Stone Temple Pilots

I mean, it's not like I've been defending LIVE or anybody. (Now THERE'S a band who deserves lots of blame for '90s alt rock radio...)

If only they were Sparks.

Though I'll take "Jeremy" over all the early STP bloaters, it's got more drama & crescendo-action.

Well, my point wasn't merely predicting that they'd HAVE a best of album! It was in my 500 (really 600) top metal albums book; I said that once STP put one out, it would probably DESERVE to be in the book (at least if it included four specific songs, two of which, as I mention above, it DOESN'T have by the way). But they had no albums at the TIME that I thought were good enough. Hope that makes sense....

Hey, I live with some very extinct books, I know the feeling!

Chuck spake: Gravity Kills? -- they were doing the industrial rock thing as pop metal, pretty much -- Alex in NYC (or Alex in Manhattan, sorry, I always forget which) should really check out "Falls Apart," which sounds kinda like Killing Joke.

It's not Alex in Manhattan, it's Alex in MAIN-hattan, which is a town in Germany, I believe, and we are two entirely different individuals.

Gravity Kills? I get them all mixed up with Stabbing Westward and God Lives Underwater and all those other sub-NIN bands. I can't remember if it was Gravity Kills or Stabbing Westward who opened for Killing Joke in `94, but in any event they were dire. Moreover, with the possible exception of late, lamented and missing-in-action band Belfegore, I'm not really interested in bands who sound like Killing Joke. I mean, why eat beef jerky when you could eat Filet Mignon, eh?

As far as the Stone Temple Pederasts go,...well, I mean, it's kinda the same thing. Why would someone waste time listening to STP when thy could opt for the definite article? Sure, they wrote the occaissional decent tune (I didn't mind "Vaseline," and "Sex Type Thing" does have a great riff), but I'd much prefer to listen to, say, Soundgarden. Also, way too much drama in that band....and not even interesting drama at that.

Sounds like a rule I'd agree with, Chuck. And yes...both of those videos (Belfegore's manic clip for "All that I Wanted" and the backwards Japanese guy eating in the God Lives Underwater clip) can induce nauseau.

If I could go back in time, I'd tell 15-year old me that someday he would realize Sixteen Stone was better than Nevermind, just to see the look on my/his face.

That's ten songs right there. They'd probably include the failed follow-up singles from the last two records and a new song or two, I'm sure.

They really should put out a NIN best-of. That'd be good...it'd be something like this, probably - Head Like A Hole, Down In It, Sin, March of the Pigs, Closer, Hurt, Wish, Happiness In Slavery, Suck, Burn, Perfect Drug, Into the Void, We're In This Together. That's pretty tight. They'd probably find a way to fuck it up, though.

(I will not bring up "Starfuckers" because that song is SHITTY SHITTY.)

I've always hated "Terrible Lie."

How does that line go about the devil wanting to fuck him in the back of his car?

Nothing quite like the feel of something new.

pitchfork's reminds me of some of my friends.

My fuckin' doorman gave me a CD-R of Velvet Revolver a couple of weeks back, and if I'm not mistaken sports a Stone Temple Pilots tattoo (the boy needs lots of help). While I cannot really understand how people could get that into the shenanigans of the Stone Temple Pilots, I did -- in all fairness -- find myself quite enjoying an airring of "Down" back to back with "Vaseline" whilst fruitlessly searching for an elusive Coil disc at the Virgin Megastore yesterday (gosh, I'm so pathetic -- in my attempt to confess a guilty pleasure, I feel the strenuous need to point out that I was searching for an arguably much hipper disc....god, I'm such a fucking cliche). In any event, I must concede that STP did have a way with big fuckin' hooks.

I'll still take Soundgarden's "Big Dumb Sex" over their "Sex Type Thing" any day of the week (though it does have a damn nice riff).

yeah, malkmus was kidding. but he was kidding in a manner that attempted to deride stone temple pilots

as for my thoughts on stp,

'purple' is a classic of alternative rock. all the right ingredients coming together, and quite a departure from the mediocre and muddled 'core'.

'tiny music' is an odd affair indeed. some classy beatles-esque pop-rock ('lady picture show') and some genuinely fun tunes throughout, but it just somehow fails to leave much of a... mark.

'no. 4' is rubbish. well ok, 'church on tuesday' might have been ok had the chorus not been repeated a thousand times.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/85/Stpfinalcover.jpg

Stone Temple Pilots is the sixth studio album by American rock band Stone Temple Pilots. The album will be released on May 25, 2010 on Atlantic Records.

The album cover incorporates the artwork Peace Fingers Red, designed by Shepard Fairey. According to Kretz, "It was just something to kind of symbolize more of our attitude right now.... We definitely are in a really good place right now as a band and really want to spread some peace and love across the world as much we can. We're going to do it through music and the celebration of rock and roll."

1. Between the Lines
2. Take a Load Off
3. Huckleberry Crumble
4. Hickory Dichotomy
5. Dare If You Dare
6. Cinnamon
7. Hazy Daze
8. Bagman
9. Peacoat
10. Fast As I Can
11. First Kiss on Mars
12. Maver

this has leaked tonight and i'm pretty excited about hearing it.

This fucking band.

lol, come on now. they just want to spread some peace and love across the world as much they can.

And they're gonna do it through music and the celebration of rock and roll.

don't judge them harshly.

No. 4 is actually a real solid album, though it took me a pretty long while to find it out...best track is probably Glide...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNk-JnRwihU

lol 90s

"Hickory Dichotomy"! song title of the year.

http://www.jocknroll.co.uk/images/souphotwired.jpg

i quite like the single.