Sex Type Thing is the debut single of Stone Temple Pilots, released from their debut studio album, Core, on January 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 Stone Temple Pilots MTV unplugged (1993) (at the height of the early 1990s Grunge music scene).
The single peaked at number 23 on the US Album Rock Tracks chart. 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. 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.
In an October 1997 interview in Seconds magazine, Glenn Danzig mentions the similarity of the main riff to the Danzig song Snakes of Christ.
Tracklist:
- Sex Type Thing
- Wicked Garden (live)
- Plush (acoustic)
Stone Temple Pilots
Scott Weiland: (credited as Weiland) lead vocals
Dean DeLeo: guitar
Robert DeLeo: bass, backing vocals
Eric Kretz: drums
Scott Richard Weiland (October 27, 1967 – December 3, 2015).
