The song is about censorship of the big music industry. “I started writing about censorship. Around the same time, we went out for dinner with some Columbia Records people who were vegetarians. They told me how veal was made from calves raised in these small boxes, and that image stuck in my head. So I went home and wrote about government censorship and eating meat as seen through the eyes of a doomed calf.” Do Would or Down in a hole next.

It is actually a high note, in the chorus, specially for men.

@drock55551

2 жыл бұрын

@@Salomon_G true!

@Vankardia

2 жыл бұрын

And Freddie Mercury?

One of the greatest voices you will ever listen to its sad Layne left us so early in life

@j.alexander4948

Жыл бұрын

That's a FACT

​AAAAAH my fav!!! If you wanna listen to Layne Staley singing live, you have to watch his performance at the Moore (in particular: Love Hate Love and Man in the box), or Would? (live singles party)... other songs you can (and you should) listen to: Rain when I die, It ain't like that, Bleed The Freak, Rooster, Nutshell (mtv unplugged... he was at the bottom of his addiction at that time, so sick... it’s like watching a man during his own funeral). Layne in his prime was (and, imo, still is) one of the greatest rock singer ever existed! He's so missed :(

@kristimarriner7673

3 жыл бұрын

Any song from live at the Moore.

Live at the Moore Theater....whole show. You can really fall in love with Layne's voice...he's very versatile. From sounding super powerfully strong and hard to sounding beautifully soft. He's so unique with an amazing tone and emotion.

@scottbaron121

Жыл бұрын

It shows you how good Layne was live.

No way in Hell could Kurt ever sound like Layne. And Layne had the better voice. It was not even close. This is my word. And as such is beyond contestation.

@nataliam9764

3 жыл бұрын

I’m was a Nirvana fan when I was a teen and I agree with you. AIC was superior musically aswell.

I know you said it’s not really a high note but a Bb4 is pretty tough to belt out with the distortion and power that Layne did, I’ve never seen anyone else do it. Watching this song live at The Moore in 1990 puts it into perspective a little better in my opinion 🤘🏽

Here are the lyrics (I'm the man in the box Buried in my shit Won't you come and save me? Save me Feed my eyes, can you sew them shut? Jesus Christ, deny your maker He who tries, will be wasted Feed my eyes now you've sewn them shut I'm the dog who gets beat Shove my nose in shit Won't you come and save me Save me Feed my eyes, can you sew them shut? Jesus Christ, deny your maker He who tries, will be wasted Feed my eyes now you've sewn them shut Feed my eyes, can you sew them shut? Jesus Christ, deny your maker He who tries, will be wasted Feed my eyes now you've sewn them shut) keep up the great reactions

According to Layne when this was new, it was about animal cruelty. He loved animals. He told me this after a show. I’ve read many different things since.

Actually seen these guys when this album came out.I was absolutely blown away by Laynes voice. Alice in Chains is my second favorite band.Jerry Cantrell is a beast on guitar and he's a great backup vocalist. They had great harmonies. R.I.P Layne and Mike.Love these guys.

@kevenrowe2958

2 жыл бұрын

*Mike Starr

@timhiles5958

2 жыл бұрын

@@kevenrowe2958 I know what his name is. If you can read it says R.I.P Layne and Mike. Then it says Love these guys.

Song is about Media Censorship(ironically the word shit is censored for this Video) More AIC: Rooster, Down in a Hole, Would, Nutshell, Rain When I Die, I Stay Away, No Excuses, Got Me Wrong. Also check out their MTV Unplugged it's legendary.

@metalmayhem3622

3 жыл бұрын

You didn't list Junkhead live. I demand you change your name, sir.

@jtough7499

3 жыл бұрын

Ironically the words are censored in the song...

@metalmayhem3622

3 жыл бұрын

@@jtough7499 he said that

AIC my all time Favorite Band. Layne is a Rock God. Layne and Jerry's harmonies are epic. Try these greats; Nutshell, MTV Unplugged Would, Offical Video Them Bones, Offical Video Rooster, Offical Video Love Hate Love, Live @Moore

@JackieDaytona_HB

Жыл бұрын

Ditto 👌

You've got to check out Love, Hate, Love live at the Moore. Layne Staley's voice is incredible.

