“Between The Lines” by Stone Temple Pilots

"Between the Lines" was Stone Temple Pilots' opening shot from their self-titled sixth album, released on March 22, 2010, and it went off like a starter's pistol: the song set a record on Billboard's Rock Songs chart for the biggest climb anyone had made there, vaulting from 40 to 2 before it reached the top.

Robert DeLeo wrote the music with old beat groups like the Animals or the Zombies in his head, a go-go rhythm and a girl in a miniskirt, as his brother Dean told it. Scott Weiland's lyrics yanked it somewhere far more twisted, and by 2012 he was introducing it onstage at Bethel Woods as a punk song. Fair enough: it's a wiry, short-fused blast, produced by Don Was. It drew a Grammy nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance, the prize the band had won for "Plush" in 1994.

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