Any STP fans here? Don't know much about them but am mildly intrigued.

Any recommendations?

Yeah, they're good. Try their first album. I haven't listened to them in quite a while, though--the airwaves around here were so saturated with them in the mid- and late 90s that I'm still taking a hiatus from their music.

I can finally listen to Interstate Love Affair again without wanting to jump off a cliff. It's been many years.

abigail05 said:

Interstate Love Song perhaps?

Poiple said:

Right. Song. Whatever. Never wanna hear it again.

Poiple said:

Ditto on all counts.

Love them...the singing and songwriting I found to be much better than other "grunge" bands at the time. You should def check em out!

I went out and bought Core and Tiny Music... Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop.

I was really impressed with Core. Some really solid tracks. Tiny Music was rubbish though - I hope they're not one of those bands who ride off the success of one good album.

MattyJam said:

Their second album is their best IMO. Best grunge band by far.

Is that Purple????

Well, from the cynics point of view, they were the shame of early-90s grunge, just as Poison was the rotten (yet successful) apple of late 80s glam-metal.

But even those stone cold cynics will agree that the songs "Plush" and "Interstate Love Song" are CLASSICS.

Anyway, their Thank You farewell album (hits & singles compilation) is good enough for buying it blindly... And yes, the Purple album is solid, a classic grunge album of the 90s...
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They are one of the bands that bugged me the most during the grunge explosion... real corporate rock stars trying to act all edgy and stuff cuz that was the thing to do. If they'd come out at the same times as Guns N Roses I might have liked them better.

But even I have to admit that Interstate Love Song, Vaseline and Big Bang Baby are good tunes, despite the fact that I HATE HATE HATE that lead singer.

They are a great band. I was kind of late getting into them, thought they were just another Pearl Jam ripoff. After seeing them live three times I am a big fan. I even saw Scott's solo tour, and Velvet Revolver(3x).
In case you did not know they recorded the song "Lounge Fly" at Paisley Park in July '93. Scott Weiland mentioned this when I saw them a couple of years ago.
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MattyJam said:

I found they just got better; tiny love songs was great, core was mediocre.

Sex type thing was excellent fro core though

Good band. Not my all time favorite band but they are very talented. I'm loving the comeback of grunge and 90's rock. The 80's had had long enough in the sun as a nostalgia thing.

Plush is the Dream On of the 90s.

This acoustic version of Plush is great:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...nSxtv5BnZo

MattyJam said:

I think they're both solid albums, Tiny Music has some great tracks with Big Bang Baby, Seven Caged Tiger, Adhesive Love.....shit I probably like all of em, used to listen that album a lot in the 90s.

Purple was their most successful release, be sure to check it out if you like Core.

They've got a new one out this year.



There's also Weiland's double album Happy In Galoshes which imo is pretty impressive melodic pop....



he also put out 12BarBlues in 98, total antithesis to the Happy style of song and more experimental, I'd say unfinished.

Poiple said:

The most overplayed song on rock radio in the 90s. I'm still tired of hearing it today.

sextonseven said:

played more than Smells Like Teen Spirit?

elmer said:

Hell yes! My office had the local rock station on every day during the mid-90s and STP would get played over Nirvana a million times. Look at the mainstream rock chart numbers for each song:

Smells Like Teen Spirit = peaked at #7
Interstate Love Song = #1 for 15 weeks!

sextonseven said:

in England STP didn't get played much outside of MTV, even Pearl Jam were minnows compared to Nirvana, GNR et al.

sextonseven said:

That's because it's much better than "Smells Like Teen Spirit." "Interstate Love Song" is grunge at its very best.

MattyJam said:

sextonseven said:

agreed!

I like some of their stuff but to me they were really a singles band. They were lacking in substance. I think Sponge was much much better than STP.

NoVideo said:

Agreed as well. The most overplayed on the radio bands from the 90s (at least where I live): Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam. No lie, every 5th or 6th song was by one of these four groups. I still can't listen to any of them.

Never crossed into the UK.

And from what I've heard of them, I'm glad!

Pish!

You folks in the UK need to turn off that electronica crap and understand that real music is played by real musicians.