Stone temple pilots were awesome because whether they were like "we are alice in chains" or "just kidding we're the beatles/red kross" or "sike! We're david bowie" the music was always very good
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Yup. I had the pleasure of working with Brendan O’Brien. He was excited about producing a band that he had just discovered. It was to be the first album that he produced. I asked the name of the band. He said it was Stone Temple Pilots. I vividly remembered that because the band name was so odd.
They were always good, and always trashed by 'critics'. Rolling Stone, in particular, hated them, which I think helped fuel STP's demise via heroin. But, what do I know?
Cosign everything you said here, but I have to ask, did you use talk to text for this? I’m always complaining about the random commas whenever I use it.
A.D. and the D Bags
The Andy Andy Andies
Andy Dwyer Experience
Angelsnack
Crackfinger
Death of a Scam Artist
Department of Homeland Obscurity
Everything Rhymes with Orange
Fiveskin
Flames For Flames
Fleetwood Mac Sexpants
Fourskin
God Hates Figs
Handrail Suicide
Jet Black Pope
Just The Tip
(Cont.)
Malice In Chains
Mouse Rat
Muscle Confusion
Ninjadick
Nothing Rhymes with Blorange
Nothing Rhymes with Orange
Penis Pendulum
Possum Pendulum
Punch Face Champions
Puppy Pendulum
Rad Wagon
Razordick
Teddy Bear Suicide
Threeskin
Two Doors Down
Scarecrow Boat
STP will always be of my favorite bands. never saw them live, but got to see Scott live and had to tickets to see Scott and the Wildabouts a week after he passed. What a shame
I think it was mid, post grunge-early “but rock.” Glad you enjoy them. I liked the first album. Saw them in 1997, but the only reason I went was because Cheap Trick was the opener.
AiC is in my top 5 bands. I was friends w Layne as a kid. I don't know who sings for AiC now but he must be good. Most great singers can't be replaced and it's a tough spot for a band
He's not great. And the new albums had been a dismal failure, both musically, and in sales (the last two releases have sold a combined 71 000 copies 😖 ouch)
I hate this take. What do you expect the surviving members, all devoted to being professional musicians, to do? Give it up because of his death? Do you think Layne would have WANTED that? DuVall is a great replacement.
It takes more than one person to make a band. AIC is every bit Jerry Cantrell as it is Layne Staley. MANY bands continue on without original members. Some do it better than others. While they havent touched Dirt or Facelift, they HAVE put out some very good music with DuVall.
This is such a weird take. Cantrell wrote or cowrote virtually every song the band has. Good pipes, good guitarist, trolling? If anyone is trolling it has to be you here.
Oh sure, we can say AC/DC, or Van Halen, but the guitarists were both as iconic as the singers. Face it... Jerry was absolutely replaceable.
The album sales certainly reflect my opinion; the latest two albums sold a whopping 71 000 copies 😖 Yikes.
Saw them live a number of times. When that band was firing on all cylinders, they were as intense as any. I listen to them regularly to this day, and their catalog really stands up. Great band.
I was never their biggest fan, but they were AWESOME live. One year I was baked off my tits at Street Scene in San Diego and they were performing, so I went over to that stage. 1/
The stage lights went dark, and I saw the band go up, and I heard a familiar song start, and I was all "what is this, I know this" bc it wasn't a STP song. The lights were low on the band, and then you saw Weiland's shadowy self take the stage /2
And then BANG, the lights came up to Weiland standing tall, looking to the sky with his arms outstretched and the band RIPPING into Shine On You Crazy Diamond and my baked mind was blown. Showmanship and charisma for DAYS, that dude. RIP
I was surprised at how well Gutt pulled it off but the guitar play is really the center of their sound for me and that was spot on. Went into show not sure what to expect. Pumpkins without Corgan though would be a whole different story, not sure how they could ever replace that voice.
