"A Looking in View" is a song by American

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band Alice in Chains, featured on their fourth studio album, '' Black Gives Way to Blue'' (2009). It was the first publicly released song from the album and was available for purchase on June 30, 2009, and for a limited time it was available as a free download through the official Alice in Chains website. Although it was not the album's first official single, Rock stations across the U.S. started playing the song after it was made available for streaming. The first official radio single, "

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", was released in August 2009. "A Looking in View" was Alice in Chains' first release with new vocalist William DuVall, who replaced the band's original singer, Layne Staley, in 2006. Vocalist/guitarist Jerry Cantrell shares lead vocals with DuVall. The song was the band's first release since 1999's "

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". Clocking in at a length of seven minutes and six seconds, it is the second longest song Alice in Chains has released as a single (official or non-official), behind the '' MTV Unplugged'' version of " Over Now", as well as their fourth longest song to date, behind "Frogs" from their self-titled 1995 album, "All I Am" from their 2018 album '' Rainier Fog'', and " Phantom Limb" from their 2013 album ''

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''. The song peaked at No. 12 on

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'' chart, at No. 38 on the ''

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'' chart, and at No. 27 on the ''

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'' chart. "A Looking in View" was nominated for a

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for Best Hard Rock Performance in 2011.

Lyrics

Guitarist and vocalist Jerry Cantrell said of the song in the press release:

Release and reception

On June 30, 2009, "A Looking in View" was made available for purchase via

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and

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, and for a limited time it was available as a free download through the official Alice in Chains website in early July. Although it wasn't the album's first radio single, Rock stations across the U.S. started playing the song. As of mid-August 2009, it has peaked at number 12 on the ''

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chart, at number 38 on the ''Billboard''

chart, and at number 27 on the ''Billboard''

chart. The song was nominated in the

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Ceremony in the category of " Best Hard Rock Performance".

In popular culture

The song was released as

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for the

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, and

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consoles, as part of Alice In Chains Pack 01, which also includes older hits " Rooster", "

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", and " No Excuses", along with "

", also from '' Black Gives Way to Blue''. It was added to the Xbox Live Marketplace and in-game Music Store for the

on September 29, 2009, and it was added to the

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on October 1, 2009.

Music video

The

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for "A Looking in View" was directed by Stephen Schuster. Shooting wrapped on June 20, 2009 and the video premiered on Alice in Chains official website on July 7, 2009. It was Alice in Chains' first music video since 1999's "

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", and the first music video since 1994's "

I Stay Away "I Stay Away" is a song from Alice in Chains' 1994 EP ''Jar of Flies'', and the second single from the album. This song marked the first time the band wrote with bassist Mike Inez. The single reached No. 10 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks ...

" that does not feature the band. It features actors Sacha Senisch, Chad Post and Devin Zephyr instead. At the 6:55 mark of the video, a woman (played by Sacha Senisch) is seen lying on a cracked desert floor similarly to the cover art of Alice in Chains' 1992 album '' Dirt''. Schuster explained the music video to VideoStatic:

Personnel

* Jerry Cantrell – lead vocals, lead guitar * William DuVall – co-lead vocals, rhythm guitar * Mike Inez – bass * Sean Kinney – drums

Chart positions

References

External links

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"A Looking in View" Uncensored music video
on

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