Alice In Chains - Real Thing

[MrKidNinja]

WHOA

[neonindigo]

even if you say just one mohohohohoore

[515shawn]

oh my god here we go again!!!!

[zoidsvstherichies]

0:58

[dooksucks4ever]

"Heroin" early demo version of this song is better

[Psilocybong420]

I have always wondered if mark henery was an alice in chains fan

[chikari123]

SEXUAL CHOCOLATE BABY <3

[JmaganaBA]

Let's stop arguing about what drug it is...... Whatever it was it eventually killed our beloved Layne Staley........ RIP LAYNE!!!!

[GeneralGonzo15]

You can hear the blues influence. Awesome

[goblinob]

such a droning, dirty sound. the best sound in the world

[Owntmeal1313]

"I grew up, went into rehab; you know the doctors never did me no good. They said 'Son, you're gonna be a new man!', I said, 'Thank you very much, and can I borrow $50?"... I have a few friends like that. AIC hits the nail on the head so many times; they're so real. That's why I love them! They don't candy-coat anything, and just tell it how it is!

[multimoomoo99]

@Owntmeal1313 candy-coating music is called new age where everything is catchy but has no meaning other than to make money, sadly. :((((( Rip Layne

[myPAINisSELFchosen85]

@Owntmeal1313 I went to a detox center and havent used heroin in 4 weeks but last nite i broke down and scored two 40mg opanas and just snorted both of those bad boys...GOD what a great feeling to literely go down the steps on a white line of crushed opana strait to nowhere

[TheSolidspruce84]

@myPAINisSELFchosen85 Wow! I am sure that everyone is so proud of you man!

[da1stegr]

Goin down the steps on a white line ........ Ouuugh Yeaaahh !!!!!!

[packysmatt21]

listening to this song on heroin makes you feel so strung out

[myPAINisSELFchosen85]

@packysmatt21 i know exactly what you mean lol i have to hear this when i take a shot, like rite now :-). good getting high with you my youtube brothers

[EdanFlipz1031]

best stoner song

[1AlphaMeTalHeaD]

Even if you say just one more I wont leave you alone.... How true is that statement?

[1AlphaMeTalHeaD]

Can anybody else sing from the grave like Layne? Nope. Sorry Mr. Morrison.

[CapitanoNemo89]

<3 <3 <3

[dredayak18]

seriously... why was "heroin" not put on the album instead of "real thing"... it sounds so much better.

[tonyvs89]

@dredayak18 when they played it live it sounds just like heroin... only slower... but i agree with you

[phranzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz]

@dredayak18 either way its not not about heroin. its about cocaine hence "goin down the steps on a white line" and real thingis just another name for coke

[myPAINisSELFchosen85]

@phranzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz heroin comes in white powder form like the shit travolta is buying in pulp fiction or china white, ballers dont do black tar.. soooo your dumb

[phranzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz]

@myPAINisSELFchosen85 youre dumb for using a movie as a reference. im right youre wrong. look it up in the liner notes

[myPAINisSELFchosen85]

@phranzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz thats for the common non drug user to understand, any one who is in the drug scene knows that it is very common to come in white powder form and only a moron like you would try to argue other wise with the demo being titled heroin

[samuntouchable]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND CAN I BORROW 50 BUCKS? YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH "CLASSIC"

[olapessoal100]

@samuntouchable Most epic line ever

[Letsmakeasamich]

I like the faster version better, but this one is good too!

[ABRFREAK1]

I like the "Heroin" version better

[Tazmania115110]

See all you AIC haters, Layne really did want to stop using. This song just proves it. But sadly, even it wasn't enough just to keep him alive. WE LOVE YOU, LAYNE!!!!!!!

[d7b44]

@Tazmania115110 how is this song about Layne wanting to stop?!

It is a blatant testimony of how he is a born and bred junky on his path down the tubes!

great song, but jeez... you got it WRONG!

[Mournerable]

I love how this is song is unintentionally entitled "Heroin" on my iPod.

Sick tune.

[Crimsomnia777]

@Mournerable The demo for Real Thing was called "Heroin" ;)

[gnx343]

wich album was this

[ZSG16]

@gnx343 It's from their "facelift" album.

[ShiyuNakiro]

I thought this song was about cocaine, considering the mention of the blade and the "white line".

Awesome band. The best. Can't believe what happened to you, Layne. But you can't hurt anymore.

