Truths and untruths...

Considering there's often controversy over Alice In Chains songs, I've decided (while I was bored at work last night) to compile a few reference lists of all the songs that AIC ever recorded, and a separate list of songs that are often confused for AIC songs, but are not AIC songs. I've compiled this list entirely myself, except where noted, so feel free to contribute if I've missed anything, or if I've listed something that is incorrect. Explanations are given where necessary. We can now discuss all matters of where these songs are located here in this thread!

Also, check out this appendage to my website; it lists every official release that every AIC member has been a part of. Convenience for you, by me!!!

 http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Rifugium/all_things_alice_in_chains

There is also some release info on this site too, in case you haven't found it: http://www.aliceinchains.com/music.aspx 

- The following is an alphabetical list comprised of all songs that AIC ever recorded, including "unreleased" demos, some of which were made when the band existed under a different name. If anyone, especially newcomers, has any question as to where these songs come from, ask, and someone will help you:

A Little Bitter
A Little Bitter (_Music Bank_ remix)
Again
Again (Club mix) - *thanks IntoTheFlood*
Again (Jungle mix) - *thanks IntoTheFlood*
Again (Tattoo of Pain remix)
Am I Inside
Angry Chair
Another Hell (alt. title for Real Thing)
Bite the Bullet
Bleed the Freak
Brother
Brother (alt. version w/o Ann Wilson)
Brush Away
Chemical Addiction
Confusion
Dam That River
Death Trap (alt. title for Chemical Addiction)
Died
Dirt
Dirt (Drunk & Disorderly version)
Don't Be Satisfied
Don't Follow
Down In a Hole
Fairytale Love Story
Fat Girls
Fear the Voices
Football
Frogs
Get Born Again
Glamorous Girls
God Am
God Smack
Got Me Wrong
Grind
Hate To Feel
Head Creeps
Heartbreaker (alt. title for Put You Down)
Heaven Beside You
Heaven Beside You (radio edit)
Hey Hey Everybody (alt. title for Ya Yeah Ya)
Hush Hush
I Can't Have You Blues
I Can't Remember
I Know Somethin' (Bout You)
I Stay Away
Iron Gland (untitled track on _Dirt_)
It Ain't Like That
Junkhead
Killer Is Me
Killing Yourself
King of the Kats
Lip Lock Rock
Love Hate Love
Love Song (untitled track on _Sap_)
Lying Season
Man In the Box
Man In the Box (radio edit)
No Excuses
Nothin' Song
Nutshell
Over Now
Over the Bridge (alt. title for Fairytale Love Story)
Over the Edge
Put You Down
Queen of the Rodeo
Rain When I Die
Real Thing
Right Turn
Rooster
Rotten Apple
Sea of Sorrow
Sealed with a Kiss
Shame In You
Sickman
Sludge Factory
So Close
Social Parasite
Suffragette City (Bowie cover)
Sunshine
Swing On This
Them Bones
There's No Time (alt. title for Lying Season)
We Die Young
Whale and Wasp
What the Hell Have I?
What the Hell Have I? (_Music Bank_ remix)
Whatcha Gonna Do
Would?
Ya Yeah Ya

- Song titles that appear on the "Nona Tapes" from the _Alice In Chains_ (self-titled album) sessions. It is not yet been determined with certainty which songs these refer to, or if any of them are songs that were rejected/never released. It is possible that "Settling Down" is the song that was later released on Cantrell's solo album _Boggy Depot_.

Bat Guano
Big Big Money
E.W.J.
Farrow Phunk
Piss Shivers
Settling Down

- Following is a list of songs that have been proven to NOT be AIC:

Alone (by the band Downface)
Blood Tears Little Girl (unknown)
Blue (or "Aviary Garlands") (by the band Thread)
Distance Aside (Thread)
Down (unknown)
Foolish (or "The Fool") (Thread)
Look (or "Look at Me") (Thread)
Smells Like Teen Spirit w/Nirvana (not real)
We've Become (or "What We Are") (Thread)

AIC has never to our knowledge collaborated and/or recorded any songs with Creed, Days of the New, Nirvana, or Pearl Jam as a band. Anyone who tells you otherwise is mistaken, unless the words come directly from the mouth of any member of AIC and is confirmed by someone on this site.

