THE HIDDEN ROOM: Stone Temple Pilots : Purple (Super Deluxe Edition)

Stone Temple Pilots : Purple (Super Deluxe Edition)

BREATHING IS THE HARDEST

THING TO DO

WITH ALL I SAID

AND ALL THAT'S

DEAD FOR YOU

YOU LIED

GOODBYE...

Purple

stylized on the cover art

in its Chinese character 紫

is the second

studio album

by the American

rock band

Stone Temple Pilots

released on

June 7, 1994,

by Atlantic Records.

Expanding on the band's

grunge roots,

the album

incorporates more genres,

such as psychedelic rock,

blues rock,

and country.

The band started work

on the album while

touring for their debut,

Core

(1992).

The song

"Big Empty"

was recorded on

May 25, 1993

and appeared in

the 1994 film

The Crow,

while the rest of the album

was recorded in

March 1994.

Purple

was a major

commercial success,

debuting at number 1

on the Billboard 200,

and remaining at

the top of the chart

for three weeks,

with 252,000 copies sold

in its first week.

The album spawned a

number of successful singles;

"Vaseline"

and

"Interstate Love Song"

both topped the

Mainstream Rock

Tracks chart and

reached number 2

on the

Modern Rock

Tracks chart,

while

"Big Empty"

also reached the

top ten on

both charts.

Lesser-known album cuts

"Pretty Penny"

and

"Unglued"

were released as

promotional singles

to success on

rock charts.

While receiving

mixed-to-negative

reviews on release,

Purple

is retrospectively seen as

one of the best albums

of the 1990s,

with

Ultimate Classic Rock

declaring it a

"psychedelic grunge opus."

The album has since

been certified

6× Platinum

by the Recording Industry

Association of America

(RIAA).

In 2019,

to celebrate its

25th anniversary,

a Super Deluxe Edition

with remasters,

demos and

live performances

was released.

(This One)

A summer tour to celebrate

the album's

30th anniversary

started on

August 16, 2024,

and ended on

September 15,

with the band

performing the

entire album

each night

TRACKLIST

CD 1

Meat Plow

Vasoline

Lounge Fly

Interstate Love Song

Still Remains

Pretty Penny

Silver Gun Superman

Big Empty

Unglued

Army Ants

Kitchen Ware & Candy Bars/ My Second Album

Big Empty

(Live)

(MTV Unplugged) [*]

Vaseline

(Vocal Mix) [*]

CD 2

Meatplow

(Early Version)

Interstate Love Song

(Early Version)

Big Empty

(Acoustic)

Unglued

(Demo)

Army Ants

(Demo)

Kitchenware & Candybars

(Demo)

Dancing Days

She Knows Me Too Well

(Demo)

Interstate Love Song

(Acoustic)

Pretty Penny

(Live At Kroq Acoustic Christmas, 1994)

Kitchenware & Candybars

(Acoustic Version)

(Live At Kroq Acoustic Christmas, 1994)

Christmastime Is Here

(Live Acoustic At Kroq Acoustic Christmas)

CD 3

Live At New Haven

Veterans Memorial Coliseum,

New Haven, Ct,

8/23/1994

Vasoline