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Stone Temple Pilots

Band formed in 1992 in Los Angeles, CA

Stone Temple Pilots's Genre:

Grunge, Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Hard Rock, Post-Grunge, Contemporary Pop/Rock

Biography

Stone Temple Pilots were able to turn alternative rock into stadium rock; naturally, they became the most critically despised band of their era. Accused by many critics of being nothing more than ripoff artists who pilfered from Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains, the bandmates nevertheless became major stars in 1993. And the influence of those bands was apparent in their music, although Stone Temple Pilots did manage to change things around a bit. STP were more concerned with tight song structure and riffs than punk rage. Their closest antecedents were not the Sex Pistols or Hüsker Dü; instead the band resembled arena rock acts from the '70s -- they made popular hard rock that sounded good on the radio and in concert. No matter what the critics said, Stone Temple Pilots had undeniably catchy riffs and production; there's a reason why over three million people bought their debut album, Core, and why their second album, Purple, shot to number one when it was released.

Following the success of Purple and its accompanying tour, the band took some time off, during which the group's lead singer, Scott Weiland, developed a heroin addiction. In the spring of 1995, he was arrested for possession of heroin and cocaine, and was sentenced to a rehabilitation program. Following his completion of the program, Stone Temple Pilots recorded their third album. Released in the spring of 1996, Tiny Music...Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop, entered the charts at number four. Shortly after its release, Stone Temple Pilots announced that Weiland had relapsed and entered a drug rehabilitation facility, thereby canceling the group's plans for a summer tour. Weiland's drug problems and the group's inability to support Tiny Music with a tour meant that the album couldn't replicate the success of its predecessors -- by the end of the summer, it had fallen out the Top 50 and had stalled at platinum, which was considerably less than what the group's two previous albums achieved.

Still battling his personal demons, Weiland recorded a 1998 solo album, 12 Bar Blues, while the remaining members of STP recruited vocalist Dave Coutts to record a self-titled LP under the band name Talk Show. To the surprise of many, Stone Temple Pilots then reunited, although shortly after completing 1999's No. 4 Weiland was sentenced to a year in a Los Angeles county jail for violating his probation, which stemmed from an earlier conviction for heroin possession. Even so, a newly rejuvenated Stone Temple Pilots and a sober Weiland emerged stronger than ever during the new millennium. The band got back to basics with Shangri-La Dee Da, released in summer 2001. Two years later, STP issued the ambitious greatest-hits package Thank You. The audio-only edition featured 15 tracks -- 13 hits spanning the group's entire career, an acoustic version of "Plush" dating from 1992, and the new track "All in the Suit That You Wear" -- while a special CD/DVD format included three hours of videos, live performances, and behind-the-scenes footage.

Stone Temple Pilots took another break between 2003 and 2008, during which time Weiland found renewed success as the frontman of Velvet Revolver. After clashes with his bandmates resulted in his exit from the group, Weiland reunited with STP and embarked on a successful reunion tour in 2008, with ticket sales reportedly totaling $230,000 per show. The band returned to the studio one year later, emerging in 2010 with the release of Stone Temple Pilots, its self-titled sixth album. It reached number two on the U.S. album charts, and the band embarked on a worldwide tour which wound up being documented on the 2011 live video Alive in the Windy City. STP were planning to continue a tour in 2012, possibly playing their debut Core in its entirety, but these plans fell apart, and on February 27, 2013 the group announced they had fired Weiland. On the following day, the singer countered that this was all a ruse to boost ticket sales and that lawyers would straighten out the situation, but the remaining members of Stone Temple Pilots soldiered on without him, appearing as a surprise guest on KROQ's annual Weenie Roast on May 18, 2013. Their new vocalist was Chester Bennington from Linkin Park; he not only performed with the band on the May 18 and 19 (the latter was in San Francisco), but he sang lead on the group's new single "Out of Time," which was available for download on May 19, 2013. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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Stone Temple Pilots

This station plays the best music from and music from related artists like Temple of the Dog, Soundgarden, Live, Bush, Candlebox, Soul Asylum, Collective Soul, Seven Mary Three, Silverchair, Chris Cornell and more.

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Stone Temple Pilots's Selected Discography (21)

Stone Temple Pilots

Stone Temple Pilots [Deluxe Edition]

Shangri-La Dee Da

2001 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. 200113 Songs

Core

No. 4

1999 Atlantic Recording Corp. for the United States and WEA International for the world outside of the United States199912 Songs

Tiny Music...Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop

1996Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States199612 Songs

Purple

1994 Atlantic Record Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States199411 Songs

Revolution

2001 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States excluding Australia and New Zealand. ECD20011 Songs

Revolution

DIGITAL20041 Songs

All in the Suit That You Wear

2003 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United StatesDIGITAL20031 Songs

Between The Lines

2010 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United StatesSINGLE1 Songs

Thank You

2003 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United StatesCOMPILATION200315 Songs

Big Bang Baby

SINGLE19963 Songs

Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart

SINGLE19963 Songs

Vasoline

SINGLE19944 Songs

Plush

SINGLE19934 Songs

Out Of Time

20131 Songs

Core

200314 Songs

Core [Japanese Import +2 Tracks]

199214 Songs

Alive in the Windy City [DVD]

201218 Songs

Alive in the Windy City [Blu-Ray]

18 Songs

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	Live	Live rose to success on the strength of its anthemic music and idealistic, overtly spiritual songwriting, two hallmarks that earned the group frequent comparisons to U2.
	Bush	Led by guitarist/vocalist Gavin Rossdale, Bush became the first post-Nirvana British band to hit it big in America.
	Candlebox	Candlebox rode the grunge bandwagon to multi-platinum success in the early '90s, despite howls of protest from the Seattle faithful who considered their music a watered-down version of the genuine article.
	Soul Asylum	Few bands have had a more complicated relationship with commercial success than Soul Asylum. In the 1980s, they lurked in the shadows of the Minneapolis alternative rock scene, then dominated by the Replacements and Hüsker Dü, and their first tenure on a major label ended with the band being unceremoniously dropped after their expected commercial breakthrough was both a critical and a sales disappointment.
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	Seven Mary Three	Within the alternative world, Seven Mary Three have often been compared to the mainstream-sounding, garage/arena rock of post-Ten Pearl Jam, but the group insists that their refusal to alienate themselves from the rest of the world makes them different.
	Silverchair	Silverchair quickly rose to international stardom in 1995 by mining a mix of Nirvana and Pearl Jam on their debut album, Frogstomp.
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	Pearl Jam	Pearl Jam rose from the ashes of Mother Love Bone to become the most popular American rock & roll band of the '90s.
	Kurt Cobain	As the lead singer and guitarist of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain's musical success began in his twenties and was heightened when he formed the band Nirvana.
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	Better Than Ezra	Along with such similarly styled outfits as the Goo Goo Dolls, the New Orleans-based trio Better Than Ezra helped open the floodgates for countless alt-pop acts of the late '90s (including Semisonic, Matchbox Twenty, and Third Eye Blind) by merging college rock influences with mainstream aspirations.
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	Porno for Pyros	Perry Farrell's post-Jane's Addiction band, Porno for Pyros, followed the same path as his previous band, combining art rock, punk, heavy metal, and funk into one shrieking whole.
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	Sponge	Sponge was one of the more underrated groups in the post-grunge boom of the mid-'90s. When they were on top of their game -- as evidenced by the hits "Plowed" and "Molly (Sixteen Candles)" -- the band's songs had a knack for jangly riffs and catchy, anthemic hard rock hooks, despite being wrapped in the fuzzy guitars and brooding seriousness that typified grunge music.
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