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What was the stereotypical Stone Temple Pilots fan like?
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Date: October 16th, 2014 6:01 AM Author: Costumed Kitty Cat In 1996?
Millennial here. Please help. |
Date: October 17th, 2014 12:46 AM Author: Costumed Kitty Cat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2701290&forum_id=2#26532685) |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 12:47 AM Author: stirring depressive I was a fan (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2701290&forum_id=2#26532695) |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 12:48 AM Author: Costumed Kitty Cat What were you like, from a stereotypical view? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2701290&forum_id=2#26532707) |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 12:49 AM Author: stirring depressive I was 12 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2701290&forum_id=2#26532722) |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 1:40 AM Author: Lascivious Property lots of dudes had haircuts like this http://z3.ifrm.com/67/29/0/p387417/hairstyle.jpg http://thehindsightletters.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/screen-shot-2011-02-01-at-2-46-16-pm.png
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Date: October 17th, 2014 1:41 AM Author: swollen milk where are the dyed undercuts (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2701290&forum_id=2#26532977) |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 1:44 AM Author: Costumed Kitty Cat I do remember that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2701290&forum_id=2#26532995) |
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Date: April 18th, 2026 12:23 AM Author: Big self-absorbed orchestra pit background story (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2701290&forum_id=2#49824434) |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 12:49 AM Author: Pungent burgundy jewess church Twist: there were no STP fans (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2701290&forum_id=2#26532715) |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 1:01 AM Author: aromatic deranged party of the first part STP were in their prime at the tail end of the golden sage of guitar rock, before it was left behind to guys with neckbeards. They were pretty broadly popular with a crowd ranging from jocky fratty bros to nerdy introspective dudes. It was different from the scene that arose a few years later, where intelligent dudes had to prove themselves by looking down on Creed/Limp Bizkit/Linkin Park (making it somewhat baffling that the Linkin Park guy is now the singer for STP), or the scene that has existed for the last 10 years, where there is no guitar rock that achieves mainstream success because the kids all listen to beat-driven music. If you went to bars or listened to mainstream radio, it was all Nirvana/Pearl Jam/STP/Smashing Pumpkins/etc. In hindsight, STP is pretty terrible and just rode a wave of people loving junkie-penned distorted guitar rock. Doesn't hold up anywhere near as well as the other groups that were big in the era. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2701290&forum_id=2#26532796) |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 1:33 AM Author: Costumed Kitty Cat " If you went to bars or listened to mainstream radio, it was all Nirvana/Pearl Jam/STP/Smashing Pumpkins/etc."
This blows my mind. I was born in 1989 and I don't recall any of this, but I wouldn't expect to. |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 1:37 AM Author: Lascivious Property that's kind of an exaggeration. It was also shit like 69 Boyz, Ace of Bass, Chumbawamba, Michael/Janet Jackson, Boyz II Men, Ricky Martin, etc (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2701290&forum_id=2#26532966) |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 1:39 AM Author: swollen milk 69 Boyz?
but grunge was THE dominant alternative music at the time. if you were anywhere white and cool Jeremy was probably playing fifty times |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 1:42 AM Author: Lascivious Property lol wut?
People listened to that stuff, but at the club they were playing 69 Boyz, bro
Also, lots of people I know listened to Widespread/Phish/Dead, and a lot of Dave Matthews stuff |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 1:44 AM Author: swollen milk they had lots of alternative clubs that played all that shit. but if you were a white kid of a certain age that was the shit you were listening to
i never knew anyone who was into that gay stuff if anything it was shitty punk like nofx |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 2:09 AM Author: navy prole the thing that kind of died out in the early/mid-90's was a certain species of adult contemporary music that didn't have much to do with R&B or "electronic" elements and was a continuation of themes that had been popular in the 80's.
something like amy grant's hits from that time, or steve winwood's early 90's songs. they got displaced.
