Product Description

Stone Temple Pilots' second album, PURPLE, meshes guitar rock with grunge, and forges deeper into hard rock territory. Lurching out of the speakers with aggressive bottom-heavy rock, PURPLE is an example of what brought guitar-oriented rock back into the spotlight in the nineties. The 5 songs are driving, stripped to the basics of guitar, bass, and drums. PURPLE exemplifies straight ahead rock.
Embracing styles from grunge to late-1960s hard rock, Stone Temple Pilots are a band accomplished at writing abrasive rock songs, but aren't afraid of quieter acoustic melodies. The album starts with the menacing "Meat Plow", with the lyrics, "Fine place fora day full of breakdowns", leaving the listener to wonder if PURPLE is an analogy to a bruise. But as the bruise beginsto fade, so does STP's over-wrought aggression. "InterstateLove Song" shows their sensitive side both lyrically and musically, and Scott Weiland's vocals are pushed beyond his hard rock growl into a near-sensitive croon.
What makes Stone Temple Pilots click is their ability to write basic, riff-heavy guitar rock. PURPLE finds Stone Temple Pilots comfortable in their hard-rock medium, but also willing to take thechance on their softer side.

Track Listing

1. Meat Plow
2. Vasoline
3. Lounge Fly
4. Interstate Love Song
5. Still Remains
6. Pretty Penny
7. Silvergun Superman
8. Big Empty
9. Unglued
10. Army Ants
11. Kitchenware And Candy Bars

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23786 in Music
• Released on: 1994-06-06
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Overlooked classic from the 90s Grunge days
Stone Temple Pilots are a bit of a cult band these days. Obviously, the band split quite a while ago with their singer going on to front Velvet Revolver who are clearly a more commercial proposition. However, I don't think I'm alone in suggesting that overall Velvet R are yet to match the quality, authenticity and soul of some of the material produced by the Stone Temple Pilots back in the 90s. This album, representing the band's second offering, probably demonstrates this more than any other STP release.
Despite the 13 years since its original release, this is still a fresh-sounding and hugely rewarding album. It contains for me some of the band's very best songs - Interstate Love Song, Still Remains, Pretty Penny, Silvergun Superman, Big Empty and the final and incredibly powerful track, Kitchenware & Candy Bars.
Whilst never achieving the same status as such grunge heavyweights as Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots produced classic grunge rock every bit as good as their more commercial contemporaries.
If you are a fan of the genre, you cannot fail to warm to this band. This has to be considered every bit as strong as their seminal debut album Core. Highly recommended to all fans of grunge and alternative rock/metal.

STP's purple patch
From the opening slug of "Meatplow" the acoustic gem "Pretty Penny" and the sublime country tinged rock of "Interstate Love Song" this album has everything.

With a nod towards the hard riffs of Led Zep and 60's psychadelia STP hit the big time with this and it was nothing more than deserved. A great album.

12 belting melodies
It really is a puzzle to me why Stone Temple Pilots are pretty much best known for their singer fronting Velvet Revolver. All five of their albums are top quality as far as I'm concerned, and this, their second, is the best of all. We'll all have our favourites, from the grunge/country inspired "Interstate Love Song", to the thrusting and crawling "Vaseline", and my own personal favourite, the brilliant "Kitchenware and Candy Bars", which builds tension superbly before releasing you at the end. How this song isn't a bona fide rock classic acknowledged by millions is beyond me; it's one of the best kept secrets in rock. I find it impossible to listen to this song in my car without spanking the steering wheel and screaming the chorus at the top of my weak and feeble voice.

But beyond all that, it is an album without any slack whatsoever. Okay then, "Pretty Penny" I'm not too keen on, but plenty of others are, and "Silvergun Superman" more than makes up for it. This is a genuine rock classic album, that should sit in everyone's record collection.