How Stone Temple Pilots Became the Most HATED Band in Rock!

[@rnrtruestories]

Had to edit out Creep some stupid copyright issue. What other topics do you want to see me cover? Here’s the cop killer video I mentioned kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHq1hY2HhbtmlZIsi=dKC6Gp0qnPg6eKnw

[@arturoandrade9089]

Here are some potential topics: What (the Hell) Happened to the Strokes? (post-2003); The Enduring Legacy of Mudhoney; The Rise and Fall of Modest Mouse; The Endless Reinvention of Beck, 1994-2008; Oasis 3-parter (The Rise of Oasis, 1992-96; The Fall of Oasis, 1997-2008; The Rehabilitation of Oasis, 2010s-now); What (the Hell) Happened to Radiohead? (post-2007); Jack White's Comeback (with his album of this year).

[@thomaschavers]

I would love to see you do a video about the band Oleander if you haven't done so already.

[@ReiRidingSolo]

I wish someone would make a Zabriskie Place documentary. So many huge musicians on the soundtrack before they became huge.

[@austin4435123]

ZWAN WHY DID BILLY CORGAN DO IT,?

[@MiguelD-j8l]

@@rnrtruestories Nice Video (Stone Temple Pilots The Peanut And jelly Wannabes.

[@crazycatman5928]

This band has so many great songs…idc what anyone says about them. They’re one of the best from the 90s.

[@bartsullivan4866]

They are you can't discount how many great song the band has. Even today when I go out for Karaoke I consistently see people request plush over and over and over. I did Creep the other day just a great band.

[@dustinburkhart8526]

Stp rules for sure. I can remember singing stp songs when I was a lil feller.

[@rmcdudmk212]

100% agree with all above statements 👆

[@keithperry538]

Agreed 💯

[@jaykid6595]

Well said ☝️

[@J2thaPTV]

Core and Purple are still two of my favorite albums that I regularly listen to. Purple was actually the first CD I ever owned back in 94' when my parents surprised me with a brand new CD player. Went to Walmart and got Purple the same day. I'll never forget listening to that album over and over and over in my room. Cherished childhood memories. We still miss you, Scott. RIP brother.

[@glitter_bombed]

I got mine at a yard sale in 2001 for like $0.50, i would've been around 12. That was the first real rock album I'd had and it had a big effect on my taste after that. I still love it!

[@StormWatcher313]

Core was one of my firsts, along with Pearl Jam Ten, in utero and Dre the chronic and Snoops first album. And The Misfits and The Descendents and Bad Brains. I was all over the place, but good memories.

[@J2thaPTV]

​​@@StormWatcher313exactly the same with me. The Chronic and Doggy Style are 10/10 IMO. The G- Funk genre in general is close to my heart and history. AND Ive been a huge PJ fan since then too. One of my first jobs out of college in 08' was going on tour with PJ and it was an experience like none other for me. A dream come true at the time.

[@StormWatcher313]

@J2thaPTV Nice. Never saw PJ live, I was a die hard up through Vitalogy, but then they lost me. The first 3 PJ albums and all the weird singles and B Sides like the Sonic Reducer cover. Buy ya, the rap stuff g funk Cali stuff was my jams, but I also lived Bone thugs which then led me to 3 6 Mafia. Good times. And Easy As RMG's album. Oh ya, also The Judgement Night Soundtrack. House if Pain and Helmet. Just another victim kid. Oh how I miss not being 43 years old lololol

[@J2thaPTV]

@@StormWatcher313 dude 100% lol. I love Bone Thugs too. Everything Ruthless Records before or after Eazy-E is incredible. E.1999's "Down '71" is the best story ever told in rap, AFAIC. I wish there was new music like that these days. I'm 38 and still feel that pain. I recently introduced my much much younger brother and his friends to Death Row and Ruthless Records and some of them couldn't believe THAT was Dr.Dre, Snoop, Ice Cube and all those other "old guys." They knew their names but never once heard an OG track or even realized the impact they had.

[@stephenkemp3372]

The songs on core were crafted before Seattle grunge took off. They didn't copy anyone. It was just an organic response to the tired hard rock scene in L.A.

