^ "Stone Temple Pilots Chart History (Mainstream Rock)". Stone Temple Pilots Singer Submission Contender, JOHN BORJA 'Down' (Stone Temple Pilots Cover) (written by Robert Deleo, Words by Scott Weiland. Stone Temple Pilots (often abbreviated as STP) is a Grammy Award winning American rock band from San Diego, California, that originally consisted of Scott Weiland (lead vocals), brothers Dean (guitar) and Robert DeLeo (bass, backing vocals), and Eric Kretz (drums).The shambolic, muted tones of their breakthrough single Plush earned them unwanted comparisons to Pearl Jam but also scored them a Grammy and Best New Artist VMA in 1994. ^ "Stone Temple Pilots Chart History (Alternative Airplay)". Stone Temple Pilots mixed brooding hard-rock with Weiland’s powerful, husky baritone in a way that struck a chord with the grunge generation.^ "Stone Temple Pilots Chart History (Radio Songs)".^ " Top RPM Singles: Issue 2389." RPM.^ "The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles Chart – Week Ending "."12 songs that everyone thinks are by other artists". ^ "Scott Weiland: Songwriter Interviews".^ "Scott Weiland: 20 Essential Songs".US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs ( Billboard) It was one of those instances where we looked at ourselves, looked in the mirror. What Scott was writing about was a real-life situation. Scott was thinking about the lyrics, and at that time in our lives we were struggling very much.
Musically speaking I was thinking about a song along the lines of " Heart of Gold" by Neil Young, which is in the key of D-minor, the saddest key of all. DeLeo stated the following about "Creep:" 5 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and 9 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. The song's lyrics were written by lead vocalist Scott Weiland and bassist Robert DeLeo. Down (Stone Temple Pilots song) 'Down' is a song by American rock band Stone Temple Pilots, released as the first single from their fourth album, No. Recently, it looked like things could be getting worse financially for the band as 2021 is. The video that aired was directed by Graeme Joyce after a version by director Gus Van Sant was shelved due to its drug and sexual references. Stone Temple Pilots have been striving for years since the passing of the vocal great, Scott Weiland. The version of the song that was released in the 1993 promotional single contains different vocal takes in the verses than on the album version, most notably with an alternate melody and added percussion in the second verse which is the arrangement most often performed live. On file-sharing and lyric websites such as Limewire and Kazaa, "Creep" was often miscredited as "Half the Man I Used to Be" by Nirvana. It's that youth apathy, that second-guessing yourself, not feeling like you fit in." In a November 2014 interview with Songfacts, Scott Weiland said, "That's just the idea of being a young person somewhere, caught between still being a kid and becoming a young man.