Claude says:Stone Temple Pilots rode the grunge wave out of San Diego with Scott Weiland's voice and the DeLeo brothers' riffs, selling millions through the '90s before the lineup drama began. Purple — their 1994 follow-up to Core — sharpened the hooks and leaned harder into swagger, blending alt-rock crunch with hints of the psychedelic textures they'd chase later. You picked it up in 2021 and have circled back only a handful of times since, mostly for "Interstate Love Song" and "Vasoline" when the mood called for it.