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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Big Bang Baby
| cover = Bigbangbaby.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Stone Temple Pilots
| album = Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop
| B-side = *"Adhesive"
*"Daisy"
| released =
| recorded = 1996
| studio =
| genre =
| length = 3:23
| label = Atlantic
| composer = Robert DeLeo
| lyricist = Scott Weiland
| producer = Brendan O'Brien
| prev_title = Pretty Penny
| prev_year = 1995
| next_title = Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart
| next_year = 1996
| misc =
}}
'"Big Bang Baby"' is a song featured on 'Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop', the third album by the band Stone Temple Pilots. It was the first single to be released from the album, which appeared on several 'Billboard' record charts: No. 28 on the Hot 100 Airplay, No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks and No. 2 on the Modern Rock Tracks charts.
"Big Bang Baby" also appears on the greatest hits album 'Thank You'.
Background
Referencing the 'Tiny Music...' album in his memoir, Scott Weiland said: "We wanted to make a statement. We wanted to deconstruct, go low-tech, get to the dark heart of the matter. I was happy to write Bowie-esque stream-of-consciousness lyrics that didn't need to make sense. Example: 'Big Bang Baby.'"'Not Dead and Not For Sale' (Scribner, 2010), pp119
Music video
The music video features the band performing in a white room. It was an intentional pastiche of videos from the early days of MTV, which were mostly shot on videotape rather than film, and most directly evokes the look of The J. Geils Band's "Freeze Frame".
Charts
References
Category:1996 singles
Category:Stone Temple Pilots songs
Category:Songs written by Scott Weiland
Category:Songs written by Robert DeLeo
Category:Song recordings produced by Brendan O'Brien (record producer)
Category:1996 songs
Category:Atlantic Records singles
Category:Glam rock songs
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