And then Layne Staley joins another band. Alice N’ Chains, so, like, it’s not Alice in bondage, Alice imprisoned in chains, this is just chains in addition to Alice-and then they break up. So styled like Guns N’ Roses, but Guns N’ Roses weren’t huge yet. Sleze eventually change their name to Alice N’ Chains-Alice capital-N apostrophe Chains. I’d pay $20 for a tape of that, to be totally honest with you. Layne auditioned by singing “Looks That Kill” by Mötley Crüe. And just as we expected, we were like, ‘Fuck, yeah! This is what a lead singer should look like!’” Johnny says, “He came to our jam room and was really shy, real timid.

The Atlantic! And Johnny says that for the audition Layne wore jeans with band names like “Mötley Crüe” and “Ozzy” written on ’em in Wite-Out. One of the guitar players in Sleze, a guy named Johnny Bacolas, did an interview with The Atlantic in 2012, for an article about Layne Staley. Layne Staley started out playing drums, but as a 17-year-old kid in suburban Seattle, in 1984 or so, he switched to lead vocals to audition for a teenage glam-metal garage band called Sleze. Kids from today should defend themselves against the ’90s. The entire “active rock” radio format, as it exists right this second-I just checked on 99.7 The Blitz, they just played “Daughter,” by Pearl Jam-the entire active rock radio format in 2022 is built on songs from the five-year span from 1990 to 1994. How mad would I be about this list if this list weren’t catered to me specifically? Arguably even weirder, is that “Man in the Box” is the oldest song on that list. From 2010 through 2019, the 10 most-played songs on mainstream rock radio are as follows:Īnything strike you as odd about that list of the most played songs on mainstream rock radio from 2010 to 2019? The newest song, the youngest song-“Self Esteem”-came out in April 1994. Here, now, are Nielsen’s Top 10 Mainstream Rock Radio Songs of the 2010s. So Nielsen, the gargantuan media data company, they measure radio airplay. This was not surprising, but it was shocking.

I wanna talk about “active rock” again, for just a second. Can I share with you a disturbing fact, this chart I stumbled across like an hour ago? Let’s get back to Jehovah’s Witnesses.

The nineties chuck klosterman