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"Sex Type Thing" is the debut single of American rock band Stone Temple Pilots, released from their debut studio album, Core, in 1993. "Sex Type Thing" also appears on the greatest hits compilation album Thank You. The song spawned a music video which received moderate rotation on MTV (at the height of the early 1990s grunge music scene). The single peaked at number 23 on the US Album Rock Tracks chart.

"Sex Type Thing"
One of several covers used in the UK
Single by Stone Temple Pilots
from the album Core
B-side	"Piece of Pie" "Wicked Garden" (live) "Sin" (live)
Released	January 1993
Genre	Grunge[1]
Length	3:38
Label	Atlantic
Composer(s)	Dean DeLeo Eric Kretz
Lyricist(s)	Scott Weiland
Producer(s)	Brendan O'Brien
Stone Temple Pilots singles chronology
"Sex Type Thing" (1993) "Plush" (1993)
Audio sample
"Sex Type Thing" file help
Music video
"Sex Type Thing" on YouTube

Lyrics and composition

Scott Weiland wrote the lyrics after a girl he was dating was raped by three high school football players after a party. Weiland has stated the song is an anti-rape statement, not a song simply about sex, saying:

This song is really not about sex at all. It's about control, violence and abuse of power.[2]

According to guitarist Dean DeLeo, the song "In the Light" by Led Zeppelin had a direct influence on the main riff in "Sex Type Thing".[2] In an October 1997 interview in Seconds magazine, Glenn Danzig mentions the similarity of the main riff to the Danzig song "Snakes of Christ".

Live performances

Over the years, "Sex Type Thing" became the band's traditional closer at live shows. During some performances from 1999 until STP's 2002 break-up, the band would extend the song's ending into a jam session where Weiland would strip naked in front of the audience and then wrap his lower body in an American flag.

Music video

During the grunge explosion of the 1990s, the music video for "Sex Type Thing" is usually denoted as the single factor that drove Stone Temple Pilots into the scene. The video was in medium-heavy rotation on MTV during the time, and helped make STP a contender in the grunge era. The video itself hosts a very dark motif, showing the band performing in a dungeon chamber, with singer Scott Weiland having bleached his hair blond, interspersed between clips of a dancer swinging on a chain and a woman surrounded by a ring of fire. This video is rather distinctive because it is the first to showcase Scott Weiland's trademark "dance".[3] The set was used again for Sunny Day Real Estate's "In Circles" music video in 1994.[4]

Controversy

Upon the success of "Sex Type Thing", controversies regarding the song's lyrics emerged while STP was on tour opening for Megadeth. Weiland found himself in the position of defending "Sex Type Thing" to individuals who took the first-person approach he used in the song ("I am a man, a man/I'll give ya something that ya won't forget/I said ya shouldn't have worn that dress") literally. In a 1993 interview with Rolling Stone, Weiland expressed his frustration with the song's reception by saying "It was, 'All right, the "Cop Killer" controversy's dead, let's try to find something else'...I never thought that people would ever seriously think that I was an advocate of date rape."[5]

Track listings

All live tracks were recorded at the Reading Festival 1993.

CD single 1

1. "Sex Type Thing" – 3:38
2. "Piece of Pie" – 5:28
3. "Wicked Garden" (live) – 4:26
4. "Sin" (live) – 7:52

CD single 2

1. "Sex Type Thing" – 3:38
2. "Piece of Pie" – 5:28
3. "Dead and Bloated" (live) – 4:53
4. "Sex Type Thing" (live) – 4:01

Charts

Chart (1993)	Peak position
UK Singles (OCC)[6]	60
US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[7]	23

Release history

Region	Date	Format(s)	Label(s)	Ref.
United States	January 1993	Radio	Atlantic
United Kingdom	March 15, 1993	12-inch vinyl CD		[8]

Appearances and covers

• The song appeared in notable TV shows and video games including Gran Turismo 2. Charmed, Rock Band 3, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith.
• The song has been covered live by Velvet Revolver, a supergroup in which Weiland fronted from 2003 to 2008.
• Evanescence, Fuel, Papa Roach and Theory of a Deadman have also covered the song live.
• "Weird Al" Yankovic covered part of "Sex Type Thing" in his song "The Alternative Polka" off the album Bad Hair Day.
• An electronic reworking of the song appeared in the episode "Let it Bleed" of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.[9]
• The song was released as downloadable content on June 1, 2010, as part of Stone Temple Pilots Track Pack with "Plush" and "Between the Lines" for Guitar Hero 5.[10]
• "Into Sandy's City", a MIDI track from Doom II: Hell on Earth, is based on Sex Type Thing.

References

External links

• Stone Temple Pilots Official Website – Core
• Lyrics at Lyrics.com

На других языках

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- [en] Sex Type Thing

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[es] Sex Type Thing

«Sex Type Thing» es el primer sencillo del primer disco de Stone Temple Pilots, Core. El vídeo de la canción tuvo una moderada rotación en el canal musical MTV gracias al auge del grunge en el momento de la edición de Core, hacia el año 1992. El significado de la canción, según Scott Weiland, vocalista del grupo, es antiviolación, y «no una simple canción más acerca de sexo». A causa del poderoso riff que puede oírse a lo largo de la canción, esta ha sido considerada como una de las más potentes de la discografía del grupo. Además, la canción se convirtió en el tema que solía cerrar los conciertos de Stone Temple Pilots. Desde el año 1999 hasta la separación de la banda en 2003, Scott Weiland solía desnudarse durante la interpretación de la canción en directo para cubrirse con la bandera de Estados Unidos. La canción puede oírse en el videojuego Gran Turismo 2 y también en el videojuego Guitar Hero: Aerosmith bajo los sellos de Rag Doll 2007-2008.

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[ru] Sex Type Thing

«Sex Type Thing» — песня американской гранж-группы Stone Temple Pilots, выпущенная как первый сингл с дебютного студийного альбома Core. Песня достигла 55-ой строчки в чарте Великобритании UK Singles Chart[3].

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