Soul Asylum - I Will Still Be Laughing

What this video is

Released in May 1998, 'I Will Still Be Laughing' arrived at a cultural inflection point for Soul Asylum and post-grunge alternative rock broadly. The band had gone three years since Let Your Dim Light Shine and Candy from a Stranger would prove to be their final release on Columbia Records before being dropped. The song gained its widest cultural exposure through placement in the closing credits of the 1998 Trey…

Why it matters

Represents the final commercial chapter of Soul Asylum's major-label alternative rock arc. As the last Billboard-charting single from a band that helped define post-hardcore Midwestern rock in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the video documents the genre's transition from stadium-earnest…