Saturday, June 19, 2010

Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music...Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop (1996)

This album definitely brings me back to the time I was living down in the Bay Area. My father had this on cassette and we'd always listen to it while we went anywhere. I was looking through the used CD's at Rasputin and I crossed paths with Tiny Music at 1.95. It was a must buy at that low price. Sometimes you get lucky skimming in the unorganized used section but, I was pretty lucky to get it dirt cheap as it was on stands for a couple bucks more. It always seemed to me that STP's third album never got the respect that the previous two albums did. Purple and Core are great albums but it could make an argument of that Tiny Music can possibly have more depth than the previous releases. You can definitely tell there's Led Zeppelin influence in this album which is the thing I like about Stone Temple Pilot albums always sound different and none sound the same. It's a good idea for any band to make diversity a priority while recording songs as they did an excellent job of exploring musical talents within the band to go further into there musical capabilities. Songs to check out are "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart", "Big Bang Baby" and "Pop's Love Suicide".

1. "Press Play" Stone Temple Pilots 1:21
2. "Pop's Love Suicide" D. DeLeo, S. Weiland 3:40
3. "Tumble in the Rough" S. Weiland 3:18
4. "Big Bang Baby" R. DeLeo, S. Weiland 3:21
5. "Lady Picture Show" R. DeLeo, S. Weiland 4:06
6. "And So I Know" R. DeLeo, S. Weiland 3:56
7. "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart" E. Kretz, S. Weiland 2:54
8. "Art School Girl" R. DeLeo, S. Weiland 3:32
9. "Adhesive" R. DeLeo, S. Weiland 5:31
10. "Ride the Cliché" D. DeLeo, S. Weiland 3:15
11. "Daisy" R. DeLeo 2:13
12. "Seven Caged Tigers" D. DeLeo, S. Weiland 4:17

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