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Alice In Chains – Greatest Hits

Label: Columbia – CK 85922

Format: CD, Compilation

Country: Canada

Released: 2001

Genre: Rock

Style: Alternative Rock, Hard Rock, Grunge

1                       Man In The Box

Engineer [Additional] – Ron Champagne

Written-By – Jerry Cantrell, Layne Staley, Michael C. Starr*, Sean Kinney

4:46

2                       Them Bones

Written-By – Jerry Cantrell

2:29

3                       Rooster

Written-By – Jerry Cantrell

6:14

4                       Angry Chair

Written-By – Layne Staley

4:47

5                       Would?

Producer, Recorded By, Mixed By – Rick Parashar

Written-By – Jerry Cantrell

3:28

6                       No Excuses

Written-By – Jerry Cantrell

4:16

7                       I Stay Away

Written-By – Jerry Cantrell, Layne Staley, Michael Inez*

4:14

8                       Grind

Written-By – Jerry Cantrell

4:45

9                       Heaven Beside You

Lyrics By – Jerry Cantrell

Music By – Jerry Cantrell, Michael Inez*

5:29

10                     Again

Written-By – Jerry Cantrell, Layne Staley, Sean Kinney

4:05

Mastered At – Marcussen Mastering

Glass Mastered At – Sony Music, Pitman – CTDP-105695

Art Direction – Mary Maurer

Engineer [Additional] – Ron Champagne (tracks: 1)

Management – Susan Silver Management

Mastered By – Stephen Marcussen

Photography By – Marty Temme, Rocky Schek*

Producer – Alice In Chains, Toby Wright (tracks: 8 to 10)

Producer, Mixed By, Recorded By – Dave Jerden (tracks: 1 to 4)

Recorded By – Bryan Carlstrom (tracks: 2 to 4), Tom Nellen (tracks: 8 to 10)

Recorded By, Mixed By – Toby Wright (tracks: 6 to 10)

Track 1 taken from Facelift

Tracks 2 through 5 taken from Dirt

Tracks 6 and 7 taken from Jar Of Flies

Tracks 8 through 10 taken from Alice In Chains

Barcode: 6 9699-85922-2 3

Alice In Chains: Jerry Cantrell (vocals, guitar); Layne Staley (vocals); Mike Starr, Mike Inez (bass); Sean Kinney (drums, percussion). Producers include: Dave Jerden, Toby Wright, Rick Parasher, Alice In Chains. Digitally remastered by Stephen Marcussen (Marcussen Mastering, Los Angeles, California). Audio Mixers: Dave Jerden; Rick Parashar; Toby Wright. Photographers: Rocky Schenck; Marty Temme. MIA for the latter half of the '90s and into the new millennium, Alice In Chains added GREATEST HITS to the list of seemingly posthumous releases in a canon whose last studio album was a 1995 self-titled release. This bare-bones 10-song sampler does serve as a quick overview for neophytes interested in one of the seminal bands to emerge from a generation of grunge bands including Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden. Between Jerry Cantrell's thick, sludgy riffs and Layne Staley's primal howl, AIC had the market cornered on nihilism. Four cuts on this compilation come from the band's 1991 masterpiece DIRT and serve as a centerpiece, the most compelling being the harrowing "Rooster" (a tribute to Cantrell's Vietnam vet dad), the hypnotic isolationism of "Them Bones," and the plodding despondency of "Angry Chair." Elsewhere, AIC throws some curves with "I Stay Away" (featuring lush orchestration that gilds this dark lily) and the unexpectedly tender 1995 cut "Heaven Beside You." For those with a casual interest in Alice In Chains, GREATEST HITS will work well. Hardcore fans are directed to the more generous NOTHING SAFE: THE BEST OF THE BOX.

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Format: CD
• Genre: ROCK
• Released: 08/28/2001