Man in the Box

"Man in the Box"
US commercial cassette single
Single by Alice in Chains
from the album Facelift
B-side"Sea of Sorrow/Bleed the Freak/Sunshine"
ReleasedJanuary 1991 (1991-01)[1]
RecordedDecember 1989 – April 1990
Studio
Genre
Length4:46
LabelColumbia
Composer(s)Jerry Cantrell
Lyricist(s)Layne Staley
Producer(s)Dave Jerden
Alice in Chains singles chronology
"We Die Young"
(1990)
"Man in the Box"
(1991)
"Bleed the Freak"
(1991)
Music video
"Man in the Box" on YouTube

"Man in the Box" is a song by the American rock band Alice in Chains. It was released as a single in January 1991 after being featured on the group's debut studio album, Facelift (1990). It peaked at No. 18 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance in 1992. The song was included on the compilation albums Nothing Safe: Best of the Box (1999), Music Bank (1999), Greatest Hits (2001), and The Essential Alice in Chains (2006). "Man in the Box" was the second most-played song of the decade on mainstream rock radio between 2010 and 2019.

  1. ^ "Alice In Chains Timeline". SonyMusic.com. Archived from the original on October 7, 1999. Retrieved January 14, 2019.

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