And it’s a sort of disjointed dark record.” “And by the time we were recording our next record we were not getting a long very well and that’s reflected in the grooves. “ Saturation was sort of consciously and almost kind of tongue and cheek was a commercial sound, it was kind of slick and sunny,” says Roeser. But by industry standards, the album bombed. With the added name recognition, their next album Exit the Dragon, should have been a hit. He’s quite sure he wants your, you know, $5 version.’” “I think our reaction at the time, wasn’t it, ‘Are you sure that he wants our version? He must mean Neil’s version?’ ‘No, no. Kato says it was a surprise because it’s a song from their first EP. Legend has it Tarantino found it in a cut-out bin while in Amsterdam. Their song, “Sister Havana,” made the radio waves, and their cover of the Neil Diamond song “Girl, You’ll be a Woman Soon” became a classic off the Pulp Fiction soundtrack. It wasn’t really a realistic aim.”īut they took off.

“That was our joke, that we were gonna make it big. “God knows when we picked up guitars the idea of us doing it as careers was a ridiculous dream and it was, we sort of made a joke of it,” explains Roeser. Their tongue-in-cheek rock star pomp, penchant for wearing flamboyant suits, and medallions irked some people. Shortly beforehand, Urge Overkill was opening for Nirvana. That album, along with breakout albums by Liz Phair and Smashing Pumpkins, put Chicago on the burgeoning alternative rock map. In 1993 they released their major label debut, Saturation. What the band unwittingly signed up for in the early-‘90s was the crest of a Chicago music wave. Really, it’s in the job description – you just don’t read that fine print when you sign up,” says Urge Overkill’s Nash Kato. “To have every rock cliché in the book befall the band, you know I mean it’s always money, ego, drugs, what have you, they’re all clichés. So how did it happen, and what’s different the second time round? For WBEZ, Althea Legaspi has the story of their return. But just when they were about to hit serious music heights the Chicago band imploded. Urge Overkill was in overdrive in the mid-nineties. To stay up to date on the stories that matter. wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Urge_Overkill_Saturation.WBEZ brings you fact-based news and information.wikidata:Saturation (Urge Overkill album).yago-res:Saturation (Urge Overkill album).freebase:Saturation (Urge Overkill album).'Sister Havana' charted highly on both the modern rock and mainstream rock charts, peaking at numbers 6 and 10, respectively, while 'Positive Bleeding' became a minor rock radio hit. The label released 'Sister Havana' and 'Positive Bleeding' as singles in the US and Europe. Saturation was Urge Overkill's debut on Geffen Records, and a deliberate attempt at a hit record. Saturation is the fourth album by American alternative rock group Urge Overkill, released in 1993 and produced by the Butcher Bros.wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Urge_Overkill_Saturation.jpg?width=300.The graphic art for the album cover is an artistic depiction of the Houston, Texas city skyline. The quote is from Season 5, Episode 6, titled 'Fools Die Twice'. At the end of 'Erica Kane', a piece of dialogue by McGarrett from Hawaii Five-O is played before the music starts. The two would split frontman duties on their next album Exit the Dragon and their 2011 comeback Rock & Roll Submarine. Saturation is also notable for the fact that Nash Kato – rather than King Roeser, the band's usual de facto lead vocalist – sings lead on almost the entire album.

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