The Stone Temple Pilots Thread

[BurtReynolds]

The Foo Fighters suck though.

[tragabigzanda]

[doug rr]

The Foo Fighters suck though.

but dave is awesome

[BurtReynolds]

save a little mourning for Loggia.

[bada]

Thanks for getting us back to task Burt.

[stip]

I'm going to honor him with my top 10 STP songs

1. Vaseline
2. Interstate Love song
3. Sex Type Thing
4. Big Empty
5. Plush.
6. Big Bang Baby
7. Pretty Penny
8. Trippin on a hole in a paper heart
9. Unglued
10. That hidden song at the end of purple

[stip]

It's a lot of hits, but I really only ever liked their first three albums (though I got them all), and they were a band where I thought their hits were usually their best songs.

[McParadigm]

Atlanta is better than most of that list

[Rangi Guy]

Without Silvergun Superman that list makes no sense

[Chris_H_2]

Without Silvergun Superman that list makes no sense

I'm so in love with you right now

[VinylGuy]

Ill try to make a top ten...but eventually it will change because i love them.

1-Plush
2-Interstate Love Song
3-Sex Type Thing
4-Big Bang Baby
5- Atlanta
6-Hello, its late
7-Kitchenware & Candybars
8-Big Empty
9-Trippin
10-Maver

[bada]

01 Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart
02 Lady Picture Show
03 Vasoline
04 Black Again
05 Hello It's Late
06 Silvergun Superman
07 Adhesive
08 Take a Load Off
09 A Song For Sleeping
10 Atlanta

[PHATJ]

Without Silvergun Superman that list makes no sense

I'm so in love with you right now

It's my favorite STP song for sure.

[Leatherhead]

I don't really know STP. Reading these song titles, it seems they (Weiland?) was pretty good at naming a song.

[verb_to_trust]

This one seems appropriate. Scott was an awesome dancer. Loved the way slid around on stage.

[PHATJ]

I have an incredibly hard time ranking STP songs. I actually tried to do this a month or so ago and just gave up because I really love far too many of their songs. As I remember, I had Pretty Penny last in my Purple rankings (and I really like that song) so I just fucking gave up. Here's my best shot at my STP top ten.

1. Silvergun Superman
2. Still Remains
3 - 11 (I failed again at ranking these, and I couldn't get the list down to ten)

Plush
Wicked Garden
Vasoline
Interstate Love Song
Ride The Cliché
Glide
Atlanta
Hello It's Late
Take a Load Off

And I love so many more than this group. Every song on Purple is fantastic (it's one of my all time favorite albums), they could all be included in my "favorites" list. Several songs from Tiny Music and No. 4 were right there too.

[daft twat]

1 still remains - it's not a slow dance song, but it was the tune I picked to dance with my wife 14 years ago on our wedding day.
2 big empty
3 glide
4 kitchenware
5 piece o pie
6 silver gun
7 down
8 adhesive
9 pea coat
10 wonderful

[Sgt. Crackpot]

My first real exposure to STP was when Rage played the PJ unplugged set on a Saturday night in about '95? The STP unplugged followed, and it was amazing. Scott was as high as a kite but he was brilliant.

I went out and bought Purple and Core the next day. I thought those were 2 great albums, but never really got into their later ones. Scott seemed to lose his magic when doing albums/tours while trying to get sober.

He died how he lived, and I expected nothing more. RIP.

[Dev]

If all you ever heard was the STP on the radio, then you never really heard STP (and I take nothing away from their hits, a lot of them still sound tremendous to this day)

They were a fantastic fucking band, much like Pearl Jam in that the whole was much greater than the sum of its parts. Creatively, they took a lot of chances after Purple (less so on Tiny Music than on 4 and Shangri La Dee Da), and none of their albums ever sounded the same. Hell, I even enjoyed the fuck out of the reunion album on the whole, even if it was more straight up rock than the records they made before they broke up the first time.

He was a truly great frontman in an era where the idea of the "classic" rock frontman was mocked and scoffed at. Regardless of what you think of Velvet Revolver's musical output (and I'm one of the few who thinks that the second album, on the whole, is better than the first, aside from the two huge hits on Contraband), to stand up on that stage with Slash and Duff and not only NOT be overshadowed, but to grab much of the attention yourself, is remarkable.

It was easy to get disenfranchised with him because he was so talented as a performer and you just wish he'd get his shit together and you wanted to believe that he could and would do it, and he was so great that you'd want to give him chance after chance.

"generically 90s" my ass...

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[LoathedVermin72]

Favorite STP songs (alphabetical):

Adhesive
All in the Suit That You Wear
Art School Girl
Atlanta
Dead & Bloated
Down
Heaven & Hot Rods
Interstate Love Song
No Way Out
Plush
Sex & Violence
Sex Type Thing
Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart
Vasoline
Wicked Garden