Stone Temple Pilots - Purple (w/ guest Zach Calhoun)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2016

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Musician Zach Calhoun (from Cadet, cadetcadets.bandcamp.com) joins Bill and Brian to discuss Stone Temple Pilots transformative sophomore effort Purple (1994, Atlantic). After debuting with the 8 million-selling Core (home to mega-hits "Plush," "Creep," and "Sex Type Thing"), STP fell into grunge's bottom tier as far as critics were concerned. Purple was the band's successful attempt to right the ship and show the world there was quite a bit more to them than just power chords. Zach tells us how he discovered this album via his brother's cassette tape and it helped shape his love of alternative music. Bill, Brian, and Zach discuss the albums cool artwork, how people who say that only one song off an album is good don't get it, Weiland's powerful voice, the negative stigma surrounding the band, Dean's awesome chord voicings, Robert's wild bass playing, a little on Weird Al, Chester Bennington and the band's legacy, and much more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	I'm Hello and welcome to the great albums podcast. My name's Bill.
0:36.9	And I'm Brian.
0:37.8	And what we just listening to right there, Brian. That was Interstate Love Song by Stone
0:42.3	Temple Pilots off of their June 7th, 1994, sophomore album, Purple. If you've never
0:51.2	listened to the podcast before, what we do here every week is take a different album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:57.2	We try to have kind of the conversation that happens around being a fan of the music.
1:02.2	And because most of the time, we are fans of the music.
1:04.6	Most of the time.
1:05.5	So we're going to talk about what makes the album cool and what makes the artist cool, I guess.
1:10.8	And then we're going to give a little bit of background on the band so that way that everybody
1:15.3	has a way into the artist.
1:17.5	So that everybody's on the same level before we get to our track-by-track review.
1:22.0	Sounds good.
1:23.0	Yeah.
1:23.3	And we're not going to do it alone, Brian.
1:25.3	Oh, so that's what this giant coffin-shaped box that keeps, you know, that we keep hearing that knocking sound.
1:31.8	That's what that's here for.
1:34.5	Brian, you just get more and more morbid with that every week.
1:39.3	I mean, you got to come up with something new every week, dude.
1:43.4	Come on.
1:46.1	Well, we are for what it's worth, listeners. We are recording this. We usually record on Sunday afternoons. This is Monday night. So I mean, we figured, you know, now that it's getting dark out, we take the opportunity to invite a vampire onto the show.
2:00.7	And that vampire right there is Zach Calhoun.
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