[@bartsullivan4866]

I think your right it was just a trend shifting in the music industry with Smashing Pumpkins coming out of Chicago and Red Hot Chili Peppers finally finding success in L.A. besides all the NW bands. I never thought they sounded like Pearl Jam at all.

[@lovelife1867]

Grunge came as a response to the tired rock scene , pretending that hardcore punk never existed. This is unbelievable. Pretending that was "the angst" , "the voice of generation" . Yo , any of you ever heard of Cro Mags? Agnostic Front ? It feels like grunge was a industry push and the people that pushed it were blindfolded to things happening around them. That is why it was never anything more than just a sellable version of rock n roll at the time. Same way nu metal did it later , or emo shit subsequently. "Convenient music".

[@patorjk]

STP is one of my favorite bands. I love their first 4 albums. I never understood all the hate critics gave them back in the day. They've stood the test of time though.

[@ministerofdarkness]

Core is a Rock Masterpiece!! Purple is a fantastic follow up. PLAY LOUD!

[@rnrtruestories]

Great records!

[@hegemonycricket2182]

100%

[@briankennedy1192]

Second that...

[@badam1814]

Saw STP open for RHCP. I was really impressed on how STP was true to their recording. What I mean is, there weren't a bunch of recording tricks to make sounds not present live.

[@TeraGreene1]

STP + RHCP = so much off my youth, young adult life and remain in my heart and mind as an adult. ❤

[@billco73]

when I first heard Plush I thought it was PJ - everything else is vastly different (both good)

[@HarryLime-ge6dc]

When I see proof Of Dave Mustaine being a considerate human, a tiny tear runs down my cheek

[@ogsegasteve9430]

Dave wasted so many years fighting Dave. Sadly, once the fight was over, it seems other people were happy to pick up the fight where Dave left off. Its Dave moments like the one in the clip that reinforce my love of Dave and his (not Metallica) music. Makes me happy to know he had some part in helping another band I love get exposure and be better.

[@CBT5777]

@@ogsegasteve9430 To be better at copying Pearl jam, yeah. I grew up with that grunge crap in the 90's. They saturated the market like the glam crap before it. Alice in Chains were the only band I could respect. Alice in Chains kicked ass!

[@supamalleo64]

Yea no​@@CBT5777

[@TheWosniakGambit]

Core blew me away in high-school. Maybe I have bad taste. I don't care. Still love the album

[@mpotter9944]

STP were awesome, they do not deserve the hate, saw them for Purple with the Meat Puppets, listen to more of their music these days than I do any other 'grunge' band except maybe AiC.

[@wwbuirkle]

You don't

[@milesdorst7120]

You don’t, they’re great

[@RhinoMix76]

@@mpotter9944 I saw them on that tour too! Great show

[@definitelynotjasonmomoa]

You most definitely do not have bad taste. Not only the sound. Scott had more stage presence in the top of his pinky than the entire fucking crew of pearl jam had while trying their best.

[@PinkTorpedo909]

I saw them when they headlined a music festival in my town. Hands down one of the best live bands

[@WVUer21]

Rolling Rock Town Faire, Latrobe, PA 2001.

[@jesterr7133]

Absolutely. They were my favorite band that I ever saw live. Their shows blew me away.

[@Necrotog82]

Tiny Music was the album that sold me on STP. It's so good.

[@michaelharrington75]

Damn! Took you that long? Core and Purple are both incredible albums.

[@AaronStark1993]

I never understood why Core was so widely viewed as a Pearl Jam rip-off. To me it's a lot more Alice In Chains sounding. I've always said that STP was the Beatles of the 90's in the sense that they were always evolving and each of their albums are completely different than the others.

[@PCSPounder]

Most people latched more on to Weiland sounding like Eddie Vedder than anything else… never mind Pearl Jam was kind of Zep-derivative anyway. It really should be more a criticism of records execs than anything. Interesting how time has kind of placed PJ behind the grunge bands they have outlived, especially AIC. STP ended up going in a pretty good direction.

