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1995 studio album by Alice in Bondage

Alice in Chains
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Studio anthology by

Alice in Bondage
Released November 7, 1995 (1995-11-07) [1]
Recorded Apr–August 1995
Studio Bad Animals Studio in Seattle, Washington[2]
Genre
  • Grunge
  • alternative metal
  • alternative rock
  • doom metallic
  • sludge metal
Length 64:48
Characterization Columbia
Producer
  • Toby Wright
  • Alice in Bondage
Alice in Chains chronology
Jar of Flies
(1994) 		Alice in Chains
(1995) 		Unplugged
(1996)
Singles from Alice in Bondage
  1. "Grind"
    Released: October half dozen, 1995
  2. "Sky Beside You"
    Released: January 1996
  3. "Again"
    Released: February 1996

Alice in Chains (occasionally informally referred to every bit The Dog Album ,[3] The Dog Tape ,[3] [iv] and Tripod )[3] [5] [six] is the cocky-titled third studio anthology by the American rock band Alice in Chains. It was released on November 7, 1995 through Columbia Records, and was the follow-up to the highly successful Dirt (1992). This is the band's offset full-length studio anthology to feature bassist Mike Inez; their concluding album to characteristic original lead vocalist Layne Staley, who died in 2002; and their final album to be released on Columbia Records. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and stayed on the nautical chart for 46 weeks.[7] The tracks "Grind", "Heaven Abreast You" and "Again" were released as singles. "Grind" and "Again" were nominated for the Grammy Laurels for Best Hard Rock Performance. The anthology received double platinum certification from the RIAA and has sold over three meg copies worldwide.[8] The mockumentary The Nona Tapes was released to promote the album and became a cult hit.

Equally with their previous releases, the album'south songs focus on heavy bailiwick matter such every bit depression, isolation, drug use, relationships, acrimony and death. The ring relies less on metal riffs and more than on tune and texturally varied arrangements, integrating some of the more delicate audio-visual moods of their EPs.[9] However, the riffs are by and large down-tuned and atonal, employing a strong doom and sludge metallic vibe.[10]

Background and recording [edit]

After the release of Jar of Flies, vocalist Layne Staley entered rehab for heroin addiction.[11] The ring had been scheduled to tour during the summer of 1994 with Metallica, Suicidal Tendencies, Danzig and Fight, just while in rehearsal for the tour, Staley began using heroin once more.[11] Staley'due south condition prompted the other band members to cancel all scheduled dates 1 solar day earlier the first of the tour, putting the ring on hiatus.[11] [12] They were replaced by Candlebox on the tour.[13] While Alice in Chains was on hiatus, Staley joined the "grunge supergroup" Mad Flavour, while guitarist Jerry Cantrell worked on fabric originally intended for a solo album.[eleven]

Alice in Chains is the last Alice in Chains studio album to feature original vocalizer Layne Staley.

In Jan 1995, Cantrell, bassist Mike Inez and drummer Sean Kinney began jamming on Cantrell'due south material. In the bound of 1995, Staley was invited back to join the band.[11] Staley said that "we started to split apart and went different ways, and nosotros felt like nosotros were betraying each other."[11]

In April 1995, Alice in Chains entered Bad Animals Studio in Seattle with producer Toby Wright, who had previously worked with Corrosion of Conformity and Slayer.[fourteen] Few of the songs on the album had been written earlier the sessions began, and so Cantrell's material was used as a starting point.[eleven] The band would and so give the demo tapes to Staley so he could write lyrics.[11] The album was finished in August 1995. Cantrell said, "It was often depressing, and getting it washed felt like pulling hair out, simply information technology was the fucking coolest affair, and I'm glad to have gone through it. I volition cherish the retentivity forever," while Staley added, "I'll cherish it forever, besides, simply because this ane I can recall doing."[xi]

During the recording of the album, Staley was severely addicted to heroin and was often belatedly or absent for recording and rehearsal sessions.[fifteen] The ring's manager Susan Silvery said, "...It was a really painful session because information technology took so long. It was horrifying to encounter [Layne] in that condition. Yet, when he was cognizant, he was the sweetest, vivid-eyed guy y'all'd ever want to meet. To be in a coming together with him and have him fall asleep in forepart of y'all was gut-wrenching."[xvi]

While in the studio, a rough mix of the vocal "Grind" was leaked to radio and received major airplay.[one] On October 6, 1995, the ring released the studio version of the song to radio via satellite uplink.[1]

Music and lyrics [edit]

Cantrell, in an interview with Rolling Stone around the release of the album, said, "Our music's kind of near taking something ugly and making it beautiful."[11]

