Sex Type Thing
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One of several covers used in the UK
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| Single by Stone Temple Pilots | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album Core | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| B-side | "Piece of Pie" "Wicked Garden (live)" "Sin (live)" |
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| Released | January 25, 1993 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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CD single, Cassette, Vinyl |
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| Recorded | 1991 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Grunge | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:38 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Atlantic | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Music: Dean DeLeo & Eric Kretz Lyrics: Scott Weiland |
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| Producer(s) | Brendan O'Brien | |||||||||||||||||||||
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"Sex Type Thing" is the debut single released in 1993 by American rock band Stone Temple Pilots from their debut studio album, Core. "Sex Type Thing" also appears on the greatest hits compilation album Thank You. The song spawned a music video which received moderate rotation on MTV (at the height of the early 1990s grunge music scene). The single peaked at number 23 on the US Album Rock Tracks chart.
Scott Weiland wrote the lyrics after a girl he was dating was raped by three high school football players after a party. Weiland has stated the song is an anti-rape statement, not a song simply about sex, saying:
This song is really not about sex at all. It's about control, violence and abuse of power.
According to guitarist Dean DeLeo, the song "In the Light" by Led Zeppelin had a direct influence on the main riff in "Sex Type Thing". In an October 1997 interview in Seconds magazine, Glenn Danzig mentions the similarity of the main riff to the Danzig song "Snakes of Christ".
Over time, "Sex Type Thing" became the band's traditional closer at live shows. During some performances from 1999 until STP's 2003 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. The song continues to remain a staple at STP shows.
During the grunge explosion of the 1990s, 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 hung by chains. This video is rather distinctive because it is the first to showcase Scott Weiland's trademark "dance". The set was used again for Sunny Day Real Estate's "In Circles" music video in 1994.
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