Friday, November 28, 2003

Foo Fighters start to grind. The Foo Fighters remake of Prince's "Darling Nikki," released as a B-side gag, has become an unexpected hit. It's hard to believe now, but the song was once so scandalous it inspired the movement to put warning records on albums: The world might have been a slightly different place if an 11-year-old Karenna Gore could have prevented her mother from listening to her Purple Rain cassette: "Darling Nikki" has the near-mythological honor in pop trivia of being the song that compelled Tipper Gore to co-found the Parents Music Resource Center with other congressional wives, who in 1985 successfully pressured big record companies to create a warning-label system for pop records. The song's included on the Foo Fighters' Everywhere But Home concert DVD released Tuesday. [Workbench] 10:07:16 PM

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