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boogie1969
I'm not a huge fan of STP by any means. I thought they were ok, some songs I liked, but most I got sick of quickly because they played the crap out of them on the radio here in the states. I felt they had a formula that was too repetitive. Each song seemed to only have two parts, just verse and chorus, no bridge, no real lead break, and then went back and forth between the two ad-nauseam until the song ended. And many people in America, especially critics, did call them Pearl Jam clones, but I always felt they reminded me more of Alice in Chains, especially their first single, Sex Type Thing. Scott Weiland sounds almost exactly like Layne Staley on that to me. Anyways, Wikipedia says this:

"The band has sold nearly 40 million records worldwide, including 17.5 million in the United States alone. They have had 15 top ten singles on the Billboard rock charts, including six number ones, and one number one album on the pop charts (1994's Purple). In 1994, the band won a Grammy for "Best Hard Rock Performance" for their song "Plush". Stone Temple Pilots were also ranked at number 40 on VH1's The 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock."

Their albums, in order of release, reached the chart positions in America of 3, 1, 4, 6, and 9.

Out of almost 40 million albums worlwide, only 17.5 were sold in America. They must have been popular somewhere besides just the U.S. (And by the way, Soundgarden have an 8/20 million U.S./worlwide total.)

Looks like know-it-all Mathijs doesn't know everything after all.

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boogie1969
I'm not a huge fan of STP by any means. I thought they were ok, some songs I liked, but most I got sick of quickly because they played the crap out of them on the radio here in the states. I felt they had a formula that was too repetitive. Each song seemed to only have two parts, just verse and chorus, no bridge, no real lead break, and then went back and forth between the two ad-nauseam until the song ended. And many people in America, especially critics, did call them Pearl Jam clones, but I always felt they reminded me more of Alice in Chains, especially their first single, Sex Type Thing. Scott Weiland sounds almost exactly like Layne Staley on that to me. Anyways, Wikipedia says this:

"The band has sold nearly 40 million records worldwide, including 17.5 million in the United States alone. They have had 15 top ten singles on the Billboard rock charts, including six number ones, and one number one album on the pop charts (1994's Purple). In 1994, the band won a Grammy for "Best Hard Rock Performance" for their song "Plush". Stone Temple Pilots were also ranked at number 40 on VH1's The 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock."

Their albums, in order of release, reached the chart positions in America of 3, 1, 4, 6, and 9.

Out of almost 40 million albums worlwide, only 17.5 were sold in America. They must have been popular somewhere besides just the U.S. (And by the way, Soundgarden have an 8/20 million U.S./worlwide total.)

Looks like know-it-all Mathijs doesn't know everything after all.

Sure not, ask me anything about jazz or fusion and I won't have a clue. I was and still am a big fan of Alice in Chains and Soundgarden, Nirvana's In Utero and the first couple of Pearl Jam Albums, and that's it as far as grunge is concerned.

I don't know how trustworthy wikipedia is, not do I know how big STP were/are in the US, but here in the Netherlands they only had a minor hit with Plush, and dissapeared from the radar since then.

Just to show how big they are in the Netherlands: we opened a festival in 2004 at noon, with an audience of about a 1000. We had 40 minutes, just as the band after us: STP. The audience remained about 1000. As the festival developed, bands like Placebo, Muse and Snow Patrol came, and in the end the audience grew to about 50.000.

Mathijs