Big Empty

Not to be confused with The Big Empty.
"Big Empty"
Australian CD picture sleeve
Single by Stone Temple Pilots
from the album The Crow: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Purple
B-side"Lounge Fly"
ReleasedMay 22, 1994 (1994-05-22)
Recorded1993
StudioThe Record Plant
Genre
Length4:55
LabelAtlantic
Composer(s)Dean DeLeo
Lyricist(s)Scott Weiland
Producer(s)Brendan O'Brien
Stone Temple Pilots singles chronology
"Creep"
(1993) 		"Big Empty"
(1994) 		"Vasoline"
(1994)
Audio sample

"Big Empty" is a song by the American rock band Stone Temple Pilots that first appeared in 1994 on the soundtrack of the film The Crow. The band later included the song on its second album, Purple, and released it as the lead single from that album. The song reached No. 3 and No. 7 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks and Modern Rock Tracks charts, respectively. The song won an MTV Movie Award for best song featured in a movie in 1995.[6]

Musically, the song has a similar format to the band's previous single "Creep", beginning with a slow, soft acoustic verse that leads into a loud and distorted chorus with a heavy guitar similar to "Plush".[7][8][9] "Big Empty" appears on the greatest hits compilation albums Thank You and Buy This.

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