Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music- Hybrid SACD/Individually Numbered - CD

Stone Temple Pilots' skeptics also turned a deaf ear to the records' stellar pop craftsmanship, sticky hooks, and sly commentary on music-industry machinations and fame. Not to mention the band's intent, made clear from the outset. In an interview conducted in 1994, guitarist Robert DeLeo stated: "The last thing I wanted to do with this band was make everybody believe we invented something." 

Seen through that lens and the hindsight afforded history, and appreciated independent of the self-righteous authenticity standards of the day, Tiny Music… Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop sounds borderline fearless while authoritatively checking all the right boxes for fun, flavor, and finesse. Part winking send-up, part tribute to the glitter rock age, and part middle finger towards the hip crowd that didn't know what they were missing, this mid-'90s classic repeatedly invites you to press play. 

Press Play
Pop's Love Suicide
Tumble in the Rough
Big Bang Baby
Lady Picture Show
And So I Know
Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart
Art School Girl
Adhesive
Ride the Cliché
Daisy
Seven Caged Tigers