Starting with an acoustic, Spanish-flavored riff, the Seattle quintet’s track then heads into Eagles/AM-rock radio strumming, before a sinister electric guitar brings the devil horns down. It’s a gypsy-dust rock tour-de-force: It’s folk. The music video, a funny-trippy parody of The Evil Dead directed by Michel Gondry, was in constant MTV rotation and helped make this arguably the band’s best-known song, loved by, well, just about everybody. The main attraction: This beautiful, melodic rocker inspired, like much of the LP, by the implosion of Grohl’s first marriage to photographer Jennifer Youngblood and his newfound romance with Veruca Salt’s Louise Post. But now signed with Capitol Records, the band’s second LP, The Colour and the Shape, was considered their proper coming out party.
It’s the hair-raising, electric love ballad from that guy who was in Nirvana… right? Remember, back in ’96, Grohl had only quietly released the Foo’s self-titled debut.
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