While Purple features elements of grunge like its predecessor, Core, the album displays the band developing a sound influenced by other genres, such as the psychedelic rock evident in "Lounge Fly" and "Silvergun Superman", the country vibes of "Interstate Love Song" and blues rock elements of "Big Empty". Paul Leary of the Butthole Surfers is credited with playing the ending guitar solo on the song.
The lyric "She said she'd be my woman, she said she'd be my man" from "Lounge Fly" also appears in the song "Spanish Flies" on the Mighty Joe Young Demo. A couple of weeks later, Purple also reached the top of the charts, making two for the band in 1994. The song would later appear on the soundtrack to the 1994 Brandon Lee film The Crow, which reached number one on the Billboard charts. The album's first single, "Big Empty", made its debut at STP's MTV Unplugged acoustic performance in 1993. It has that kind of cadence that hits you hard and draws you in.In the spring of 1994, Stone Temple Pilots returned to the studio to work on their next album and completed it in less than a month. The lyrics are also perfect for calling out to. The song itself carries a lot of weight and makes for some good heavy listening. “This song is trudging, loud, and makes great use of both its blaring guitars and Weiland’s massive vocals, especially on the chorus. It’s a change in style for STP and ultimately decent, but it doesn’t have the same sort of grungy intensity that made this band so great. The guitar hooks also do a lot to grab your attention on this song especially with how one guitar squeals just a bit higher over the others when the chorus comes in. Weiland sings in a higher, less yearly register to the point where he sounds like a completely different person. “This is a somewhat interesting song considering how much softer STP sounded on the album this came from compared to their older grunge works. Trippin’ on a Hole in a Paper Heart (Tiny Music… Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop, 1996) “Not necessarily their most impressive song from a technical standpoint, but it embodies everything that makes rock (and STP) so great. “She was a happy girl the day she left me” etc.” “She was a sour girl the day that she met me”.
I find this song to be a pleasant tale of a bad relationship. The music video brings back a lot of memories of growing up when it was released with the weird telly tubby things in it. “This song pissed off a lot of old-time STP with its more mellow and poppy sounding touch. I think Scott Weiland loves writing these kind of double meaning lyrics–“too much trippin and my soul/sole s worn thin”…” The name itself “Still Remains” has two completely different meanings… one is love still being there and the other is someone’s dead body. “I think a lot of it is about the person you loving dying. See more: Stone Temple Pilots Albums Ranked
Who is Lady Picture Show and why is she hiding behind her bedroom door? Weiland explained in his memoir Not Dead & Not For Sale: “ is about the horrific gang rape of a dancer who winds up falling in love but can’t let go of the pain.” “Scott Weiland was in the throes of heroin addiction when he wrote the lyrics to this song, which is why the subject matter is so morose. Lady Picture Show ( Tiny Music… Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop, 1996) These words convey desperation to me, the lovely thing is, and this is what I love about Stone Temple Pilots, is that the music itself is very freeing and purposeful.”ġ2. I think that a lot of the lyrics that Scott writes are just words placed on the page with only half-a-mind given to some sort of story or meaning. “This song feels like the need to escape to me. He is also asking her if she loves him as much as he loves her and is in the will to do anything for him, “Will you follow me down now, down now”. He gives her very high regards and compares her to holy Sunday and been awaiting this day for a long time, “Ya, I’ve been waiting for my Sunday girl”. “This is song is about marriage proposal and the girl saying yes, “You’re all mine now”. It won’t get old, yet seems like it has always ‘been’ there once you’ve discovered it.” One of those timeless pieces that could have been either written 50 years ago or last week.