Show your AIC love!

Kaddikat · August 2005

Ok Ill admit it I was a member of the AIC fan club.. I loved AIC more than PJ.. i dunno something about the music..the lyrics the delivery.. grabbed me more than pj for some reason...Lyd, you got it! SUP DA HUGAS up in the miznitch

damn layne... happy birthday... :(

One of my favorite songs...

Rotten Apple

Hey Ah Na Na
Ignorance is spoken
Spoken

Confidence is broken
Broken

Sustenance is stolen
Stolen

Arrogance is potent
What I see is unreal
I've written my own part
Eat of the apple, so young
I'm crawling back to start

Hey Ah Na Na
A romance is fallen
Fallen

I repent tomorrow
Tomorrow

Is suspended my sorrow
Sorrow

Recommend you borrow

MoonlightDrive81 · August 2005

alice in chains is one of those bands that must have formed when the planets were perfectly aligned. i'll never stop listening to this band.

Sludge Factory

You insult me in my home, you’re forgiven this time
Things go well, your eyes dilate, you shake, and I’m high?
Look in my eyes deep and watch the clouds change with time
20 hours won’t print my picture milk carton size
Carton size, carton size

Call me up congratulations ain’t the real why
There’s no pressure besides brilliance let’s say by day 9
Endless corporate ignorance lets me control time
By the way, by the way, by the way

Once again you see an in, discolored skin gives you away
So afraid you kindly gurgle, out a date for me

Now the body of one soul I adore wants to die
You have always told me you’d not live past 25
I say stay long enough to repay all who cause strife

Once again you see an in, discolored skin gives you away
So afraid you kindly gurgle, out a date for me (2x)

’i bear true and an existing witness
To this barrel of monkeys.
A self proclaimed immoral success,
Perfected by each whereof
Individually deadly and equally so
And spread about the surrendered troops,
For even thousands of miles will not
Tear apart their communication, or the lack thereof.
Vultures, liars, thieves, each proclaim their innocence
In no suggestion or rhyme, your weapon is contained in
The wrecking of the keeping the desired effect.
The breaking of the spirit thwarts the whole being.
Your weapon is guilt, your weapon is guilt, your weapon is guilt.
Guilt.’

markymark550 · August 2005

Great thread VEDHEAD27. I love AIC and was deeply saddened when I found out that Layne died. Where I live, the local radio station played a good bit of AIC today as a tribute. It didn't compare to the tribute that they and Layne deserve. Loved all their albums and only wish I could have seen them live (I hear that they kicked major ass in concert).

VEDHEAD27 · August 2005

Such greatness going on here...for a band that damn well deserves it!

Kaddik, glad you came by. **HUGAS** back at you.

hehe. I know you share this undying passion for the mighty AIC. This voice truely does hit you like no other. The power and painfully real emotion here is indeed unmatched. And what a beautiful song you chose to post. That one is sooooo gorgeous. The layers on that song totally take me away.

The way it just oozes into you. Whoooa! Puts me in a complete trance.

MoonlightDrive81, another awsome pick (I mean can you really go wrong with this band?

)!! I love the Unplugged version of that one more than anything!

markymark550, thanks bud! Glad you feel the love as well. I hear ya...I sooooo wish I coulda seen them live as well. :( I was oh so close. They were scheduled to open for Metalllica but cancelled last minute, literally hours before the show cuze Layne was having "problems" and was in the hospital. One of his many close calls. :( Sooo, sooo close.

A local radio station here today did a little tribute too...that's actually what prompted me to finally resurrect this thread. So much sadness surrounds this band, but at the same time that really, really is something that makes you feel the impact of their greatness even more.

<~~~ listening to Unplugged (ANGRY CHAIR)

Is this not the greatest version ever?!?! :eek: Daaaaaamn!!!! I cannot stop listening to this song! Serious repeat-mode over here.
This intro is seriously one of the most badass fuckin things I have EVER heard!!!!!! God, the twang and echo of these strings?! Eh! These voices?! This stretched out, rockin, funky, bluesy, heavenly ringing solo that just lifts you off the planet!!

