Sex Type Thing
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| Single by Stone Temple Pilots from the album Core |
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| B-side | "Piece of Pie" "Wicked Garden (live)" "Sin (live)" |
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| Released | 1992 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Format | CD single, Cassette, Vinyl |
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| Recorded | 1992 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Grunge Hard rock |
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| Length | 3:35 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Atlantic | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Music: Dean DeLeo & Eric Kretz Lyrics: Scott Weiland |
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| Producer | Brendan O'Brien | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Sex Type Thing" was the first single released by the rock band Stone Temple Pilots in 1992 off their debut album Core. The song spawned a music video which received moderate rotation on MTV (at the height of the early 1990s grunge music scene) and is still heard on most rock radio stations today.
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[edit] Lyrics and composition
Singer Scott Weiland wrote the song as an anti-rape statement, not as a song simply about sex. The song features an aggressive main riff that is instantly recognizable, and is one of the hardest songs in the STP library. The main riff bears a strong resemblance to the opening riff of the Danzig song "Snakes of Christ".
[edit] Live performances
Over time, "Sex Type Thing" became the band's traditional closer at live shows. During some performances from 1999 until STP's break-up, the band would extend the song's bridge into a jam session where Weiland would strip naked in front of the audience and then wrap his lower body in an American flag.
[edit] Music video
During the grunge explosion of the 90's, the music video for "Sex Type Thing" is usually denoted as the single factor that drove Stone Temple Pilots into the scene. The video was in medium-heavy rotation on MTV during the time, and helped make STP a contender in the grunge war. The video itself hosts a very dark motif, with Scott Weiland (who bleached his hair blond) being tortured in a rather BDSM fashion, with the band members playing their various instruments in the background. Various shots of women are shown being hanged by chains. This video is rather distinctive because it is the first to showcase Scott Weiland's trademark "dance".
[edit] Appearances and covers
- "Sex Type Thing" was featured on the soundtrack of the American version of Gran Turismo 2.
- Along with "Interstate Love Song", "Sex Type Thing" is one of two STP songs available as a downloadable master track for Rock Band.
- The song has been covered live by Velvet Revolver, a supergroup in which Weiland fronted from 2003-2008.
- Evanescence has also covered the song live.
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