YOU WERE ALWAYS
SO FAR AWAY
I KNOW THAT PAIN
SO DON'T RUN AWAY
LIKE YOU USED TO DO
Jar of Flies
is the
third studio EP
by American
rock band
It was released on
January 25, 1994,
by Columbia Records.
The band's second
acoustic EP,
after 1992's Sap,
it was the first EP
in music history
to debut at No. 1
on
the Billboard 200 chart,
with the first week
sales exceeding
141,000 copies
in the United States.
The self-produced
record was written
and recorded
over the course
of just one week
at the
London Bridge Studio
in Seattle.
The tracks
"No Excuses",
"I Stay Away"
and
"Don't Follow"
were released as
radio singles
to promote the EP.
Jar of Flies
was nominated for
two Grammy Awards
in 1995:
Best Recording Package
and Best
Hard Rock Performance
for
"I Stay Away".
The EP
was well received
by critics
and has been certified
quadruple platinum
by the
Recording Industry
Association of America
(RIAA),
making
Jar of Flies
one of the band's
most successful releases.
In Canada,
Jar of Flies
was certified
double platinum
for sales of
200,000 copies.
In the United Kingdom,
the EP
was certified silver
after selling
60,000 copies there.
Sap
is the second
studio EP
by the American
rock band
released on
February 4, 1992,
through
Columbia Records.
Sap
is mostly acoustic
and marks
the first time
that guitarist
Jerry Cantrell
sings lead vocals
in an
Alice in Chains release,
with the song
"Brother".
The EP
was produced by
Alice in Chains
and
Rick Parashar
and features
guest vocals
by
Ann Wilson
of the band
Heart,
Chris Cornell
of Soundgarden
and
Mark Arm
of Mudhoney.
The track
"Got Me Wrong"
became a
hit two years later
after being featured
on the soundtrack
to the 1994 film
Clerks.
On January 14, 1994,
Sap
was certified gold
by the RIAA
for the sale of more
than 500,000 copies.
Background and Recording
Following the tour for
Facelift,
Alice in Chains
entered the studio
to record a song
for the
Cameron Crowe movie
Singles,
but decided to turn
the engagement to
their advantage.
As the guitarist
Jerry Cantrell recalled:
"So in the session
that was meant for
recording that one song
['Would?'],
we ended up demoing
about 10 songs,
which included
all the stuff
that ended up on the
[1992]
Sap EP,
'Rooster'
and a couple
of others
from Dirt."
While in the studio,
drummer
Sean Kinney
had a dream about
"making an EP called Sap."
The band decided
"not to mess with fate,"
and Sap
was recorded
and mixed in 1991
with producer
Rick Parashar
at
London Bridge Studio.
The EP
was recorded
in four
or five days
in
November 1991
TRACKLIST
Rotten Apple
Nutshell
I Stay Away
No Excuses
Whale & Wasp
Don't Follow
Swing On This
Brother
Got Me Wrong
Right Turn
(performed by Alice Mudgarden)
Am I Inside
Love Song
NOTES :
- "Alice Mudgarden" is Alice in Chains with Mark Arm of Mudhoney and Chris Cornell of Soundgarden.
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