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STONE TEMPLE PILOTS
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STP EXCELS ITSELF
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Reviewed on October 29th, 2003
CORE was a paragon of a perfect grunge LP, oozing with machismo, with every opportunity it could get. Crassly, it was boastful, bigoted, but a braggart to be befriended for all its energy and pugnacity. After the loud debut, with the follow-up, PURPLE, STP reveals a rather different facet of its persona, its mellower alter-ego.PURPLE, is, by all means, a terribly true grunge album. But, beneath all the grime on the surface, it shows that it has a heart that feels. PURPLE touches with its vehement passion and soothes when it cries. It listens to you, and wants you to do the same with it, feel the same way as it feels for you. PURPLE shows a striking maturity in the band's musicality, and the changes are indeed striking. Within a span of just one album, STP has grown up, big time. Consistently, throughout the album, Weiland has tried to put in a lot of honesty and earthiness in his singing, unlike in the case with CORE, where he was big, bad and bold, all around the place, aptly suiting its belligerent feel. PURPLE isn't disposed to aggress, not without "Wicked Garden" or "Crackerman", but CORE isn't sensitive enough to feel the pangs of pains of love, without "Interstate Love Song" and "still Remains" - If CORE was an aggressive grunge album, PURPLE is a sensitive grunge LP, evident particularly, in these two beautiful love songs, back-to-back. "Interstate Love Song" is a simple `goodbye' song, with an amazing riff and an even more amazing intro, building up to the riff. "Still Remains" has the most beautifully written words in the album, and is one of the best sung STP numbers: a haunting chorus, turning tuneless, momentarily, building up immediately to the heavenly succeeding verse. "Meatplow", "Unglued" and "Army Ants" show signs of the angry `CORE' STP, but with sophistication. The album reaches its summit towards the end with the last song, (or the last couple of songs) "Kitchenware & Candybars". The first of the two-song song starts off as a rather somber and controlled acoustic rock-song, ultimately building up to be as grungy as it could be, driven by a stalking chorus and maddening mixture of guitar and violin strings, going berserk. Unlike any other song STP has ever created, the second "Kitchenware & Candybars" song, the song, which STP couldn't name at all, is indeed unique - all the gruffness of the preceding songs are replaced by soothing mélange of piano, trumpets and strings, with Weiland singing as if he a dilettante jazz-singer, singing in a run-down bar, trying hard to please the oblivious drunks with his witty, silly and funny singing; alas! No one is pleased, but we sure are. For sure, PURPLE shows great maturity in STP. It is a grunge album, musically excelling its confreres. A rock album, which as shamelessly sheds a few tears as shamelessly as it bares its chest-hair, PURPLE is inspiring.
More "Purple" reviews:
[2005-01-07] The album that made STP a household name (10)
[2004-12-18] "Sing a Yellow Nectarine" Complements Purple's Psychedelic!! (10)
[2004-12-15] ahh,the ultimate STP bliss (10)
[2004-12-06] "Sing a Yellow Nectarine" Complements Purple's Psychedelic!! (10)
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[2004-11-10] Yes, it really is that good (10)
[2004-11-01] Goodnight!!! Greatness!! (10)
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[2004-10-15] One of the best rock albums of the 90's (10)
[2004-09-26] Stone Temple Pilots - Purple (10)
[2004-09-26] Words cant express what this album means to me (10)
[2004-08-21] Purple Rain (10)
[2004-08-07] A classic! (10)
[2004-07-29] To Be Honest I Have No Idea What They Were All About (4)