Love from California.

[jacouber]

@ShiyuNakiro yeah, white line, cocaine, makes sense

[Jozsus]

I grew up as a little boy....

[spudsucker]

i love the demo of this song

[CapitainHiTop]

SEXUAL CHOCOLATE BABY!!!

oh that layne...

[perro123q]

¡Alice and fucking chains!

[TheChainHead]

ya know them doctors never did me no good........except for....lol

[inspiredbylove18]

autally the first song ive heard of alice in chains was heroin

not this one

[recaulkulous]

Heroin was the original name on the demo. I guess producers and execs though the title to be a bit rough.

Tell it like it is, Brother Layne!  Those doctors never did me no good either.

[TSchwiebs]

it isn't that he didn't understand heroin...he overdosed on various drugs...mainly by ejecting a a speedball or mixture of cocaine and heroin...he also was 6 foot 1 and weighted around 85 pounds so his pound per mg of heroin might be different than your friends. i doubt all white people think its a game...honestly your rash generalization is heinous and sad. their are a number of "white folks" that aren't "retarded" just like any other race. so stop preaching hatred.

[MissAntoo]

i always thought this was called "heroin"

damn me!

r.i.p. layne

[metalteenkitty]

ya hahah me 2 i thought that song was named heroin .lol! sound the same i think .... great ... alice in chains 4 ever !

[hardcorheadbanger]

yes the demo version is heroin

[XoAmiLL16]

this song is about laynes addiction to herion/ doing herion (Under the hill, with just a few notches on my belt) refering to tying off with a belt and shooting up..

[vinnlandpride]

If i ever did a Alice in chains cover band it would be 'Sexual Chocolate Baby!'

enough said (=

[Boom1chaching]

That sounded like some sexy chocolate...

[JimmyGarlicSauce]

This is slow, and sexy, so I like it. I like how raw the demo is, though. The demo wins by a hair for me. They're both rockin' as hell, though.

[mzex]

just great song. one of best of their's.

[chakadoodledoo]

"Sexual Chocolate" rofl.

[GnRlies1992]

Kinda like the Demo more...Good song though

[CurlyQDubs]

Demo is so much better, this one is to mellow at begging

[burkenshaw]

Gives me goosebumps just listening to it!!

AIC the real deal!!

[GeetarAdam]

The real AIC, right here, ladies and gents. Naturally, the masses won't appreciate this song, but this, to me, is the kind of jazz that truly made AIC what they were.

[DaveS12382]

really, and how old are you?

[GeetarAdam]

28.

[darknes7800]

Toward the end, even sick, high and intraverted, Layne could still sing like a lark (his own quote), just listen to some of his last work with Mad Season...the vocals are amazing!!!! RIP LAYNE!!!!!

[GeetarAdam]

Yep. A master of the highest order. And his friends laughed when he said he wanted to sing for a band............

[DaveS12382]

young fool, he recorded self titled "tripod" with AIC after the Madseason album not to mention the unplugged alice in chains album. Clearly you have no clue. Oh yeah , by the way the actual last shit Staley did was a cover of "Another brick in the wall" with class of '99 and the two songs with AIC recorded specifically for a box set. "Get Born again" and "Died:" That was all in '98 ,he did nothng after that except a lot of heroin and cocaine.

[darknes7800]

Nothing to get pissed about grasshopper...my point was the quality of the vocals on "some of his last work", I didnt say it was the last thing he did. There are a number of songs on MS where there is little or no reverb / echo and he sounded great!!!!! Sounds like we are all AIC / Layne fans...cant we just get along! LOL Peace.

[csplendrig]

did you just call someone a grasshopper? lol you got problems man

[darknes7800]

You must have never watched Kung Fu with David Carradine!! LOL

[nothingsafe84]

excellent band...rip layne...I love you!

[wwemattlord1]

Layne staley had so much soul, and deep vocal ability, that it was absolutely beautiful, and he will always be remembered, I love u man, cya in heaven!!

[jesusisnotlord2]

@wwemattlord1 lol heaven

[recaulkulous]

"You know those doctors never did me no good" I guess not!

[jujuxbees]

I definitally would like to say that this is my favorite song by AIC.

BUT, I like the demo better. The fast pace goes better with the lyrics.

[The420guitarist]

the demo is much better and the guitar is much more fun

[bassist11223]

i love the sound of the snare drum on this one

[aznbok18]

He made this song when he was bored out his fucking mind! ohh yea!!