Yes..it does have meaning.. ..Alice In Chains.. ..Music..Songs..Are Filled With Meaning..

MY FAVORITE BAND *GRUNGE NEVER DIES* ALICE IN CHAINS (LAYNE STALEY R.I.P VOICE ♥) 🤘

Alice in chains, down in a hole, nutshell, junkhead, dirt, frogs

I can't explain my love for alice in chains. My middle name is Layne for Layne Staley

This song live at the Moore plus any other from that concert please.

@BradCross1982

3 жыл бұрын

YES please 🤗

And he was one of the best vocalist of all time through Grunge Music

There are awesome singers

React to Alice in Chains Love Hate Love live at The Moore its Legendary!!

I love this song! Alice In Chains has some wonderful songs!

You guys shoyld react to Them Bones next, such a killer track.

Prince wrote this song. It's about how he lived on a farm when he was younger with his uncle, and was forced to milk bulls. Through this trauma Prince turned to his lord and savior Jesus Christ, eventually murdering his uncle and ultimately led to him moving to Seattle and becoming a stagehand for Alice in Chains.

@JackieDaytona_HB

Жыл бұрын

😂🤣😂

Censorship, and putting warning labels on albums is the basis. And ya, that’s quite a high note. And effin power. What a voice he had.

Great band, should give stone temple pilots a go as well. Great reaction

Feel it in my eyes

You need the appetite for destruction album lp on your wall in the back and dirt from Alice in Chains

You can’t compare Layne to anybody. In a class by himself

React to Michael Jackson - MTV 1995 Performance

He says feed my eyes

Go down the rabbit hole. Just be warned, you will never come back the same.

When you do AIC you gotta do them live guys!!!! Great bud best band ever!! Best vocalist ever!!!! Rip- ps- it’s about Veal! Lol those who know... know!

Ay props to your gal for rewinding that hook to see what he said about Jesus 👍 that's a good woman

REACT TO Michael Jackson - Heartbreak Hotel (Live From Yokohama, The Bad Tour) (1987)

More Alice in Chains 🙏 Get Born Again would be cool.

React to Prince,Tom Petty Jeff Lynn and others-While My Guitar Gently Weeps. It was a tribute to George Harrison at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004

Big shout out to the first reaction channel I've Subscribed to.

Excellent song sound, it's about the oppression and control and get to the point of freedom .

More Alice n Chains!!!!!! And sound garden

Love the Duke Hoddy

Do Down in Hole from MTV Unglugged, he will really like that one for, 4 sure dude.

@EddieDingle76

2 жыл бұрын

That fucking performance has me sobbing every time. Came here to say this.

He said "feed my eyes, Jesus Christ, he who tries, feed my eyes"

Hey guys. Great job with the latest videos. I suggest Michael Jackson - Remember the Time for the next MJ Reaction. Great song, great video, great choreography. You guys won't regret this one.

More Grunge please - Nirvana: Lithium, In Bloom, Heart-Shaped Box; Alice in Chains: Would?, Them Bones, Rain When I Die; Soundgarden: Outshined, The Day I Tried to Live; Pearl Jam - Evenflow, Alive

Feel it in my eyes. Shut.

AIC is a grunge metal / sludge metal sort of band !

Jesus Christ Feed my eyes Now you've sewn them shut. It's about when he struggled with drug abuse. RIP u are forever missed. A legend gone way too soon.😢

Layne GOAT RIP

This song's origins start with a lunch the band had with some A&R woman who was a vegan (no animal byproducts of ANY kind), who proceeded to tell them how animals were penned up in small crates and killed for steak, etc. So, Layne wrote Man in the Box from the perspective of a penned up calf. It was loosely based around Layne's idea of media censorship. Sean Kinney (the drummer) said it was about veal. LOL. Layne met Jerry Cantrell ONE TIME, found out he had no family in the area, he had little money left and Layne (drunkenly) offered Jerry a place to live, money, food, clothes, guitars and gear he needed, Layne set Jerry up with a life that could NOT fail unless Jerry let it happen. He set him up with a band when he gave Jerry the number to Sean Kinney's girlfriend and found out that the girlfriend was Mike Starr's sister. He encouraged Jerry to sing more because after all they were Jerry's lyrics, Jerry should sing them. I'm sure Jerry would have made it on his own without Layne, but it would have been the long scenic route to get there. Jerry wrote Rooster about his father's experiences in Vietnam and when Jerry saw his dad in the audience at one of their shows, Jerry asked Layne (and the guys) to play Rooster and they did. It was the first time Jerry's dad heard Jerry's music and knew that his son understood him through that song. It brought Jerry and his dad closer together. And Layne had a vital part in that reunion. (Meanwhile Layne's own biological father was an opportunist who showed back up in Layne's life AFTER Layne got famous and had money and did drugs with Layne.) Phil Staley was NOT the father Layne expected when he came back into his life. Layne had tried rehab 13 times, but he could never completely give it up. He tried quitting cold turkey on two of the last attempts at rehab, but that didn't work either. Mad Season is made up of Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, Barrett Martin of Screaming Trees and John Baker Saunders and they all went through rehab. They all got together and dragged Layne out of his condo, got him excited about doing ABOVE album, thinking if he was creative he wouldn't want the drugs, and for the length of time it took to do that, Layne was excited about the project, but it didn't curb his drug habit. Layne wrote the lyrics to the songs he sang on the ABOVE album and he drew the cover art for the album. Layne was an amazing singer. Very few singers sound better live than they do in a studio version. Layne was one of the few. From what I’ve read and researched, heroin is the worst drug to be addicted to. You don’t want to do anything other than be there and nodding out. The fact that he agreed to do the KISS shows and performed them like he did shows the strength he had. From what I read, when you have the level of addiction Layne had, it is incredibly difficult to function at the intensity of performing a stage show in front of an audience as well as he did. He could have stayed home and stayed high, but Jerry wanted to do the shows. Somewhere, somehow Layne found the strength to do those shows despite what his addiction wanted him to do even though he survived an overdose after the last KISS show in Kansas City, Missouri, became a recluse, and the addiction got him in the end. Mike Starr was the last one to see him on April 4, 2002, for all anyone knows and what I took from that was that while Layne was telling Mike that he (Layne) was sick, he still tried to get Mike to give up his own prescription drug habit. After that, no one noticed he had died because he never answered the phone nor opened the door. It took inactivity over the span of two weeks for his ACCOUNTANT to notice something was wrong and called Susan Silver who called Layne's mother to alert her to the situation who then called 911. He died on April 5, 2002, but his body wasn't discovered until April 19, 2002. And to pour salt in the wound, MTV (and the music industry) has more or less blackballed Layne (and yet, they laud over Kurt Cobain every April 5th, because Kurt was the "face of grunge", meanwhile Layne gets a "by the way"). The Grammys went so far as to invite Jerry, Mike and Sean to the Grammy show in 2003 and then refused to put Layne's picture up in the memorial of the musicians who died in 2002. (Or they "forgot" to) which pissed Jerry, Mike and Sean off and they walked out on the show. At the age of 34 (when he died), he looked more like an 80-year-old man. He knew he screwed up, between the drugs and his own depression and then his former fiancee dying, Layne just couldn't find a way to dig himself out of his own mess and at the end with his teeth problems and organs failing on him, he gave up trying. He lost sight of who his true friends were and who was using him. He was never going to give up the drugs. Instead, he tried to attain the same high he felt the first time he did drugs and could never achieve it. Layne's story is more tragic and haunting because you can actually watch and hear him deteriorate over the 12 year span: from the mild use of drugs in 1990 all the way through 1996 when he was deep into a heroin addiction to dropping to 90 pounds by 1998 to 86 pounds when he died in 2002. Layne wrote songs that gave a normal person insight into the mind and journey of an addict. The pain and depression he endured to write the most brutally honest lyrics a musician could write concerning his feelings on his own addiction and the emotional and physical strength he had to perform those songs live when all he wanted to do was curl away and lose himself in the drug haze I can’t imagine what it was like for him. He was hounded by the press about his addiction. He was ridiculed for his addiction. The music industry blackballed him for his addiction. The Grammys forgot about him when he died. As far as MTV and Rolling Stone were concerned he’s just another addicted singer. They don’t want to acknowledge his contributions to music. Layne Staley deserved better than what he received from the people around him who he thought mattered. He wrote about things with maturity and knowledge well beyond his years. He didn’t deserve to be turned into tabloid cannon fodder by the press. Layne was so much more than his drug addiction. He was able to come up with lyrics and harmonies off the top of his head. He stacked his own vocals. He knew enough to know that Jerry Cantrell was playing with the wrong people and gave him contact info for Sean Kinney and Mike Starr. He wrote the lyrics for the songs he sang on Mad Season's Above album and drew the cover art for that album. Layne was a genius in his own right. He still was able to figure things out in a snap off the top of his head. Layne just had his demons. Layne's whole situation from his drug addiction, to how he died, to how he was found only weighing 86 pounds and the drug paraphernalia, etc is tragic and haunts me when I think about it (and I didn't even know the guy personally). "Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be." -- Layne Staley "My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title." -- Layne Staley "When I tried drugs they were fucking great, and they worked for me for years, and now they're turning against me- and now I'm walking through hell and this sucks. I wrote about drugs, and I didn't think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them. I didn't want my fans to think heroin was cool. But then I've had fans come up to me and give me the thumbs up, telling me they're high. That's exactly what I didn't want to happen." -- Layne Staley

