3 Eternal Stone Temple Pilots Songs That Will Rattle Music Fans’ Bones Forever

From the late 1980s until the early 2000s, Stone Temple Pilots wrote and recorded music that shook the frames of houses, the bones of music fans, and the clouds upon high. While the group was from San Diego and not the Pacific Northwest, they are associated with the grunge movement. And for good, sludgy rock reasons.

Here below, we wanted to explore three songs from the iconic earthshaking group that have stood the test of time. A trio of tracks that boom and kaboom. Indeed, these are three eternal Stone Temple Pilots songs that will boom forever.

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“Interstate Love Song” from Purple (1994)

This song from the band’s hit 1994 album Purple blends the buzzy, sludgy sounds of grunge with a distinct ear for melody. The track, which hit No. 1 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks, is a mournful, melancholy tune about deceit and heartbreak. When delivered with lead singer Scott Weiland’s deep vocals, the tune takes on especially big resonance. Emotional and broken, he also seems foreboding and doom-filled. Indeed, on the track, he sings,

Waitin’ on a Sunday afternoon
For what I’ve read between the lines
Your lies
Feelin’ like a hand in rusted shame
So do you laugh or does it cry?
Reply?

Leavin’ on a southern train
Only yesterday you lied
Promises of what I seemed to be
Only watched the time go by
All of these things you said to me

“Plush” from Core (1993)

Even darker and more brooding than the one above, this song from the band’s 1993 LP Core also hit No. 1 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart. It offers a sense of hope in the lyrical delivery from lead vocalist Weiland. The song reads almost like a stream-of-consciousness track about existentialism, existence, and confusion. On the tune, Weiland belts ideas about masks and dogs and waiting for tomorrow. Indeed, the big-voiced singer wails,

And I feel that time’s a-wasting, go
So where ya going to tomorrow?
And I see that these are lies to come
So would you even care?

And I feel it
And I feel it

Where ya going for tomorrow?
Where ya goin’ with the mask I found
And I feel, and I feel
When the dogs begin to smell her
Will she smell alone?

“Vasoline” from Purple (1994)

This song, which also hit No. 1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, is about feeling like an insect under a microscope, said Weiland. Incredibly, the song comes from a misheard lyric where a young Weiland thought the Los Angeles-born classic rock band the Eagles sang the line, Flies in the Vaseline, but they were really singing Life in the Fast Lane. One man’s fast lane is another’s cheap salve, it would seem. And on the tune, Weiland sings,

Flies in the vasoline we are
Sometimes it blows my mind
Keep getting stuck here all the time

Isn’t you, isn’t me
Search for things that you can’t see
Going blind out of reach
Somewhere in the vasoline

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