Month: October 2026

TOOL – Prog-Metal Giants Released Controversial Single ‘STINKFIST’ Today 30 Years Ago

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Top singles from the past

1 October 2026

Prog metal rockers TOOL released controversial single
STINKFIST on 1 October 1996, 30 years ago today.

It was the opener of their 2nd album Ænima

The song title – also also referred to as “Track #1” due to the perceived offensiveness of
the actual title and perceived subject matter – fisting and drug addiction – caused changes to be made to the originally released version by TV and radio programmers, who also shortened the track.

Maynard Keenan (vocalist) explained: “‘Stink” and “fist” and the resulting perception
of “fist fucking” is actually symbolic in dealing with a friend of drummer Danny Carey who
“isn’t afraid of getting his hands dirty” rather than a “write-off” of the sexual term. Instead, fisting is a metaphor for the real cause of ailment.”

#1 in Canada, #17 in the US.

More than 185 million streams on Spotify.
The video clip has, as of today, more than
27 million views.

The music video for the song was created with stop-motion animation techniques featuring live actors, and was directed by the band’s guitarist Adam Jones (who had previous experience in art direction and animation)

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MOGWAI & IGGY POP Go ‘UNDERGROUND’

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1 October 2026

Scottish mavericks MOGWAI celebrate their 30th anniversary.

To mark the remarkable event they will release a career-spanning compilation,
with a total of 28 tracks, baptized HAPPY TEARS: THE STORY OF MOGWAI on
8 January 2027.

It will feature songs from across their career, and
also rarities from across their discography.

Tracklist and pre-order info here.

They will also include a brand new song, called UNDERGROUND
performed with no none other than your punk dog IGGY POP.

Pop: “I’ve always liked Mogwai. The opening of the track reminded me of the crushing modern loneliness. The sung vocal, felt like it was made for someone who is pissed off and doesn’t mind saying so.”


Credit: Steve Gullick

Stuart Braithwaite (Mogwai‘s guitarist/vocalist): “Hearing the Stooges had been a life-changing moment for me. Their self-titled album was pretty much my bible. It was druggy, dumb and completely primal. I’d never heard anything quite like it and even though that
band had pretty much fallen apart by the time I was born, I grew to love the three Stooges albums as much as any music I’d heard.”

Now let’s go to business. Here comes their lust for life
collaboration UNDERGROUND. A torrid motherrocker.
A happy song for happy people.

PUBLIC ENEMY Released Their Master Rap Attack Album ‘APOCALYPSE 91… THE ENEMY STRIKES BLACK’ Today 35 Years Ago

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Significant longplayers from yesteryear

1 October 2026

Notorious rap rebels PUBLIC ENEMY released their master rap attack opus
APOCALYPSE 91… THE ENEMY STRIKES BLACK on 1 October 1991, today
35 years ago.

The album title is an allusion to the titles of the films
Apocalypse Now and The Empire Strikes Back.

It peaked on #4 on the USA Billboard 200, #1 on the hip-hop-rap charts.

The band would take a new direction with their sound, partly out of necessity.
The disks for every track they had been working on for the past four to five years
had been stolen. As a result, they had to rush to re-create their music and to
put out their album in a timely manner.

AllMusic/Stephen Thomas Erlewine said: “Arriving after two records – ‘It Takes
A Nation of Millions’ and ‘Fear Of A Black Planet’ – where the words and music were
equally labyrinthine, folding back on each other in dizzying, intoxicating ways, it is a
bit of a letdown to have Apocalypse be so direct, but there is no denying that the end
result is still thrilling and satisfying, and remains one of the great records of the
golden age of hip-hop.”

Turn Up the Volume: My all-time favorite raiding-and-raving rap revolutionists.
Even a nation of millions can’t hold Public Enemy back from bringing on the noise
and shutting the racists, absolutists, and xenophobes down. For a long time they
were in every way the most important black squad in the world.

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