I'll Stick Around

"I'll Stick Around"
Single by Foo Fighters
from the album Foo Fighters
Released	September 4, 1995
Format	CD
Recorded	January 1995
Genre	Grunge
Length	3:52
Label	Roswell/Capitol
Writer(s)	Dave Grohl
Producer	Foo Fighters, Barrett Jones
Foo Fighters singles chronology
"This Is a Call" (1995) "I'll Stick Around" (1995) "For All the Cows" (1995)
Music sample "I'll Stick Around"

}} "I'll Stick Around" is the second major single released by the Foo Fighters from their 1995 self titled debut album Foo Fighters. From its release, the song was believed to have been written about Kurt Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, with whom the surviving members of Nirvana were constantly battling over royalties and song rights; an indication of this is the exhaustive repetition of the phrase "I don't owe you anything" in the song's chorus. Some time after the album's release, Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl confirmed this in an exclusive interview with Mojo magazine.

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). The video was featured in an episode of Beavis and Butt-head.

"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

Singles

UK promo CD/ US promo CD

1. "I'll Stick Around

7" vinyl 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 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)"

Chart positions

Chart (1995)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart	18
U.S. Hot Modern Rock Tracks	8
U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks	12
Australian Singles Chart	61
Canadian RPM Alternative 30	2

External links

• "I'll Stick Around" Official music video on YouTube