Alice In Chains - Angry Chair (Official HD Video) 

Yeah, foreshadowin what came to him lately😞

Music, all forms is the universal medium - Layne

@@daytimelantern6570 I've also been around numerous drug addicts, my friends brother died of a heroin OD. But for Layne tragedy over tragedy happened to him, and he was too deep to get out at that time. And of course I love his music.

Justin Nyland mate, “pathetic”? Really?

​@@daytimelantern6570 I believe that you should have more empathy and understanding about what is the agony in which an addict live is. I have a 30 year old cousin who almost died of an overdose from using crack. when he was not on the drug, I asked him what made him have that miserable life and he always answered that it was to forget the pain he felt. His father left the family when he was a little boy and never recovered from the trauma. He grew up on the streets, left school and found comfort in drugs. This is not the best option one can live, but it is necessary to us to understand that each one deals with pain in different ways. For that experience I understand Layne.

That's why I love it my bro🔥 Nightmare music, just like my childhood 😈

Kowakenai Just remember, a lot of it is harmony.

That's absolutely perfect!

I agree....great and Haunting voice!!!

This song is actually a choir of Laynes singing. He recorded and overlapped at least 20 vocal tracks for this song, and it sounds like he gave each one their own unique style, yet they blend so well.

I love how, in some of the scenes, he has a monkey on his back

It oozes timelessness

For 1992 standards this production quality is well above average. Aesthetically it looks and sounds 1997-ish. As a 9 year old at the time, I assumed "Angry Chair" was before the "Get Born Again" and its music video were released, but after The Dog Album.

@@albalog2449 no Metallica's Unforgiven was already released a year before these type of videos became very common in 1995 it became a part of the grunge movement

right, i wish i could see this under sum lucy in the sky w diamonds so i can understand it better

my favourite part

Saw my reflection and cried So little hope that I died

"Weight of my heart not the size"

People got it wrong at the time, was a warning not a motivation to go that route, amazing insight by Layne

one of my personal favourite lyrics of all time.

yup, kinda like now, no hope for no one, that can only mean one thing, we gonna have to F shit up to get some hope back!

Alice ln Chains 💜💜💜💜☺️ 😃😛💀😻🐺🦇😍

@@mennofennema9829 bruh 🤣 I know the song is all heavy serious on its matter, but I giggled at your take.

@@mennofennema9829 LOL that was funny

@@mennofennema9829 nice

Dude same, I primary only listened to rap until like over a year ago cuz I grew up on it, but I got into 90s rock bands and aic and Nirvana has simply just touches me the most, it’s cool now to listen to 2 different genres all the time

@@nacho9006 Rap and 90s rock are my personal favorite genres too, btw.

@@nacho9006 I listen to all music at this point. I grew up an edgy kid who just liked underground rap and I feel really ignorant for that. I missed out on so much good music to listen to violent gangsta rap. Holy cringe.

Same bro ,, Alice in chains just has that cool shit about them they jam

You are correct. People always consider Dirt their best album, but their self titled is my favorite (the "dog album"). It starts out with 3 absolute bangers (Grind, Brush Away, and Sludge Factory which is one of my favorites) and finishes with Over Now which is amazing. and their MTV Unplugged is the best Unplugged session of all time. I listen to Alice every single day. This band straight up saved my life. Interesting tidbit about the Unplugged session: about 30 mins before the show, Layne was super dope sick. He got stuff, shot up, and went out and put on one of the most iconic performances in the history of rock music. Dude was an absolute beast, despite being soooo fucked up on junk.

I hope you're fine brother

I happen to suffer from substance abuse. This song just captured it for me

Caroline! You sure not alone, at all. You’re whole!! You’re loved! You’re worthwhile, your perfect as you are! BE AWARE THAT YOU’RE AWARE! Cheers from a Layne’s lover! 💕

Love you . Giant, jumbo hug

The struggle within..

x2!

Day made!!!

Oh yeah

@@cristianandresdominguezoli9793 x3

This is my favorite Alice In Chains video!

They better hurry. There's only 2 original members left.

Hell Yeah Viva AIC

Jason Trilla Dilla Wilson - Are you sure? Sean Kinney is still on drums which makes the 3.

Honestly bro

They were in 25th place for induction when I went there last summer

ARE YOU SAVED GEN X LEX ? HAVE YOU ACCEPT JESUS AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR AND RECEIVE ETERNAL LIFE I COULDN'T IMAGINE HEAVEN WITHOUT YOU

20 years.

