I'll Stick Around
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| Single by Foo Fighters | ||||||
| from the album Foo Fighters | ||||||
| Released | September 4, 1995 | |||||
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| Recorded | October 1994 at Robert Lang Studios in Seattle May 25, 1997 at Manchester Apollo in Manchester (live) |
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| Genre | Post-grunge | |||||
| Length | 3:52 4:10 (live) |
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| Label | Roswell/Capitol | |||||
| Writer(s) | Dave Grohl | |||||
| Producer(s) | Foo Fighters, Barrett Jones Miti Adhikari (live) |
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"I'll Stick Around" is the second single released by the Foo Fighters from their 1995 self titled debut album Foo Fighters.
The video for this song was the first Foo Fighters music video and was directed by Jerry Casale, who was a member of and directed videos for Devo. Casale said he was chosen due to Devo's well-known surreal music videos, which would fit Grohl's request for a "non-video video", done for just $60,000. The video shows the band performing the song in a room with a paper background while lights strobe and a giant spore floats around them (the spore, described by Casale as "Foo Ball", was inspired by the foo fighter phenomenon that named the band, and its original conception was a "bloated, charred, inflated girl representing Courtney", but as Grohl's management vetoed the idea, it was replaced by an "3D HIV virus based on medical models from Scientific America (sic) magazine"). This is interspersed with footage of Dave Grohl eating chess pieces (an idea by the singer itself, done with "frame by frame stop-action animation") and brushing his teeth with what appears to be a butter knife (although there is no blood). During the choruses, Dave Grohl jumps up and down which became famous when fans would jump around like Grohl during live performances. The video was featured in an episode of Beavis and Butt-head.
Dave Grohl - guitars, vocals, bass, drums
UK promo CD/ US promo CD
7" Red Vinyl single / Cardsleeve CD Single
UK CD single/12" vinyl single
Japanese CD Maxi-Single
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