Music Bank

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Music Bank
Compilation album by Alice in Chains
Released	October 26, 1999
Recorded	1989–1999
Genre	Alternative metal Grunge
Length	3:40:10
Label	Columbia
Producer(s)	Peter Fletcher
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Alice in Chains chronology
Nothing Safe: Best of the Box (1999)	Music Bank (1999)	Live (2000)

Music Bank is a box set by the grunge band Alice in Chains. It was released on October 26, 1999 on Columbia Records. The set consists of previously unreleased demos and mixes by the band as well as previously released material from their albums Facelift, Sap, Dirt, Jar of Flies, Alice in Chains and Unplugged and a CD-ROM containing various multimedia.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Disc one 1.2 Disc two 1.3 Disc three 1.4 Disc 4 (CD-ROM) 2 Personnel 3 Chart positions 3.1 Album 3.2 Singles

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc one

1. "Get Born Again" (Cantrell/Staley)
2. "I Can't Have You Blues" - (previously unreleased, demo) (Cantrell)
3. "Whatcha Gonna Do" - (previously unreleased, demo) (Cantrell/Staley)
4. "Social Parasite" - (previously unreleased, demo) (Cantrell)
5. "Queen of the Rodeo" - (previously unreleased, live) (Silver/Staley)
6. "Bleed the Freak" - (previously unreleased, demo) (Cantrell)
7. "Killing Yourself" - (previously unreleased, demo) (Cantrell/Staley)
8. "We Die Young" (Cantrell)
9. "Man in the Box" (Cantrell/Kinney/Staley/Starr)
10. "Sea of Sorrow" - (previously unreleased, demo) (Cantrell)
11. "I Can't Remember" (Cantrell/Staley)
12. "Love, Hate, Love" (Cantrell/Staley)
13. "It Ain't Like That" (Cantrell/Kinney/Starr)
14. "Confusion" (Cantrell/Staley/Starr)
15. "Rooster" - (previously unreleased, demo) (Cantrell)
16. "Right Turn" (Cantrell)
17. "Got Me Wrong" (Cantrell)

[edit] Disc two

1. "Rain When I Die" (Cantrell/Kinney/Staley/Starr)
2. "Fear the Voices" - (previously unreleased) (Cantrell/Staley/Starr)
3. "Them Bones" (Cantrell)
4. "Dam That River" (Cantrell)
5. "Sickman" (Cantrell/Staley)
6. "Rooster" (Cantrell)
7. "Junkhead" - (previously unreleased, demo) (Cantrell/Staley)
8. "Dirt" (Cantrell/Staley)
9. "God Smack" (Cantrell/Staley)
10. "Iron Gland" (Cantrell)
11. "Angry Chair" (Staley)
12. "Lying Season" - (previously unreleased) (Cantrell/Staley)
13. "Would?" (Cantrell)
14. "Brother" (Cantrell)
15. "Am I Inside" (Cantrell/Staley)
16. "I Stay Away" (Cantrell/Inez/Staley)
17. "No Excuses" (Cantrell)

[edit] Disc three

1. "Down in a Hole" (Cantrell)
2. "Hate to Feel" (Staley)
3. "What the Hell Have I" - (remix, previously unreleased) (Cantrell)
4. "A Little Bitter" - (remix, previously unreleased) (Cantrell/Inez/Kinney/Staley)
5. "Grind" (Cantrell)
6. "Again" - (Tattoo of Pain mix) (Cantrell/Staley)
7. "Head Creeps" (Staley)
8. "God Am" (Cantrell/Inez/Kinney/Staley)
9. "Frogs" (Cantrell/Inez/Kinney/Staley)
10. "Heaven Beside You" (Cantrell/Inez)
11. "Nutshell" - (from "Unplugged") (Cantrell/Inez/Kinney/Staley)
12. "The Killer Is Me" - (from "Unplugged") (Cantrell)
13. "Over Now" - (from "Unplugged") (Cantrell/Kinney)
14. "Died" - (previously unreleased) (Cantrell/Staley)

[edit] Disc 4 (CD-ROM)

• "The Journey" CD-ROM game
• "Get Born Again" music video
• "Jar of Flies" CD-Extra multimedia

[edit] Personnel

• Jeff Beck - Graphic Design
• Jerry Cantrell - guitar, vocals
• Peter Cronin - Photography
• Paul Hernandez - Photography
• Dennis Keeley - Photography
• Sean Kinney - drums, Liner Notes, Concept, Supervisor, Direction, Production Concept
• Stephen Marcussen - Mastering
• Layne Staley - vocals, guitar
• Mike Starr - bass
• Jonathan Meyer - Graphic Assistant
• Peter Fletcher - Compilation Producer, Foreword
• Neil Zlozower - Photography
• Jeffrey Mayer - Photography
• Catherine Wessel - Photography
• Karen Moskowitz - Photography
• Mike Inez - bass
• Michael Simpson - Package Supervision
• Mary Maurer - Art Direction, Design
• Chris Cuffaro - Photography
• Doug Erb - Design
• Danny Clinch - Photography
• Steffan Chirazi - Liner Notes
• Marty Temme - Photography
• Brandy Flower - Design
• Christopher Wray-McCann - Photography

[edit] Chart positions

[edit] Album

1999       Music Bank       The Billboard 200          No. 123
1999    Music Bank       Top Internet Albums        No. 12

[edit] Singles

1999       Fear The Voices  Mainstream Rock Tracks     No. 11
1999    Get Born Again   Mainstream Rock Tracks     No. 4
1999    Get Born Again   Modern Rock Tracks         No. 12

Alice in Chains
Jerry Cantrell | Mike Inez | Sean Kinney | William DuVall
Layne Staley | Mike Starr
Discography
Studio Albums: Facelift | Dirt | Alice in Chains
EPs: We Die Young | Sap | Jar of Flies
Live Albums: MTV Unplugged | Live
Compilations: Nothing Safe: Best of the Box | Music Bank | Greatest Hits | The Essential Alice in Chains
Singles: "Bleed The Freak" | "'We Die Young" | "Man in the Box" | "Sea of Sorrow" | "Would?" | "Them Bones" "Angry Chair" | "Rooster" | "Down in a Hole" | "What the Hell Have I" | "Got Me Wrong" | "No Excuses" "I Stay Away" | "Grind" | "Heaven Beside You" | "Again" | "Over Now" | "Get Born Again" | "Fear the Voices"
Videos
Live Facelift | The Nona Tapes | MTV Unplugged | Music Bank: The Videos
Related content
Articles: Grunge music | Singles | Mad Season | MTV Unplugged
Categories: Alice in Chains | Alice in Chains Albums | Alice in Chains songs