“Stargazer” by Mother Love Bone

"Stargazer" comes from Apple, the only full-length album Mother Love Bone ever made, which Stardog/Mercury released in August 1990. The music is credited to Jeff Ament, Bruce Fairweather, Greg Gilmore, Stone Gossard and Andrew Wood, and the words are Wood's alone.

Wood never saw the record come out. Days before its scheduled release the band's lead singer overdosed on heroin, lay in a coma for a few days and died, and Mother Love Bone ended with him. Apple came out anyway, and the critics heard what had been lost: Rolling Stone's Kim Neely said it caught the dynamics that made Zep great and gave them a fresh spin for the new decade, and David Browne in The New York Times wondered whether it was one of the first great hard-rock records of the '90s. Pitchfork later named it among the 25 best grunge albums of that decade.

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