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| Popmatters |
 Nobody ever mistook Stone Temple Pilots for beacons of originality. From the first time we heard them, we were accusing Scott Weiland of copping Eddie Vedder’s vocal style even as we were accusing the DeLeos of wishing they were Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones. Eventually they morphed into a recognizable-if-derivative band on their own merits, largely thanks to the apparently drug-fueled charisma and talent of Weiland, whose destructive habits haven’t put off the rest of the band enough to make them forget that they need him. The drugs almost won, forcing the band into hiatus for a period of six years or so following the tour for what would have been a disappointment of a final album, the underwhelming-in-every-way Shangri-La Dee Da. Mercifully for those who care about such things, 2010 brings us one more Stone Temple Pilots album, a far more fitting epilogue (or, perhaps, next chapter) for such a successful career even as it actually manages to be more overtly derivative than any album they’ve released thus far....full text |
| Culturebully |
| It has been nine years since the Stone Temple Pilots released Shangri-La Dee Da, the band’s fifth album which received a lukewarm reception and was quickly dismissed after its second single, “Hollywood Bitch,” failed to propel itself into “hit” territory. After talk of returning to the studio following the band’s 2002 tour flared up, tensions also peaked, erupting most notably with guitarist Dean DeLeo and vocalist Scott Weiland nearly coming to blows during the band’s last show of the year’s touring schedule. In the coming years Weiland would join the bulk of Guns N’ Roses’ legacy members in Velvet Revolver for two successful records while also releasing his second solo album, and Dean and Robert DeLeo would pursue a new group with Ray Luzier and Filter’s Richard Patrick, Army of Anyone—though the “super group” would have as limited success as Talk Show, the brothers’ band with STP drummer Eric Kretz and Dave Coutts which released an album in 1997. But until a reconciliation in 2008 (subsequently following Weiland’s unceremonious exit from Velvet Revolver and Army of Anyone going on an “indefinite hiatus”) fans were left with a sour taste in their mouths and a curiosity for what could have been. But after a massive reunion tour and an extended recording session it was announced that fans’ answers would be provided in the form of Stone Temple Pilots. And with the release of the band’s first single from the album, “Beneath The Lines,” it seemed as though STP had found redemption. While opening at the #40 position on Billboard’s Rock Songs chart, the track would make history by jumping to number two the next week, marking the largest single-week bump on the chart ever. The song would later reach number one, solidifying it as the band’s most successful single since “Sour Girl” which landed squarely in Billboard’s Hot 100, amongst a number of other charts, in 2000. “We’ve got our best record so far. I hope to have four or five more great records with this band,” Dean DeLeo explained recently in an interview with Music Radar. But aside from the success of the album’s breakout single, is the band’s eponymous release really their “best record so far”?...full text |
| 411mania |
| The Album So as the teaser to this review says, Scott Weiland recorded his vocals separately from the rest of the band. Basically, they sent him the tracks and he laid vocals down on them as he saw fit. According to Robert DeLeo: "Scott wasn't really there for the creation of these songs, musically. We kind of guessed our way through it . . . The songs that were sent over to [Weiland] were pretty much in a completed demo form with a scratch melody on there, and Scott has the option to use the melody or not." [Credit: Billboard] So while that kind of bummed me out in a way, I thought about a Pantera album I really like called The Great Southern Trendkill. It’s a fuckin’ scorching album, even though Phil Anselmo tracked his vocals in Trent Reznor’s New Orleans studio while Dime, Rex, and Vinnie Paul recorded in Dallas. So yeah, if it worked then, it could work now. So then, how did STP’s first album in nine years turn out? You know, it’s not too shabby. I’ll be honest in saying that all I owned before this writing was their greatest hits album Thank You. I saw them on their comeback tour in 2008, and all I’d grown up on from them was their radio hit, so that was all I thought I needed from them. I now see that these guys are capable of putting together a really solid collective album of tunes and I need to backtrack through their catalogue proper....full text |
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