[@pinku708]

I know. They must’ve owed stp a huge apology once they heard creed.

[@caiusmadison2996]

They sounded nothing like Pearl Jam, which was the LEAST of the 90's heavies to me. They went full ego, and nobody has time for that, including about 60% of their fan base at the time.

[@caiusmadison2996]

​@@PCSPounderagreed, PJ was pretty basic rock, nothing special to me. Never understood how they retained fans after the premadonna nonsense over pay, when they neither outsold nor ever dethroned their contemporaries. Pretty telling when the public places you behind everyone else at the time.

[@instantzen8498]

Tbh when I first heard the song plush I thought it was a pearl jam song. I think its the voice.

[@HarryLime-ge6dc]

Wasn't a fan until "Big Empty" and then I thought "This band finally has it's own identity and this song is fucking great!"

[@Peasant_in_a_tree]

Same

[@derekgregg9009]

big empty is my favorite of theirs tune. that and vasoline

[@jimglass3106]

The Crow soundtrack was killer!

[@jesterr7133]

When I look back on the carnage of the 90's and all the amazing musicians that left us far too soon, nearly all of them had one thing in common. Much like Scott, they had some kind of terrible trauma in their childhood that led to them taking the path that they ultimately chose. When I look back on a lot of the great songs from that era, many of them were begging for help that never came. Everyone heard, but no one listened. Many people judged Scott for his mistakes he made in his life, but very few tried to find out why it was happening. I guess the moral of the story is that when you see someone struggling through life, take the time to sit down and listen to them instead of judging them. Let that be Scott's legacy. RIP

[@dirtydave2691]

I saw them play at Red Rocks in 1993. They were really good. Saw them again in Nashville in 2018. They still sounded great. Eric, Robert and Dean are amazing musicians.

[@LRM5195]

Their debut is still my favorite grunge album. It’s just perfect front to back and Scott’s voice has the perfect tone on that album. Just seen them live a few months ago. Jeff is an amazing replacement. Their a nostalgic act now, sure, but dang they play and sound well. I hope they record a heavy album with Jeff.

[@flhxri]

I always thought stp had their own sound. I never understood the comparisons.

[@hegemonycricket2182]

Exactly. A unique band with its own array of influences.

[@Mayor_Of_Eureka17]

They 100% do

[@panicswitch1028]

They absolutely did. Their sound was much more broad than any of the bands they got compared to. Their influences predate grunge by decades. Robert’s interview with Beato was eye opening as far as the different styles they listened to and incorporated into their sound. People calling them grunge ripoffs are just lazy.

[@hegemonycricket2182]

​@@panicswitch1028🎯

[@staticmonkey8436]

Their MTV unplugged is so insanely underrated, especially that version of Crackerman. Even though it is acoustic, it hits HARD!

[@TheGorillafoot]

This and Purple are my favorites. I remember Core coming out in the 90s. Miss those days.

[@ghost_to_a_ghost]

they get waaay too much hate. watching their old performances is totally mindblowing.the fact that Weiland could be that high on pretty much everything and still sing like that is pretty telling as to how talented he was. RIP, Scott, you crazyman. 👊❤️

[@ICLight412]

STP my favorite out of all them.

[@DebNKY]

Mine too! Always were! ❤

[@chrisglenn2096]

Definitely about to smoke a fat blunt to this one

[@-Mwk-]

This got an audible chuckle outta me, thank you lol

[@yvettevitacaponigro]

Thank you for sharing this with us! Love this band, I still listen to them, in my playlist! RIP Scott! ✌🏼😊

[@marceltiel7919]

Great video article on one of my beloved alternative bands from the 90-ies...have fond memories of me and a friend playing F-Zero and Bomberman on the Super Nintendo with the album Core on the background... I only really listened to Core, Purple and later on Tiny Music, though... Whenever I listen to these albums I always feel many songs are not instantly accesible, but need multiple listening sessions...

[@JohnnyDelco]

STP’s first 3 albums are better than anything Pearl Jam has ever put out. Putting them in the same category is an insult to STP

[@badam1814]

@@JohnnyDelco I like both, and saying one is better than the other is like saying oranges taste better than apples. IMO.

