Shangri-La Dee Da is the fifth studio album by Stone Temple Pilots. It was released on June 19, 2001, by Atlantic Records. The album was certified Gold with the notable hit single "Days of the Week". Shangri-La Dee Da was originally planned to be a double album until vetoed by Atlantic Records. While recording the album, the band also worked on a documentary and coffee table book. Neither was released, however, limited footage was made available through the band's official website in the form of live performance-based music videos. Shangri-La Dee Da was a commercial disappointment for the band after Read more on Last.fm.
What direction does your music take after the grunge infused 90’s hard rock era dies out? If you’re the best band to blossom out of that era, you embrace the Beatles and Middle Eastern percussion.
That’s exactly what STP did with Shangri La Dee Da, a hyperfocused pop rock handbook married to the bisexual swagger of Scott Weilands Doors/David Bowie voice. The record thumps from head to toe, only occasionally hitting speed bumps here and there. The impressive thing is how well adapted the Deleo brothers are, trading distorted hooks for a kind of George Harrison imbued study in melodic structure.
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