With the exception of "Grind", "Heaven Abreast You", and "Over Now", the lyrics are written entirely past Staley. Staley said, "I just wrote down whatsoever was on my mind...and then a lot of the lyrics are actually loose. If y'all asked me to sing the lyrics to probably any one of them correct now, I couldn't do it. I'm not certain what they are considering they're still that fresh."[xi] Staley added, "For a long time I let problems and sour relationships rule over me instead of letting the water curl off my dorsum...I idea it was cool that I could write such night, depressing music. But then instead of existence therapeutic, it was starting to drag on and go on hurting. This time I just felt, 'Fuck it. I tin write skillful music, and if I feel easy and I feel like laughing, I can laugh.' There'due south no huge, deep message in whatsoever of the songs. Information technology was just what was going on in my caput correct so. Nosotros had good times, and we had bad times. We recorded a few months of existence homo."[11]

"Sludge Mill" was written about a call Staley and Wright received, while at the studio, from Columbia executives Don Ienner and Michele Anthony. Ienner and Anthony told them they had 9 days to end the tape, considering they had already taken a lot of studio time.[17]

Of the anthology's four singles, "Grind", "Heaven Beside Yous", "Once more" and "Over Now", three feature Cantrell on atomic number 82 vocals, with the exception being "Again". Cantrell also wrote the lyrics for the songs for which he sang pb vocals. Regarding "Grind", Cantrell said it was written "pretty much at the height of publicity about canceled tours, heroin, amputations, everything, thus it was some other 'FUCK Y'all for proverb something about my life' song."[eighteen] [11] "Heaven Abreast You lot" was written by Cantrell later the end of a 7 year relationship with his girlfriend.[eleven] On the liner notes of Alice in Chains' Music Bank box set, Cantrell described the song as "Some other try to reconcile the fact that my life and paths are tearing me autonomously from the person I love. All the things I write about her are a manner for me to maybe speak to her, express things I could never limited."[18] Commenting on "Over Now", Cantrell said of the song: "A lot of deep shit in at that place, a large ballsy number. Plus you tin can get away with a hugely long tune virtually the end of a record."[xviii] An acoustic version of "Over Now" was released as a single in 1996 as office of the ring'due south MTV Unplugged album.

Reflecting on the album in a 2022 interview to Noisey, Cantrell said:

There's a sadness to that record—it'due south the audio of a ring falling apart. It was our last studio record [to that bespeak]. It's a cute record, only it'south sad, too. Information technology'south a little more exploratory, a little fleck more meandering. It's not as crafted as the remainder of our records were.[nineteen]

Packaging and title [edit]

The album is besides known informally equally "Tripod" or "Three-Legged Canis familiaris Album" due to a three-legged dog on the front encompass[20] and Frank Lentini on the back.[21] The image of the dog on the cover was inspired past a three-legged domestic dog named Tripod that used to terrorize drummer Sean Kinney and chase him around during his paper-work duty when he was a child.[20] Kinney too designed the artwork for the album.[21] [20]

Rocky Schenck photographed a three-legged canis familiaris for the album cover at a playground near downtown Los Angeles on Baronial 23, 1995.[22] Schenck did a casting for three-legged dogs for the shoot,[22] but the band ended up choosing a fax with the image of a iii-legged dog as the cover art because they thought information technology looked grittier and Staley and Cantrell liked it better.[twenty] Cantrell has stated that Kinney was "pissed" most that because they spent money for the photoshoot and did non use information technology for the album cover.[twenty] A different three-legged domestic dog named Sunshine was used for the "Grind" music video.[twenty] The photograph of the dog shot by Schenck at the playground was finally used years afterward the 1999 box set Music Depository financial institution.[22] Opposite to rumor, none of the dogs used for the photoshoot, the album encompass or the music video belonged to Jerry Cantrell. Cantrell has said in interviews that he did not know the owner of the dog.[20]

The CD was initially available in 3 versions: one with a transparent purple jewel case with a translucent yellow-green spine, 1 with the colour scheme reversed and a predominantly monochrome version. The purple jewel instance is currently out of impress and the yellow-green edition is now a rarity. On the predominantly monochrome cover, the dog has yellow eyes. The cassette edition features a transparent purple cassette or transparent yellow-greenish example. It was also released on double vinyl with a purple label on the A-side and a xanthous-dark-green characterization on the B-side of both discs. Disc 1 featured tracks i–six, disc 2 featured tracks seven–12, and both discs had three tracks per side.

