"I'll Stick Around"
Single byFoo Fighters
from the albumFoo Fighters
B-side	"How I Miss You"
Released	September 4, 1995 (1995-09-04)[1]
Studio	Robert Lang (Seattle, Washington)
Genre	Grunge alternative rock power pop
Length	3:52
Label	Roswell Capitol
Songwriter	Dave Grohl
Producers	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" onYouTube

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

The song's lyrics are about American singer-songwriterCourtney Love. "I don't think it's any secret that 'I'll Stick Around' is about Courtney," Dave Grohl said in 2009. "I've denied it for fifteen years, but I'm finally coming out and saying it. Just read the fucking words!"^[2] The song has been labeledgrunge,^[3]alternative rock,^[4] andpower pop.^[4]

The video for this song was the first Foo Fightersmusic video and was directed byJerry Casale, who was a member of and directed videos forDevo. 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", produced with a budget of 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 thefoo fighter phenomenon that named the band, and its original conception was a "bloated, charred, inflated girl representingCourtney", but as Grohl's management vetoed the idea, it was replaced by an "3DHIV virus [sic] based on medical models fromScientific America [sic] magazine"). This is interspersed with footage of Dave Grohl eating chess pieces (an idea by the singer himself, done with "frame by framestop-action animation") and brushing his teeth with what appears to be a switchblade.^[5]

The video also appeared inBeavis and Butt-Head.^[6]

• A live version recorded on May 25, 1997, at theManchester Apollo was released as aB-side to the CD2 version of the "Everlong" single.

7-inch red vinyl single and Cardsleeve CD single

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

UK CD and 12-inch 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)

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

• 1995 singles
• 1995 songs
• American power pop songs
• Foo Fighters songs
• Songs written by Dave Grohl

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