“Stardog Champion” by Mother Love Bone

"Stardog Champion" is on Apple, the one and only full-length studio album from Mother Love Bone, released on August 14, 1990, through Stardog/Mercury. The music credit goes to five names, Jeff Ament, Bruce Fairweather, Greg Gilmore, Stone Gossard and singer Andrew Wood, with Gossard credited for the words.

The album arrived under a shadow. Days before its planned release, Wood overdosed on heroin, and he died after a few days in a coma, which brought the band to an end. Apple kept moving anyway, finally climbing to 34 on the Top Heatseekers chart in 1992. Rolling Stone's review heard the dynamics that made Zep great, given a new-decade twist, The New York Times wondered if it was among the decade's first great hard-rock albums, and in 2016 Rolling Stone ranked it 18th among the greatest one-album wonders.

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