Big Bang Baby

"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"
Single by Stone Temple Pilots
from the album Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop
B-side
  • "Adhesive"
  • "Daisy"
ReleasedMarch 23, 1996 (1996-03-23)
Recorded1996
GenreRock, glam rock[1]
Length3:23
LabelAtlantic
Composer(s)Robert DeLeo
Lyricist(s)Scott Weiland
Producer(s)Brendan O'Brien
Stone Temple Pilots singles chronology
"Pretty Penny"
(1995)		 "Big Bang Baby"
(1996)		 "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart"
(1996)
Audio sample
  • file
  • help
Music video
"Big Bang Baby" on YouTube

"Big Bang Baby" also appears on the greatest hits album Thank You.

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".[2]

Charts
(1996) Position
Canadian RPM Singles Chart 18
UK Singles Chart 154
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Airplay[3] 28
U.S. Billboard Album Rock Tracks[4] 1
U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks[5] 2

References
  1. "Stone Temple Pilots: Thank You – Review". AllMusic. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  2. Beebe, Roger; Middleton, Jason (2007). Medium Cool: Music Videos from Soundies to Cellphones. Duke University Press. p. 308 – via Google books.
  3. "Radio Songs – Stone Temple Pilots". Retrieved March 8, 2013.
  4. "Mainstream Rock Tracks – Stone Temple Pilots". Retrieved March 8, 2013.
  5. "Alternative Songs – Stone Temple Pilots". Retrieved March 8, 2013.
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