No doubt. Dean and Rob Deleo are really cool musicians. Definitely an original sound. I honestly listened to STP for the first time like two weeks ago, since Weiland died. I have a hard time with moving on. Same with Hoon, Woods, Cobain, Staley, Nowell, Cornell… so angry every time
I saw them in concert for the first time in 23+ years this past summer at a charity event in DC and they’re still awesome! They obviously have a different lead singer—Jeff Gutt—but everyone else is the same and they still rocked. I’m impressed by their stamina; my 52 year old ass was tired watching.
I’m an older millennial and one of my core memories is being a toddler and dancing in my car seat in the back seat of my dad’s station wagon to Stone Temple Pilot’s cover of Sweet Emotion.
Big Bang Baby is the most unique sounding rock song of the 90s. That riff is straight 70s Arena Rock and for no reason at all it’s funky as hell until it decides to straight up acid trip over the bridge. No let up, just coalescing chaos into that crescendoing finale of angst.
I remember that, probably because they were a little more sonically adventurous than their grunge contemporaries. And their lyrics are pretty awful (but who cares). As a live band, nothing “lite” about them.
I still am looking for the bootleg of PJ performing Madonna “Ray of Light” in concert. Having DJ’d a good bit, I can hear in my head how the song translates genre. But STP was a little more Beatles, though.
I was listening to no.4 the other day and it’s all of those things at once, and yes they’re a glorious fuckin band for it. One of a kind, those fellas. (They’re still playing and of course everyone loves Scott but the songwriters are still around, see the real geniuses while you can is my advice)
I remember watching Scott's last couple of videos from before his passing, and he mentioned that Tiny Music... Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop was his favorite STP album, because it was the most creative.
I agree. Tiny Music is different, it's like an homage to the 70's, but grunge.
Scott aside, Dean, Robert and Eric are wonderful songwriters and high level musicians. using a lot of chord/melody 60’s/70’s pop throwback influences and structure that are not rock and definitely not alice in chains 🤫
Listen to the guitar work alone on Sour Girl or Interstate Lovesong.
The shhh 🤫 only means I love AIC and I think they’re also great (The Black gives way to blue album kisses the sky of production excellence it’s so beautiful) but it’s apples n oranges if you’re comparing those two bands except for the life choices of the individual band members. Tragic.
My introduction to STP was on their first tour opening for Robert Plant two days in a row. Once at Cal Expo in Sacramento, the next night at Shoreline Amphitheater in the Bay Area. I only knew “Plush” but was absolutely blown away by the band. Scott had pink hair and was gyrating around like he did!
Does it still exist? I live in my hometown in Florida now. I was out there for about 10 years.
I saw SO MANY amazing shows at Cal Expo. Not to mention about 20 Grateful Dead shows.
Right?!? I was in the lawn at Shoreline but at Cal Expo I was right up front. The energy from the stage was intense! I remember Scott screaming into the bull horn during, “Dead And Bloated”. It was so powerful!
So glad you got to experience it too!
Crazy, I too was on the lawn too. So powerful, all you had to do was write "dead and bloated" and I can hear him sing. I saw so much music at the Shoreline brings back good memories. Run DMC/Beastie Boys/Too Short. Duran Duran/Erasure to name just a few.
SO MANY memories!
We don’t have time for me to mention all the shows I caught there. The Bridge Benefits, Tom Petty, Jeff Beck, Santana, Grateful Dead 30X. 😂
Are they a rare case of like reverse sophomore slump? Like, that first album is unquestionably the weak link in their chain, and they really hit their stride once they lost the grunge-by-numbers thing.
The DeLeo bros were heads and shoulders above their contemporaries when it came to musicianship. And Scott Weiland was twice the frontman that Eddie Vedder was/is (and I still like Eddie Vedder).
Those brothers are major talents. They know how music works and how to write complex melodies. I saw them last yr and thought the singer was fantastic. Different from Weiland but not too much. Did the songs justice
I remember the first time I heard Still Remains and Silvergun Superman. Couldn’t believe how deep an album Purple was. Those would’ve been great songs for another band. For STP? Meh, buried behind other stuff.