[2004-06-29] I wish I could give this more stars! (10)
[2004-06-22] Another classic (10)
[2004-06-14] True grunge (10)
[2004-06-08] "Sing a yellow Nectarine" complements Purple's Psychedelic!! (10)
[2004-04-28] A Musicians review of this album... (10)
[2004-04-26] good album (8)
[2004-02-23] Alt. Rock classic (10)
[2004-02-20] Their Last Truly Great Album (10)
[2004-02-16] D*MN! (10)
[2004-02-14] Second Battle in the War on Grunge (10)
[2004-02-14] Not their best, but still awesome! (8)
[2004-01-26] Easily the best STP album (10)
[2003-11-25] hehe my love cd (10)
[2003-10-31] very good (10)
[2003-10-29] STP EXCELS ITSELF (10)
[2003-10-11] STP in a royal shade (10)
[2003-10-10] one of my favorite CDs from one of my favorite bands (10)
[2003-09-24] Unique (10)
[2003-09-17] STP Tops Debut Album With Purple (10)
[2003-07-29] Great album from start to finish! (8)
[2003-07-25] Best STP album (10)
[2003-07-07] Not "Core" -- but a factor in its own right (10)
[2003-07-06] A lotmore diverse than Core, and just as strong (10)
[2003-05-30] Kicking it with STP (10)
[2003-04-28] A Must Have Album (10)
[2003-04-25] I am purple,allright! (4)
[2003-04-08] An excellent album! (10)
[2003-02-27] THE Best Album of the 1990's (10)
[2003-01-04] Carrying the torch (10)
[2002-12-24] More Than Just Grunge... (10)
[2002-12-12] An old favorite, and a classic (10)
[2002-11-03] STP at their peak (10)
[2002-10-08] STP proves themselves a heavyweight band with this release. (10)
[2002-10-08] Sophomore album takes new, creative direction (10)
[2002-09-28] By far their best effort... (8)
[2002-09-22] One time a thing occured to me... (10)
[2002-09-06] Decent album (6)
[2002-08-31] Underestimated in it's time; one of the greatest ever. (10)
[2002-07-16] No two songs on this album sound alike (8)
[2002-06-26] good stuff (10)
[2002-06-20] Pearl who??? (10)
[2002-04-21] Best album of all time (10)
[2002-04-09] Absolutely Essential (10)
[2002-02-18] Another STP gem! (8)
[2001-10-11] Great Album (10)
[2001-10-10] the best album ever... (10)
[2001-10-09] Excellent! (10)
[2001-09-26] What is Left To Say? (8)
[2001-09-02] sometimes it blows my mind... (10)
[2001-08-30] The album that silenced the critics (10)
[2001-08-29] My Favorite Album Ever, Bar-none (10)
[2001-08-01] Nothing Sophmore about it! (10)
[2001-07-23] STP at their best... (10)
[2001-07-18] A great follow-up to Core (10)
[2001-07-16] blown away (10)
[2001-07-13] STPs Second Best, but Most Consistent (8)
[2001-07-12] Purple Plow (10)
[2001-07-02] A solid album from a great band! (10)
[2001-06-26] This is a GREAT CD (10)
[2001-06-25] Purple: straightforward, classic rock (10)
[2001-06-02] An audio juggernaut (10)
[2001-05-15] And the drum roll please... (10)
[2001-05-04] 12 gracious melodies (10)
[2001-04-22] The best, no questions (10)
[2001-02-12] PURPLE, Stone Temple Pilots (10)
[2001-02-10] not all that bad, but still a disapointmant... (6)
[2000-12-07] Fresh Sounding (8)
[2000-11-27] Amazing (10)
[2000-11-23] No Sophmore Slump For These Guys (10)
[2000-11-22] a truly ecectic collection (10)
[2000-11-20] Not Bad At All. (8)
[2000-11-03] Great Groove. (8)
[2000-10-23] Solid album. (6)
[2000-10-12] Alt-rock CLASSIC (10)
[2000-09-28] A GREAT album!!! (10)
[2000-09-06] Helps to expand on STP's sound (10)
[2000-08-04] Better than "Core"...not as good as the next two... (10)
[2000-07-25] it's good listenin' (8)
[2000-07-14] Polished Grundge's Final Blow (8)
[2000-07-10] A good grunge album from a used-to-be-good grunge band (8)
[2000-07-09] Better than their first in some ways. (8)
[2000-07-08] STP kicks! (10)
[2000-06-26] good tape (10)
[2000-06-21] three and a half stars (6)
[2000-06-08] BBBBBOOOORRRRIIIIINNNNNNGGGGGGG! (6)
[2000-06-06] Purple takes you to the edge and back (10)
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