Description
Numbered, Limited Edition Hybrid SACD from Mobile Fidelity
Double-Platinum 1996 Album Featuring "Big Bang Baby" & "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart"
If great art, as many believe, is inherently polarizing, then the Stone Temple Pilots' Tiny Music… Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop easily ranks as the California-based band's finest album. Simultaneously celebrated and castigated upon release in spring 1996, the group's third full-length finds vocalist Scott Weiland and company expanding their "grunge" palette with a smart blend of glam rock, psychedelia, jangle pop, and other related styles. Having benefited from long-view reassessments that shed the biases and meanness of initial criticisms, the double-platinum effort is now largely and rightly seen as a creative masterwork. All the more reason why it deserves reference-grade production.
Sourced from the original master tapes and housed in mini-LP-style packaging, Mobile Fidelity's numbered-edition hybrid SACD of Tiny Music… Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop presents it in revealing audiophile sound. Benefitting from insightful clarity and balance, the collectible edition plays with levels of separation, imaging, and dynamics that further raise the profile on what the quartet accomplished on an album recorded at Westerly Ranch — a sprawling location north of Santa Barbara, CA, where a 25,000-square-foot mansion and surrounding property turned into an exploratory canvas for the band's ambitions.
Tracklisting:
| 1. Press Play |
| 2. Pop’s Love Suicide |
| 3. Tumble in the Rough |
| 4. Big Bang Baby |
| 5. Lady Picture Show |
| 6. And So I Know |
| 7. Trippin’ on a Hole in a Paper Heart |
| 8. Art School Girl |
| 9. Adhesive |
| 10. Ride The Cliché |
| 11. Daisy |
| 12. Seven Caged Tigers |
