/8.
168* WordSaladLyrics: "Nothin' Song" is pretty much just nonsensical rambling put to a song, but the outright disjointed strangeness of the lyrics actually helps show you just how deteriorated Layne was becoming at this point.
169* {{Yarling}}: Layne Staley was one of the standard-bearers of the style, best demonstrated by how he sang the opening line of "Man in the Box", "I'm the man in the box", as "Ahhhhm th' meeeiin in th' bahks..."

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