“Nothingness (remix)” by Living Colour

"Nothingness" is a ballad from Stain, Living Colour's third album, released in 1993, and it went out as the record's third single; this is the remixed version, with Ron Saint Germain holding the recording and mixing credits. Drummer Will Calhoun wrote it as a tribute after his father's death, and its words dwell on isolation and loneliness.

It opens on chirping crickets and a guitar figure that sounds close to a synthesizer, and it's the bass that carries it, dropping in flashy, funky fills. Corey Glover's doubled vocal came from a strange trick: he sang straight into a satellite dish set up outdoors, the mic parked where the feedhorn goes, which is why the single's sleeve had a satellite theme. It climbed to 17 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks and later landed on the hits collections Pride and Everything Is Possible.

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