Dead & Bloated

"Dead & Bloated" is a song by American rock band Stone Temple Pilots that appears as the opening track on their debut studio album Core. The song remains a favorite among the band's fans and continues to see frequent play during concerts, despite never receiving a commercial single release outside a radio promo.

Bassist Robert DeLeo would say of the song, "I was working at a guitar shop [LAB Sound] on the corner of Sunset and Gardner, and Scott was actually working catty-cornered across the street, driving models to their photo shoots. When either one of us had a musical idea, we'd call each other. He would usually have more time to run over and work it out. It was perfect because, since I was in a guitar shop, I could pick up a guitar right there. Scott didn't really play an instrument. When he had an idea, he would hum it to me. And 'Dead and Bloated,' was one of those things; he hummed that verse riff to me."^[2]

Vocalist Scott Weiland stated that the song, "doesn't really meaning about anything. It's just stream-of-consciousness words. I mean, at the age of 21, 22, I didn't have a whole lot of life experiences. So it's more about the vibe, the angst and that kind of a thing, as opposed to actual life experiences."^[3]