In Japan, the CD cover is replaced with a blank, white cover with the night blueish text "Alice In Chains" appearing inside of a dark blue border in the bottom-right corner. The image of Frank Lentini was also removed, showing a generally white back comprehend. The CD was orange.[23]

On July 17, 2019, Schenck revealed on his Instagram business relationship an alternative album encompass featuring a three-legged canis familiaris and kids playing at a playground.[24]

The Nona Tapes [edit]

To help promote the album, Columbia asked the band to do an EPK (Electronic Press Kit), a common marketing tool in the '90s in which they should talk most themselves, but they did not want to practise that. The band took the coin from the label and fabricated the mockumentary The Nona Tapes instead.[25] Directed past Rocky Schenck, information technology features Jerry Cantrell bearded every bit a female announcer, Nona Weisbaum, interviewing his bandmates playing fictionalized versions of themselves during a automobile ride in Seattle. The music video for "Grind" is too featured at the cease.[26] Columbia did not like The Nona Tapes at first and told the band they had wasted their coin doing it. However, it became a cult striking and Columbia decided to sell it, simply the band was against information technology. The video was eventually released on VHS in Dec 1995.[25] In 2006, The Nona Tapes was released on DVD and came every bit a bonus with the compilation The Essential Alice in Bondage.[27]

Release and reception [edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [nine]
Entertainment Weekly C link
The New York Times (favorable)[28]
Q [29]
NME 5/10[thirty]
Rolling Stone [31]
Select 1/v[32]
People (favorable)[33]

Although not as successful as Dirt, the album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and stayed on the chart for 46 weeks.[7] It has since been certified double platinum past the Recording Manufacture Association of America for selling over 2 million copies in the United States,[34] and over 3 million copies worldwide.[viii] The band opted not to tour in support of Alice in Chains, adding to the rumors of drug corruption.[12] [35] When asked about the frustration of not touring to support the record, Cantrell provided some insight into how Staley's addictions led to repercussive tensions within the band: "Very frustrating, simply we stuck it out. We rode the skillful times together, and nosotros stuck together through the hard times. We never stabbed each other in the back and spilled our guts and do that kind of bullshit that you encounter happen a lot."[36]

Information technology was noted for being a interruption abroad from the externally applied grunge label affixed to the group.[28] [31] Rolling Stone described the album as a "musical rebirth",[31] and The New York Times remarked that in dissimilarity to the raw distortions associated with grunge, Alice in Chains' audio was "cleanly delineated and meticulously layered."[28] Jon Wiederhorn of Rolling Rock called the album "liberating and enlightening", noting that the songs "reach a startling, staggering and palpable touch on."[31] In reviewing Alice in Chains'due south discography, Beak Adams of Basis Control Magazine wrote that, "If indeed Jar of Flies turned out to be the gateway that got and so many more people hooked on Alice in Chains, it can only be said that the ring's self-titled album implies withdrawals or a sense of meaning unease or discomfort. The signs that something is merely not right appear everywhere both on and in Alice in Chains; the front comprehend features a photo of a iii-legged dog (one too few) while the back cover presents a picture of a 3-legged mandolinist (one too many). The album's liner notes feature images of ghastly, contorted fairies with no mankind on their arms, sinister, personified bottles pond through blackness oceans, cartoons of mutant animals standing on trial, synthetic limbs and more than. They are images of turmoil, disease and discomfort, and it's difficult to look at them."[37]

Alice in Chains included the singles "Grind", "Heaven Beside You", and "Again", all of which had accompanying music videos. "Grind" and "Once again" were nominated for the Grammy Award for All-time Hard Rock Operation in 1996 and 1997, respectively.[38] [39] The music video for "Once again" was nominated for Best Hard Rock Video at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards.[40]

Rail listing [edit]

All lyrics are written by Layne Staley, except where noted.

No. Championship Lyrics Music Length
i. "Grind" Jerry Cantrell Cantrell 4:44
2. "Brush Away" Cantrell, Mike Inez, Sean Kinney three:22
3. "Sludge Factory" Cantrell, Kinney 7:12
four. "Heaven Abreast Y'all" Cantrell Cantrell, Inez five:27
5. "Caput Creeps" Staley 6:28
6. "Again" Cantrell 4:05
vii. "Shame in You" Cantrell, Inez, Kinney 5:35
viii. "God Am" Cantrell, Inez, Kinney 4:08
9. "And so Close" Cantrell, Kinney 2:45
10. "Nothin' Vocal" Cantrell, Kinney 5:xl
11. "Frogs" Cantrell, Inez, Kinney eight:18
12. "Over At present" ([†]) Cantrell Cantrell, Kinney 7:03
Total length: 64:48

^ † Contains an excerpt of "Adept Dark" by Ted Lewis.

Japanese bonus tracks

All lyrics are written by Staley; all music is equanimous by Cantrell.

No. Title Length
13. "Again (Tattoo of Hurting Mix)" 4:03
14. "Again (Jungle Mix)" (also known equally "Club Mix") 4:08
Total length: 1:12:59

Charts [edit]

Singles charts [edit]

Year Single Peak
position
US
Air
[53] 		US Primary
[54] 		U.s. Modern
[54] 		CAN
[55] 		CAN
Alt
[56] 		UK
[57]
1995 "Grind" — 7 18 53 3 23
1996 "Heaven Beside Y'all" 52 three vi — 7 35
"Once more" — 8 36 — — —
"—" denotes releases that did not nautical chart or were non released in that country.

Certifications [edit]

Personnel [edit]

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