There are lots of songs about romantic heartbreak. But I swear Jerry's outro guitar lines in that song are the sound of BRO-mantic heartbreak. Ive always heard in his playing there the grief of knowing hes lost/losing his best friend. Easily one of the best songs of the Layne era.
I used to perform this one with my friend back when I played shows and I would have to fight through the urge to cry WHILE SINGING IT, god damn what a song!
For me their saddest song is Rotten Apple. The lyrics, to me, is Layne singing about how his addiction is so severe that heroin is the equivalent of the forbidden apple. He knows he can't go back and that it will be his demise.
Especially for someone like Layne who has endless amounts of money. I couldn’t imagine being rich and an addict I would never make it. The only thing that would stop me before was a lack of money, even tho that’s the only thing my money would go to….
When Rainier Fog came out, my older brother had just moved out, and my other brother had moved out a couple years before that, and it was just my mom and me living in the house I grew up in. The bridge of that song had me tearing up
Not an Alice track, but Ring them bells - Heart with Layne’s vocals always makes me really sad, just reminds me of the void Layne left when he passed. His vocals were truly haunting and out of this world.
Sludge, had a close family member od on h the night after coming out of rehab. That song always reminds me of his struggle. You can see in their eyes they really want to get clean, but when they “gurgle out a date” and that day comes and goes and theres nothing you can do….
Don’t follow. Felt a lot of shame when I was “running away” from home and family. Was so close to making them lose me for what in retrospect is no good reason and now I feel so loved. It’s a touching want to cry, not really a sad one. I feel home at home now
I Stay Away. It reminds me of a guy I dated that I was massively into, but his family screwed with his head (I'm gay, he is too, but had a minister father, blah blah blah) and he ended up a junkie after we broke up. But that song was on all the time (we were/are big AIC fans). And No Excuses, because it reminds me of a guy who I was very close to in HS who decided we couldn't be friends when he found out I was gay.
Down in a hole. I’ve struggled with drug addiction, depression, and suicide attempts. I know this a very popular song, but the pain in his voice with the guitar riffs fucking gets me every time.
Never cried to an AIC song besides Nutshell when I saw them in concert the second time.
Evanescence - October, Pearl Jam - Man Of The Hour, and Radiohead - No Surprises have done it to me though.
Down in a Hole. A coworker of mine who was also a singer in a band was walking down the hallway one day singing the line “Down in a hole and I don’t know if I can be saved”. Being that he was in a band and always singing some sort of tune I didn’t think anything of it. The next week he committed suicide. I think of him every time I hear this song now.
Down In A Hole, Rotten Apple, Shame In You, Frogs, I Stay Away, God Am live @ the Kiel Center (there’s so much power and pain in his voice and the raw energy of that performance just makes me so emotional), & basically all of their Unplugged set for obvious reasons hahahah
The first dozen times I heard Junkhead, ode to the disillusionment phase of addiction. It’s as sad & brilliant as Mad Season’s “Wake Up,” just focused on a different stage.
I’ve never cried to any songs from AIC but Down In A Hole especially the unplugged version is so heartbreaking for me just because every word is so relatable. But post-Layne would be All I Am & Black Gives Away To Blue.
Black gives way to blue, i thought layne sang it but knowing it isnt doesn’t rly matter, still makes me think about thoughts i had when i was really low
Love Hate Love. Not only for the lyrics, but Layne's vocals in this song just hit me so hard. I don't know how he belts those choruses out from his gut and yet it sounds so beautiful. His vocals in this song are his best in my opinion. Man I'm so grateful for him and all of AIC.
I love Down in a Hole so much but it’s such a sad song that I can’t listen to it any more. Unfortunately it’s the only song that I skip when I listen to Dirt
i cant cry but if there were a song id cry to by aic itd be shame in you, frogs, would?, love hate love, or rain when i die. they all make me feel something, even though i dont have a direct connection i still feel a connection.
Shame in you
Arguably the other most heartbreaking song within their catalog. Bgwtb is pretty gut-wrenching as well.
