Purple
by Stone Temple Pilots

Album
Purple by Stone Temple Pilots
Year: 1994
Release date: 1994-06-07
Overall rank: 616th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 534 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1994 (19th)
Award Top albums of of the 1990s (102nd)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (616th)

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Stone Temple Pilots bestography

Purple is ranked as the best album by Stone Temple Pilots.

Stone Temple Pilots album bestography « Higher ranked
- This album (616th)
Purple Lower ranked (864th) »
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Purple track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Meat Plow
Average Rating: 79 (102 votes)Comments: View 0
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Vasoline
Average Rating: 86 (152 votes)Comments: View 1
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Lounge Fly
Average Rating: 78 (97 votes)Comments: View 0
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Interstate Love Song
Average Rating: 90 (175 votes)Comments: View 3
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Still Remains
Average Rating: 79 (102 votes)Comments: View 0
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Pretty Penny
Average Rating: 78 (99 votes)Comments: View 1
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Silvergun Superman
Average Rating: 78 (99 votes)Comments: View 0
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Big Empty
Average Rating: 85 (126 votes)Comments: View 3
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Unglued
Average Rating: 82 (100 votes)Comments: View 0
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Army Ants
Average Rating: 78 (95 votes)Comments: View 1
11.
Kitchenware And Candy Bars
Average Rating: 77 (96 votes)Comments: View 2

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Purple rankings

Purple rankings summary
Overall rank: 616th | 1990s rank: 102nd | 1994 rank: 19th  Overall chart history
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Purple ratings

Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 534 votes)
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80/100
 !		09/04/2026 18:19 xhitmanx  Ratings distribution  1,60475/100
 
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 !		07/12/2026 18:33 liquidbottle  Ratings distribution  77582/100
 
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 !		05/26/2026 13:04 ornot27  Ratings distribution  31471/100

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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.4/100, a mean average of 76.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.6.


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This album has been referenced 82 times on the forums, Explore the wider forum discussion to see what members have said about it.
From matterhornrider 09/04/2026 19:16 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
“What album are you listening to? (cont.)”
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From BestEverAlbums 07/20/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5379): By pinkfreud1981
“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by ) 1. (1977) 2. by by (1963) 4. (1971) 5. by (1999) 6. by (2000) 8. by (1975) 9. by (2011) 10. by (1976) 11. by (1969) 14. by (1979) 15. by (1994) 16. by (2019) 17. by by (1993) 19. by (1973) 20. by (1985) 21. by by (1971) 23. by (1965) 24.…”
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From pedro1976 06/25/2026 20:54 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
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Purple comments

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90/100
From 02/15/2024 08:25 | #302005
Still Remains still remains my favourite track on this album after all these years. (Edited)
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85/100
From 09/16/2021 23:05 | #273821 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
This album is a very enjoyable album and has a lot of brilliant tracks as well. While the music isn't completely unique it does have very strong instrumentation that feels frantic and very fun. The vocal is very consistent and deliver the lyrics very well. It is a reasonably unbalanced album as some songs are poor compared to others but on the whole there is a lot more great tracks than bad tracks. There is also a lot to keep coming back for on this record and you can find that it is very addictive and you will keep listening to it over and over again. Overall, the record is full of great content and enjoyable moments so is worth a listen.
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70/100
From 12/15/2020 16:05 | #262728
One of the best for this style ( I don't wanna say genre, because it isn't that clear which genre this fits into ). (Edited)
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From 09/20/2020 03:59 | #258460
Good follow up to the debut. Better overall songs right through
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From 10/04/2019 14:39 | #243377
Better than the Core album
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