“Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns"

Along with Shine, the debut EP by
Mother Love Bone was released on this day 1989.
Chloe Dancer/Crown Of Thorns


This was the only compilation of recordings to be released during singer, Andrew Wood's lifetime.

Fun Fact- "Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns" is actually two songs sequenced together. "Crown of Thorns" is found by itself on the band's sole studio album, Apple(1990).

Director Cameron Crowe used the song in his 1989 film “Say Anything…” but it didn’t make it onto the film's accompanying soundtrack release.

Crowe rightly corrected this three years later when he made it the centrepiece of the soundtrack to his 1992 film “Singles.”
Wood himself never experienced the astonishing global impact his city and friends had on the world in the coming years.
His tragic death one year after the release of the Shine EP (almost to the day, March 19th, 1990.


Out of his passing grew so much life-affirming music. Pearl Jam and Temple Of The Dog might never have existed, nor songs like Alice In Chains “Would?” which Jerry Cantrell wrote about his fallen friend.

They would refine their sound even more with their debut album, Apple, in 1990, further shedding the ’80s sound and, in doing so, becoming the bridge between what came before and what was to come.

This is why I’ve always said that Mother Love Bone was the bridge from Hair to Grunge. They were Pivotal.


All lyrics are written by Andrew Wood; all music is composed by Jeff Ament, Bruce Fairweather, Greg Gilmore, Stone Gossard, and Wood