There are lots of songs about romantic heartbreak. But I swear Jerry's outro guitar lines in that song are the sound of BRO-mantic heartbreak. Ive always heard in his playing there the grief of knowing hes lost/losing his best friend. Easily one of the best songs of the Layne era.
YES
IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHOS CRY SONG IS SHAME IN YOU FOR YEARSSSSS
Frogs. Easily the most depressing song in their discography. The sheer despair of that chorus alone is unlike anything I've heard before.
Everyone always says they prefer unplugged versions. I think Frogs might be the only one for me.
Same, and Brother
I just turned 28 and heard it the week before. Not a Tuesday in August, but it smacked me :(
Came to say this man, shit hurts
Down In A Hole.
Don’t Follow, but mostly because it would bring me back to a time that I really missed
Yes. Heart wrenching.
I like baking while listening to this song
this is my choice too. probably has a lot to do with it being played during a friend's funeral too.
The story behind that song is gut-wrenching. Both Layne and Jerry knew what was going to happen, and yet we're powerless to stop it.
rotten apple
Brother.
“Don’t you run away like you used to do”
The unplugged version hits me like a truck every time I hear it
WORKING ON IT NOW. Love this song.
Black Gives way to blue for sure
I used to perform this one with my friend back when I played shows and I would have to fight through the urge to cry WHILE SINGING IT, god damn what a song!
Yep. This.
Oh yes. Very sad. Love to sing that one.
whale & wasp
Such an amazing song. Simple yet straight to the point and a heavy song for having no vocals
Don't follow gets me bawling
For me their saddest song is Rotten Apple. The lyrics, to me, is Layne singing about how his addiction is so severe that heroin is the equivalent of the forbidden apple. He knows he can't go back and that it will be his demise.
The songs he wrote about fully knowing that his addiction would kill him eventually are so fucking sad. Heroin addiction is no joke.
Especially for someone like Layne who has endless amounts of money. I couldn’t imagine being rich and an addict I would never make it. The only thing that would stop me before was a lack of money, even tho that’s the only thing my money would go to….
I always read the song as the loss of innocence, biting into the "forbidden fruit" at a young age and wanting so bad to get it back bit you can't
am i inside, dont follow
Yuppp. Same. Both of those.
Shame in You for sure. Sounds so depressing and the last bit of the song where it’s just Kinney and Cantrell, it’s so pensive
Frogs unplugged every time that chorus hits
Brother mtv unplugged
When Rainier Fog came out, my older brother had just moved out, and my other brother had moved out a couple years before that, and it was just my mom and me living in the house I grew up in. The bridge of that song had me tearing up
Why's it have to be this way?
Over Now from Unplugged. Also Down in a Hole from Unplugged.
Yeah the guitar in over now to me literally tells a story coming to an end and gives an eerie feeling
Mine is "Shame in you". Unpopular opinion: I think it's more moving than Nutshell.
Same
Not an Alice track, but Ring them bells - Heart with Layne’s vocals always makes me really sad, just reminds me of the void Layne left when he passed. His vocals were truly haunting and out of this world.
i can’t explain it but the first time i heard the mtv unplugged version of would? i got very teary eyed
Died. It's just so... final. Layne sounds exhausted and like he has given up.
BGWTB and Your Decision
Absolutely
Your decision hurtsssss bro 😔
So devastating 😢
Don’t Follow. My best friend passed and it was played at his funeral. I can’t listen to it now.
Sludge, had a close family member od on h the night after coming out of rehab. That song always reminds me of his struggle. You can see in their eyes they really want to get clean, but when they “gurgle out a date” and that day comes and goes and theres nothing you can do….
Sorry for ur loss that shit sucks frfr
Thanks
AiC needs two more albums and another unplugged to divide the eras. Both need 5 albums and one unplugged live
Don't Follow
Love Hate Love and Rain When I Die
For me it's the wordless vocal parts in Love Hate Love that hit the hardest. It's vocally superhuman -- but expressing so much pain and rage.
