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Kurt Cobain Hated Tool’s ‘Sober’ Music Video so Much He Hoped They’d Get ‘Sued’ Over It

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Kurt Cobain wasn’t a big fan of Tool. It seems his issues with them were mostly over the band’s music video for the 1993 song “Sober”. According to a story from Ultimate Guitar, Cobain felt like the “Sober” video was a ripoff of Stephen and Timothy Quay. The Quay Brothers are stop-motion animators whom Cobain and the Tool fellas were both fans of. Speaking in a 1993 interview, Cobain decried the “Sober” music video, saying he hoped Tool would ge…

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Vice broke the news in New York, United States on Wednesday, December 17, 2025.
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