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“Wicked Garden” by Stone Temple Pilots

From the album Core (1992)

“Wicked Garden” by Stone Temple Pilots appears on 61 radio countdowns from 26 stations between 1993 and 2026. It was first released in 1992 on the album Core. Its best result is #23 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1993. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #55 alternative song of 1993 and #665 alternative song of all time.

61countdowns
26stations
#23best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1993–2026years charted

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Stone Temple Pilots - Wicked Garden (Official Music Video)

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"Wicked Garden" comes off Core, Stone Temple Pilots' 1992 album on Atlantic, and it never got a proper commercial single, only a promo for radio, yet it turned into one of the band's biggest hits all the same. The DeLeo brothers wrote the music, Dean's guitar grinding and lurching over Robert's bass and Eric Kretz's drums, and Scott Weiland's words ache for lost innocence and a youth slipping out of reach. Brendan O'Brien produced.

An early version had already turned up on the Mighty Joe Young Demo back in 1990. As the follow-up to "Plush", the band shot a video in 1993 at SOMA in San Diego, cutting between a club performance and the story of a poor girl living in a barn, and MTV played it to death. An acoustic take surfaced on their MTV Unplugged set.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

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Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1993 23 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1993 107
1993 37 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 1993 91
1993 98 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1993 101

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1994 896 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) 1000
1995 788 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) 1000
1996 391 Q101 Q101 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (1996) 500
1996 633 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) 1000
1998 917 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) 1000
1999 202 KROQ KROQ Top 300 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 1999) 300
1999 317 WHFS WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999) 500
1999 495 Q101 Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1017
1999 575 107.7 The End The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1077
1999 1469 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
1999 709 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) 998
2000 1469 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 1472 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2001 80 KISW KISW Top 99 Rock Songs (2001) 99
2001 240 WBRU WBRU Modern Rock Top 500 (2001) 500
2002 45 WFNX WFNX Top 50 Grunge Songs of All-Time (June 2002) 50
2002 1470 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2002 181 KISW KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) 999
2002 1947 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) 2002
2003 385 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2003) 500
2003 1453 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2004 82 Q101 Q101 Top 300 Party Songs of All-Time (July 2004) 300
2004 292 107.7 The End The End Original Alternative 500 (May 2004) 500
2004 1453 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2004 206 Y100 Y100 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (July 2004) 300
2004 57 WBCN WBCN Grunge Top 104 (2004) 104
2005 1451 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2005 156 99X 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) 1000
2006 188 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2006) 500
2007 127 KROQ KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007) 500
2008 272 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2008) 500
2009 185 Live 105 Live 105 Memorial 500 Song List (2009) 500
2014 186 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2014) 500
2015 172 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2015) 500
2016 279 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2016) 500
2017 292 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2017) 500
2018 291 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2018) 500
2019 271 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ 500 (2019) 500
2019 151 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2019) 500
2020 348 Q105.7 Q105.7 Memorial Day 500 (2020) 499
2020 152 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ 500 (2020) 500
2020 119 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2020) 420
2020 482 DC101 The DC101 Top 500 500
2021 319 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ 500 (2021) 500
2021 98 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2021) 420
2022 217 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s 900
2022 100 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2022) 420
2022 371 101X 101X 500 (2022) 498
2023 691 The Current The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s 893
2023 275 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ Rock N Roll 500 (2023) 500
2023 94 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2023) 420
2023 117 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2023) 500
2024 258 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ Rock N Roll 500 (2024) 500
2025 312 99.1 PLR 99.1 PLR Top 400 of the Last 40 Years (2025) 400
2025 211 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ Rock N Roll 500 (2025) 500
2026 490 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2026) 500
2026 427 101X 101X 500 (2026) 500
2026 182 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ Rock N Roll 500 (2026) 500

Charting alongside it in 1993

Best songs of 1993 →
  1. 1CannonballThe Breeders
  2. 2CreepRadiohead
  3. 3LingerThe Cranberries
  4. 4PlushStone Temple Pilots
  5. 5No RainBlind Melon
  6. 6Soul to SqueezeRed Hot Chili Peppers

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