[barrera131]

So real thing its the original song? im confused

[userx666666]

No, "Heroin" is the original. "Real Thing" is the remake. The demo is way better, I think --

/watch?v=w8hxpZbPE04

[giefcookiepl0x]

I really like the demo version of this song better

[R3N1GM4]

Yeah I agree, the demo is better I think.

[liakosjam]

one of the best of AIC.Pure grunge song of their early years!!!

[KurtCocaineNevermind]

sexual chocolate baby!

[R3N1GM4]

Anyone know what the fuck sexual chocolate is supposed to be? Or is it just Layne being Layne?

[beebosean]

its him reffering to what heroin is to him.

[R3N1GM4]

Oh, I see. Damn, you'd think that'd be obvious to me considering the whole song is about that. Durr, *facepalm*.

[recaulkulous]

In the Eddie Murphy movie "Coming to America" They do a parody of a totally cheesy R&B band called "Sexual Chocolate". At the end of the set (with no applause) The lead singer says something like "give it up for Sexual Chocolate... Sexual Chocolate baby! (still no applause). Its hard to explain... but that's where it came from, the movie "Coming to America." Layne, with his true twisted sense of humor, adopted it.

[evanhippieman]

sexual chocolate is heroin! where he came from that was the street name for it. Though i do see your point and that very well mabey but i think im right just because i grew up in his town and stll cant get off heroin

[recaulkulous]

'That makes sense.... but it came from the movie!

[90srock]

for the record this song has always been called real thing. they recorded two verions the album version and the funk version (demo)

[moreoreos123]

i like the demo version a bit better than this

[sokolidedaj]

i found this track named heroin and its a bit faster

[R3N1GM4]

I found it called 'Heroin' also, but I realized it was wrongly titled. It's just the demo version of 'Real Thing'.

[SpecteR321]

Both versions are pretty badass, this: the slow badass tempo and tune...

The Faster one: the badass fast paced, 'crazy' one... gotta love Layne... R.I.P. Man...

[Dresden718]

fuck yea......these guys rock

[neckvein1]

Yeah I Like the demo better....I downloaded it as Heroin on Limewire(in case anyone cares!!!)

[cgmsdh]

Same.

I made a drum cover(not advertising, just saying).

And I think the quality of "Heroin" fits better with the blues-y/Grunge sound anyway.

[taniwhaka]

yeah, that one is wicked

[theofelix08]

sean kinney's triplets

[deadscarlet]

Thanks for posting this.

[boganchase]

I like the live version better

[TickleMeAdrian]

<3 this song

[evilkrikett]

Sexual Chocolate Baby!!!!!

[Marcelis]

hahahaha

[evilkrikett]

did u thumbs me down?

[Marcelis]

no, that was there when i got here

[andrewjohnmasters]

Props for whoever thought of that, probably Kinney he seems slightly perverted.

[evilkrikett]

lol

[Justinafifan24]

the demo is better.

this song is about drugs.

[GutiarFag]

YES. IT WAS FASTER. AND AWESOME.

[ialessandro14]

two snaked and a rabbit to synstruct

don't turn yourself into a faun to cross the river

faggot

[ABR0733]

I grew up, went into rehab

You know the doctors never did me no good

They said son youre gonna be a new man

I said thank you very much and

Can I borrow fifty bucks?

[mikhailoch]

Awesome!

5/5

[bobthegoo]

easily the best AIC song... fuckin badass!!

[franknirvana]

I like the demo better.

[madprofe55or]

Yeah the demo is much better.

[seethedevil]

QUE CANCION TAN BUENA

[Vincentocrippling]

BEST SONG EVER MADE!

[luvingrid]

oh my...this song is awesome, thanks for posting it!

ALICE IN CHAINS \m/ this band brings me sucha joy in life :D

[LLDOG]

aic one of the best bands ever

rip layne-

[BringBackSlavery]

This helps me sleep at night when I cry alone and no one hears me

[TilderyKoadil]

hahahah

[kyle8769]

lmao

[synstruct]

lmffao hahahaha stupid dont u know everyone hears u , they cant help cause they are busy laughing into their pillows

[eddied29]

FUUUUUUUUCK i LOVE this song!

[14ledzeppelin14]

BEST. SONG. EVER.

[GibLesStrat]

I messed around as a little boy i grew up and made the blade my new toy.