Touring for Smash continued throughout the first half of 1995, playing their first shows in Japan and Australia (including appearances at Big Day Out ) and headlining tour dates with bands like Weezer , Quicksand , No Use for a Name , the Vandals , and Lunachicks . By the…
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While touring with Sonic Youth, Love got into a physical fight with Kathleen Hanna backstage at a 1995 Lollapalooza festival and punched her in the face.
The album’s recording was video recorded and released as Evolver: The Making of Youthanasia in 1995.
Between their first and second albums, Gin Blossoms contributed the single ” Til I Hear It from You ” for the soundtrack of the 1995 film Empire Records . It reached No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100. Their second major album, Congratulations I’m Sorry , was released in 1996.…
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The band’s 1995 touring schedule began in Europe in late April. In June, they went on a second tour with Black Sabbath, this time supported by Tiamat , until the band succumbed to influenza and headed back to Los Angeles and Cherokee Studios in Hollywood where they were to record…
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Their third album Heavenly followed in 1995.
In the meantime, Maná released the live album Maná en Vivo before choosing Mexican guitarist Sergio Vallín to replace Calleros and López. In 1995, the band recorded a Spanish version of Led Zeppelin ‘s ” Fool in the Rain ” (Tonto En La Lluvia) for the tribute album Encomium .
In 1995, Primus released their fourth album, Tales from the Punchbowl . It contained Primus’s most successful single to date, which is the Grammy-nominated ” Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver “. The song was accompanied by a video with the band members dressed up in cartoonish plastic cowboy costumes (similar to…
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While Alice in Chains was inactive during 1995, Staley joined the “grunge supergroup ” Mad Season , which also featured Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready , bassist John Baker Saunders from The Walkabouts , and Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin . Mad Season released one album, Above , for which…
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A rerecorded version of “De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da” was subsequently also included on the DTS-CD release of the Every Breath You Take: The Classics album in 1995.