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"I'll Stick Around" is the second single released by Foo Fighters from their 1995 self titled debut album Foo Fighters.[1]

"I'll Stick Around"
Single by Foo Fighters
from the album Foo Fighters
B-side	"How I Miss You"
Released	September 4, 1995
Recorded	October 1994 at Robert Lang Studios in Seattle
Genre	Grunge alternative rock power pop
Length	3:52
Label	Roswell/Capitol
Songwriter(s)	Dave Grohl
Producer(s)	Foo Fighters, Barrett Jones Miti Adhikari (live)
Foo Fighters singles chronology
"This Is a Call" (1995) "I'll Stick Around" (1995) "For All the Cows" (1995)
Music video
"I'll Stick Around" on YouTube

Genre

The song has been labelled grunge,[2] alternative rock,[3] and power pop.[3]

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 himself, done with "frame by frame stop-action animation") and brushing his teeth with what appears to be a switchblade.[4]

The video also appeared in Beavis and Butthead.[5]

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

Musicians on the album

• Dave Grohl – guitars, vocals, bass, drums

Musicians in the music 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)"

Charts

Chart (1995)	Peak position
Australia (ARIA)[6]	61
Canada Rock/Alternative (RPM)[7]	2
European Hot 100 Singles (Music & Media)[8]	49
UK Singles (OCC)[9]	18
UK Rock & Metal (OCC)[10]	1
US Radio Songs (Billboard)[11]	51
US Alternative Airplay (Billboard)[12]	8
US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[13]	12

References

На других языках

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- [en] I'll Stick Around

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[es] I'll Stick Around

«I'll Stick Around» es el segundo sencillo del grupo Foo Fighters, extraído de su álbum debut homónimo y lanzado a mediados de 1995. Existe la creencia de que la canción trata sobre Courtney Love (viuda del cantante y líder de Nirvana, Kurt Cobain) en respuesta a su supuesto mal manejo de la legacía de Cobain y Nirvana. Una indicación de esto es la repetición exhaustiva de la frase "I don't owe you anything" (Yo no te debo nada) en el coro de la canción.

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