Bit of a sad one this. Nico is a rarities and B-sides album released following Blind Melon vocalist Shannon Hoon's death from a cocaine overdose in 1995. The album is named after his daughter and all proceeds went into a college trust fund for her. Blind Melon were a Psychedelic Alternative Rock band based in Los Angeles best known for their 1993 single "No Rain". "Nico" opens with a solo acoustic cover of Steppenwolf's "The Pusher" and takes in scratchy acoustic demos (including one recorded over th phone on an answer machine) right through to fully realised beautifully produced songs like "Soup", a song which their second album was named after, but was left off the eventual tracklisting for unknown reasons.
There's a cover of John Lennon's "John Sinclair", a slowed down alternate version of "No Rain" (Which is nowhere near as good as the original version) and an excellent early version of "St Andrew's Fall" entitled "St Andrew's Hall". My favouite track remains the first Blind Melon song I ever heard. Here's "Soup"...
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