Audio Nostalgia: "Core"
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The Stone Temple Pilots debut album will never make any critics list of all time favorites, nor should it really. Scott Weiland takes turns imitating some of his favorite singers through most of the album - Eddie Vedder on 'Plush' for example. It's seemed more like an homage to what was popular at time as opposed to a record of any real consequence. And I love it. Almost every note of it. It didn't matter that NONE of the lyrics made any sense whatsoever.
I was still in that point of my life where I was figuring out what I liked. Most of what I liked was what MTV's '120 Minutes' told me to like, and Matt Pinfield told me to buy this. So I did. I just know that when I put this CD in for the first time, I was hooked after about 25 seconds of the very first track, 'Dead And Bloated.' I still play that song whenever I find my self angry and out of sorts...yes, Weiland is my therapist sometimes...I get the irony.
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I love this post. I have similar STP memories - I like this song, and isn't it crazy how the music from this era (or, maybe just music from anyone's adolescence) can bring back even the smells of the rooms you spent time in?
PS I'll be watching the above video more times today than I'd probably like to admit.
'Where ya going to tommorrow?
Where ya going with that mask I found?
And I feel, and I feel
When the dogs begin to smell her
Will she smell alone?'
So nonsensical and wonderful...I am 19 all over again...
Ha! Wow - they're even worse written down. "Will she smell alone?"
I know! It text form the ridiculousness really shines...but hey, when you're nighteen EVERY song is about that girl that you like that doesn't like you anyway ;-)
Great album all around. I'm partial to "Piece Of Pie", myself - the 7:30am-Drive-To-School-Junior-Year Anthem of 1994.
Back in the day we liked to call them Stone Gossard Pirates... and then it got so bad, that when played next to Creed and Days of the New... we were all glad to hear bush, and super excited when it was STP...