[@davis2k1234]

Yeah to far on that both are 2 of my favorite bands ever and both had 3 amazing albums out of the gate

[@definitelynotjasonmomoa]

Totally fucking agreed. I've hated everything they've ever done.

[@JohnnyDelco]

@ I never particularly hated Pearl Jam as much as their Bro Type fans I had to deal with growing up. They think Eddie Veddar is a god which I find cringe

[@davis2k1234]

@@JohnnyDelcoDamn that sounds like me in the 90s and really still today im one of those PJ fans just saw them 3 times in row in September there is some truth in that obnoxious PJ fan for sure my friend and GF make fun of me with the “bro” stuff lol

[@ninji5226]

Never got the comparison to other bands at the time. They were a guitar driven rock band so of course there's similarities but I never heard an STP song and wondered if it was someone else.

[@jimmccoys5778]

That had a very unique sound. Very drum and bass driven. The guitar was pretty much icing on the cake! Scott’s vocal range just really put things over the top

[@wisdomhunter3797]

That was great man - thanks for putting that together for us all

[@amaccama3267]

Thanks for a great year of content Sidd. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

[@aisle_of_view]

Critics called them Stone Gossard Pilots back in the day. They were constantly on radio - every time you started your car "Tiiiiime to take her home". People just suspected they were radio-friendly phonies doled out to the public for profit.

[@TheWosniakGambit]

Oh, and a deep dive on Morcheeba would be awesome

[@danw2112]

I first heard S*x Type Thing on the Metalshop radio show in 1993 and liked them right away. Then listened to studio Plush and Unplugged Plush and I was hooked until Scott Wieland's passing.

[@RamonReyes-u6y]

I never once understood the comparison between them and Pearl Jam. Totally different sounds.

[@twistoffate4791]

Agreed.

[@MiguelD-j8l]

@twistoffate4791 This Channel Can't Let Go Of Wanting Us To Believe That. He Obviously Is A Eddie Vedder Groupie Road Ho.

[@JaredLowry]

I’ve always liked stp but really just their first three albums. Purple was my second album I ever own.

[@atomiclov]

They aren't my favorite band out there, but this video gave me new appreciation and respect for 'em. Thanks!

[@JudgeDrey]

STP is one of those bands that I had to listen to the entire album start to finish. Core, Purple, and Tiny Music. We used to jam like every song we could think of off those records.

[@bartsullivan4866]

I saw them on the Family Values Tour in 2002, with Deadsy, Static X, Staind, Linkin Park. They were the headliners half the crowd left after Linkin Park and Stand finished there set bunch of fools STP played very well, good energy charism put on an excellent show, and I was pretty hungover by that point. I still don't understand why STP didn't really embrace Sex Type Thing like Alice In Chains with Sea of Sorrow those are absolute banger songs and you'd think you'd want more of your albums to have those kinds of tunes not less. I kind of feel like they are a little bit like Ratt in the 80's whereas they were never going to be the major top dog like Pearl Jam or Nirvana or Van Halen or Guns N Roses but were still hell of good bands. Crackerman is still an awesome song and it was cool to see them play it live. I never once thought they were a copy of Pearl Jam, AIC, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins (Chicago), or even Red Hot Chili Peppers (California) for that matter and those were probably the top 6 bands of that time period.

[@Curiouz0ne]

This has got to be one of my top favorite bands from the nineties. I even got to see them in Oct 24

[@noelstafford7266]

Loved em. Lucky enough to see them in late 1996. Great show. Good video here. Thanks. Cheers ✌🏼🌻

[@AxlRose-ug5db]

I love STP always will great music never dies rip Scott 🙏

[@stonytark1987]

STP>pearl jam.

[@hegemonycricket2182]

✅️

[@duncan3998]

agree

[@michaellazor5667]

I remember when Sex Type Thing came out. I loved it, but Plush was over played and I got burned out on it..

