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Tiny Music... Songs From
the Vatican Gift Shop
Stone Temple Pilots
A CD Review |
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Listenability Scale |
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100% |
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The Wimp |
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Stone Temple Pilots continues to be a band that never
ceases to amaze. Their latest release, "Tiny Music...Songs from
the Vatican Gift Shop" is another classic. I can honestly say
that although Pearl Jam's "ten" is one of the greatest
albums of all time, STP, album for album, is the better band. STP
continues to blend a variety of sounds into their own talented mix.
Not taking anything away from STP's music, but it continues to be
the type where you say to yourself, "This sounds like..."
Early on, it was Pearl Jam and Soundgarden progressing now to a
seventies retro meets Jane's Addiction with a country/hula twang
thrown in. This album has been on top of my "always listen
to" pile with Dokken's "Dysfunctional" and Van
Halen's "Best of - Volume I" for the last few months. It's
a great album, and with hits like "Big Bang Baby",
"Lady Picture Show", "Tumble in the Rough", and
"Trippin' On a Hole in a Paper Heart", this album is one
of my "soon" to be published (Dude on the Right, my
editor, chuckles at this point) "Wimp's Top 25 Albums of the
All Time."
Here are my comments for each of the tunes.
| Press Play (Instrumental) |
Funky seventies retro thang. It works for me.
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| Pop's Love Suicide |
Whiny grunge song. Kinda grating but lots of
energy.
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| Tumble in the Rough ***** |
Groovin' song with some radio play.
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| Big Bang Baby ***** |
A seventies retro...STP is the only band in the
90's that has been able to pull the seventies retro thing in a
cool way.
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| Lady Picture Show ***** |
Another great song with radio play. A grunge
tune with a hidden sadness
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| And So I Know |
| A slow song that reminds me of a mild Jane's
Addiction ballad.
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| Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart ***** |
Yet again another classic. Groovin' grunge at
its finest.
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| Art School Girl |
Funky song...I love it. "I got a
girlfriend, she got a girlfriend." Hubba hubba
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| Adhesive |
Another ballad. The kind you chill with after
lovin'. Heeeyyy baby.
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| Ride the Cliché |
Another grunge sounding tune. A good song
towards the end of the CD, where most bands tend to hide the
so-so songs.
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| Daisy (Instrumental) |
Two instrumentals on one album...hmmm. Hula
music...ahhhh. (See previous note about end of album songs)
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| Seven Caged Tigers |
Good song with grunge sound. This album is
worth listening to from start to finish.
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| (Songs marked with ***** are songs that I
think would make any album great) |
Well, all in all a great album. I'm giving this one a 100% on the
Entertainment Ave! listenability scale!
That's it, I'm The Wimp! |
