Blind Melon

Blind Melon's lone hit, the acoustic ditty "No Rain," gave off sweet hippie love vibes for the summer of 1993, with forlorn vocals and a moving video starring the Bee Girl, an awkward adolescent girl in a bee costume and glasses who roamed the grassy wastelands of youth in search of other hive folk to buzz and bumble with. When she finally found her apiary soulmates at the end of the video, "No Rain" was an instant tearjerker and an MTV classic. But not even the support of the insect community could get Blind Melon a second hit. Not so much hippies trying to pass for grunge as metalheads trying to pass for hippies, the Melon men didn't have their hearts in faking it. For their followup, Soup, they evidently just stitched some contorted practice-tape highlights together and hoped nobody would care. Nobody did. The lead singer, Shannon Hoon, died of drugs soon afterward; Nico collects posthumous scraps. Oh, Bee Girl, wherever you are: We remember. (ROB SHEFFIELD)

From 2004's The New Rolling Stone Album Guide