Stone Temple Pilots - Core

Is this one of the most underrated albums ever? Morality aside, it's basically a tribute/compilation of everything that was great in the alternative rock scene in the early 90s.

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It's really good but there is most likely more underrated albums out there.

first 2 albums are very nice

It was one of the biggest albums of the Alternative/Grunge era, so I'd hardly say it's underrated.

This is the beginning of post-grunge. I would respectfully disagree

Failure's Magnified and Tool's Undertow are more underrated and are from around the same period.
>basically a tribute/compilation of everything that was great in the alternative rock scene in the early 90s.
As decent as this album is, it's like the other user said saying it was the start of post-grunge. STP was an attempt to cash in on grunge. Not saying the band was aware of this, but whoever signed them was.

*Plush starts playing*

Terrible album. This band did not develop their own sound until Tiny Music, which in itself is pretty embarrassing.

I fucking love STP

I love Plush, but desu the guitar tone on that song kind of gives me a headache.

>it's basically a tribute/compilation of everything that was great in the alternative rock scene in the early 90s.

That's called a "rip-off" not a "tribute". They just stole everyone else's sound and pretending it was original.

STP remains the only band from that era I can still listen to and still fucking love.

>the faggots arrive just in time

Core [Atlantic, 1993]

Once you've learned to distinguish them from the Stoned Tempo Pirates, the Stoned Pesto Pinenuts, the Gray Templed Prelates, Pearl Jam, Wishbone Ash, and Temple of the Dog, you may decide they're a halfway decent hard rock act. Unfortunately, after they're done setting you up with their best power chords, you realize that the type song is "Sex Type Thing" and it's attached to a rape threat. The band claims this is intended ironically, sort of like "Naked Sunday"'s sarcastic handshake with authority. But ironic critique loses its teeth when the will to sex still powers your power chords. And if that's the excuse critics, as well as MTV listeners, have reason to expect, the whole band should catch AIDS and die. B-

i dont think they was pretending anything, they were just standing for their own sake

>faggot SJWs like this existed before 2005

seriously is there a worse critic than him? I didn't even listen to this fucking album but his review is just so useless.

I gotta give him credit, no P4k reviewer would say that a band deserves to catch AIDS and die.

Basically, he's saying that STP were a closet cockrock band posing as alternative rock.

but thats not true, them lyrics are not cockrock for fucks sake

STP were shit cock-rockers. Go listen to a legit underrated 90s alt rock band like Gumball.

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I WANNA RUN THROUGH YOUR WICKED GARDEN
I WANNA DRINK FROM YOUR NAKED FOUNTAIN

This could be a RHCP song if you added a lyric or two about California.

>yfw you realize what "Stone Temple Pilots" is actually referring to

Christgau is smarter than you guys give him credit for. He wasn't fooled by this band for one second.