If you catch me on the right day, I'll argue that they were actually the greatest alt act of the '90s. For me the first song that comes to mind with STP is forever "Still Remains"
I didn’t even listen to them that much in the 90s but for some reason I did recently and was surprised by how good they were and how well they hold up.
Tiny Music was one of my favorite albums of the 90's. I honestly didn't listen to much of their other non-hit songs, but this was a full listen for me.
When their first album came out we all thought it was Pearl Jam when we heard it. People would come into the record store and ask for the new Pearl Jam song and they’d sing Plush or Big Empty.
I mean I know a guy who couldn't be convinced that Are You Gonna Go My Way wasn't a Jim Hendrix song. (also how did people know Big Empty already when it was off their second album?)
In high school I traded a crappy guitar for 6 lessons with a jazz guitarist at the local music store. Only then did the chords in STP songs make sense in my brain and to my hands.
David Bowie. Now there was a real one. Stuck under a contract with predatory fees on royalties? Make a bunch of experimental shit almost guaranteed to get minimal air time. Under your own label? Top 10 dance album of the 80s and multiple film appearances.
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Verse
Chorus
Verse
Chorus
DONE.
No bridge. No solo. In and out like WHAT?!
The Andy Andy Andies
Andy Dwyer Experience
Angelsnack
Crackfinger
Death of a Scam Artist
Department of Homeland Obscurity
Everything Rhymes with Orange
Fiveskin
Flames For Flames
Fleetwood Mac Sexpants
Fourskin
God Hates Figs
Handrail Suicide
Jet Black Pope
Just The Tip
Malice In Chains
Mouse Rat
Muscle Confusion
Ninjadick
Nothing Rhymes with Blorange
Nothing Rhymes with Orange
Penis Pendulum
Possum Pendulum
Punch Face Champions
Puppy Pendulum
Rad Wagon
Razordick
Teddy Bear Suicide
Threeskin
Two Doors Down
Scarecrow Boat
Layne was AIC. Everyone knows that. Jerry is a competent guitarist, but mediocre singer.
Imagine if Dave Grohl and Christ Novdjbg kept going as Nirvana 🤦♂️ nope.
You have to be trolling. Nobody who listened to AIC would say something so absurd.
Many bands go on, sure... but very few with such a distinct and iconic frontman as him. And even fewer are (as) successful with the attempt.
The album sales certainly reflect my opinion; the latest two albums sold a whopping 71 000 copies 😖 Yikes.
https://youtu.be/L4zJAb9xaKk?si=65F-vFOkg_hrfKKO
All their music was good
It might be their best song.
Didn't happen in a vacuum
I agree. Tiny Music is different, it's like an homage to the 70's, but grunge.
Listen to the guitar work alone on Sour Girl or Interstate Lovesong.
Album iirc
I saw SO MANY amazing shows at Cal Expo. Not to mention about 20 Grateful Dead shows.
So glad you got to experience it too!
We don’t have time for me to mention all the shows I caught there. The Bridge Benefits, Tom Petty, Jeff Beck, Santana, Grateful Dead 30X. 😂
My entire life as a teenager flashes back when I hear this jam.
I'm half the man I used to be...
But Weiland could be a grunge rocker, a glam rocker, a balladeer, or a crooner. His range as a singer was epic.
(In fact, this may be one of the creepiest things I've ever seen.)
https://youtu.be/EojN6r2VSR4?si=k-VswO3EAcwyesZc
RIP.
So unique.
my all time #1 alone-in-the-car belter
Butthead: This guy makes faces like Eddie Vedder.
Beavis: No way, Eddie Vedder makes faces like this guy.
Butthead: Well they BOTH make faces like that John Beluchi dude. 🤣🤣
Then they were a big hair band.
Then biker metal
THEN they hit pay dirt.
Sellouts from the jump.
And, other than the song they stole from Redd Kross, most of the rest?
Utter.
Shite.
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