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I'll Stick Around

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Released
  
September 4, 1995

Length
  
3:52 4:10 (live)

Genre
  
Post-grunge

Label
  
Roswell/Capitol

Format
  
CD CD-R Vinyl (7" & 12") Cassette

Recorded
  
October 1994 at Robert Lang Studios in Seattle May 25, 1997 at Manchester Apollo in Manchester (live)

"I'll Stick Around" is the second single released by the Foo Fighters from their 1995 self titled debut album Foo Fighters.

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Music video

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.

Other versions

  • A live version recorded on May 25, 1997 at the Manchester Apollo was released as a B Side to the CD2 version of the Everlong single.
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic included "I'll Stick Around" in his polka medley "The Alternative Polka", from Bad Hair Day.

    • Personnel on record

    Dave Grohl - guitars, vocals, bass, drums

    Personnel in video

  • Dave Grohl - guitar, vocals
  • Nate Mendel - bass
  • Pat Smear - guitar
  • William Goldsmith - drums

    • Track listings

    UK promo CD/ US promo CD

    1. "I'll Stick Around"

    7" Red Vinyl single / Cardsleeve CD Single

    1. "I'll Stick Around"
    2. "How I Miss You"

    UK CD single/12" vinyl single

    1. "I'll Stick Around"
    2. "How I Miss You"
    3. "Ozone" (Ace Frehley cover)

    Japanese CD Maxi-Single

    1. "I'll Stick Around"
    2. "How I Miss You"
    3. "Ozone" (Ace Frehley cover)
    4. "For All the Cows" (live at the Reading Festival, August 26, 1995)"
    5. "Wattershed" (live at the Reading Festival, August 26, 1995)"

    References

    I'll Stick Around Wikipedia
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