All this acoustic and super crystal clear is such a gift from above. Woooooooow AIC! Wooooow.

Magic captured and then some.

THANK YOU!

^^ANGRY CHAIR ^^

Sitting on an angry chair
Angry walls that steal the air
Stomach hurts and I don’t care

What do I see across the way
See myself molded in clay
Stares at me, yeah I’m afraid
Changing the shape of his face

Candles red I have a pair
Shadows dancing everywhere
Burning on the angry chair

Little boy made a mistake
Pink cloud has now turned to gray
All that I want is to play
Get on your knees, time to pray, boy

I don’t mind, yeah
I don’t mind, i-i-i
I don’t mind, yeah,
I don’t mind, i-i-i
Lost my mind, yeah
But I don’t mind, i-i-i
Can’t find it anywhere
I don’t mind

Corporate prison, we stay
I’m a dull boy, work all da y
So I’m strung out anyway

Loneliness is not a phase
Field of pain is where I graze
Serenity is far away

Saw my reflection and cried
So little hope that I died
Feed me your lies, open wide
Weight of my heart, not the size

Pink cloud has now turned to gray
All that I want is to play
Get on your knees time to pray

viggs20 · August 2005

VEDHEAD27 wrote:

Which reminds me, hey VIGGS20....didn't you post a Layne tribute on the old "Show your AIC love" thread?? Set to Nutshell?? I swear you did. Please feel free to post that again buddy!

Your wish is my command.

http://layne.meyer-3d.com/tribute.html

VEDHEAD27 · August 2005

How fitting, I just got to NUTSHELL on Unplugged. This song and this version?! **heart sinks**

"And yet I fight
And yet I fight
This battle all alone
No one to cry to
No place to call home"

Noooooo.

:( :( :(

Thanks so much for posting that though viggy. Absolutely beautiful tribute.

VEDHEAD27 · August 2005

<~~ just watched it

Damn, it had been awhile since I last saw that..should have been prepared but wasn't. I'm over here at my desk at work crying....just can't help it. That tribute definitely nails it. What a gorgeous man...in so many ways. This is just too tragic. As Kaddikat said to me earlier, "Why Layne?!"

"lonesome friend, we all knew
always hoped you'd pull through"

So true. These Unplugged shots really do tear some people apart.
I miss this face so much.
What a beautiful soul.

markymark550 · August 2005

VEDHEAD27 wrote:

markymark550, thanks bud! Glad you feel the love as well. I hear ya...I sooooo wish I coulda seen them live as well. :( I was oh so close. They were scheduled to open for Metalllica but cancelled last minute, literally hours before the show cuze Layne was having "problems" and was in the hospital. One of his many close calls. :( Sooo, sooo close.

Your welcome! That must have been frustrating to have them cancelled, even though I know you and the rest of the AIC fans there were hoping for a good recovery.

darthvedder88 · August 2005

Nothingbetter wrote:

AiC remains my second favorite band (behind PJ) of all time. Really, there's a huge drop off behind PJ and AiC in my love for any other bands. AiC isn't all that far from PJ on the list....and all the things you mentioned above are perfectly stated. He has that ability to reach in and grab your soul and pull it down to the depths of nothingness like no other singer.

Also as you mentioned, I can't watch the Unplugged tape without tearing up...especially during Nutshell. To listen to him sing words that are SO true for him...is just surreal. It's just like listening to "Wake Up" (Mad Season). We all had so much hope for a soul that felt no hope...and never truly understood what hope really was. In the Rolling Stone he interviewed in, he said he realized he didn't want to die young and wouldn't...if only he was able to fulfill that dream.

I miss this band and Layne more and more as the years go on. They'll never be forgotten.

RIP Layne...and happy birthday.

