Others contended the band was a creation of the record label to cash in on the popularity of the alternative rock scene, which was spurred by bands from the Pacific Northwest.
Music journalists claimed the band “ripped off” of grunge acts which were popular at the time most notably Pearl Jam. While the album did garner some good reviews, the band also received some pretty harsh criticism. While the band had a lot to celebrate, critics were split over the group. The album was also helped by MTV who heavily promoted the videos for sex type thing and plush. The album would peak at number 3 on the billboard charts, selling over 8 million copies and became the band’s most successful album of their career. Released in September of 1992, Core spawned six huge songs, only three of which were released as singles that are still staples of rock radio to this day including “Sex Type Thing”, “Creep”, “Dead and Bloated”, “Plush” “Wicked Garden,” and “Crackerman”. The members of Stone Temple Pilots tempered their expectations with drummer Eric Kretz telling classic rock “Since we’d signed to Atlantic Records, which was one of the greatest labels in the world, I was like: ‘If we fail and get dropped, there was no coming back from getting dropped from the top, That was my biggest fear” he’d say The band quickly got to work on their debut album Core, which happened to be produced by Brendan O’Brien who coincidentally enough, would work with grunge acts pearl jam and soundgarden. They would eventually settle on the name Stone Temple Pilots and they signed to Atlantic Records. They gained a pretty big following, but soon changed their name after a blues musician was found to already own the rights to their moniker. Stone Temple Pilots roots date back to the city of Los Angeles where they formed in 1989 under the monicker Mighty Joe Young.
Stone Temple Pilots were one of the biggest bands of the 90’s and early 2000’s, but to critics they were the pariahs of the new alternative rock movement at the time. Don’t forget to hit the bell notification icon to be notified every time i put out a new video on my channel. What’s going on my fellow rock n’ rollers.
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