I'm not a big STP fan at all.

jimmyjazz14

Actually hate a lot of their stuff. but it's gotta be said. Tiny Music is a fantastic record and Adhesive is the best fucking song they ever did.

peacefrompaul

I'm not a big fan myself. I give STP an occasional listen.

Attaway77

STP has some good stuff... That's why we're still talking about them today. It's an important band of the 90's (IMO)

DewieCox

Attaway77 wrote:

STP has some good stuff... That's why we're still talking about them today. It's an important band of the 90's (IMO)

Definitely one of the best. They don't really have any bad albums and most of the stuff before the breakup is great. Shangriladida is really underrated.

Jon Chorba

I'm a fan of the older stuff. Adhesive is a fantastic song.

djklambake

I used to listen to STP a TON back in the day. Core and Purple were in heavy rotation. Tiny Music a little less...

And then when Weiland went off to rehab and the rest of the guys hooked up with a new lead singer to form the band Talk Show... man... that stuff really sucked.

Nowadays I don't listen to any STP. Reminds me of some shitty times (personally), and it feels more and more like a rip-off band. I equate them to Nickelback a lot these days (even though nobody deserves that classification).

CAVSTARR313

Love me some Adhesive!! one of their best for sure

Hugh Freaking Dillon

djklambake wrote:

I used to listen to STP a TON back in the day. Core and Purple were in heavy rotation. Tiny Music a little less...

And then when Weiland went off to rehab and the rest of the guys hooked up with a new lead singer to form the band Talk Show... man... that stuff really sucked.

Nowadays I don't listen to any STP. Reminds me of some shitty times (personally), and it feels more and more like a rip-off band. I equate them to Nickelback a lot these days (even though nobody deserves that classification).

I actually like Talk Show.

red mos

Talk show is a good album. I enjoyed it.

Not a Huge STP fan, but like alot of their songs. One of my faves by them is kitchenware and candybars. Such a sad song, but one of my faves of theirs.

arq

STP is still one of my favorite bands! I've something awesome in every album... But weirdly I haven't given enough chance to their last album, thanks guys for reminding me to give it a second try.

solace23

Big fan of big empty

SatansFuton

STP is one of those bands that when they're on top of their game they're fantastic, but when they're not they're pretty terrible. To me at least. The first album didn't do much for me, aside from Creep, Sex Type Thing, and Crackerman I found it to be just kind of generic grunge. I don't think that was really their sound or style, I don't know if they were trying to cash in on grunge or if the record company talked them into it, or if they really were grunge and just didn't do it too well, but that first album just sounds like a band going nowhere even though it has a couple of good songs.

Then they came out with Purple which I don't think has a single bad song. It's a masterpiece in my opinion. Then Tiny Music which has my favorite STP songs, but as an overall album I don't think is as strong as Purple, but still very great. Everything after that I didn't care for.

I remember going to a music store to buy No. 4 when it came out at midnight. I was so excited, on the strength of Purple and Tiny Music this was a band well on the way to being one of my favorites and dare I say knock either Pearl Jam or The Stones off the top spot, or join them in a three way tie. I was so excited, I put the CD in, and was just utterly disappointed. And from there they just continued to slip further away from the top spot, to the point where every once in a while, 2-3 time a year I might listen to them. I still love those two albums, but I can only listen to the same 2 albums over and over. To me they just fizzled very quickly, and it's very baffling considering the way they were going. But I'm guessing drug addiction and band conflict can do that. I do realize some people like those post-Tiny Music albums, but to my ears they just all sound like filler.

Neil Bruce

SatansFuton wrote:

STP is one of those bands that when they're on top of their game they're fantastic, but when they're not they're pretty terrible. To me at least. The first album didn't do much for me, aside from Creep, Sex Type Thing, and Crackerman I found it to be just kind of generic grunge. I don't think that was really their sound or style, I don't know if they were trying to cash in on grunge or if the record company talked them into it, or if they really were grunge and just didn't do it too well, but that first album just sounds like a band going nowhere even though it has a couple of good songs.

Then they came out with Purple which I don't think has a single bad song. It's a masterpiece in my opinion. Then Tiny Music which has my favorite STP songs, but as an overall album I don't think is as strong as Purple, but still very great. Everything after that I didn't care for.

I remember going to a music store to buy No. 4 when it came out at midnight. I was so excited, on the strength of Purple and Tiny Music this was a band well on the way to being one of my favorites and dare I say knock either Pearl Jam or The Stones off the top spot, or join them in a three way tie. I was so excited, I put the CD in, and was just utterly disappointed. And from there they just continued to slip further away from the top spot, to the point where every once in a while, 2-3 time a year I might listen to them. I still love those two albums, but I can only listen to the same 2 albums over and over. To me they just fizzled very quickly, and it's very baffling considering the way they were going. But I'm guessing drug addiction and band conflict can do that. I do realize some people like those post-Tiny Music albums, but to my ears they just all sound like filler.

I agree 100%! I listened to purple and tiny music to death when they both came out, but I think I've only listened to No.4 and Shangri la dee da a couple of times...And I haven't even heard the new one!

