Out of all the big grunge bands, it really did feel like Stone Temple Pilots were often dealt the worst hand. During the original line-up’s 90s run, it always seemed as if there was some sort of subplot going on to overshadow the music they were making.
For their first two records, one of which is a very fine debut and the other is a monstrously good second album, all the chat was about how they were the cash-in copyists of the genre, as if their peers had been the very first people in history to turn up their guitars and make anthemic singing noises alongside them.
