Big Empty
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| Single by Stone Temple Pilots from the album Purple |
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| B-side | "Lounge Fly" | |||||||||||||
| Released | 1994 | |||||||||||||
| Format | CD single | |||||||||||||
| Recorded | May 25, 1993 at The Record Plant | |||||||||||||
| Genre | Hard rock | |||||||||||||
| Length | 4:55 | |||||||||||||
| Label | Atlantic | |||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Music: Dean DeLeo Lyrics: Scott Weiland |
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| Producer | Brendan O'Brien | |||||||||||||
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"Big Empty" is a song by Stone Temple Pilots that first appeared in 1994 on the soundtrack to the Brandon Lee movie The Crow. The song later appeared on the band's second album, Purple, and was released as a single.
[edit] Composition
The song cleverly plays on all the hackneyed conventions of rock music, with references to a woman, cigarettes, and fast-driving.
The song's verses have somewhat of a blues sound, mainly through guitarist Dean DeLeo's style of slide guitar playing and Scott Weiland's softer vocals. The thunderous chorus features a dissonant, suspended E7 chord.
[edit] Live performances
The song was performed live on the TV show MTV Unplugged on November 17, 1993, seven months before the "Purple" album was released. The track's title is a play on "The Big Easy," a nickname for New Orleans.
The official music video of the song was released in 1993. It features various shots of The Crow, such as Eric Draven's gravestone. In between those segments, the band's performance on MTV Unplugged is shown, where the song was debuted.
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