Dude, I'm totally the same way. Alice in Chains is right behind Pearl Jam in my catalog, and those 2 bands are untouchable.

Layne had a lot of trouble with his addiction, and with his girlfriend, Demri. As much as I love all of their work, I think that their last album "Alice in Chains" also referred to as "Tripod" is their best work. It's their darkest and richest collection of songs that the band ever put out. Dirt was classic, but Tripod is what I think really defined who Alice in Chains is and was and will be seen as in future years to come.

MeddleDeal · August 2005

oh YES, we were going to resurrect this thread, and it FINALLY happened!!

Thanks Lydi for doing that, b/c I know we were talking about it for hella long!

I was listening to LIVE105 today, and man, i just got so teary eyed when the DJ, Ally, was talking about the history of Alice In Chains, and then how rumors started that Layne was secluded in his apt. that he had been using drugs and his teeth rotted. :( It was just so tragic, hearing how he died, ALONE, and on the same day as Kurt Cobain:( I almost started crying when I heard that, even though I remember reading about it 3 years ago.

I love AIC...this band, I got into when I was a teen back in South Texas, I had NO idea how the hell I got a hold of one (since we only had shitty radio stations, mostly top 40 back home), it was probably when I made my monthly trips to San Antonio w/my brother (since they had the coolest rock station KISS 99.5), that is how it started. This sound was AMAZING and Jerry and Layne's voices mixed so well together. It is so beautiful that you can't even explain.

This band helped me through my teen years, hell, I think I was the only one in my class who was listening to AIC back when I was 14 or 15, and listening to DIRT every night whenever I needed to rest. I put my headphones on, and let the music flow through in my head.:)

It saddens me that people are itimiating Layne, I mean, find your own voices and stop making $ of it him. I loved it how Eddie wrote that song b/c it is so true.

Happy B-day Layne:( RIP, we miss you.

Here is one of my favorite songs from AIC

~GOT ME WRONG~

Yeh, it goes away
All of this and more of nothing in my life
No color clay
Individuality not safe

As of now I bet you got me wrong
So unsure you run from something strong

I can’t let go
Threadbare tapestry unwinding slow
Feel a tortured brain
Show your belly like you want me to

As of now I bet you got me wrong
So unsure you run from something strong

I haven’t felt like this in so long
Wrong, in a sense too far gone from love
That don’t last forever
Something’s gotta turn out right

You sugar taste
Sweetness doesn’t often touch my face
Stay if you please
You may not be here when I leave

As of now I bet you got me wrong
So unsure we reach for something strong

I haven’t felt like this in so long
Wrong, in a sense too far gone from love
Strong, I haven’t felt like this in so long
Wrong, in a sense too far gone from love
T hat don’t last forever
Something’s gotta turn out right

Pearl Jam and toast · August 2005

hard to believe a band as loud and distorted as Alice can be so soulful.

i love them.

mariposa · August 2005

Oh i miss this band so much.

Happy B-Day Layne...

Anyone in Seattle, actually gonna go to the '4th Annual Layne Staley Tribute'
on Friday at the Showbox?

http://www.laynestaleytribute.com/

***

No Excuses

It's alright
There comes a time
Got no patience to search
For peace of mind
Layin' low
Want to take it slow
No more hiding or
Disguising truths I've sold

Everyday it's something
Hits me all so cold
Find me sittin' by myself
No excuses, then I know

It's okay
Had a bad day
Hands are bruised from
Breaking rocks all day
Drained and blue
I bleed for you
You think it's funny, well
You're drowning in it too

Yeah, it's fine
We'll walk down the line
Leave our rain, a cold
Trade for warm sunshine
You my friend
I will defend

And if we change, well I
Love you anyway...

red mos · August 2005

AIC unplugged. Phenominal. Enough said.

pirljamgirl · August 2005

AIC Unplugged is one of the 5 discs I have loaded in my car cd player and i just can't get enough of it right now!

what a gift layne gave to us...too bad he had to go down the way he did, when i think of his last few days and the days following, it just makes me sick :(

cookie5798 · August 2005

Need I say more? Yeah, WE DIE YOUNG!

