Vasoline, the first of the singles released, captures the signature style of the Stone Temple Pilots. Though these songs are very popular singles and still played on mainstream rock radio today, they are also some of the best on the record, which is not the case with all albums. Interstate Love Song, Vasoline/ and Big Empty are all fairly easy recognizable tunes even if you are not too familiar with STP. Purple contains some of the bands biggest hits of their career. To sum it up, the band has great chemistry and shows it on here. At the back end, Eric Kretz keeps it all happening with his steady drumming and at times throws in some great drum fills. His brother Robert also manages to play some stellar bass lines most noticeable on Vasoline and Unglued. He also plays the acoustic track Pretty Penny exceptional. Dean DeLeo plays solid guitar riffs, and although does not play too many technical guitar solos, when he does them, he does them effectively. As for the other band members, they also manage to pull the instruments off nicely. Scott can sing various tones form the aggressive style of Army Ants to the softer, mellow voice of Big Empty, at which he both does quite well. While both have great voices in my opinion, I can clearly distinguish between him and the Pearl Jam frontman. Many people at first said that he was just taking Eddie Vedder's "style". His voice is also a strong point of the album. Though it may seem like Scott didn't know what he is talking about there, his excellent song writing in Interstate Love Song, among others including the love song Still Remains show that he is a talented song writer.
And at other times the lyrics are incoherent and difficult to understand from a first listen like in Unglued where Weiland sings in the verse "This confusion is my illusion, nowhere to look, but know where to find ya". Silvergun Superman shows a dark side as Scott bellows "I can hear when the pig whispers sweetly, jealousy is the weapon you kill me".
As far as the lyrics go, Scott can sing a variety of subject that includes dark lyrics and at times, some random things. However, the grunge factor did wear off mostly with their later matetial. But basically, STP came on the scene at the time of that era, so they were grouped in it too. These factors obviously do not pertain just to grunge bands but many similar bands at the time had these components clear in their music. It has its share of distorted guitars (although not nearly as much as others), deep vocals, as well as some dark lyrics. Purple does contain many of the elements the grunge genre is known for. Purple remains as one of the bands best as well as being one of the most popular 90's alt rock albums. Purple, in ways had the same gloom and darkness of the previous album, but also had other elements different like adding some acoustic guitar as well as Scott furthering his vocal ability for the better, making it more clearly to the public that he wasn't Eddie Vedder. The album was released to, for the most part, critical acclaim by both fans of the band and the general public as it in ways differed them from other so called grunge bands at the time. By the late spring of 1994, Purple (which title is noticeably absent from the album itself) was ready to be released. By 1993, Stone Temple Pilots, fronted by the ever popular Scott Weiland, were back in the studio to record this sophomore album.
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Core did spawn a number of singles for the band including the massive Plush, Sex Type Thing and Wicked Garden, but the band didn't really get the full credit, recognition or rather, respect that they deserved, at least not in the eyes of the general media. With the release of their 1992 debut album, titled Core, the Stone Temple Pilots (whose previous band name was "Might Joe Young") were grouped by the media into the category known as 'Grunge'.
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