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Alice in Chains - Music Bank - The Videos Actor: Alice in Chains Number of Items: 1 Format: Color Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Sony/Smv Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2003-10-21 Buy from Amazon

From Amazon.com That Alice in Chains were, in the early 1990s, routinely bracketed alongside Seattle counterparts Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden as exemplars of grunge always had more to do with geography than reality. Alice in Chains were a heavy metal band, pure and simple. And like most successful heavy metal bands, they attracted an unusually devoted fan base, who will be well rewarded by this generous 94-minute compilation. Music Bank contains all Alice in Chains' videos, plus the kind of curios that suggest that someone, somewhere, put some thought into this. The clips are broken up with grabs of on-the-road footage shot by the band members themselves, and the program begins with a local television documentary made about them before they'd signed their record deal: the scenes shot in the kitchen of the house they were sharing at that point are probably best avoided by the faint-hearted. --Andrew Mueller From Description Finally available on DVD, Music Bank: The Videos features all of Alice in Chains' award-winning videos, even the rare early version of "We Die Young" and the uncut version of "Rooster." As a bonus, this 95-minute compilation includes 10 minutes of behind-the-scenes home videos of the band in the studio, on stage, backstage, and everywhere in between. See the early years of Alice in Chains with a hometown TV documentary on the band's life prior to singing with Columbia Records, featuring performances of the rare songs "Social Parasite," "I Can't Have the Blues" and "Queen of the Rodeo." Songs: We Die Young (2 versions), Man in the Box, Sea of Sorrow, Would?, Them Bones, Angry Chair, Rooster, What the Hell Have I, Down in a Hole, No Excuses, I Stay Away, Grind, Heaven Beside You, Again, Over Now (MTV Unplugged), Get Born Again.

Customer Reviews: Total numer of reviews: 32 Average rating: 5.0 "The sound couldn't be better" Let's get this straight: this DVD has great sound. They took the time to mix it for multi channel, and the result is completely satisfiying. Some people here have said that the sound is awful, and (as some other users have pointed) it must be because they heard the 5.1 mix in an stereo equipment, getting the sound only partially. They should have chosen the PCM audio track instead, before writting misleading opinions. So, wether you are an AIC fan, or a fan of grunge, this is a must have. This DVD visually documents the work of a great group, with the best sound you can get. Some videos could be considered "ordinary" but most of them have great quality of images and/or concepts. And they are intertwined by home footage and concert images, so basically, we have a 1 and half hour peek of the work of the band. "Perfect DVD" Easy to nav, awesome picture & sound. The home movies are an addition, not a distraction. This accurately shows the greatness of AIC. "A MUST for "Alice In Chains" Fans" Highly, Highly, HIGHLY recommended .... If you are an AiC fan then this is a MUST own...Completely and Totally worth every penny...With the included "home video" clips this compilation takes you "behind the scenes" so to speak of one of the BEST BANDS OF ALL TIME...you get to see the "lighter side" of the band members and it makes you miss Layne even more than you already do if you're a TRUE AiC fan. AMAZING !!! "Here Comes the Rooster!" Alice in Chains made only four albums and an EP but they were a classic band and still are...This video collection has all their videos they made. They have made many great videos like "What the Hell Have I" where is flames around the vocalist, an animated video "I Stay Away", cold video with a child "Heaven Beside You", "Man in the Box", "We Die Young", "Them Bones", and "Would?" There's a couple of average videos "Sea of Sorrow", "We Die Young" (first), and "Down in a Hole". 1)King 5 Documentary 2)We Die Young (2 versions) 3)Man in the Box 4)Sea of Sorrow 5)Would? 6)Them Bones 7)Angry Chair 8)Rooster 9)What the Hell Have I 10)Down in a Hole 11)No Excuses 12)I Stay Away 13)Grind 14)Heaven Beside You 15)Again 16)Over Now (MTV unplugged) 17)Get Born Again "The stuff few have" These guys made music and video the likes of which most musicians only dream of. The beatles were talentless bums next to them. I've never seen talent like this. All other music grows old this stuff grows up. They do not bore, they deliver. Layne Staley is gone but boy does this music live on.