Interstate Love Song

"Interstate Love Song"
Single by Stone Temple Pilots
from the album Purple
B-side"Lounge Fly"
ReleasedOctober 3, 1994 (1994-10-03)
Genre
Length3:14
LabelAtlantic
ComposerRobert DeLeo
LyricistScott Weiland
ProducerBrendan O'Brien
Stone Temple Pilots singles chronology
"Vasoline"
(1994)
"Interstate Love Song"
(1994)
"Big Empty"
(1995)
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"Interstate Love Song" is a song by American rock band Stone Temple Pilots. The song was released as the second single from the band's second studio album, Purple (1994), on October 3, 1994. One of the band's biggest hits, "Interstate Love Song" reached number one on the US Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart on September 17, 1994, replacing the band's previous single "Vasoline". The song stayed at number one for 15 weeks, a record at the time, and gave Stone Temple Pilots 17 consecutive weeks at number one. It also peaked at number two on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and in Iceland as well as number 20 in Canada.

"Interstate Love Song" has been hailed as one of the best songs of the 1990s and was included on STP's greatest hits compilation Thank You in 2003. In 2009, it was named the 58th best hard rock song of all time by VH1. The song was ranked at number 17 on Australian alternative music station Triple J's Hottest 100 countdown of 1994, and Pitchfork ranked it at number 175 on its list of "The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s."