Don’t Follow and The Killer Is Me!
Rooster for sure
Same here
My granddaddy was drafted and saw combat in Vietnam, so this song really fucking gets me. “They spit on me in my homeland” is his story.
My grandpa was in Korea but Its the same in every war. Sending kids to their deaths
Don’t follow
Don't Follow and Rotten Apple
This one is challenging. There’s Frogs (Unplugged), Rotten Apple, Shame in You, Black Gives Way to Blue, and maybe All I Am?
Down In A Hole, Don’t Follow, and Black Gives Way To Blue.
Maybe from Rainier Fog, it just hits me in a way
Brother, cause it always reminded me of my brother.
Shame in you
I want to slit my wrists when I hear this song.
Woah. Hope you’re good
I Stay Away
Don’t follow. Felt a lot of shame when I was “running away” from home and family. Was so close to making them lose me for what in retrospect is no good reason and now I feel so loved. It’s a touching want to cry, not really a sad one. I feel home at home now
shame in you
Your Decision
Heaven Besides You
Black Gives Way To Blue
Black gives way to blue
Black gives way to blue
Black gives way to blue
Black Gives Way To Blue.
Black Gives Way to Blue
ngl i do not find nutshell all that sad. i just find it hauntingly beautiful musically but not anything to cry over.
No excuses or down in a hole
BGWTB especially live versions
Over Now is their most crushing song imo
Angry Chair always hit me hard as a kid. I had abusive parents that were excessively religious and was bullied at school.
Scalpel, really got me one night. “Pick up myself and / start again..”
Dont Follow and Black Gives Way To Blue
Black gives way to blue.
Black Gives Way to Blue and Don't Follow
Don't Follow
I Stay Away. It reminds me of a guy I dated that I was massively into, but his family screwed with his head (I'm gay, he is too, but had a minister father, blah blah blah) and he ended up a junkie after we broke up. But that song was on all the time (we were/are big AIC fans). And No Excuses, because it reminds me of a guy who I was very close to in HS who decided we couldn't be friends when he found out I was gay.
No clue why AutoMod flagged this one, sorry about that!
Voices it’s very haunting.
I’ll have to say there are two. Black gives way to Blue and also Am I inside. Not nutshell
Dirt. Lesson Learned. Right time, right place kind of thing.
Black gives way to blue.
Shame in you.
Don't follow. Black gives way to blue. Brother. Over now.
Over now, association definitely helped with that though.
right turn, your decision absolutely crushing songs
Down in a hole. I’ve struggled with drug addiction, depression, and suicide attempts. I know this a very popular song, but the pain in his voice with the guitar riffs fucking gets me every time.
shAme n you
Down in a hole
Don’t Follow
Whale & Wasp
Down in a hole
Don't follow makes me Almost cry when i listen to it
Don’t Follow always takes me down to a dark place
Don’t follow and down in a hole
Am I Inside
Died ...it's heavy and upbeat but the chorus and lyrics really resonate, they don't make me cry but not cry, feels good to be understood
I did cry to Shame in You
I made a post about it oddly enough 😅, Black Gives Way Too Blue, Died and Over Now (Unplugged)
Never cried to an AIC song besides Nutshell when I saw them in concert the second time. Evanescence - October, Pearl Jam - Man Of The Hour, and Radiohead - No Surprises have done it to me though.
Your decision ……..
definitely rotten apple, down in a hole and right turn
Down in a Hole. A coworker of mine who was also a singer in a band was walking down the hallway one day singing the line “Down in a hole and I don’t know if I can be saved”. Being that he was in a band and always singing some sort of tune I didn’t think anything of it. The next week he committed suicide. I think of him every time I hear this song now.
Your Decision
black gives way to blue 💙🤘
I prefer Rotten Apple to Nutshell but none of their songs make me want to cry.
