"Take a Load Off" | ||||
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Single by Stone Temple Pilots | ||||
from the album Stone Temple Pilots | ||||
Released | June 2010 | |||
Recorded | 2009 | |||
Genre | Hard rock [1] | |||
Length | 3:11 | |||
Label | Atlantic | |||
Songwriter(s) | Dean DeLeo (music), Scott Weiland (lyrics) | |||
Producer(s) | Robert DeLeo, Dean DeLeo | |||
Stone Temple Pilots singles chronology | ||||
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"Take a Load Off" | ||||
Music video | ||||
"Take A Load Off" on YouTube |
"Take a Load Off" is a song by American rock band Stone Temple Pilots. "Take a Load Off" is the second track off the band's sixth studio album, Stone Temple Pilots ,released in 2010. The song was the album's second single,after the #1 hit "Between the Lines". A music video for "Take a Load Off" was released on September 8,2010. [2] The song was used in Shift 2:Unleashed .
"Take a Load Off" was composed by guitarist Dean DeLeo. In writing this song,singer Scott Weiland listened to and studied poetical lyricists to learn how to free his writing from his autobiographical and "self-obsessed" nature. "There's an art to telling a story,and it can mean anything,or it can mean nothing." [3]
Chart (2010) | Peak position |
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Canada Rock ( Billboard ) [4] | 27 |
US Alternative Airplay ( Billboard ) [5] | 24 |
US Mainstream Rock ( Billboard ) [6] | 23 |
US Hot Rock &Alternative Songs ( Billboard ) [7] | 24 |
Stone Temple Pilots is an American rock band from San Diego,California,that originally consisted of Scott Weiland,brothers Dean DeLeo (guitar) and Robert DeLeo,and Eric Kretz (drums). The band's line-up remained unchanged from its formation in 1989 until the firing of Weiland in February 2013. Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington joined the band in May 2013 but left amicably in November 2015. In 2016,the band launched an online audition for a new lead vocalist and announced Jeff Gutt as the new lead singer of the band on November 14,2017.
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