For a while, STP outpaced their contemporaries at least in terms of hit singles, racking up constant plays on MTV and rock radio with "Plush," "Creep," "Big Empty," "Vasoline," "Interstate Love Song," and "Big Bang Baby." Each of their signature. F or the past year, R iffraf has bro ught you several ongoing columns: Landmark Albums. The quartet of Scott Weiland, Dean and Robert DeLeo, and Eric Kretz had a foot planted in two seemingly opposed camps, cutting their teeth on the Southern California hard rock circuit of the late '80s yet working steadily with Brendan O'Brien, who also produced albums by Pearl Jam, one of the biggest bands to hail from Seattle, the birthplace of grunge. Stone Temple Pilots arose from obscurity in San Diego, where the group was formed as Mighty Joe Young, to worldwide attention so quickly and with a sound so close to what was happening on radio via Seattle that the backlash set in before the quartet’s debut album, Core, finished reeling off its succession of hits. Stone Temple Pilots complicated this narrative considerably. It reached 1 on the Billboard 200 and the ARIA Albums Chart, and 10 on the UK Albums Chart. After the accusation of copying artists like Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam, with Purple they show lots of songs with the power of grunge, mixed with alternative rock, receiving those two styles for the album. The album title is written as a Chinese character, z (), on the cover, and nowhere else on the packaging (with exception of the UK and European limited edition vinyl release). Cover art of Stone Temple Pilots' second studio album. The alternative rock explosion of the 1990s was framed as a triumph of authenticity: grunge wiped out the sleazy hair metal of the '80s and ushered in an era of real, dangerous rock. The cover for the album features an animated photo of a child riding on a Qilin accompanied by a quintet of fairies above the creature and the child, taking place on a cloudy background. Album covers have sadly become a lost art in the twenty-first century.
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