DewieCox

djklambake wrote:

Nowadays I don't listen to any STP. Reminds me of some shitty times (personally), and it feels more and more like a rip-off band. I equate them to Nickelback a lot these days (even though nobody deserves that classification).

I think STP is one of the most original sounding bands there is. There's one obvious very Aerosmith-like track on the newest album, but other than that I can't think of another instance where I thought that they ripped somebody off. They have about as much range in their music as just about any band ever so you can't call them a one-trick pony.

Jason P

SatansFuton wrote:

Then they came out with Purple which I don't think has a single bad song. It's a masterpiece in my opinion.

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Olivavu

I like Stone Temple Pilots. Saw them in 2009 and they weren't bad.

dcfaithful

SatansFuton wrote:

Then they came out with Purple which I don't think has a single bad song. It's a masterpiece in my opinion.

Dude, agreed. Purple is a spectacular rock record from start to finish.

facepollution

I love them, when they're on form they are incredible, Exhibit A:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIQf_3Cw6Q4

I saw them live the same year as this was filmed, I wasn't really expecting much because it was before I had seen any footage of them live, and they were touring Shangri la de da, which I wasn't really a fan of, but they were mind-blowing, in my top ten gigs of all time for sure.

Mamasan23

Purple is definitely one of the best records of the 90's...IMO of course!

Loulou

SatansFuton wrote:

STP is one of those bands that when they're on top of their game they're fantastic, but when they're not they're pretty terrible. To me at least. The first album didn't do much for me, aside from Creep, Sex Type Thing, and Crackerman I found it to be just kind of generic grunge. I don't think that was really their sound or style, I don't know if they were trying to cash in on grunge or if the record company talked them into it, or if they really were grunge and just didn't do it too well, but that first album just sounds like a band going nowhere even though it has a couple of good songs.

Then they came out with Purple which I don't think has a single bad song. It's a masterpiece in my opinion. Then Tiny Music which has my favorite STP songs, but as an overall album I don't think is as strong as Purple, but still very great. Everything after that I didn't care for.

I remember going to a music store to buy No. 4 when it came out at midnight. I was so excited, on the strength of Purple and Tiny Music this was a band well on the way to being one of my favorites and dare I say knock either Pearl Jam or The Stones off the top spot, or join them in a three way tie. I was so excited, I put the CD in, and was just utterly disappointed. And from there they just continued to slip further away from the top spot, to the point where every once in a while, 2-3 time a year I might listen to them. I still love those two albums, but I can only listen to the same 2 albums over and over. To me they just fizzled very quickly, and it's very baffling considering the way they were going. But I'm guessing drug addiction and band conflict can do that. I do realize some people like those post-Tiny Music albums, but to my ears they just all sound like filler.

Totally agree! Purple will always be my favourite, your spot on, it IS a masterpiece. Love every bit of it.

12345AGNST1

Coincidentally Tiny music is the only STP album on my itunes. Ill probably give it a listen now

scottstappsucks

STP are one of my favorite bands. One of the most diverse bands of the 90's, every album sounds different from the other. Not even close to a ripoff, demoed many Core songs before Pearl Jam existed or Soundgarden/Nirvana released their breakthrough albums. They suffered from the fact that they weren't from Seattle, even though they grew up with the same influences as those guys. Classic and punk rock. Scott Weiland is just an amazing at creating melodies and abstract lyrics, a true legend. Their songs still playing regularly on rock radio shows they have stood the test of time. I loved their self-titled album from 2010 too.

Flagg

Tiny Music is a masterpiece.

jimmyjazz14

solace23 wrote:

Big fan of big empty

Overplayed.

ForceofNature101

jimmyjazz14 wrote:

solace23 wrote:

Big fan of big empty

Overplayed.

But still a fantastic song

Raineman311

ForceofNature101 wrote:

jimmyjazz14 wrote:

solace23 wrote:

Big fan of big empty

Overplayed.

But still a fantastic song

Overplayed but def still amazing. I finally got to see STP in '08 sitting in the 3rd row and they opened with "Big Empty", such a perfect entrance song.

edit: You inspired me to search for this vid and here is that very entrance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWEs7rT_O3s
Still get chills watching this too, you can see me hold my beer up in the air in the lower left at the end and throwin my arms throughout the song like its an Eminem show. Im famous!

SatansFuton

The reason it got overplayed is because it's a great song.

Hugh Freaking Dillon

SatansFuton wrote:

The reason it got overplayed is because it's a great song.

so then why is Betterman overplayed?

SatansFuton

Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:

SatansFuton wrote:

The reason it got overplayed is because it's a great song.

so then why is Betterman overplayed?

Because it's a great song

All Those Yesterdays

jimmyjazz14 wrote:

Actually hate a lot of their stuff. but it's gotta be said. Tiny Music is a fantastic record and Adhesive is the best fucking song they ever did.

Prefer Seven Caged Tigers. Tiny Music is my favorite album of theirs. For me, Purple was good, and Tiny Music was fantastic. The rest just don't do much, a song here or there, but that's about it.

Olivavu

Core is my favourite album of theirs.