@BradCross1982

3 жыл бұрын

🤗

Is that a Lebanon Blue Devils hoodie?

react on mj

Check out some Soundgarden especially slaves and bulldozers

Did you just say Kurt Cobain could do that? Kurt (calm down Nirvana fans), but he could not sing. Layne's voice was absolutely amazing.

Junk head, Rotten Apple, It ain’t Like that, bleed the freak, and so many more

Would you guys be open to reacting/listening to kpop?

@sweetkiss119

3 жыл бұрын

Ugh I hope not!!!

@TenTonNuke

3 жыл бұрын

Sub-question: Would you be open to listening to nails on a chalkboard?

REACT Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon (Live)

That look you get when you realize your parents music is better than yours. 😂

React to Nirvana mtv awards 1992 lithium

It's not about the year it's about Layne

He says ,Jesus Christ (Deny your maker) he who tries (will be wasted)feed my eyes (now you've shown them shut.)Notice Layne is saying the first part and Jerry is answering him in the other.You've seen it then told to forget you've seen it. How can you do that?

React to Metallica Enter Sandman life in Moscow 1991!!

Y’all should have paused the video and looked up the meaning of the song and discussed it at the end instead of speculating. It could only help your content. Nonetheless, I subscribed and hit the like button.

Can y'all plzzz plzzz plzzz react to Micheal Bolton missing you now and The Righteous Brothers you've lost loving feeling live!!!! Plz!!!!

Tell me you're not listening on laptop speakers pls.

Next time black by pearl jam live mtv unplugged

REACT MC Hammer - Pump It Up (Music Video) (1988)

if i had to compare them to another band, it would definitely be Pearl Jam.

No, it IS a high note. Bb

9th

JunkHead with TransPorter video

I was the same way girl, I was like is he anti Christ. But if you listen and know the whole lyrics it's actually the opposite of that. I believe this was an anti reporter/ media song if I remember correctly

@nataliam9764

3 жыл бұрын

It’s like Jerry is singing the part of the bad guy trying to put him down.

And yes, my southern children...those ARE the lyrics. Blasphemy!!!

I'd compare Lane Stayley to Chester Bennington. SCREAMERS

@kristimarriner7673

3 жыл бұрын

I would compare Chester to Layne. Both fantastic, but would have to give the edge to Layne. Just my opinion. Would a collaboration between the two not have been spectacular?

@BradCross1982

3 жыл бұрын

Layne was a belter, belting and “screaming or yelling” are not the same thing lol. And he was a fantastic singer even when he wasn’t belting. Just my opinion of course 🤘🏽

Sounds like an exorcism?

Fear in my eyes.

@brandi6087

Жыл бұрын

Nope it's feed my eyes

The closest sounding band to this song were Faith No More.

@richardctaylor79

3 жыл бұрын

Possibly Soundgarden as well...

@BradCross1982

3 жыл бұрын

Gruntruck was the closest sounding band to Alice In Chains in my opinion, listen to Machine Action, Slow Scorch, Gotta Believe, Not alot to Save. Ben’s vocals weren’t as strong as Layne’s but sonically the bands were similar sounding 🤘🏽

Fear in my eyes

@brandi6087

Жыл бұрын

Nope