- Other songs that Layne appears in:

Another Brick in the Wall, pt. 2 (with the supergroup Class of '99; on the soundtrack for _The Faculty_)
It's Coming After (on Second Coming's album L.O.V. Evil; also performed live)
Opiate (bootleg; performed live with Tool)
Ring Them Bells (on Heart's album Desire Walks On)

With Mad Season:

All Alone
Artificial Red
I Don't Know Anything
I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier
I'm Above
Interlude (instrumental)
Jesusathon (McCready on vocals?) - *thanks to IntoTheFlood
Lifeless Dead
Long Gone Day
November Hotel (instrumental)
River of Deceit
Voodoo Child (instrumental) - *thanks to IntoTheFlood
Wake Up
X-Ray Mind

- Songs with Cantrell on vocals, including songs that he has performed live (without Layne):
- From solo albums:

31/32
Angel Eyes
Anger Rising
Bargain Basement Howard Hughes
Between
Breaks My Back
Castaway
Chemical Tribe
Cold Piece
Cut You In
Devil By His Side
Dickeye
Dying Inside
Feel the Void
Give It a Name
Gone
Hellbound
Hurt a Long Time
Hurts Don't It?
Jesus Hands
Keep the Light On
Locked On
Mother's Spinning In Her Grave (Glass *** Jones)
My Song
Owned
Pig Charmer
Pro False Idol
Psychotic Break
Satisfy
Settling Down
She Was My Girl
Siddhartha
Solitude
SOS
Spiderbite
Thanks Anyway
What It Takes

- Other:

Ashes To Ashes (w/Damageplan on The Punisher soundtrack)
Atone - *thanks to AIC4EVER
Brain Damage/Eclipse (played live on solo tours)
Effigy (on Gov't Mule's album The Deep End, vol. 1)
Golden Boy - *thanks to AIC4EVER
Heaven 'N Hell (on Circus of Power's album Magic and Madness)
I've Seen All This World I Care To See
Leave Me Alone
Nothing Else Matters (performed live w/Metallica)
One Eyed Jack - *thanks to AIC4EVER
Squeeze Box
Tuesday's Gone (on Metallica's album Garage, Inc.)
Victor Lane - *thanks to AIC4EVER
We Come Undone (performed live with Comes with the Fall) - *thanks to naturegirl

With STP: (*thanks to Casper)
Sex Type Thing
Got Me Wrong

Cardboard Vampyre info, thanks to SugarTaste.

- AIC songs performed live in post-Staley AIC lineup, featuring guest vocalists (other than W. Duvall):

Again w/Pat Lachman and Wes Scantlin
Angry Chair w/Wes Scantlin
Angry Chair w/Scott Weiland (*thanks to Casper)
Down In a Hole w/Billy Corgan
It Ain't Like That w/Pat Lachman and Wes Scantlin
Man in the Box w/Maynard James Keenan
Man In the Box w/Wes Scantlin
Nutshell w/Aaron Lewis
Rooster w/Ann Wilson, MJ Keenan, Pat Lachman, and Wes Scantlin
Rooster w/Mark Lanegan
Them Bones w/Maynard James Keenan
Them Bones w/Phil Anselmo
Would? w/Chester Bennington
Would? w/Corey Taylor
Would? w/James Hetfield
Would? w/Phil Anselmo
Would? w/Wes Scantlin


- Associates of Alice In Chains - Bands/artists who have members that have either worked with AIC, or vice versa (For specific info, ask me or anyone else who knows, or check the above link to my website).

Black Label Society
Circus of Pain
Comes With the Fall
The Cult
Damageplan
Danzig
Faith No More
Fishbone
Heart
Johnny Cash
Linkin Park
Metallica
Motorhead
Mudhoney
My Sister's Machine
Nevermore
Nirvana
Ozzy Osbourne
Pantera
Pearl Jam
Porno for Pyros
Primus
Puddle of Mudd
Queensryche
Rage Against the Machine
Screaming Trees
Second Coming
Slash's Snakepit
Slayer
Slipknot/Stone Sour
Smashing Pumpkins
Soundgarden
Sponge
Staind
Stone Temple Pilots
Sun Red Sun
Tool
Velvet Revolver

- Tribute songs to Layne: (*thanks to IntoTheFlood*)

Black Label Society – Layne
Cold – The Day Seattle Died
Pearl Jam – 4/20/02 (untitled secret track on Lost Dogs)
Staind - Layne

- Early names of the band (with Layne as the primary member) before the final (Facelift) Alice In Chains lineup:
 

Alice 'N Chains (var. Alice N Chains, Alice 'N Chainz)
Diamond Lie
Sleze

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It's looking good. Maybe the songs off of the albums should be separate from the rarities and other releases (Music Bank rarities, bootleg rarities, etc.). Also, songs with alternate titles for the bootlegs should be separated as well (Death Trap, etc.) The two Alice N' Chains demos could be separated as well since only Layne is in them. These suggestions are just to make it a bit easier to navigate.

