This September, Rhino are to reissue a 25th anniversary, four-disc super deluxe edition of Stone Temple Pilots 1992 debut Core. The Grammy winning album has sold over 8 million copies in the US alone and amongst its 12-tracks are the singles Sex Type Thing, Plush and Wicked Garden. The super deluxe edition reissue is a 4CD set. It includes a newly remastered version of the original album, and a very impressive amount of unreleased material. In fact, across the three bonus CDs is more than two hours of unheard demos and unissued live performances, including the band’s performance on MTV Unplugged.
Stone Temple Pilots were positively vilified once their 1992 debut, Core, started scaling the charts in 1993, pegged as fifth-rate Pearl Jam copyists. It is true that the worst moments of Core play like a parody of the Seattle scene — titles like “Dead and Bloated” and “Crackerman” tell you that much, playing like really bad Alice in Chains parodies, and the entire record tends to sink into gormless post-grunge sludge. Furthermore, even if it rocks pretty hard, it’s usually without much character, sounding like cut-rate grunge. To be fair, it’s more that they share the same influences as their peers than being overt copycats, but it’s still a little disheartening all the same. If that’s all that Core was, it’d be as forgettable as Seven Mary Three, but there are the hits that propelled it up the charts, songs that have remarkably stood the test of time to be highlights of their era. “Sex Type Thing” may have a clumsy anti-rape lyric that comes across as misogynist, but it survives on its terrifically lunk-headed riff, while “Wicked Garden” is a surprisingly effective piece of revivalist acid rock. Then, there’s the slow acoustic crawl of “Creep” that works as well as anything on AIC’s Sap and, finally, “Plush,” a majestic album rock revival more melodic and stylish than anything grunge produced outside of Nirvana itself. These four songs aren’t enough to salvage a fairly pedestrian debut, but they do find STP to be nimble rock craftsmen when inspiration hits.
Tracklist:
CD1
01. Dead & Bloated (Remastered)
02. Sex Type Thing (Remastered)
03. Wicked Garden (Remastered)
04. No Memory (Remastered)
05. Sin (Remastered)
06. Naked Sunday (Remastered)
07. Creep (Remastered)
08. Piece of Pie (Remastered)
09. Plush (Remastered)
10. Wet My Bed (Remastered)
11. Crackerman (Remastered)
12. Where The River Goes (Remastered)
CD2
01. Only Dying (Demo)
02. Wicked Garden (Demo)
03. Naked Sunday (Demo)
04. Where The River Goes (Demo)
05. Dead & Bloated (Demo)
06. Sex Type Thing (Demo)
07. Sin (Demo)
08. Creep (Demo)
09. Plush (Demo)
10. Sex Type Thing (Swing Type Version) [Remastered]
11. Plush (Acoustic Type Version) [Remastered]
12. Creep (New Version) [Remastered]
13. Plush (Acoustic From MTV Headbanger’s Ball, Take 1) [Live] [Remastered]
CD3
01. Crackerman (Live At Castaic Lake Natural Amphitheater, 7/2/93)
02. Wicked Garden (Live At Castaic Lake Natural Amphitheater, 7/2/93)
03. No Memory (Live At Castaic Lake Natural Amphitheater, 7/2/93)
04. Sin (Live At Castaic Lake Natural Amphitheater, 7/2/93)
05. Plush (Live At Castaic Lake Natural Amphitheater, 7/2/93)
06. Where The River Goes (Live At Castaic Lake Natural Amphitheater, 7/2/93)
07. Sex Type Thing (Live At Castaic Lake Natural Amphitheater, 7/2/93)
08. Wet My Bed (Live At Castaic Lake Natural Amphitheater, 7/2/93)
09. Naked Sunday (Live At Castaic Lake Natural Amphitheater, 7/2/93)
10. Wicked Garden (Live At The Reading Festival ’93, England 8/27/93)
11. No Memory (Live At The Reading Festival ’93, England 8/27/93)
12. Sin (Live At The Reading Festival ’93, England 8/27/93)
13. Lounge Fly (Live At The Reading Festival ’93, England 8/27/93)
14. Dead & Bloated (Live At The Reading Festival ’93, England 8/27/93)
15. Sex Type Thing (Live At The Reading Festival ’93, England 8/27/93)
16. Naked Sunday (Live At The Reading Festival ’93, England 8/27/93)
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