@@kat3871 my maths off lol

@@kat3871no

This and Bleed The Freak are sooooo underrated. Everyone always raves about Man In the Box, Nutshell, Love Hate Love and Down In A Hole but songs like this get no attention.

nope. we realize it. 💜

@@persistentlypathetic6820 What about It ain't Like That. That's one of my favorite songs, not many people talk about it

@@neverquestionthebucket4062 yeah that riff goes hard af. Solo is crazy af too

I do .

oh yes we did, im 50 and AIC was the greatest , no music today even come close to the 90s music

@@mattditch4325 Same here. I didn't like Nirvana much, and hate(d) PJ, but AiC and Soundgarden kicked ass then and they kick ass now. There's nothing out there now that can touch AiC or SG.

Oh, we know. That’s why we’re still here blowing up the views.

Yeah I'm honoured to have been there.

We do. We caught one of the last truly great waves of rock music. I distinctly remember MTV switching from Warrant power ballad videos to Alice In Chains and Soundgarden.

It's a dark song about struggle and a sense of hopelisness but I don't find it depressing. I think it's good to know there's others having feelings I could relate to who can put it in words like this. That in itself is kinda hope to me. There's a way out and there are others who struggle the same way.

nobody ever did dispare better than Alice back in the day,they were way out on top in that department,for a casino employee finishing work at 2-3 am,settling down with a blunt and a whiskey in the wee hrs of the morning with the Chains on before drifting off to sleep was hand in glove,magnificent days n nights

i love this song i don't find it depressing

well there are other songs that Alice in Chains wrote & recorded that is depressing i admit that just i never find this song depressing

I believe Layne had trouble dealing with a religious upbringing and the realities of living life. He makes references to only wanting to play and get on your knees time to pray. He also says it's the weight of my heart not the size making a reference to a person's heart being weighed against a feather to determine their afterlife. There is no greater despair than to have been made to believe you are irredeemable. It doesn't remove your belief it removes your hope. He is looking at his reflection and is destroyed by what he sees but a sinking ship cannot right itself.

Check out chout - seasons dude sounds exactly like Layne and it really scratches that itch for new material. He also has an Alice in chains tribute band called facelift

Chout is a sick ass band you gotta check them out

PianoGirl missing layne....he always live in our hearts 💕.....

Friend of mine had me check them out the other day! Absolutely worth it!

PianoGirl layne and Chris Cornell are my favorite vocalists too. Along with Maynard James Keenan,Myles Kennedy and Freddie Mercury 🖤💙🖤💙

I can totally tell! I feel his words.

Yes, it was very dark. I loved the video.

Gosh no wonder why I like it. Lyrically Masterpiece as well as visionary.

That he wrote the music AND lyrics to himself. He wrote just over half AiCs songs lyrics.

@@Principessa180 layne wrote virtually all of the lyrics to Alice songs, it was the music that jerry was largely responsible for

I think the chorus is so "light" because it's about real relief coming from acceptance of his state, albeit the "I-I-I" reminds you that it doesn't mean he's free from it, it's kinda like relief of acceptance that you will die soon of some disease - you still have to die. Quite remarkable how something so simple/easy to play can be so original, complex, nuanced and good. I can't get enough, something beautiful about, something that inspires me instead of depressing. It's raw, real, not overly poetic (to the point you can't really relate). My favourite grunge song probably.

@kilerf8053 yeah compositionally it's almost as simple as it gets, but so were most Nirvana songs too. The simplicity is part of the genius of it.

Considering that Rush wasn't inducted until 2013 AND Janet Jackson is in, I'd say the Hall of Fame is bullshit.

Putin's Cock Holster I like what Alex did classic !!

Layne Staley and Chris Cornell were the best

No band deserves the hall of fame as much as these guys. Just pure fucking awesome

Repeal Woman's Suffering Well, now, I agree except Janet deserved that honor...for decades. Listen to her best album, The Velvet Rope. I understand if you aren’t a soul/R&B fan, I totally do. I happen to love both great “black folks” music AND great rock from my generation, the best music came forth in the 90s. If nothing else, listen to Janet’s songs “Black Cat,” “Velvet Rope” (first track on the aforementioned album), “What About,” and “If.” All would very well qualify Ms. Jackson for the R&R HOF. As for AIC, it is fucking criminal that they’re not yet inducted! My favorite bands are: -Stone Temple Pilots (with Scott) -Queen (with Freddie) -Alice In Chains (with Layne) -Prince & The Revolution -Soundgarden (with Chris) -Queens of the Stoneage -The Doors (with Jim) -Journey (with Steve Perry) -Nirvana -Nine Inch Nails I love music more than any other artistic medium.