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Date: October 17th, 2014 2:16 AM Author: swollen milk we had Seal at least (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2701290&forum_id=2#26533142) |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 1:35 AM Author: soggy stag film marketing idea STP is probably the best of all those bands you mentioned. Their albums are brilliant, you faggot. |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 1:35 AM Author: swollen milk they were alright man but you could see shoots of bro rock sprouting in them
but try listening to interstate love song or big empty and not be like hell yeah |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 11:47 AM Author: idiotic national security agency exactly, we didn't know it at the time because bro rock didn't yet exist, but it was definitely there. i think that's what makes STP suck now when you go back and listen to it. feels like a slightly better nickleback or something.
but yeah, Big Empty is a great tune. |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 2:10 AM Author: navy prole i heard "big bang baby" for the first time in years and was surprised at how good it was. they weren't the greatest band, but they took a lot of venom from critics for being so popular, and it didn't really correspond to their actual music.
they were several steps above the likes of candlebox, seven mary three, etc. |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 2:14 AM Author: Citrine Mood I think they could most accurately be compared to Alice In Chains in terms of talent and popularity, who seemed just a little more authentically weird. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2701290&forum_id=2#26533135) |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 2:16 AM Author: swollen milk aic were genuinely fucked up, not california vanity drug addicts (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2701290&forum_id=2#26533141) |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 2:17 AM Author: navy prole AIC infused a lot more genuine sadness into their songs. the jar of flies EP is a classic for that reason probably more than any others. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2701290&forum_id=2#26533147) |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 2:19 AM Author: swollen milk its impossible to imagine layne staley fronting "velvet revolver", and not because he's dead. that's the difference right there
i still think "No Excuses" is a beautiful tune |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 2:22 AM Author: navy prole i kind of forgot that velvet revolver and audioslave had existed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2701290&forum_id=2#26533179) |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 2:23 AM Author: swollen milk yeah it really would have been better for their legacy for both of those guys to cobain themselves (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2701290&forum_id=2#26533184) |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 2:25 AM Author: navy prole people said that about the rolling stones from roughly 1977 to the late 90's, but somehow through sheer persistence and boomer nostaliga they became culturally respectable again. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2701290&forum_id=2#26533196) |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 2:19 AM Author: Costumed Kitty Cat Not really a big fan of the genre, but I really like AIC. I think they were genuine artists. I like how they almost had a bluesy sound at times. Dam That River seems like an old blues cover. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2701290&forum_id=2#26533162) |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 12:01 PM Author: cerebral abode messiness one of my fave AIC songs. saw them once and it rocked my socks off. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2701290&forum_id=2#26534732) |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 1:33 AM Author: disgusting talented theatre (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2701290&forum_id=2#26532949) |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 1:56 AM Author: pale roast beef chicks mostly. tbf, they had a few very cool tunes and Pearl Jam was pretty much sucking after Vs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2701290&forum_id=2#26533050) |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 2:01 AM Author: Citrine Mood I never met anyone who was really, really into STP; I assume the prop who bought their records were white person between the ages of 12 and 30 who liked top 40ish guitar rock. They were part of the penultimate A&R-created trend before the whole system came crashing down. They were mainly popular because some particularly influential record exec decided grunge was the new trend and payola air play. |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 11:07 AM Author: swollen milk (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2701290&forum_id=2#26534399) |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 11:13 AM Author: Galvanic hell skinny woman im an early millennial and was a fan (was like 12-14 years old and can remember the original grunge scene). their first couple albums were highly cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2701290&forum_id=2#26534430) |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 11:51 AM Author: idiotic national security agency I remember when Plush came out and everyone thought it was a PJ song. It took them until their second album to shake off that PJ knock off stigma. I think they mostly became popular because Nirvana and Pearl Jam fans wanted some extra music to listen to until their bands released their next album. That's how my late Gen-X friends and I approached STP. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2701290&forum_id=2#26534666) |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 12:27 PM Author: swollen milk cr like the guy said above they weren't anyone's favorite band (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2701290&forum_id=2#26534865) |
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Date: October 17th, 2014 11:59 AM Author: blathering patrolman I owned this STP concert tee rate my teen fashion sense
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-1994-Stone-Temple-Pilots-XL-rock-concert-t-shirt-very-rare-STP-/281085608034?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4172020062 |
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Date: October 23rd, 2015 1:46 AM Author: cobalt multi-colored space mad-dog skullcap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2701290&forum_id=2#29026751) |