Meanwhile, Weiland memorably sings, "All these things I think about / I think about / They always come unglued" and somehow wants us to believe that "moderation is masturbation" on his way to a singalong chorus hook.
There's a punkish intensity to Dean DeLeo's power-chord riffing, which feel like "The KKK Took My Baby Away" as Mudhoney would play it. 3 on Billboard's mainstream-rock charts, No. The lead single from their second album "Purple," having first appeared on the soundtrack to "The Crow," it peaked at No. With its slide guitar and gently strummed acoustic, the intro is practically Harrison-esque for a second or two - until the brooding minor chords take over and Weiland starts singing in a raspy whisper, sighing "Smoke a cigarette and lie some more." Then, a wave of electric guitars comes crashing in on the anthemic chorus and it couldn't be more 1994. But it makes the song more powerful as a commentary on the sense of entitlement those football players may have felt. Because he sings those lyrics from the viewpoint of the rapist, some felt they were glorifying rape. This was STP's first single, driven by a simple yet effective Dean DeLeo fuzz-guitar riff, its brooding swagger underscoring Weiland's sneered delivery of lyrics inspired by three high-school football players raping a girl he was dating. The second single from "Purple," it topped the mainstream-rock charts, hitting No. The chorus is '90s alterna-rock radio gold, Weiland stuck in the Vaseline again - a metaphor, he says, for heroin addiction. This one fades in on Robert DeLeo running his bassline through a wah-wah pedal before settling into an insistent yet hypnotic two-note Dean DeLeo fuzz-guitar riff. 4 on Billboard's mainstream-rock charts, No. It effortlessly makes its way from hook to hook, from the opening verse that could have been a chorus to the psychedelic breakdown as Weiland reflects on how his heroin addiction wrecked his marriage: "Four days of the week, she thinks I'm the enemy." The first single from "Shangri-La Dee Da," it peaked at No. Like "Cinnamon," "Days of Week" is a midtempo rocker that's closer to power-pop than the stuff that got them saddled with the g-word. Meanwhile, Weiland weighs in on the end of his first marriage with "She was a happy girl the day that she left me." The third single released from "No.
And it's not so far removed in sound or spirit from what seemed to happen any time the Red Hot Chili Peppers wove some psychedelic touchstones into their sound. This is one of their trippier midtempo rockers.
Guitarist Dean DeLeo said his brother, Robert, was "thinking Animals or Zombies, a '60s go-go beat and a girl in a miniskirt" when he came up with the music, but it's closer to the punk side of '60s garage as filtered through '90s Seattle. Taken from that self-titled album, this muscular rocker explores a more aggressive side of STP, crashing the gate with a primal guitar riff and following through with a singalong chorus that kicks in like Nirvana in their prime as Weiland sings, "You always were my favorite drug / Even when we used to do drugs." The first single from "Stone Temple Pilots," it topped the rock and alternative-songs charts and earned a Grammy nomination. 29 on the Billboard alternative-songs chart. The song was inspired by Weiland's relationship with his former wife, setting the tone with a melancholy plea of "I'd like to sing a story for you / Here's what I'd sing if I could impress you." The third single from "Stone Temple Pilots," it peaked at No. As the music world reacts to breaking news that Scott Weiland has died, reportedly found dead in Minnesota on his tour bus, here's a look back at the best songs the singer recorded with Stone Temple Pilots, from their zeitgeist-grabbing breakthrough "Plush" and "Purple" through their surprisingly solid reunion album, 2010's "Stone Temple Pilots."Īlthough Weiland went on to continued success with the supergroup Velvet Revolver featuring several Guns N' Roses members and released a string of solo albums, including this year's raucous "Blaster" with his touring band, the Wildabouts, it's the best of the songs he recorded with Stone Temple Pilots that are destined to define the singer's legacy.įrom the simple pop gold of its opening riff to those airy harmonies that underscore the chorus hook, this bittersweet midtempo rocker clearly falls on the power-pop side of the STP spectrum.
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