Urge Overkill
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Artist's top tracks
| Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon | Urge Overkill | 03:09 | |
| Positive Bleeding | Urge Overkill | 03:42 | |
| Sister Havana | Urge Overkill | 03:53 | |
| Dropout | Urge Overkill | 04:57 | |
| Somebody Else's Body | Urge Overkill | 03:48 | |
| Back On Me | Urge Overkill | 03:12 | |
| Last Night / Tomorrow | Urge Overkill | 05:21 | |
| Forgiven | Urge Overkill | 03:22 | |
| Tequila Sundae | Urge Overkill | 04:19 | |
| View Of The Rain | Urge Overkill | 04:46 |
Most popular release
| Sister Havana | |
| Tequila Sundae | |
| Positive Bleeding | |
| Back On Me |
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Biography
Most remembered for their loungey, crooning cover of 'Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon' which was used in the iconic movie 'Pulp Fiction', 90s alternative rock outfit Urge Overkill mixed the grungey, distorted guitars of the era with a love of kitsch Las Vegas glitz and swinging '70s pop to create their unique sound.
Formed in Chicago in 1985 by front man Nash Kato and guitarist Eddie Roeser whilst studying at Northwestern University in Chicago, Kato's roommate Steve Albini recorded their first EP 'Strange, I.' and the underground popularity of albums 'Americruiser' and 'The Supersonic Storybook' led to a major label deal with Geffen and support slots with Nirvana and Pearl Jam.
Dressed in velvet suits and gold medallions they couldn't quite fit in with the grunge crowd and the album 'Saturation' didn't land the rock stardom enjoyed by so many of their peers, but when Quentin Tarantino heard their version of Neil Diamond's 1967 hit they were soon thrust to wider attention. Used in a memorable scene in which Uma Thurman's character overdoses, 'Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon' became the band's big, recognisable anthem and played on heavy rotation on MTV and in bars across the world. The band's other cult, college radio favourite was single 'Sister Havana', a strutting slice of spiky alt-pop, but after the heavier, darker fifth album 'Exit the Dragon' they split in 1997. They returned in 2007 with new album 'Rock & Roll Submarine' and went on to support Weezer and re-issue their classic EP 'Stull'.