The song was included on the band's compilation albums Nothing Safe: Best of the Box (1999), Greatest Hits (2001) and The Essential Alice in Chains (2006).

[4] When discussing the use of odd time signatures in a 1998 interview with Guitar World, Cantrell said: "I really don't know where that comes from; it just comes naturally to me.

Off-time stuff is just more exciting — it takes people by surprise when you shift gears like that before they even know what the hell hit 'em.

[5]Jerry Cantrell said of the song in a 1993 interview with RIP Magazine: "We [Alice in Chains] definitely have a very sarcastic sense of humor even toward ourselves.

It's hard for a lot of people to talk about emotions that are really deep pain and hurt and shit like that.

[6] In the liner notes of 1999's Music Bank box set collection, Cantrell said of the song: "I was just thinking about mortality, that one of these days we'll end up a pile of bones.

Ned Raggett of AllMusic called the song "a brief, tightly wound explosion of sheer, inescapable riff power, focused and relentless" and added that "having made its point in two and a half minutes it stops — not a note is wasted".

In 2006, Swedish death metal band Grave covered the song which appears on their seventh album, As Rapture Comes.

In 2009, American deathcore band Suicide Silence covered the song which appears as a bonus track on the iTunes special edition of their second album, No Time to Bleed.

An EP released in 2010 by the German black metal band Secrets of the Moon also features a cover version.

In 2023, American rapper Post Malone covered the song on The Howard Stern Show.

[14] "Them Bones" is featured on the soundtrack of the English version of Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie.