tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26208080.post7542049397291848903..comments2024-01-09T08:37:11.232-06:00Comments on Glam-Racket: Scott Weiland's Drunk Type ThingTodd Totalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08985141400507835685noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26208080.post-27568858991659786912010-09-28T10:17:00.795-05:002010-09-28T10:17:00.795-05:00All Music Guide:
"There was a brief parting ...All Music Guide:<br /><br />"<i>There was a brief parting of the ways in 1997...but the group soldiered on into 2001, cutting solid records, yet they were ultimately derailed by Weiland's addictions -- which, in a charming display of empathy, made some of the band's longtime critics gloat.</i>"<br /><br />Hmm...<br /><br /><i>...it's clear that Stone Temple Pilots were one of the great singles bands of the '90s. Single for single, they had a dynamic mix of crunching hard rock and sugary, slightly trippy melodies, underscored by a real sense of urgency and perfect production by O'Brien, where each track unfolded with layer upon layer of sonic detail and no song outstayed its welcome. This was alt-rock played as classic rock -- it played by the rules of '70s album rock, but its amalgam of sounds and styles, where STP poached from metal, glam, bubblegum, the Beatles, and album rock in equal measure, was purely a creation of the '90s, where postmodern aesthetics became part of the mainstream. And, within the mainstream, nobody did it better than Stone Temple Pilots. Yes, their peers certainly had more indie credibility, but great pop music isn't about credibility; it's how the music sounds, and STP made music that sounded great at the time and even better now.</i>" <br /><br />OK, here I come (heh, heh):<br /><br />The fourth album had at least one chart hit ("Sour Girl"); I would be more inclined to disparage their reunion if they were lame to begin with and I hadn't had to deal with a decade of bullshit bands in their absence; finally "Intestate Love Song" is the best rock tune of the '90s, Pavement fans be damned.Kiko Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15012258202159738458noreply@blogger.com