Our purpose is to deliver a nature-driven, indigenous-inspired take on Mens Work. Stream the isolated vocal audio of the song, below. Man In The Box offers a wild approach to Masculine Embodiment. Doing the tragic story of the singer’s demise, the isolated vocal recording of ‘Man In The Box’ takes on a completely new dimension.
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Taking on difficult topics and themes within his music was something Staley and Alice in Chains were never afraid of and, in fact, they embraced it. So I went home and wrote about government censorship and eating meat as seen through the eyes of a doomed calf.” They told me how veal was made from calves raised in these small boxes, and that image stuck in my head. Around the same time, we went out for dinner with some Columbia Records people who were vegetarians. Reflecting on his thoughts while creating it, Staley once commented in an interview with Rolling Stone, stating: “I started writing about censorship. And it’s just about breaking out of that box and looking outside of that box that has been built for you,” he added. “But what it’s basically about is, is how government and media control the public’s perception of events in the world or whatever, and they build you into a box by feeding it to you in your home, ya know.
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“That whole beat and grind of that is when we started to find ourselves it helped Alice become what it was,” guitarist Jerry Cantrell once said of the song. On ‘Man in the Box’, a track which was recorded in 1989 and released as part of the group’s debut studio album Facelift, the band and their lead singer would find international fame and move into unchartered territory. During times of personal uncertainty, Staley always returned to his bandmates and to his music.