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"Vasoline" - Stone Temple Pilots
from the album Purple (1994)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: unable to chart
Billboard Hot 100 airplay peak: #38 (one week)
Weeks in the Hot 100 airplay top-40: 2

Today's song of the day comes from the hard rock band Stone Temple Pilots, who we saw earlier in the week as my "robbed hit" with the first single from their sophomore album Purple that also helped the soundtrack to the movie The Crow hit #1 on the albums chart, "Big Empty". The second release from the record. "Vasoline", was also not released as a single commercially in the U.S., and therefore was unable to place on Billboard magazine's official pop Hot 100 chart. However, this time the track received so much airplay from mainstream pop radio stations that it was able to reach the top-40 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart. The lyrics were written by lead singer Scott Weiland, while the music composed by bandmates Robert and Dean Deleo and Eric Kretz, and even though it followed "Big Empty" pretty quickly on the radio, the hard edge of this song contrasted quite nicely with the delicate tone of its predecessor...

"Vasoline" became Stone Temple Pilots' second hit (after "Plush") to reach the top-40 on the Hot 100 airplay chart in August of 1994. The song became their second #1 on the Mainstream Rock radio chart, staying for two weeks, while taking two weeks at #2 on their Modern Rock format list. Internationally, where the song was physically released as a single, it was a top-40 hit in Canada (#21), Australia (#24), and New Zealand (#28), while it was a minor hit in the UK at #48.

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Here's the Pilots appearing live on Letterman in 1994...