Blood Tears Little Girl should be added to Not Alice.

Again has two more versions: Jungle Mix and Club Mix

A Little Bitter and What The Hell Have I have two versions. The Last Action Hero versions and Music Bank (remixed) versions, though the differences aren't huge.

Killing Yourself on the We Die Young EP is much different than the 1989 demo version from Music Bank.

The Treehouse Sessions/Demos haven't been released as far as I know, the track listing is found here: http://bacus.net/alice/sessions.htm

Here are the demos of album songs (supposedly there are more but are not circulating). The rest that are not on official releases are on various bootlegs.

1. Bleed The Freak (Music Bank)

2. I Can’t Remember

3. Sea of Sorrow (Music Bank)

4. Sunshine

5. The Real Thing

6. We Die Young (Nothing Safe: The Best of the Box)

7. Brother

8. Got Me Wrong

9. Rooster (Music Bank)

10. Junkhead (Music Bank)

11. Dirt

12. Them Bones

13. Would?

Mad Season has an additional track 'Interlude' that wasn't released with the album.

Maybe Layne tribute songs could be added? Here are the ones I know of:

Black Label Society – Layne

Cold – The Day Seattle Died

Pearl Jam – 4/20/02

Staind - Layne

Ok, looks like I can update a few of those things. I wasn't going to include the demo versions of released songs, as I figured most if not all of them exist in demo form somewhere (and probably in multiple form), but we now have the list you made. :) I also didn't include the Mad Season "Interlude" since it's only a guitar piece and I don't think Layne performed on it. But I'll throw it on there. As for separating the songs...I thought about how the master list should be arranged, and came up with the format I have now, so I think I'll just keep it like that for the time being. If it gets confusing, I'll split it up. I think I have everything from the Treehouse demos on there (except the minor spelling differences). Thanks for the suggestions; I'll be updating the list soon.

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Just a tidbit I'm sure you already know, Second Coming released an album/studio version of "It's Coming After" (featuring Layne) on their album L.O.V.Evil, which I think was released in '94.

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I didn't know he was actually on the studio recording. If he was, I'll add it.

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Well, I upped the album version just for you mang
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7OQQ6D3R
It's just Layne singing other than some background female vocals

btw, I know we're going off-topic here, but you wouldn't happen to have Would? live with Corey Taylor would you?  I'd like to hear that

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Hey thanks. I'll listen to that jawn later. :)

And no I don't have that version of Would. Sorry.

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Nice list there Rif! There's a cool version of Incubus doing Would? on the net somewhere too...and Velvet Revolver should be added to the friends/collaborators thing because of Duff...

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Also, look to the following links for greatness!!

www.comeswiththefall.com

http://rachey-roo.deviantart.com

Incubus doing Would?!?!?!? I searched and couldn't find it. If anyone has a link could you let me know please? I am totally psyched to see Inc in 10 days and Alice in 25 so listening to that combo might just blow my head off my shoulders at this point! BTW, thanks for the compilations guys!

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"For every star is formed in fire, and so it goes for you. And every face along your path, sees your heart is true." DuVall/Constantine

This is a great thread!

 

 

And could someone upload Bite The Bullet?  There must be people here that have the song, so why not upload it?

teis:

And could someone upload Bite The Bullet?  There must be people here that have the song, so why not upload it?

I don't think this track has ever seen the light of day. If anyone has it, it's either Cantrell...or someone close to Layne who inherited his old demo tapes...if they even still exist. Will we ever hear this elusive song? Only time will tell.

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Thanks for doing this Rif! There's tons of good info in there so I'm going to pin this thread so that it's easier for others to find and you to update.

this post is absolutely awesome. lindsay u should put this on the music page or somewhere! :)

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Yo Rif...there's a few more tunes Jerry's performed live with other artists such as the 2005 NA World Convention...I tried to search archives here and at the jerry.com site but to no avail...he did Cult tunes with Duffy like Sanctuary...I know that's pretty vague but if someone could find the old (hella fucking long) review I did of that show...?

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i think piss shivers was an alt. title for head creeps.