“Angry Chair” by Alice In Chains

"Angry Chair" is the rare Alice in Chains song that belongs to Layne Staley alone: he wrote the words and the music for this cut from Dirt, the band's second album, and he plays guitar on it next to Jerry Cantrell as well as singing lead. Columbia sent it to American radio on November 30, 1992, as the album's third single, and it peaked at No. 27 in Modern Rock Tracks and No. 34 in Album Rock Tracks.

Cantrell, who sings backup here, later used the liner notes of the Music Bank box set to say how proud he was of his singer for stepping up on guitar and writing it. Mike Starr's bass and Sean Kinney's drums lock in beneath them, and Dave Jerden, who produced it with the band and Tony Wilson, mixed it into one of Dirt's darkest corners.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.