In an interview from the time, drummer Eric Kretz said: “We would maybe be worrying that a song sounded a little too close to Alice In Chains or Pearl Jam, and each time Brendan talked us out of that.” “It’s pretty incredible to think that Purple was tracked, mixed and out of the door in just eleven days.” “We trusted Brendan completely and the process felt very natural,” DeLeo recalls. He also liked to leave the listener to make up their own minds as to a song’s interpretation.”Īs with Core, STP retained the services of producer Brendan O’Brien for Purple.
“But as a writer, Scott always was very poetic. “The meaning wasn’t completely obvious, but when you know what the song was about it’s a very poetic piece,” DeLeo says now. “The words are about the lies I was trying to conceal while making the Purple record,” he later admitted. Their relationship was on the rocks due to the singer’s hidden yet worsening addiction to heroin, and the words he came up with for it bled out deceit and broken promises.Įach night he would bury his shame and call Castaneda and insist that he was clean. While the band worked at Southern Tracks Recording in Atlanta, his fiancé Janina Castaneda remained at home in California. At the beginning of the video, an early 1900s silent film-esque clip of the pursuer and protagonist is shown.While recording the song for Purple, vocalist Scott Weiland threw in the Interstate part of the title. The protagonist's nose grows longer throughout the video (similar to Pinocchio), to symbolize the theme of lying in the song lyrics. The music video, directed by Kevin Kerslake, has a washed-out colour effect throughout the majority of the video and features a long-nosed protagonist escaping from an unseen pursuer. "I imagined what was going through her mind when I wrote, 'Waiting on a Sunday afternoon for what I read between the lines, your lies, feelin' like a hand in rusted shame, so do you laugh or does it cry? Reply?" "She'd ask how I was doing, and I'd lie, say I was doing fine," he admits in his autobiography Not Dead and Not For Sale. The song also reached number two on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and number 22 on the Top 40 Mainstream.Īccording to Weiland, the song dealt lyrically with a number of themes, particularly "honesty, lack of honesty, my new relationship with heroin." At the time he was having relationship troubles with his girlfriend, as he was using heroin while recording Purple but told her he no longer was. Upon its release as a single, "Interstate Love Song" reached #18 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay and number one on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, where it stayed for fifteen weeks. Weiland was able to complete his vocals for the song in one take. Stone Temple Pilots recorded the song during sessions for Purple at the Southern Tracks studio in Atlanta, Georgia. When he played it for singer Scott Weiland, the vocalist started humming along and turned what was originally the melody for the song's intro into a chorus melody. I had a feeling about that song immediately." Robert DeLeo stated it was originally a bossa nova song when he began writing it.
His brother, guitarist Dean DeLeo, said, "We were in Atlanta touring Core, and Robert was playing around with the chords and the melody in a hotel room. In the UK, the song peaked at number 53.īassist Robert DeLeo brought in a song he had been working on when Stone Temple Pilots convened at Cole Rehearsal Studios in Hollywood, California in March 1992. The song was ranked at number 17 on Australian alternative music station Triple J's Hottest 100 countdown of 1994. In 2009, it was named the 58th best hard rock song of all time by VH1.
In 2003, "Interstate Love Song" was featured on the greatest hits compilation Thank You. The song also peaked number two on the Modern Rock Tracks chart where "Vasoline" also peaked at the same position spot before.
The song stayed at number one for 15 weeks, a record at the time and "Vasoline" stayed at number one for 2 weeks giving STP 17 consecutive weeks at number one with both songs combined. The song it replaced at number one was "Vasoline", also by Stone Temple Pilots. Considered to be one of the band's biggest hits, "Interstate Love Song" reached number one on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart on September 17, 1994. Released in 1994, the song is from the band's second studio album, Purple. "Interstate Love Song" is a song by the American rock band Stone Temple Pilots.
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