“Low Self Opinion” by Rollins Band

"Low Self Opinion" was the MTV hit off The End of Silence, the February 1992 album that finally hauled the Rollins Band out of the underground, and it lands like a steel-toed boot: alternative metal with Henry Rollins barking up front, Chris Haskett's guitar grinding, Andrew Weiss on bass and Sim Cain on drums. All four share the writing credit.

The record was the band's first for Imago, which signed them to an eight-album deal on the strength of their set at the first Lollapalooza in 1991; with BMG handling Imago's distribution, some count it as their major-label debut, and it became the first Rollins Band release to crack the Billboard 200. Rollins found the whole thing strange, saying in 1992 that after years of records and hardly any pay, finding a royalty check in his mailbox felt odd.

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