Stone Temple Pilots Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop 45RPM (2 LP)

Numbered, Limited Edition 45rpm 180g Vinyl 2LP!
Double-Platinum 1996 Album Featuring "Big Bang Baby" & "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart"!
1/2"/30 IPS Analog Master to DSD 256 to Analog Console to Lathe
If, as many believe, great art is inherently polarizing, then "Tiny Music... Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop" by the Stone Temple Pilots is undoubtedly the best album of the Californian band. Singer Scott Weiland and his comrades-in-arms expanded their grunge repertoire on the third longplayer with a clever mixture of glam rock, psychedelia, pop and other styles - this was only partially well received by die-hard grunge fans and the album was celebrated and torn apart in equal measure when it was released in spring 1996. Today, "Tiny Music... Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop": The double-platinum work is rightly considered a creative masterpiece.
Directed by producer Brendan O'Brien, the Stone Temple Pilots used all the possibilities available to them to capture a wide mix of textures, spatiality and atmosphere, underlining their ambitions that went far beyond the status of an "alternative" band. None other than Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins – who, like many colleagues and critics, felt an urgent need to re-evaluate the album as time progressed and the self-importance of the "alternative" scene faded – praised Weiland's achievement, saying, "As Bowie can and does, it was Scott's phrasing that elevated his music into a unique and elusive aesthetic soundscape." The album is full of indirect references to acts such as the Beatles, Rolling Stones Cheap Trick, T. Rex and Lush. At the time, it was not understood that Stone Temple Pilots were paying homage and having fun doing it. The skeptics and cynics also closed their ears to the outstanding pop craftsmanship, catchy hooks, and sly commentary on the music industry's machinations and fame.
Lovingly mastered from the original tapes in MoFi's Californian studio and pressed on 180-gram vinyl (45 rpm) by Fidelity Record Pressing, the strictly limited double LP presents this classic for the first time in captivating audiophile quality: The multitude of details and timbres can be heard with unprecedented clarity and presence, which convey exactly the force and power that that every rock album deserves. The depth, timbre and pitch of Weiland's unique voice is put in the right light. The MoFi reissue comes in an elaborate gatefold cover from Stoughton Printing and proves why "Tiny Music... Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop" is one of the most impressive albums in rock history: The partly tongue-in-cheek persiflage, partly homage to the glitter rock era, partly stinky finger towards the hip crowd, invites you again and again to put the needle on "Press Play".

Features:

• Numbered, Limited Edition
• 180g Vinyl
• Double LP
• 45rpm
• Mastered from the 1/2" / 30 IPS Analog Master to DSD 256 to Analog Console to Lathe
• Mastered by Krieg Wunderlich at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, Sebastopol, CA on GAIN 2
• Pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing
• Stoughton Gatefold Jacket

Selections:

Side A
1. Press Play
2. Pop's Love Suicide
3. Tumble In The Rough
Side B
1. Big Bang Baby
2. Lady Picture Show
3. And So I Know
Side C
1. Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart
2. Art School Girl
3. Adhesive
Side D
1. Ride The Cliché
2. Daisy
3. Seven Caged Tigers