Dude, same. My top 5 5 Mellon Collie... 4 Show No Mercy 3 Facelift 2 Core 1 Dirt

Hate to feel is an awesome track!

Yeah man, Dirt is great, some of my 5 favorite albums: "Core" Stone Temple Pilots "Nevermind" Nirvana "Lateralus" Tool "Master of Reality" Black Sabbath "Dirt" Alice In Chains

I agree. I've always said the same thing. Not one bad song!

Right on! No ever band has been this addicting for me.

Agreed! So well said. Let's keep rocking on!!

Damn you nailed it

Yes!🙌

This was not a hit?

@@eddiemaquina no

Looked in the mirror and I cried

I understand this so much.

Serenity is far away Makes me think me means the serenity prayer

Exactly right on

I agree, his lyrics are so dark but so beautiful. He has all types of songs: funny ones (Real Thing, Queen of the rodeo) and also heavy ones (Love, hate, love, Nutshell, Head creeps)

​@@TheStepmonkeyyou are absolutely correct he sings about the darkness of our soul we all have

thx i feel more depressed

pretty gay lyrics

Tkns

obrigado

This remember silent hill

@Seth DeLosSantos I know the feeling,,

Until I had experienced withdrawal for myself, I didn't realize that the "Angry Chair" was the toilet.

I live there

@@robinhood1016 it's not, so tired of people saying that, gdm, who would write a song about a toilet? It's about being out in time out by his father when he was young; listeners minds take the meaning to their own places. It is not hard to write mysterious, surreal lyrics that dont have definite meaning to everyone; just go with the first thought in your head and it will sound deep to someone. Dont worry; he didnt have strong feelings about the subject; it's just what he went with and as he knew it would, it sounded cool in song form.

@@joejones9520 if you've ever experienced full blown opiate withdrawal, the toilet is a pretty "angry chair".

Yes it is

I agree with you very sad

Sorry, why? He had more or less given up on life ten years before he went, it was his choice all along, could've gotten clean, opted not to. Legacy's still massive.

@@chelsblue7370 it’s not about not wanting to get clean for some people they just need the hope to push through the pain and do it but I suppose at the time he felt he had none even though so many people loved him

@@izzytalkington9735 I don't disagree with your idea but it is a theoretical one because smack addiction thankfully doesn't always lead to death but you have to shake it off. Again, there are some other celebrities, who pulled themselves together to quit smack after so many years of using, when few must've given them a chance to do so. It's not that there wasn't hope for him, he simply chose to shun it consistenty, pretty similar to what Kurt did.

Saw my reflection and cried...

MAN in the BOX starred me.. LOL

Scared sorry

Criminally so. The people need to know 🍻

indeed.

Where do people go to rate drummers? I want to look up his rating...unless you know it. I mean, you're not just saying that to say it, right?

AGREED!!

​@@matthewjames206yes true

Kurt?

@@evakrissance ofc how can I forget Cobain too!? SMH

Scott as in bon scott

@@toddkeenon3672 as in scott weiland lead singer of stone temple pilots and velvet revolver

Kurt wasnt very unique in vocals, just raspy. Still catchy vocals though

And now he shows up to Layne's memorial birthday celebration like he was the star and was a positive light in Layne's life, when it's quite the opposite. Layne looked like him.

Yeah. Like a stars strung out across the galaxy!!

For me, it brings flashbacks from childhood and the Catholic church, and I only wish I could have been strung out on drugs back then. My life would have turned out much better..You can leave the Catholic church, but it never leaves you, and that is a fact!

No.

@@brienmaybe.4415 Yeah, and it ain't funny, Brien..

@@IoiniEverson I remember being christened as a baby at the Catholic church and they sprinkled holy water on me--I was raised Catholic and abuse was an every day cycle. That forced cycle shut my mind down and I was on auto pilot, but now my mind is open and pretty much 'child like', as in a free spirit, but it took years to get there.

I love it

It’s cringeworthy

Really? I like it

@@thegoodguy44 why tho

Its evil :(

"So little hope that I died. Feed me your lies, open wide."

It does hit hard indeed.

Stop feeling sorry yourself, a great many don't even have mirrors

Never heard this song before and I'm pretty surprised how doomy it is. Could even be labeled as doom metal.

@@spookyskeleton3845 Absolutely. AiC has massive Sabbath heavy/doom influence to this day. Cantrell's riffs and bends are highly reminiscent of Iommi's. Besides, AiC has this tendency of weird, haunting atmospheric layerings which add a lot more depth to the songs. Especially their heavier metal-oriented tunes. And that hymnal, gregorian chant-like dual vocal harmonies really stand out.