[@pc4mlc451]

I don't give a shit about what critics or naysayers say. I'm not even really a fan of the band, but as a kid of the 90's, the Stone Temple Pilots will always be one of many that encapsulates the vibe of the time, and they did it very well. They're always on my playlist.

[@poolboyinla]

Weiland says he had pain from an absence of his father in his life yet he abandoned his own kids...

[@zimmerman1031]

Cannot state enough how much I love STP, especially back in the day when they were the new thing being played on TV. I remember being obsessed with a new song on the radio that I couldn't figure out what it was, and when I found out it was a new STP song from an album I didn't even know had come out, I was overjoyed. I miss days like that. Can't get that anymore.

[@robert.m4676]

I’ve seen at least 100 concerts in my 58 years. The best concert I ever saw was Yes back in 84. It was my 18th birthday with my sister and friends. I had just lost a girlfriend by catching her cheating and wanted to see a concert. It was New Years 2002 I believe and nobody else was able to go for whatever reasons. I went by myself and was completely blown away by how cool that STP concert was. They played they’re hits. Then played them acoustically and then played them again electrically. They could have played some b songs but instead played what they did the way they did it just made it so much more fun. It was just an incredible night and halfway through I met a totally hot semi drunk chick that danced all over me and really got me to have even more fun. It was just a really cool night all the way around. I left completely impressed and sold on their ability to please a crowd.

[@bartsullivan4866]

I kind of felt the same on that tour but I think it was the end of 2001. They really impressed me as well glad I got to see them in their prime Scott got in deep shit getting naked on the stage at the end of the show think he might have gotten arrested.

[@claudiogallucci563]

I never ever thought they sounded like pearl jam AT ALL

[@mojorocketman]

I saw one of their last concerts with Scott in 2008, Vancouver. Although he looked twice his age, he's still got the vocals...

[@IvanLendl87]

Stone Temple Pilots with Scott Weiland are one of the best rock bands of the last 40 years. Could not care less what clueless critics or sheep masses think about them. I’ll just continue to love their music along with other great bands of that era - Alice In Chains & Soundgarden.

[@Sabotage_Labs]

Core, Purple and Alice in Chains Dirt....was the rotation in my 91 Firebird back then....lol.

[@rnrtruestories]

Oh man firebird was the fanciest car in the town I grew up in

[@facelessandnameless]

STP is one of my all time favorite bands!

[@jackiewilliams4854]

Music Critics for the most part are frustrated musicians. It always amazes me how people gravitate towards anything negative just to feel a part of something. Whether it’s music, gaming, sports, or social issues, people would rather parrot an opinion rather than actually researching it themselves, forming an individual opinion and taking a chance that it isn’t what’s “popular “. Media outlets count on it.

[@michaelharrington75]

STP are one of the best bands to come out of the 90's. Up there with Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Alice in Chains to me. Had the opportunity of seeing them on May 1st, 1997. They had postponed their 'Tiny Music' tour until Scott went through rehab. He was sober, and the band firing on all four cylinders! A band couldn't hope to find a better front man! Such a great show! I wish Scott could have beaten his demons, and was still rocking!

[@gener2842]

I used open for them when they were called Mighty Joe Young at a place in the valley called the FM Station. They were really cool guys.

[@glOOmyART]

from all the bands emerging from the alternative rock scene in the 90s, STP was my favourite (together with AIC) because they bended the genre from stoner rock (plush, vasoline) over psychadelia (lounge fly) and even a doors rip off (atlanta) to straight up punk songs (unglued) they basically worked through all variations of rock music

[@steelcurtain187]

Purple is incredible and for sure one of my fav albums of the 90s. Every song is great. I’ve always loved this band and never understood the hate

[@Bombastic-ahhh]

Hey good people! Love this channel! Always felt STP was leaps and bounds above pj live. Not even close.

[@b.p.879]

As a life long drummer, Plush is the song that made me go buy a chorus pedal to screw around with on the side for fun lol. I got the Rocktec Chorus pedal, same one used by the guitarist of STP.

[@jacinto1477]

The only sin that Stp commited was not being from Seattle. had their origin been there ,this video wouldnt even exist

[@korihayes3477]

Having 1 hit song is a hard enough thing to achieve. A band that can pull off 3 "hits" is a good band. STP had more than 20 hits. Fuckind legendary status.

[@TeraGreene1]

sTP still lives in my head, rent free. I’m glad I grew up in LA/Cali in the ‘90s. I was exposed to some pretty rad music and people. Still have STP CDs in my collection. I remember when I got their cassette tape. Long live the music… and yeah, stay away from heroin. That’s one that I was told, and still have heeded.

[@dustinburkhart8526]

Like number 270!! Much love y'all your videos kick ass for real.

[@BrianYates-ue8hf]

I read Scott's autobiography when it came out some yrs ago and sadly he talked about being S. Assaulted by a football player in High School bc the dude thought Scott was hitting on his girlfriend Which is ironic if you follow my jist 🤔 As a survivor of childhood abuse I understand what that does to a young person's psyche RIP SCOTT hope you found the peace you were looking for ✌️

[@jimsteele2072]

I think it's only critics that hate them. What a fantastic band, with a way cool sound. They were not grunge, but in 92 every band was considered grunge. STP is legend, and all the members are great. Magic. 👍

[@bobbyshizz2138]

Never understood the hate. They were fantastic, and Purple is an all time great record.

[@brianwolowicz5652]

Hey just subscribed not that long ago. Like the channel a lot. Really dig it. Have you ever done a Dog's Eye View video? I know you do a lot of harder rock but not always. I find the story kind of fascinating from what little I know and would love to find out more. Anyway, just a thought. Love the channel!

[@GZAndrew]

STP is a top 10 band of all time easily. If you had a gun to my head to decide to listen to STP or Pearl Jam, then the choice is STP. Every album of theirs sounds different and unique. DeLeo is a criminally underrated bass player too.

[@daniellapointe2624]

Not top 10 of all time, but a great band

[@peacockthemusicman2163]

I got to see them twice, at the beginning and close to the end, both times they sounded great!

[@jimmaloney1121]

I got to see STP in 2001 on the MTV2 Return of the Rock Tour with Dsturbed and Godsmack. It was an awesome show. Scott was such a dynamic frontman.

[@MiKeMiDNiTe-77]

Not only one of the best grunge bands but one of the best bands period, nothing quite like STP when youre in a rock mood 💜

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

If you can play music, that is how it should be. Saying "You have to be from Seattle to play grunge" is like saying "George Harrison should not play a sitar because he is British than Indian" or "Akira Takasaki should not play rock music because he is Japanese." Bigotry runs in any industry.

[@H3rnD1zzl3]

I distinctly remember a television commercial for different 90s bands that were on some sort of a compilation CD. In the commercial there was a three second snippet of “Plush” by STP and it was on TV literally during every commercial break for almost 6 months until it was drilled into my brain and I asked for the CD for Christmas. This was the first album I ever owned on CD, and the accompanying CDs that I got that year were Alice In Chains’s “Ten” and Pearl Jam’s “Ten”! Good to know I was on something lol!!

[@onelessvulture3288]

I was lucky enough to open up for them in Vegas at the hard rock back in 2009 when I was in a band called HURT. We had toured with army of anyone prior and became friends with the DeLeo Bros so that's how we got that gig. Highlight of my touring career for sure.

[@HakimALIGHT]

Great work.

[@jsb1944]

When plush came out it was the first stp song I remember hearing. I loved it and I recall saying to my friend how good that new pearl jam song was.

[@azul4525]

Hands down one of the best 90´s bands. Songs from Vatican album is very original, Purple is a bless.

[@danielgouge4639]

I remember they were playing outside at a festival in South Carolina around 2000 or 2001. The crowd was not into the music and they started giving out some free beers. The simger was scoffing at the crowd. Then he got naked and wrapped a flag around him and flashed the crowd. The crowd was not having it.

[@StanAlter]

I remember liking the song Plush a lot back then. I thought the vocals sounded kinda like Eddie Vedder but the guitars and chords have a style of their own

[@IkeReedy]

I love them and it’s too bad people can’t pull their head out of their … about disliking them but stupid people exist.

