Purple (Stone Temple Pilots album)

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Purple is the second album released by the American rock band Stone Temple Pilots, on June 7, 1994, by Atlantic Records. It contains several of the band's biggest hit songs, including "Vasoline," "Interstate Love Song," and "Big Empty," which was also featured on The Crow soundtrack. The album was a big success for STP, debuting at #1 and being certified 6x platinum. In 2006, the album was ranked number 73 on Guitar World magazine's list of the greatest 100 guitar albums of all time.[1]

History

The lyric "she said she'd be my woman, she said she'd be my man" from "Lounge Fly" also appears on the Mighty Joe Young Demo in the song "Spanish Flies".

The band debuted the first single, "Big Empty", at their MTV Unplugged performance acoustically. The song would later appear on the soundtrack to The Crow.

Title

The album title, "Purple," is written as a Chinese character on the cover, and nowhere else on the packaging (including along the spine). When asked about the title in an interview, Scott Weiland replied "It's my favorite color. It's the color of bruises."

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Meatplow"	Robert DeLeo, Dean DeLeo, Scott Weiland	3:37
2.	"Vasoline"	Stone Temple Pilots	2:56
3.	"Lounge Fly"	R. DeLeo, Weiland	5:18
4.	"Interstate Love Song"	R. DeLeo, Weiland	3:14
5.	"Still Remains"	R. DeLeo, D. DeLeo, Weiland	3:33
6.	"Pretty Penny"	D. DeLeo, Weiland	3:42
7.	"Silvergun Superman"	R. DeLeo, D. DeLeo, Weiland	5:16
8.	"Big Empty"	D. DeLeo, Weiland	4:54
9.	"Unglued"	R. DeLeo, Weiland	2:35
10.	"Army Ants"	D. DeLeo, Weiland	3:46
11.	"Kitchenware & Candybars" (see below)	R. DeLeo, Weiland	8:07

Notes

Track 11, "Kitchenware & Candybars", contains a hidden track named "My Second Album", which is a parody of most hidden tracks being unorthodox songs that the band would make. It was performed by Richard Peterson, a musician who happens to be a big fan of Johnny Mathis, hence the reference to Mathis in the song.

Personnel

• Stone Temple Pilots – design
• Dean DeLeo – acoustic guitar, percussion, drums, electric guitar
• Robert DeLeo – bass, guitar, percussion
• Nick DiDia – engineer
• Clay Harper – assistant engineer
• Eric Kretz – percussion, drums
• Paul Leary – ending guitar solo on "Lounge Fly"
• Brendan O'Brien – producer, engineer, mixing, mellotron on "Army Ants"
• Scott Weiland – vocals, percussion, guitar
• Dale Sizer – illustrations
• Caram Costanzo – assistant engineer
• John Heiden – design

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1994	The Billboard 200	1
1994	UK Albums Chart	10
1994	Australian Albums Chart	1

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1994	"Big Empty"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	3
1994	"Big Empty"	Modern Rock Tracks	7
1994	"Big Empty"	Top 40 Mainstream	40
1994	"Interstate Love Song"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	1
1994	"Interstate Love Song"	Modern Rock Tracks	2
1994	"Interstate Love Song"	Top 40 Mainstream	22
1994	"Vasoline"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	1
1994	"Vasoline"	Modern Rock Tracks	2
1994	"Unglued"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	8
1994	"Unglued"	Modern Rock Tracks	16
1995	"Pretty Penny"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	12