Stone Temple Pilots - Core

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Dec 29, 2016 Sold Date

Sep 30, 2016 Start Date

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Artikel Name: Core
Genre: Rock englischsprachig Produkt Typ: LP (Vinyl) Label: MUSIC ON VINYL Titelanzahl: 12 Dauer: 53:16

Trackliste LP - 1

1. Stone Temple Pilots - Dead & Bloated 5:10 2. Stone Temple Pilots - Sex Type Thing 3:35 3. Stone Temple Pilots - Wicked Garden 4:05 4. Stone Temple Pilots - No Memory 1:19 5. Stone Temple Pilots - Sin 6:05 6. Stone Temple Pilots - Naked Sunday 3:55 7. Stone Temple Pilots - Creep 5:30 8. Stone Temple Pilots - Piece of Pie 5:22

Trackliste LP - 2

9. Stone Temple Pilots - Plush 5:08 10. Stone Temple Pilots - Wet My Bed 1:35 11. Stone Temple Pilots - Crackerman 3:12 12. Stone Temple Pilots - Where the River Goes 8:20

Beschreibung

Stone Temple Pilots were positively vilified once their 1992 debut, Core, started scaling the charts in 1993, pegged as fifth-rate Pearl Jam copyists. It is true that the worst moments of Core play like a parody of the Seattle scene -- titles like "Dead and Bloated" and "Crackerman" tell you that much, playing like really bad Alice in Chains parodies, and the entire record tends to sink into gormless post-grunge sludge. Furthermore, even if it rocks pretty hard, it's usually without much character, sounding like cut-rate grunge. To be fair, it's more that they share the same influences as their peers than being overt copycats, but it's still a little disheartening all the same. If that's all that Core was, it'd be as forgettable as Seven Mary Three, but there are the hits that propelled it up the charts, songs that have remarkably stood the test of time to be highlights of their era. "Sex Type Thing" may have a clumsy anti-rape lyric that comes across as misogynist, but it survives on its terrifically lunk-headed riff, while "Wicked Garden" is a surprisingly effective piece of revivalist acid rock. Then, there's the slow acoustic crawl of "Creep" that works as well as anything on AIC's Sap and, finally, "Plush," a majestic album rock revival more melodic and stylish than anything grunge produced outside of Nirvana itself. These four songs aren't enough to salvage a fairly pedestrian debut, but they do find STP to be nimble rock craftsmen when inspiration hits. [Core was also released on LP in 2013.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Beschreibung

While Stone Temple Pilots may not be sincere alternative rockers, they do know how to write a killer riff, which is why their debut album sold nearly as many copies as Pearl Jam. Admittedly, STP can sound like either Pearl Jam ("Plush"), Alice in Chains ("Sex Type Thing" and "Wicked Garden"), Soundgarden ("Dead & Bloated"), or even R.E.M. ("Creep"), depending on their mood, but their hooks are undeniably catchy, making the songs much better than they have any right to be. In fact, Stone Temple Pilots appear to be the hard rock arena act for the 1990s, and that's a compliment. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stephen Thomas Erlewine