Track Listing

1. Man In The Box
2. Them Bones
3. Rooster
4. Angry Chair
5. Would?
6. No Excuses
7. I Stay Away
8. Grind
9. Heaven Beside You
10. Again

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7796 in Music
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 2001-08-28
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Amazon.com
From 1999's Music Bank box set and its one-CD compilation offshoot, Nothing Safe: The Best of the Box to a 1996 Unplugged CD, the Alice in Chains titles continue to arrive even while the band--and especially reclusive frontman Layne Staley--stagnates. The quartet's heavy, dirgelike music is aging well, but the 10 songs that comprise Greatest Hits are the basic radio hits. Greatest Hits features no new music, no liner notes, no lyrics, no new photos, and no elaborate packaging. Still, for the rock fan, every song on the disc (five of them penned solely by talented guitarist Jerry Cantrell) is a bona fide hit, from the band's earliest, their 1990 breakthrough "Man in the Box," to the lush orchestration of "I Stay Away" to 1995's dark pop gem "Heaven Beside You." Greatest Hits provides a quick fix for newer fans, but with The Best of the Box boasting 9 of Greatest Hits' 10 songs, plus an additional 5 selections. Skip Hits and go for The Best. --Katherine Turman

Customer Reviews

I have to tell you this
ok this was my first album from alice in chains. i liked it then but never understood the 10 song thing. most albums have 12-15.
After a while my friend let me borrow nothing safe by alice in chains and i learned that well... it has all of the songs that are on the greatest album and the rest of the hits. if you are a fan like i am then you will know this and i have tripod so i can listen to heaven beside you. just so you know

all of the songs are good as they should be. it has the songs of
Man in the Box
Them Bones
Rooster
Angry Chair
Would?
No Excuses
I Stay Away
Grind
Heaven Beside You
Again

See thats it nothing safe has
Again
Grind
Man in the Box
Them Bones
Angry Chair
Rooster
Would?
No Excuses
I Stay Away
Got Me Wrong (Unplugged)
Get Born Again
Iron Gland
What the Hell Have I
Down in a Hole

See what i mean so buy nothing safe

Hope this helps...

Look what they've done to my song, ma!
Part of the joy and enthusiasm that fans hold dear regarding the ill-fated Alice In Chains is their harmonies, vocal and instrumental, and their not-by-the-numbers approach to crafting excellent songs and stand-out albums. One could always expect that, upon playing any of their CDs for the first time, the music would be exceptional and the aural landscape pleasing. The CD greatest hits package sounds very good, but fans are more likely to shell out for the individual CDs in addition to the Greatest Hits package. When the SACD version of the their Greatest Hits was released, I expected the mix to be that much more interesting. At worst, I expected the lily to be gilded. However, the soundscape of this SACD, as played through multi-channel speakers is ABSOLUTELY ATROCIOUS. A horrible job has been done in separating the two-way stereo into 5.1, so much so that the entire sound is completely artificial. Compounding the problem is the becoming-more-frequent habit of engineers (specifically those those who engineer stereo CDs into 5.1 multi-channel) to REMIX the tracks in addition to the necessary repositioning of tracks to specific channels. In too many instances to count, the mix of these great, familiar songs is completely and very unsatisfyingly changed. This does not have anything to do with making a multi-channel mix from a stereo 2-channel mix, per se, but has everything to do with obliterating specific percussives, add-on guitar overdubs, and vocal tracks that you come to expect to hear. Example: In "Angry Chair" on the CD version, you hear Jerry Cantrell sing "I don't mind, yeah/ I don't mind" and expect to hear Layne Staley follow up with the background "I, I, I". Layne is gone from the mix on the SACD! This is only one example of countless many that make the SACD version of Alice In Chain's Greatest Hits a horrible, incomprehensible expenditure of the engineer's time and our money. I agree with "A music fan from Santa Monica"'s assessment but am more disappointed than he'she; as for "ballparkvisitor", you don't have a clue.

Don't buy this album
Why do I say this? Because Alice in chains never wrote a bad song. Instead of getting the "Greatest Hits CD" (which is the third "Greatest Hits" this band has come out with: "Music Bank" and "Nothing Safe" preceding it); go out and get "Dirt", "Jar of Flies/SAP", "Alice in Chains (Tripod)", and "Unplugged" instead. That's only four discs, and you'll get all the music that you're going to miss on this ten track CD.

This is obviously some sort of contractual obligation album. Since the band has no new material, they have to put out yet another Greatest Hits. Actually, if you want a really good Alice CD, which is virtually a greatest hits, just buy the "Unplugged" album. I hate to support Mtv, but it really is their best album. Honestly though, rather than buy this Greatest Hits, it'd be worth it to pick up "Dirt" and "Jar of Flies" instead. Those two CD's will give you six of these ten tracks. Also, check out Jerry Cantrell's solo stuff, it's really good!