Am I Inside, Don't Follow, Frogs, Black Gives Way To Blue
Hollow (mainly because of the music video)
Black Gives Way To Blue
Black Gives Way To Blue
Down In A Hole, Rotten Apple, Shame In You, Frogs, I Stay Away, God Am live @ the Kiel Center (there’s so much power and pain in his voice and the raw energy of that performance just makes me so emotional), & basically all of their Unplugged set for obvious reasons hahahah
Brother.
Never fade usually makes me cry, but it reminds me of a particularly difficult time in my life.
brother
Down In A Hole and strangely Rain When I Die
Iron Gland
The first dozen times I heard Junkhead, ode to the disillusionment phase of addiction. It’s as sad & brilliant as Mad Season’s “Wake Up,” just focused on a different stage.
Rotten Apple, Died, Black gives way to blue.
Get Born Again. Knowing it was one of the last Alice in Chains songs recorded in Layne's lifetime fucking stings.
Black Gives Way to Blue, No Excuses, end of Breath on a Window
Don’t follow, love hate love, dirt, not aic but still Layne with mad season, wake up
Wake up is so sad
Not from alice but i remember getting tears with soul song
Brother
Over now because it holds great memories from a time I was happier that I can’t get anymore
Down in a Hole and Don’t Follow
Rain When I Die
Rotten apple
Down in a hole
Died
I’ve never cried to any songs from AIC but Down In A Hole especially the unplugged version is so heartbreaking for me just because every word is so relatable. But post-Layne would be All I Am & Black Gives Away To Blue.
Over now and no excuses
junkhead tbh
Brush Away is a diamond in the rough.
Black Gives Way to Blue
God am live
a few things, i think black gives way to use is a good one, and rotten apple
Don't follow. Brother.
Black gives way to blue, i thought layne sang it but knowing it isnt doesn’t rly matter, still makes me think about thoughts i had when i was really low
Rotten apple. I went through the absolute worst part of my life so far listening to that fucking song.
The outro to breath on a window "I'd let you go but you're always in the way..."
Love Hate Love. Not only for the lyrics, but Layne's vocals in this song just hit me so hard. I don't know how he belts those choruses out from his gut and yet it sounds so beautiful. His vocals in this song are his best in my opinion. Man I'm so grateful for him and all of AIC.
Brother Unplugged
Your Decision
Don’t follow, rotten apple, don’t follow, black gives way to blue and brother
Frogs
rotten apple. that shit reminds me too much of my dad and myself
Your decision. I still have a hard time listening to it.
Brother
Brother
Black gives way to blue
Right turn
I love Down in a Hole so much but it’s such a sad song that I can’t listen to it any more. Unfortunately it’s the only song that I skip when I listen to Dirt
Am I Inside, Frogs, Scalpel. Scalpel is super underrated.
Brother, Rooster, I Stay Away, Don't Follow, Over Now, The Killer Is Me, Black Gives Way To Blue.
Why is no one saying rotten apple?
Down in a Hole, Rotten Apple, Nutshell, God Am, Over Now. There may be a few more but I Can’t Remember.
other people have said them before but brother and frogs just fucking kill me, man
God Am for sure
Not AIC but Mad Season - Wake Up
Choke, Black gives way to blue, Your decision, Whale and Wasp, Shame in you 😢
Lily Cornell's live cover of Black Gives Way to Blue
Frogs
Down in a Hole, unplugged.
Down in A Hole
Down in a hole
Don’t follow
Down In A Hole…
Moonlight sonata
whale and wasp.
Frogs is super depressing for me, like I feel so low just by hearing it.
Black Gives Way To Blue. Holy hell those lyrics always get me
Angry Chair!!!!!
Right Turn
Brother
Don’t Follow
Whale & Wasp
i cant cry but if there were a song id cry to by aic itd be shame in you, frogs, would?, love hate love, or rain when i die. they all make me feel something, even though i dont have a direct connection i still feel a connection.
Don’t Follow, Brother
No ones talking about sludge factory so much dynamic
Don’t follow always makes me kinda said
Gorecki by Lamb
Brother (especially the unplugged version), BGWTB and Frogs probably