" Wicked Garden" is a song by American rock music band Stone Temple Pilots that appears on their debut studio album, Core. The lyrics are about lost innocence and longing for youth. Despite the song never being released as a commercial single (only as a radio promo), it is still considered to be one of the band's biggest hits and is performed at their live shows. The song's lyrics were written by Scott Weiland and the music was written by brothers Robert DeLeo and Dean DeLeo. A promotional video also received regular rotation on MTV.
Music video
Despite the song never seeing a commercial release, a promotional music video for "Wicked Garden" was shot in 1993 and received medium rotation on
MTV during the grunge era. Filmed at the SOMA in
San Diego, it features the band performing the song at a club and also serves as a visual interpretation of the lyrics, as shown with a young impoverished girl living in a barn.
Other versions
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An original version of "Wicked Garden" appeared on the Mighty Joe Young Demo in 1990.
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Stone Temple Pilots performed an acoustic version of "Wicked Garden" on MTV Unplugged in 1993, which aired in January 1994. The video of this version appears on Thank You DVD and the Unplugged sessions would be released as part of the 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of Core in 2017.
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The band also performed the song on the Late Show with David Letterman on September 17, 1993.
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A live version of the song appears on the soundtrack for the 2001 Family Values Tour.
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