Would?

Would?

Infobox Single
Name = Would?


Caption =
Artist = Alice in Chains
from Album = "Dirt"
A-side =
B-side =
Released = 1992
Format = CD,
Cassette,
Vinyl
Recorded = 1992
Genre = Grunge
Length = 3:27
Label = Columbia Records
Producer = Alice in Chains,
Dave Jerden
Writer = Jerry Cantrell
Certification =
Chart position = # 19 (UK)
Last single = "Sea of Sorrow"
(1991)
This single = "Would?"
(1992)
Next single = "Them Bones"
(1992)
Misc = "Would?" is a song by grunge group Alice in Chains, appearing on their 1992 album "Dirt".

The song, written by guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell, concerns the late lead singer of Mother Love Bone, Andrew Wood, who died of a heroin overdose in 1990. It is one of the band's best-known songs.

This first appeared on the soundtrack to the 1992 movie "Singles", in which the members of Alice in Chains make a cameo appearance. It also appears on the Burnout Paradise soundtrack.

Jerry Cantrell said of the song,

Chart positions

Track titles

# "Would?" (3:27)
# "Man in the Box" (4:46)
# "Brother" (4:27)
# "Right Turn" (3:17)

References

External links

* [http://www.aliceinchains.net/discography/dirt.aspx Listen to a fragment of the song and read the lyrics]


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