Interstate Love Song

Infobox Single
Name = Interstate Love Song


Artist = Stone Temple Pilots
from Album = Purple
B-side = "Lounge Fly"
Released = 1994
Format = CD single, vinyl
Recorded = 1994
Genre = Grunge
Length = 3:14
Label = Atlantic
Producer = Brendan O'Brien
Writer = Music: Robert DeLeo
Lyrics: Scott Weiland
Last single = "Vasoline"
(1994)
This single = "Interstate Love Song"
(1995)
Next single = "Pretty Penny"
(1995)Extra tracklisting
Album = Purple
Type = studio
prev_track = "Lounge Fly"
prev_no = 3
this_track = "Interstate Love Song"
track_no = 4
next_track = "Still Remains"
next_no = 5|

"Interstate Love Song" is a song by the American rock band Stone Temple Pilots, from their second studio album "Purple", released in 1994. The song, considered to be one of the band's biggest hits, hit number one on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart on September 17, 1994. The song it replaced at number one was "Vasoline", also by Stone Temple Pilots. The song stayed at number one for 15 weeks, a record at the time.

Background, recording and release

Bassist 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. 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. I had a feeling about that song immediately." Robert DeLeo stated it was originally a bossa nova song when he began writing it. 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." [http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=1974 The Greatest Songs Ever! Interstate Love Song] ". "Blender". September 2005. Retrieved on July 31, 2008.]

Stone Temple Pilots recorded the song during sessions for "Purple" at the Southern Tracks studio in Atlanta, Georgia. Weiland was able to complete his vocals for the song in one or two takes.

Upon its release as a single, "Interstate Love Song" reached number one on the "Billboard" Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, where it stayed for fifteen weeks. The song also reached number two on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and number 22 on the Top 400 Mainstream. [ [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jpfuxqt5ld6e~T51 Stone Temple Pilots - Charts & Awards - Billboard singles] . Allmusic.com. Retrieved on August 6, 2008.]

Composition

The song features a memorable opening guitar riff, containing a sound very reminiscent of the alternative music scene of the time. It also has a notably country-western or Southern rock feel to it, reflective of the "leaving on a Southern train" lyrics. The song also samples a riff from Jim Croce's song "I Got a Name."

According 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.

Music video

The music video, directed by Kevin Kerslake, has a washed-out color effect throughout the majority of the video and features a long-nosed protagonist escaping from an unseen pursuer. A reason for this long nose could be that the protagonist lies like Pinnocio whom nose also grows when he lies. This is probably just to emphasize the lying that Weiland sings of in the video by making the protagonist nose longer. At the beginning of the video, an early 1900s silent film-esque clip of the pursuer and protagonist is shown.

References

External links

*youtube|pWhLQSegi3A|"Interstate Love Song" music video