Music Bank - The Videos [DVD]

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Product Description ------------------- Track Listing: * We Die Young (Art Institute of Seattle version) * We Die Young (master version) * Man In The Box (promo video) * Sea Of Sorrow (promo video) * Would? (promo video) * Them s (promo video) * Angry Chair (promo video) * Rooster (promo video) * What The Hell Have I (video) * Down In A Hole (promo video) * No Excuses (promo video) * I Stay Away (promo video) * Grind (video version #2) * Heaven Beside You (promo video) * Again (promo video) * Over Now (MTV Unplugged video) * Get Born Again (video) .co.uk Review ------------- That Alice In Chains were, in the early 1990s, routinely bracketed alongside Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden as exemplars of grunge was always more to do with geography than reality. If Alice In Chains had not formed, like all the aforementioned, in Seattle, it is unlikely anyone would have drawn the comparisons. Where Nirvana and those who followed them approached metal through the filters of the British punk of The Clash and the traditional American songwriterly virtues of The Replacements, Alice In Chains were a heavy metal band, pure and simple. Like most successful heavy metal bands, Alice In Chains 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, has put some thought into this. The clips are broken up with grabs of on-the-road footage by the band themselves, and the programme begins with a local television documentary made about the band before they'd signed their record deal: the scenes in the kitchen of the house the band were sharing at this point are probably best avoided by the faint-hearted. On the DVD: the DVD has two audio options: PCM stereo and surround sound. There are interactive menus with which to select individual clips, and a nicely designed but basically redundant video discography. --Andrew Mueller