Songoftheday 4/2/20 - I got a picture of a photograph of a wedding and a shell, it's just burning itching memory I never kiss and tell...
from the album Tiny Music...Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop (1996)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: ineligible to chart
Billboard Hot 100 Airplay peak: #28 (three weeks)
Weeks in the Hot 100 Airplay Top-40: 8
Today's song of the day comes from the hard rock band Stone Temple Pilots, whose sophomore album Purple had landed a trio of pop radio hits with "Big Empty", "Vasoline", and "Interstate Love Song". In the spring of 1995, the band returned to rock stations with a cover of Led Zeppelin's "Dancing Days" for the tribute album Enconium which spent three weeks at #3 on Billboard magazine's Mainstream Rock radio chart and peaked at #63 on their Hot 100 pop airplay list. A year later, after lead singer was on probation for buying crack (yet still using during that time), the band reunited for their third album together Tiny Music...Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop. The lead single from the record, "Big Bang Baby", written by Weiland with band bass player Robert DeLeo and produced by Brendan O'Brien, was a left turn from their post-grunge beginnings into flashy power-pop territory, with Weiland extra-made-up looks coinciding with that, with the title tagline hook cribbed from the Rolling Stones' "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
Since "Big Bang Baby", like their other hits, wasn't released as a single, it was unable to place on Billboard's pop Hot 100 chart. However, on the radio component of the list, it climbed to the top-40 of the Hot 100 Airplay chart in April of 1996. The song was their fourth #1 hit on the Mainstream Rock radio chart, while spending four weeks at #2 on the Alternative Rock format tally. Internationally, the single went to #18 in Canada and #37 in Australia.
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Here's the band appearing on Letterman performing the song...
and live on a TV concert in 2008..
and finally, a live show in 2011...
Up tomorrow: R&B trio returns to choose.
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