Song · Alice In Chains
“Grind” by Alice In Chains
From the album Alice in Chains (1995)
“Grind” by Alice In Chains appears on 15 radio countdowns from 10 stations between 1995 and 2004. It was first released in 1995 on the album Alice in Chains. Its best result is #42 on The Buzz Top 103 Alternative Songs of '95. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #82 alternative song of 1995 and #4,091 alternative song of all time.
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"Grind" throws open Alice in Chains' self-titled 1995 album and served as its lead single, and it lands like a slab of wet concrete: slow, sludgy, doom-heavy riffing from Jerry Cantrell, with Mike Inez and Sean Kinney grinding the rhythm into the floor. Cantrell wrote it alone and sings lead, with Layne Staley's harmony coiled around him in that eerie twin-voice blend.
It's a snarling answer to the gossip mill. The band had been dogged by talk that they'd split up and by repeated whispers that Staley was dead, and Cantrell spits back at all of it. Toby Wright produced it with the band and mixed it. It ran 16 weeks on Billboard's Album Rock Tracks and picked up a Grammy nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance in 1996.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 76 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1995 | 107 |
| 1995 | 62 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1995 | 91 |
| 1995 | 90 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1995 | 101 |
| 1995 | 42 | 103.1 The Buzz West Palm Beach, FL | The Buzz Top 103 Alternative Songs of '95 | 103 |
| 1995 | 88 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1995 | 100 |
| 1995 | 62 | WDRE Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA | WDRE Top 103.9 Songs of 1995 | 104 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 863 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) | 1000 |
| 1996 | 803 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) | 1000 |
| 1998 | 538 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) | 1000 |
| 1999 | 811 | Q101 | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1017 |
| 1999 | 653 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1077 |
| 1999 | 575 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) | 998 |
| 2002 | 447 | KISW | KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) | 999 |
| 2002 | 1154 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2004 | 84 | WBCN | WBCN Grunge Top 104 (2004) | 104 |
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