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On the strength of the movie's success, the song became a hit, seemingly setting the stage for a breakthrough success with 1995's Exit the Dragon. The band was really lost after 'Dragon,' and this from All Music sums it up reasonably well:Īs the band was preparing to record its follow-up to Saturation, Quentin Tarantino picked the group's cover of 'Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon' for the soundtrack to his unexpected hit, Pulp Fiction. Geffen did a great job of marketing - even the band thought so at the time.

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I meant absurd in that saying Geffen didn't know how to market them would fail to explain Geffen handling their major label debut well enough that it went gold and outsold the band's previous record by about twenty times, without anything really hit-like. (even if you did call my theory absurd.I might have gone with 'false.' - But I wonder if you have any insight on whether other labels were pursuing them after Exit the Dragon fell off the charts.were they too far gone at this point? was the band too fractured? or was there really no interest? it seems like someone, somewhere might have seen the potential. But believe me, UO's failure was as much their doing as any band's ever has been. Sometimes label and promotion problems prevent it from happening. Sometimes people don't 'get' a band until it's too late.

which isn't terribly far from the truth in some ways.

Steve Albini, who was the band's first supporter - he produced them, got them on Tough & Go and was even Nate's roommate in the early (mid-80s) days - turned against them so completely that he once prophesized in print that the band would end up performing acts of oral sex in bus stations in the end. I like all three 'main' members (others had come and gone), but they pretty much ****ed over so many people I was amazed they made it as far as they ever had. They were harmless (I was well acquainted with them and the band - still am!), but the band knew that they sort of had it coming and were scared enough to cancel events and hire security as a 'precaution.' Wish I could divulge more! There were also a group of women in Chicago who had so many (largely legitimate) grievances against the band that they started dressing up as them and infiltrating dressing rooms, record signings and other public UO 'events' and threatening to knife / poison / gas them. Geffen had every idea how to market them (the theory that they didn't is absurd) - 'Saturation' did very well! One hourly worker I know bragged about how she sent three hundred promo CDs, designed for radio giveaways, to stations in Alaska, Guam and Wyoming (etc) so as not to promote them at all, as the result of the band telling her she needed 'bigger tits.' They could have been huge, and it's interesting to note how badly they screwed things up between 'Saturation,' which did quite well, and the follow-up, 'Exit The Dragon.' Between the two albums, they alienated so many people at their label that Geffen employees used to brag about how they were going to **** over the band - and I'm not talking about higher-ups, but rather press / marketing / mail room / secretary-type people who usually are really supportive of 'cool' bands. They pissed off their label, employees, manager (constantly, though she hung in there), lawyers and nearly everyone they came in contact with, with their generally nasty, self-absorbed and ridiculous behavior and demands. It was solved (somewhat - things were never that great, but they did improve) by augmenting the band with additional members live. They knew it, and it was a constant struggle / discussion to figure out what they could do about it. They are certainly better than the Foo Fighters and have the stamina of the Chili Peppers, and were not as fey as REM. With their skills and attitude, I am really surprised that they didn't replace Nirvana as the biggest group in the country. melting the stage), and they had the album, Saturation is easily the most overlooked LP of the 90's. why not? Why didn't these guys become one of the biggest bands on the planet (or at least in the US)? They had the looks, they had the label, they had the chops (live they were incredible.