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Great band. A friend of a friend of mine (they were also occasional bandmates) signed them to Interscope. Once we heard Rubberneck we all thought they were going to be huge. Then they just faded away. Burden Brothers were great, too.
I'm reading Chuck Klosterman's book The Nineties, and he's got an essay covering the weird sellout concept that was prevalent in the 90's. Good stuff.
it's a good song. doubt it would be in my favorite 100 of the year... and that album just didn't interest me when I heard it the first few times. still doesn't really.
That might be because it was thoroughly dead in '94, scorchy. Just a heaving carcass of it was left for consumption.
They ran into label problems getting them to release their follow up and provide them the appropriate support. Music business for you. Sucks, but glad to read I'm not the only one who loves this album. Probably listen to it cover-to-cover during a workout at least once every couple-few weeks. Mr Love is my favorite, but the juvenile side of me can't help but snicker and want to mosh anytime Velvet kicks in.
At the time, same, but it grew on me after re-listening attempts last decade, especially the intentionally odd collection of work after Bugs. Too many auto skips but Spin the Black Circle, Not For You, and Courdoroy are classics...Last Exit and Satan's Bed are fun tracks that aged well...and with hindsight my lack of appreciation for Nothingman when I was young was silly.
I remember how pumped i was to buy Vitalogy, and when I got it I was fairly disappointed. Not awful, not great, just kinda there. Not one song on it that I really love, but plenty of "okay to pretty good" stuff.
I still play that song. It's awesome. I don't blame you for following his career. I never did, nor do I know Dragline, but "Jesse" is a good/great song. I bust it out at least once a year. I had the video on an old VHS tape of college bands (it was purchased from like Strawberries or something) that got lost in my move to CA.
great effin' tune ... man, Scott embraced the rock star persona, and ran with it ... so refreshing as juxtaposed to the Seattle whiners.
all that said, the video is a 90s lowlight for the medium - ridiculous with that big nosed jackass
So weird. I never even knew I liked Stone Temple Pilots. Some of it has to do with the singles all getting released in the same year - so couldn't hedge like I'm doing for other bands.
I noticed you made that plural so I couldn't jump all over it and nod in agreement and point my thumbs inward at this rock star.
Something about being young and having a delivery job that doesn't require too too much physical labor is the bee's knees. I had a construction office job that required deliveries. Not too heavy stuff, under sixty pounds of concrete per bag, and I loved it. Trucking two hours to a site to deliver special tools and whatnot. Getting paid along the way. Cool beans.
No doubt. You earned what you got. I had a cushiony job, really. Maybe why I loved it. "Oh, go bring this part down to New York. We'll pay you for the day plus mileage."
You were THAT guy. Awesome!
I only miss one thing about working in a kitchen - the ability to hurl obscenities at a fellow cook/server when they piss you off. About once a month at my cushy office job, I find myself imagining what I would say if it wouldn't get me written up in Federal Employees' News Digest's You Be The Judge HR column.
There it is. Can't be believe it took so long to get some Counting Crows hate up in here. You are far from alone.
damn Esham had a record that year too although I’m not as familiar with the whole catalog
