Stone Temple Pilots - Core (Édition Studio Masters) '2012

Tracks list

Core is Stone Temple Pilots debut album, and one of my favorite debut albums. I
had heard a lot about STP from friends, and wanted to download it off limewire
for quite sometime. I sort of shrugged off the idea time and time again until
one sunday in August of 2006. I was on my way to my dads in his car, and he
decided to tell me another story about a concert he went to when he was a
teenager. He began with this Had you ever heard of Stone Temple Pilots?. I took
the opportunity to finally get my first listen of STP and was greatly rewarded.
As the first song Dead and Bloated blared on the Phili Turnpike he told me how
he had went to one of their first concerts and they played stuff from Core. He
told me it was their best album, and to go out and get it. So I took his advice
and went out to the mall with my friend kevin to go pick up CDs. I found myself
in bolting into FYE and grabbing a copy of Core. I settled in my room hours
later and popped Core into my CD player. An hour or so later I was amazed, this
was probably the best example of grunge I had heard in my life at the time and
urged me to get into more grunge.

Core is an all around excellent album and is easily my favorite STP album. Its
in your face, decently loud, hard rock. Just to name a few great tracks Ill
start off with my favorite Wicked Garden. An amazing riff is steady and is
enjoyable throughout the whole song. Its high points are worth listening to over
and over again. Vocals are not a weak point for STP and Wicked Garden is no
exception. This song has managed to delight me time and time again, which most
songs on this album do. Another great track is Crackerman. Its a fast pace
catchy song. Pretty heavy in comparison to Wicked Garden, and is a good amount
of material. One of those songs you find yourself singing with the windows down
in your car making a fool of yourself but not caring (Me and my dad did that on
the way back to my house). Finally another song your guaranteed to enjoy is
Piece of Pie. On second thought this might be my favorite song on this album,
either way the three songs live mentioned are almost equally great. With strange
lyrics similar to other songs on this album Peice of Pie is steadily consistent
in great guitar riffs and catchy vocals. This song continues to keep me
interested, and another one of the best songs on this album.

One very bittersweet thing about this album is repetitiveness. For one is Scott
Weilands vocals. On the other STP albums his vocals will be compared to their
greatness on Core . His vocals are repetitively great in each song, and are fun
to sing back to. They stick in your head, and stand out as a good key component
to STPs in your face, hard, fun, quick, steady sound. Weilands vocals do sound
somewhat repetitive throughout the album not really drastically changing dynamic
levels all that much. They never get that tiring or boring at all though, I
almost like the fact they stay steadily good, not amazing, not terrible, but
good and sometimes great. Another repetitive thing is the guitar riffs. The
riffs can be extremely enjoyable and stick around in your head for awhile, yet
they sound similar in most songs. Similar to the vocals in the aspect of a lot
of good is better than little great, the riffs repetitively pound your
headphones with a similar sound that doesnt get old easily. Another repetitive
thing that is only good is the high points that STP delivers more than UPS. In
each song there is a few godd high points that you often find yourself fast
forwarding to, or repeating it over again. For example in Wicked Garden when
Weiland says burn, burn burn the sound picks up so much, and is so good that it
is almost overpowering. STP even added rhythm vocals to the mix and makes the
song even better. (www.sputnikmusic.com)

Scott Weiland, vocals
Dean DeLeo, guitar
Eric Kretz, drums
Robert DeLeo, bass

Tracklist:
01. Stone Temple Pilots - Dead & Bloated (5:10)
02. Stone Temple Pilots - Sex Type Thing (3:38)
03. Stone Temple Pilots - Wicked Garden (4:05)
04. Stone Temple Pilots - No Memory (1:20)
05. Stone Temple Pilots - Sin (6:05)
06. Stone Temple Pilots - Naked Sunday (3:49)
07. Stone Temple Pilots - Creep (5:33)
08. Stone Temple Pilots - Piece of Pie (5:24)
09. Stone Temple Pilots - Plush (5:14)
10. Stone Temple Pilots - Wet My Bed (1:37)
11. Stone Temple Pilots - Crackerman (3:14)
12. Stone Temple Pilots - Where the River Goes (8:29)

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