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VASOLINE ALBUM INFO

Artist: Stone Temple Pilots
Album: Vasoline
Release Date: 30 Nov 1993

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"Vasoline" is a song by the band Stone Temple Pilots from their second album ''Purple (album)|Purple''. The song was the first single of the album (and also the second most successful, only behind "Interstate Love Song"), reaching #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks for 2 weeks. The song's odd sounding intro was created by Robert DeLeo, who ran his bass through a Wah-wah pedal to get the said effect. The song's lyrics were written by vocalist Scott Weiland.
Composition and meaning
As like most other Stone Temple Pilots songs, the lyrics can be vague and hard to interpret, and many interpretations have been suggested by fans. During STP's performance of "Vasoline" on ''VH1 Storytellers'', Scott says that the song is about "feeling like an insect under a magnifying glass."

Perhaps one of the strangest things about this song is the use of syncopation in the riff that the guitar and bass play. By itself, the riff sounds something like swung note|swung eighth notes alternating between the note|musical notes F natural and G natural. However, in reality the riff is an alternating sixteenth and eighth note pattern in Time Signature|3/4 time over a drum beat in 4/4 time, creating a very odd sounding rhythm.

Music videos
The music videos (directed by Kevin Kerslake) were in heavy rotation on MTV when the single was relea

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