pound for pound, Stone Temple Pilots just does it better

[LynneSin]

I just love their music and I personally think they are one of the better grunge bands to come out of the 90's, even better than Nirvana or Pearl Jam.

Must buy for STP fans: Their new greatest hits CD "Thank You" which includes that incredible acoustic version of Plush (it's so much better when it's done acoustic).

:D

[GOPisEvil]

1. I was just listening to Core over the weekend!

I felt like rocking out a bit. :D

[PVnRT]

2. Not better, but on the same level

And I'll make my own damn greatest hits CD, since I have all of their albums - I hate acoustic versions of electric songs.

[THUNDER HANDS]

3. they ain't better than Pearl Jam

They're better than Alice in Chains, but not by much. And I don't think they're better than Nirvana either.

Maybe the 3rd or 4th best grunge band of that era.

[StopTheMorans]

4. loved STP until I bought Shangri La Dee Da

without a doubt the worst music purchase that I have ever made, that album is horrible, I can't see how they could put out anything that rotten after having such an impressive catalogue. THat being said, I love every other album, and they are one of the best things to have come out of the 90's:)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. Creep is one of those songs I listen to every week!

[Maine-i-acs]

6. Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, then STP ...

STP just burned out too fast. Poor Scott! Hope he's doing well these days.

[Sandpiper]

7. Scott Weiland

Could never quite make up his mind if he wanted to sound more like Eddie Vedder or Lane Staley. There are innovators and there are immitators, and STP were definitely the latter.

[Cooley Hurd]

10. Creed is an imitator, STP isn't...

STP came up around the same time as Pearl Jam, so any way Scott sounds like Vedder is coincidental.

Creed, on the other hand, came about 5 or 6 years later...

[StopTheMorans]

12. and you forgot, Creed is the most horrible band ever to walk

the face of the planet, and scott stapp is the biggest poser ever to walk the stage in front of a "rock" band.

[Sandpiper]

15. Aw c'mon

What about Gavin Rossdale?

[StopTheMorans]

17. not even close

he doesn't have the messiah complex that stapp has. oh, and on the creed behind the music when stapp was whining about his substance abuse in college (he smoked a couple of joints and drank a bit): WHAT A JOKE!!!!!!!!!! if you're going to have a behind the music substance abuse story, you can't make it about low-level drinking and a few joints, what a loser...

[vi5]

19. Uh...STP came out several years after Pearl Jam and AIC...

Those bands came out in '91 and I don't think STP came out until '94. Besides, prior to the seattle/grunge sound being the big cash cow, they were a hair metal band called Mighty Joe Young who changed their sound shortly after the grunge revolution that catapulted Nirvana and Pearl Jam to success.

[StopTheMorans]

20. core came out in '92 I believe

n/t

[Cooley Hurd]

24. Core came out in 1992...

Amazon.com Product Details. I remember because I bought it in Illinois in late '92.

[PVnRT]

22. It would be hard for him to imitate either

given that they were playing the clubs in Los Angeles with Tool and Rage Against the Machine at about the same time Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, et al, were playing the clubs up in Seattle and bother were only releasing regional CD's if anything.

Just because something sounds similar doesn't mean it's an imitation.

[AngryAmish]

8. No qualitative difference

between STP, Warrent, Great White and all the other hair metal bands. Just different clothing. In fact, they kinda sucked.

[StopTheMorans]

9. respectfully, you don't know what you're talking about

listen to any of their acoustic songs, or even Interstate Love Song for that matter. Deleo doesn't play just straight crap power chord riffs, and he doesn't shred; they have virtually nothing in common with hair bands. Their stuff is much more classic-rock/mainstream rock than hair band.

[Droopy]

11. I don't care much for STP, but

I'd take them over any of the eighties hair metal bands any day. I don't even consider that stuff a genre of metal, it was just plain old pop.

[Maine-i-acs]

13. Light years apart

Hair metal bands all suck donkeys now that you look back at them.

STP will survive the test of time a little better. In the long run they'll come out ahead of Great White and maybe even Winger! ;-)

[Cooley Hurd]

14. Different eras, dude...

Hair metal bands were big in the 80's. Alternative/Modern Rock/Grunge hit in the early 90's. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, STP, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden all made their debuts in the early 90's...

[LynneSin]

23. I wouldn't lump STP in with Warrent, Great White and other hair metal band

apples and oranges

:shrug:

[AngryAmish]

25. Qualitative difference, folks

Of course they sound different. But they were just another MTV friendly band pushed by record companies as the lowest common denominator to get lots of kids to buy records.

Oh, and stoptheinsanity, their acoustic songs = power ballads a la "Every Rose Has Its Thorn"

[BlueEyedSon]

16. the Clone Sample Pirates!

Yes STP sounded like a lot like many of their peers, but for me their songwriting was the best. Pearl Jam never quite equaled their debut "Ten", IMHO.

[loftycity]

18. They are great and one of the best live acts..

Scott is a classic Rocker. And STP keeps cranking it out.

They played here a couple of years ago. Some fan of "Disturbed" threw a beer and hit Scott and he slipped.
Oh ....I can only say You Had To Be There...Wow.
He put the Distrubed people in their place..so to speak.

Soundgarden and Audio Slave fan.

[DrWeird]

21. Pound for pound does what better?

heroin?