[@RhinoMix76]

I never understood the hate they got in their early years. Core is one of my favorite albums of all time. Just a great hard rock album. Purple was pretty good too. After that, save a few songs here and there, I didn't really care for the direction they went. Still they were basically the soundtrack to my mid teenage years and some great memories.

[@danielwatcherofthelord1823]

Gotta love the envy of people! They just had to hate on Stone Temple because they were so successful! I think they've stood the test of time and nobody discounts STP's talent and catalog nowadays. They're up there with the greats.

[@mikafridmann6031]

Wtf , they sounded totally different.

[@duncan3998]

ppl were stupid back then

[@gamewizardks]

Tiny Music is an underrated album. I was already totally into them after Core was released and I always stuck with them through thick and thin. Weiland, unfortunately, had way too many demons over the years and it eventually did him in. RIP, Scott.

[@TommyKing-m3f]

They literally sound nothing like Pearl Jam. Their first 5 albums were all killer albums. The first 3 were masterpieces of rock music.

[@Thorrson7]

Love your vids, bro! Many take me back! Great stuff! 👏👏👏👏👏

[@rnrtruestories]

Glad you enjoy it! Thanks

[@bryanc1984]

_Purple_ is the first album I ever heard in which I loved every song.

[@guidedimageryband5235]

My first concert in the 90’s and still one of the best!

[@jessedorsettii9988]

I liked STP more than Pearl Jam in the early 90's when I was in my early 20's.

[@rodroller6634]

Huge fan of Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and STP. All 4 had their place in the music scene and feel very lucky to have seen them live 3 times before Scott passed away.

[@mcmoose64]

I completely missed STP, I had heard of them but I couldn't name a single song of theirs to save myself. One morning I turned on my car radio half way through Plush . My first thought was "WOW , Pearl Jam have released a new song" . After the song, the DJ named the band and the STP rabbit hole opened up before me. I now have every album . I can understand the hate they received to a certain extent . Brendan O'Brien has produced some of my all time favorite albums , and this is probably where the sonic similarities with Pearl Jam and Nirvana spring from . I love them all.

[@Lance-yl5sz]

Interstate Love Song - fantastic song. Enjoy their music.

[@deathmagneto-soy]

Purple, Tiny Music, No.4, and Shangri-La Dee Da were albums that I listened to obsessively. The soundtracks to a large part of my life.

[@KegstandOG]

How? What? Clickbait? I don't recall anyone hating STP , not where I lived... Interstate Love Song one of my favorite songs of all time and Purple one of my favorite albums of all time lol.

[@rnrtruestories]

You literally did not watch the video. Showed numerous examples of band being disliked by press and the public

[@KegstandOG]

@@rnrtruestories You literally didn't read my response where it specifically said where I lived.

[@theprogressingdrummer1631]

I remember Purple winning a lot of critics over. How could it not? Very close to a perfect album.

[@stevenbultman7811]

Plush is one of the best songs ever. I still get goosebumps like when I heard it for the first time in 1992 on the local college rock station. I road my bicycle to go buy that album on cassette tape right before I could drive. I have never thought about Pearl Jam for longer than 5 seconds. I still have that cassette tape.

[@rhoadnaroahs]

First album is magic! Just hearing bits of it here makes me want to play the whole thing. Couldn't get into any follow-up albums though.

[@bradkrekelberg8624]

Yep, one of my favorite bands ever. I liked them right away. Many others from that period like Nirvana and Pearl Jam, I had to warm up to.

[@wrathchylde9539]

Loved them the instant I heard them. I saw them in Western NY when they opened for Butthole Surfers of all bands... The moment Weiland started belting out the opening lyrics to "Dead and Bloated" on a megaphone I became a fan for life!

[@jimglass3106]

Still so sad to see him in the beginning smiling,happy and healthy and then one of the clips close to the end. Core was heavier with more groove and the only reason I can come up with for the comparison is Scott singing in a lower register like Eddie Vedder on Plush.

[@madridfan89]

Still listen to "big empty", "creep" and "half the man" every workout session