 Several of the songs were inspired by 1960s and 1970s rock bands . " Between the Lines " was written with The Animals , The Zombies and Paul Revere & the Raiders in mind , and Weiland considered " Cinnamon " to be a combination of 1960s British pop and Ian Curtis ( of Joy Division ) . " Huckleberry Crumble " was inspired by Aerosmith , specifically " Same Old Song and Dance " . Dean admitted to the similarities : " The arrangement is almost the same : riff , solo , verse , chorus , solo , back to a second verse — it 's pretty much the same setup . " He also noted how the song sounded different depending on the type of instruments used to play it . " It 's amazing how , if you were to present that opening riff on a Tele really clean , it 's almost a country riff . But if you present it with a Les Paul through a Marshall , it takes on this whole different thing . " 
