Tiny Music...Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop (1996) Stone Temple Pilots
Album Description:
TINY MUSIC... SONGS FROM THE VATICAN GIFT SHOP is the third album by American rock band Stone Temple Pilots, released on March 26, 1996 on Atlantic Records. TINY MUSIC... displays a drastic change in the band's sound, featuring music strongly influenced by 60's rock and bands such as The Beatles. After a brief hiatus in 1995, STP regrouped to record TINY MUSIC..., living and recording the album together in a mansion in Santa Barbara, California. The album had three singles reach #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, including "Big Bang Baby", "Lady Picture Show", and "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart."
From the onset, TINY MUSIC... finds the group dabbling with their sound: "Press Play," a one-minute instrumental rides a slinky funk groove, juiced along by returning producer Brendan O'Brien on Fender Rhodes piano. From here, the DeLeo brothers and drummer Eric Kretz show a willingness to musically experiment with Beatlesque songs ("Lady Picture Show"), a Leon Redbone-like instrumental replete with slack-guitar phrasings ("Daisy") and a loung-ey track that lulls the listener with liberal applications of vibraphone and harpsichord ("And So I Know"). Lyrically, Weiland continues to enigmatically allude to matters of personal importance -- whether it be the price of fame in "Adhesive," featuring a muted trumpet solo by Dave Ferguson that conveys the song's somber tone, or the shallowness of a fictional girlfriend in "Art School Girl." As a whole, TINY LIGHTS... gives Stone Temple Pilots the chance to shrug off the grunge mantle that many others continue to cling to.
Stone Temple Pilots: Scott Weiland (vocals, percussion); Robert DeLeo (guitar, electric harpsichord, vibraphone, bass, 6-string bass, handclaps, percussion, background vocals); Dean DeLeo (guitar, bass, 6-string bass, handclaps); Eric Kretz (Fender Rhodes piano, drums, handclaps, percussion).
Additional personnel: Dave Ferguson (trumpet); Brendan O'Brien (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Clavinet, tambourine, handclaps, percussion); Steve Stewart, Gena Rankin (handclaps).
Recorded at Westerly Ranch, Santa Ynez, California and Hollywood Sound, Los Angeles, California.
Engineers: Nick DiDia, Chris Goss & Tracy Chisholm.
Tiny Music...Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop (1996)
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Album Description:
TINY MUSIC... SONGS FROM THE VATICAN GIFT SHOP is the third album by American rock band Stone Temple Pilots, released on March 26, 1996 on Atlantic Records. TINY MUSIC... displays a drastic change in the band's sound, featuring music strongly influenced by 60's rock and bands such as The Beatles. After a brief hiatus in 1995, STP regrouped to record TINY MUSIC..., living and recording the album together in a mansion in Santa Barbara, California. The album had three singles reach #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, including "Big Bang Baby", "Lady Picture Show", and "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart."
From the onset, TINY MUSIC... finds the group dabbling with their sound: "Press Play," a one-minute instrumental rides a slinky funk groove, juiced along by returning producer Brendan O'Brien on Fender Rhodes piano. From here, the DeLeo brothers and drummer Eric Kretz show a willingness to musically experiment with Beatlesque songs ("Lady Picture Show"), a Leon Redbone-like instrumental replete with slack-guitar phrasings ("Daisy") and a loung-ey track that lulls the listener with liberal applications of vibraphone and harpsichord ("And So I Know"). Lyrically, Weiland continues to enigmatically allude to matters of personal importance -- whether it be the price of fame in "Adhesive," featuring a muted trumpet solo by Dave Ferguson that conveys the song's somber tone, or the shallowness of a fictional girlfriend in "Art School Girl." As a whole, TINY LIGHTS... gives Stone Temple Pilots the chance to shrug off the grunge mantle that many others continue to cling to.
Stone Temple Pilots: Scott Weiland (vocals, percussion); Robert DeLeo (guitar, electric harpsichord, vibraphone, bass, 6-string bass, handclaps, percussion, background vocals); Dean DeLeo (guitar, bass, 6-string bass, handclaps); Eric Kretz (Fender Rhodes piano, drums, handclaps, percussion).
Additional personnel: Dave Ferguson (trumpet); Brendan O'Brien (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Clavinet, tambourine, handclaps, percussion); Steve Stewart, Gena Rankin (handclaps).
Recorded at Westerly Ranch, Santa Ynez, California and Hollywood Sound, Los Angeles, California.
Engineers: Nick DiDia, Chris Goss & Tracy Chisholm.
Produced by Brendan O'Brien.
Track Listing:
1. Press Play - 1:08
2. Pop's Love Suicide - 3:40
3. Tumble in the Rough - 3:18
4. Big Bang Baby - 3:21
5. Lady Picture Show - 4:06
6. And So I Know - 3:56
7. Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart - 2:54
8. Art School Girl - 3:32
9. Adhesive - 5:31
10. Ride the Cliché - 3:15
11. Daisy - 2:13
12. Seven Caged Tigers - 4:17