I'M THE MAN IN THE BOX
BURIED IN MY SHIT
WON'T YOU COME AND SAVE ME ?
SAVE ME
Facelift
is the debut
studio album
by the American
rock band
released by
Columbia Records
on
August 21, 1990.
The tracks
"We Die Young",
and
"Man in the Box
were released as singles.
"Man in the Box"
was nominated for
a Grammy Award
for Best
Hard Rock Performance
with Vocal
in 1992.
Facelift
became the first g
runge album to be
certified gold
by the Recording Industry
Association of America
(RIAA),
achieving this feat on
September 11, 1991.
The album peaked at No. 42
on the
Billboard 200 chart,
and has been certified
triple-platinum
by the RIAA
for shipments of
three million copies
in the United States.
Background and Recording
promoter
Randy Hauser
became aware of
Alice in Chains
at a concert,
and offered to pay
for demo recordings.
However,
one day before the band
was due to record
at the Music Bank studio
in Washington,
police shut down the studio
during the biggest
marijuana raid
in the state's history.
The final demo
dubbed
The Treehouse Tapes
found its way to
managers
Kelly Curtis and Susan Silver,
who also managed
the Seattle-based
Soundgarden.
Curtis and Silver
passed the demo to
Columbia Records'
A&R representative
Nick Terzo,
who set up an appointment
with label president
Don Ienner.
Based on
The Treehouse Tapes
(sold by the band at shows),
Ienner signed
Alice in Chains
to Columbia in 1989.
Alice in Chains
became a top priority
for the label,
who released the band's
first official recording
in July 1990:
the promotional EP
We Die Young.
Its lead single
and title song
became a hit
on metal radio.
After its success,
the label rushed
Alice in Chains'
debut album
into production
with producer
Dave Jerden.
"I told Jerry Cantrell,
'Metallica took Tony Iommi
and sped him up.
What you've done is
you've slowed him down again,'"
Jerden recalled.
"He looked at me and said,
'You got it.'
That's how I got the gig."
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