Stone Temple Pilots - Purple (1994)

Stone Temple Pilots - Purple (1994)

Tracklist front / back album covers

1. "Meatplow"   3:37

2. "Vasoline"   2:56

3. "Lounge Fly"   5:18

4. "Interstate Love Song"   3:14

5. "Still Remains"   3:33

6. "Pretty Penny"   3:42

7. "Silvergun Superman"   5:16

8. "Big Empty"   4:54

9. "Unglued"   2:34

10. "Army Ants"   3:46

11. "Kitchenware & Candybars / Second Album" (see Notes below)   8:06

Total length:   46:59

Japanese release bonus

12. "Andy Warhol" (Live)   2:53

Total length:   49:52

25th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition (2019) disc 2: Early Versions, Demos & Acoustic

1. "Meatplow" (Early Version)   3:33

2. "Interstate Love Song" (Early Version)   3:15

3. "Big Empty" (Acoustic)   5:41

4. "Unglued" (Demo)   2:37

5. "Army Ants" (Demo)   3:59

6. "Kitchenware & Candybars" (Demo)   4:31

7. "Dancing Days"   3:55

8. "She Knows Me Too Well" (Demo)   3:04

9. "Interstate Love Song" (Acoustic)   4:00

10. "Pretty Penny" (Live Acoustic at KROQ Acoustic Christmas)   4:04

11. "Kitchenware & Candybars" (Live Acoustic at KROQ Acoustic Christmas)   4:22

12. "Christmastime Is Here" (Live Acoustic at KROQ Acoustic Christmas)   3:14

Total length:   46:15

25th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition (2019) disc 3: Live at New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum, New Haven, CT, August 23, 1994

1. "Vasoline"    3:16

2. "Silvergun Superman"   4:37

3. "Crackerman"   3:30

4. "Lounge Fly"   5:44

5. "Meatplow"   3:41

6. "Still Remains"   3:55

7. "Gypsy Davy"   1:10

8. "Pretty Penny"   3:04

9. "Creep"   3:44

10. "Andy Warhol"   2:34

11. "Army Ants"   4:50

12. "Big Empty"   4:52

13. "Interstate Love Song"   3:18

14. "Plush"   5:26

15. "Unglued"   3:22

16. "Dead & Bloated"   4:37

17. "Sex Type Thing"   4:44

Total length:   66:24

Notes

The opening of track 3, "Lounge Fly", was used as the theme for MTV News's short MTV News Break segments for several years in the mid-1990s.

Track 11, "Kitchenware & Candybars", contains a hidden track named "Second Album", which is a parody of most hidden tracks being unorthodox songs that a band wouldn't usually make. The lounge song was performed by Richard Peterson, a musician who happens to be a big fan of Johnny Mathis, hence the reference to him in the song as well as the similar cover of Olé.

STP's cover of Led Zeppelin's "Dancing Days" on the second disc of the 2019 remastered re-release first appeared on Encomium: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin, a tribute album by various artists put out by Atlantic in 1995.

Stone Temple Pilots Band Members / Musicians

Scott Weiland – lead vocals

Dean DeLeo – electric and acoustic guitars

Robert DeLeo – bass, backing vocals

Eric Kretz – drums, percussion

Brendan O'Brien – producer, recording, mixing, percussion on "Meatplow", "Interstate Love Song", "Silvergun Superman", "Army Ants" and "Kitchenware & Candybars", guitar on "Kitchenware & Candybars", mellotron on "Army Ants"

Nick DiDia – engineer

Caram Costanzo – assistant engineer

Bob Ludwig – mastering

Paul Leary – ending guitar solo on "Lounge Fly"

John Heiden – design

Dale Sizer – illustrations

Purple (stylized in Chinese text) is the 2nd studio album by the American rock band Stone Temple Pilots, released on June 7, 1994, by Atlantic Records. The album, building on the foundation laid by the band's debut album Core, was a huge success for the band, selling 252,000 copies in its first week and debuting at number one on the Billboard 200 chart and remaining there for three weeks, eventually selling over six million copies. It spawned a number of successful singles — "Vasoline" and "Interstate Love Song" both topped the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and hit number 2 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, while "Big Empty" also cracked the top ten on both charts. Lesser known album cuts "Pretty Penny" and "Unglued" were also released as promotional radio singles.