@@spookyskeleton3845 Been one of my favorite songs most of my life! It never gets old!

Perfect description. They had a lot of songs like that; I appreciated them for their darkness!

@@spookyskeleton3845 cause they were doom metal aswell

me too lol

me and you both xD

Likewise!!

Me neither I thought it would just be posting of music videos not on the official page but I was wrong

Same here 🤭

why is that so accurate? 😂

He really does look, there's many portraits of him where he could have been sculpted by Michelangelo himself.

@@sorchx He's a classic LEO...thick, curly mane of hair; small eyes, pronounced brow ridge; high cheekbones; and fronting the band like so many other LEO'S...like Mick Jagger, Robert Plant, and James Hetfield!

@@blondespitfireI agree with everything except the small eyes. I always thought his eyes were pretty big which made him look young.

There's a popular t shirt with some statue on it...sorry, idk all that type of stuff so idk who it actually is...but I always at first glance think it's Layne lol

@Jerry Cantrell Jimmy Cantroll.

no hes not. EVERYONE KNOWS HES A BADD ASS. 💜💜💜

the word would be "is" because he is still with us ,although untrue because everyone knows :P

@@SleepQueen90 not everyone. Otherwise they'd be in the rock n roll Hall of fame

@@guesswhat-chickenbutt Surprisingly, our votes mean pretty much nothing. I did a petition a couple years back, and sent it in to the hall of fame. It was pretty well a petition of votes. It didn't help anything at all lol It's not even up to us, it's up to the RRHoF which obviously don't choose the wisest considering there are people who aren't even Rock inducted.

True - but this song (minus the solo, probably) was actually written entirely by Layne! He played guitar and wrote a few tracks per album (Head creeps, Hate to Feel, a lot of Mad Season songs..)

not metal

@@tThisNThat it may be GRUNGE but it sure has a very HARD ROCK feel to it that just really brings out the emotion of the song

@@rj31789 Yes Hard rock is a better term than Metal. Sorry It rubs me wrong when people label them Metal, not that you did, but others do, and they are not born of the scene. Yea good or bad, I am a Gen X elitists.

absolutely not metal what are you alking about

@@tThisNThat What would you call metal

Right under Ronnie Van Zant in my opinion

I feel like if there was an ESPN Rock fantasy league .. Laney would be the first pick of the draft

Him and Cornell were fucking vocal gods.

@@dylanwesley3964 Yeah Chris was one of the best singer ever

No

System of a Tool most if their songs are written by Jerry though

@@jamie5999 Hi Kurt! What's up? Btw yeah i know, that's why it was worth mentioning that this one was written by Layne. :)

I actually just found out that Jerry gets the songwriting credit for the music, but most of the lyrics were written by Layne. Then there are songs like this where Payne wrote all of it and Rooster and Down in a Whole whereJerry wrore everything including the lyrics. I'm not sure exactly how accurate the information is, but that is what I read. I love Alice in Chains and at the end of the day it doesn't really matter from my point of view who wrote them.

Brian R4520 this song was written by Layne alone, it's on the credits of the album.

And the little aotidae or night monkey is like, imma better get the fuck out of here🐒

