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“Sour Girl” by Stone Temple Pilots
From the album №4 (1999)
“Sour Girl” by Stone Temple Pilots appears on 32 radio countdowns from 24 stations between 1999 and 2023. It was first released in 1999 on the album №4. Its best result is #6 on the WEQX Top 102.7 of 2000. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #9 alternative song of 2000, #2,765 alternative song of all time and #210 of the '00s.
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"Sour Girl" was the second single from Stone Temple Pilots' fourth album, No. 4 (1999), with Dean DeLeo writing the music and Scott Weiland the words. Brendan O'Brien produced it and sang backing vocals, and the band plays it low and woozy, Dean's guitar drifting, Robert DeLeo and Eric Kretz keeping the pulse lazy, and Weiland sounding bruised rather than angry.
In his autobiography, Not Dead & Not for Sale, Weiland wrote that everyone took it for a song about his romance with Mary Forsberg, later his second wife, and that everyone had it wrong: it came out of the collapse of his earlier relationship, and the divorce that cost him a fortune. It became the band's only entry on the Billboard Hot 100, and Billboard later ranked it 88th among the best rock songs of the 2000s.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Classic Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 954 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1077 |
| 2000 | 103 | The Edge | KEDJ Countdown 2000 (106 songs) | 106 |
| 2001 | 357 | WBRU | WBRU Modern Rock Top 500 (2001) | 500 |
| 2002 | 827 | KISW | KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) | 999 |
| 2004 | 68 | WBCN | WBCN Grunge Top 104 (2004) | 104 |
| 2005 | 1779 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
| 2005 | 583 | 99X | 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) | 1000 |
| 2014 | 421 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2014) | 500 |
| 2015 | 662 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Classic Rock Countdown (2015) | 1007 |
| 2015 | 452 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2015) | 500 |
| 2016 | 853 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Countdown for 2016 | 1007 |
| 2020 | 287 | 105.9 The X | 105.9 The X July 420 (2020) | 420 |
| 2021 | 261 | 105.9 The X | 105.9 The X July 420 (2021) | 420 |
| 2022 | 261 | 105.9 The X | 105.9 The X July 420 (2022) | 420 |
| 2023 | 261 | 105.9 The X | 105.9 The X July 420 (2023) | 420 |
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