Scary's on the wall
Scary's on he's way

Watch where you spit
I'd advise you wait until it's over
Then you got hit
And you shoulda known better

And we die young
Faster we run

Down, down, down you're rollin'
Watch the blood float in the muddy sewer
Take another hit
And bury your brother

And we die young
Faster we run

Scary's on the wall
Scary's on he's way

Another alley trip
Bullet seek the place to bend you over
Then you got hit
And you shoulda known better

Faster we run
And we die young

RIP ~ Layne Staley ~ you will always live through your wonderful music you left with us and you will never, ever be forgotten!

Nothingbetter · August 2005

Nutshell

We chase misprinted lies
We face the path of time
And yet I fight
And yet I fight
This battle all alone
No one to cry to
No place to call home

Oooh...Oooh...
Oooh...Oooh...

My gift of self is raped
My privacy is raked
And yet I find
And yet I find
Repeating in my head
If I can't be my own
I'd feel better dead

If you love AiC, I challenge you to watch Layne sing this on the Unplugged CD and not at least get a lump in your throat. It can't be done for anyone that loves them...TRULY loves them.

cookie5798 · August 2005

Nothingbetter wrote:

Nutshell

We chase misprinted lies
We face the path of time
And yet I fight
And yet I fight
This battle all alone
No one to cry to
No place to call home

Oooh...Oooh...
Oooh...Oooh...

My gift of self is raped
My privacy is raked
And yet I find
And yet I find
Repeating in my head
If I can't be my own
I'd feel better dead

If you love AiC, I challenge you to watch Layne sing this on the Unplugged CD and not at least get a lump in your throat. It can't be done for anyone that loves them...TRULY loves them.

You're right.........I get chill bumps every time I see that man walk out and sit on that stool. It is crazy......it just gets me everytime!

stateoflove79 · August 2005

DaytimeDilemma wrote:

Shame In You

When I waken, and I'm achin', time for sleepin', yeah
When I'm sayin' time to go and, I've been hurtin', yeah
When I'm layin, I'm still tryin', concentrating on dyin', yeah

You're right as rain, but you're all to blame
Agreed my crime's the same
My sins I'll claim, give you back shed pain
Go find a place for own shame
So you can deal with this thing unreal
No one made you feel any hurt, yeah

Body's movin, only provin, no one needs to move
Still believin, yet mistaken, all God's children, yeah
And I must say, I was stupid, selfishly she consumed, yeah

And you must change patterns all we trained
Or n'er regain peace you seek
Now you hear me, for the things I see
Yeah, I believe in inner peace, yeah

Throw out, blow up, hold in
Show fine, no signs, grow blind

Beautiful choice...this is my fave AIC song of all time!!!

ACCBootlegGoddess · August 2005

(( DON'T FOLLOW ))

Hey, I ain’t never coming
Home
Hey, I’ll just wander my
Own road
Hey, I can’t meet you here tomorrow
Say goodbye don’t follow
Misery so hollow

Hey you, you’re livin’
Life full throttle
Hey you, pass me down that
Bottle, yeah
Hey you, you can’t shake
Me round now
I get so lost and don’t
Know how
And it hurts to care, i’m
Going down

Forgot my woman, lost my
Friends
Thinks I’d done and where
I’ve been
Sleep in sweat the mirrors
Cold
See my face it’s growin’
Old
Scared to death no reason
Why
Do whatever to get me by
Think about the things i
Said
Read the page it’s cold
And dead

Take me home

Aww my fave AIC ever! So beautiful! Layne was such a talent. I miss u Layne :(

markymark550 · August 2005

Listening to the Best of the Box and for some reason I felt compelled to say something here again. Their music still touches me after 10+ years as a fan.

Show your AIC love!

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