Alice in trip

i had metallica too

i guess your'e buried in their shit

i have been a classically trained harpist and pianist from the age of four years old. I wasn't into this kind of music or anything, however being just enchanted by the music of Alice In Chains as well as the Smashing Pumpkins, I told my parents in 1992 that I just had to go see them as my first concert when they came through my town. I was in second grade, ten years old, and my parents made me go with a babysitter, but he was like 16 or 17 and loved the bands so he didn't mind. I kept asking him, "why are so many people lighting rubber bands or something on fire!?" I learned a year or two later what i was actually smelling. Anyway, people my age were totally oblivious to being able to relate to my experience so it all just stayed bottled up just how incredible it was to see them. They all would just ask why I liked such hard and angry music. To me, and I absolutely stand by it to this day, I feel that music itself peaked for a whopping 350 years, give or take. From the 1600s to the 1999s, I feel that music composition was at its peak. People don't understand the very pronounced differences between baroque music and classical music, classical music and romantic music, romantic and contemporary...most people would simply call that entire span of compositions classical, even though it is far from. So this majority of people would think me insane to hear that I consider those periods greatly differing from one to another while at the same time, I feel that modern music, yes even Alice in Chains and Pumpkins, is very similar to the other periods of music. These people are simply the master composers of our time. Do I believe that Layne and Jerry are up to the level of Beethoven or Chopin!? You bet your ass I do. In fact, their ability to tweak and arrange chords, melodies, harmonies, and the like to achieve mood altering sounds is unbelievable. It is quite advanced too, something which I dunno...must come naturally because even after being trained for several years in composition, I couldn't write a single decent line of music to save my life. So yea, these are the Mozarts of our time and I stand by that. Is all music such? Heavens no...but you can definitely pull out the masters if you know what you're looking for. Tell you what though, I would have never thought in that moment in second grade I was listening to some of the greatest composers of all time. But I see what drew me to it now. I ended up seeing AIC once more with Layne and three times with the new guy and I saw pumpkins another fifteen or twenty times. Just under four hundred concerts in my lifetime. I've seen all the greats though. I only wish I could have had a cell phone back in those days. Not outside of the concerts, heck no...phones and the Internet have simply destroyed society, civilization, common courtesy, privacy, etc. But holy cow, to have been able to take those memories and shows with me...and today, just about all of the greats are dead. We still got Ms. Stephanie Nicks, Mrs. Dolly Parton, and a few other major irreplaceable people who gave so much to music. But mark my words, it is over and we won't be seeing anything like the greats ever again. After 2000 music became a money making fad creating joke. Musical theory is a total mystery to those making "music" now and given how the Internet works, I don't see music surviving beyond another ten years. It will only be noise and vulgarity to please a low functioning crowd of simpletons.

@@BurnerAddress95 wow man, that was certainly a very perceptive and moving account, we are about the same age and what you wrote spoke to me. Very grand take on that special moments in music which I agree, will go possibly extinct.

Bless Layne and Mike ❤️ ❤️

Glad I could finally show my husband this video. So nice to see it, again. Such a beautiful sound. What a sweet ache! ❤

The Cantrell Project For me it was Rain When I Die and Them Bones

@@angrychair2947 i always thought it would have been cool for mike Starr to come play rain when I die at later shows.

I couldn't even tell you what song it was, for me. My mom was a fan when I was single-digits. Seemed like they were always there. They, along with Faith No More,were my first favorite bands.

Nora Ness your Mom’s style and taste is of the impeccable variety 👌🏼

@@monetti22 I agree; I am lucky to have her influence! I will let her know you said so! 😊

Yeah. And he had to sit extremely still there because of how afraid of snakes that he was. I don't blame him but holy shit... A lizard is good enough. Like the man himself said "Get that snake away from me." As he giggles with his fear within.

i heard it 2 days ago on the radio and it made me buy their greatest hits.

for real. the cycle, the circle and round and round... restless legs.. tossing and turning. this shit's the real

I agree with NIN and anthrax

Esoteric 123 yeah not megadeth. They’re alright but like Metallica a bit of cheesy rock,

Esoteric 123 anthrax definitely needs to be in the rock hall of fame. Not as much as Alice In Chains though

@@wooly4206 Megadeth cheesy? That's fucking absurd.

@@bazookajoe6133 they are cheesy😂 mustain’s singing?

I think it was Matt Mahurin.

So is the bat and snake really climbing over him? Cool video.

@@Principessa180 Yes he talks about it in this video around 6:00: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Emt_WlEqlfU.html

And how prophetic those words were.

Layne didn't direct this video. Matt Mahurin directed, photographed and edited this. I should know. I was there & worked on it. All of the animals were real. Layne was very nice to me...a gentle, quiet guy who just did the work. We shot this in New York City in a studio in one (very long) day. Hard to believe how much time has passed...RIP Layne.

Exactly! The power of their voices complimenting each other.. then the duet sections are always jaw dropping

🤘 👹

It's Staley. And secondly, AiC isn't 'grunge'. 'Grunge' is just historical revisionism. A cathcphrase. And it was sensationalized by 90's media to pigeonhole the Seattle bands who played plethora of different styles ranging from punk to heavy metal. AiC has always been a hard rock/metal band as Jerry Cantrell says.

@@yaboiwarp e.e

No, aic was grunge. That’s what they were.

Dennis Lino my favourite band, too. Glad this brought Layne back for you ♥️ He’s the greatest vocalist for sure!! Love him & AIC so much... ♥️🤘🏻 from Canada 🇨🇦

@@yaboiwarp more of a 'hair band' in the beginning 😀

👍

No they’re probably Nirvana fans

FloridaFishingCentral probably yeah 😂

@@floridafishingcentral6911 I'm all Grunge bands Fan

@@floridafishingcentral6911 👍👍👍