They just keep getting better and better and this album is the best so far. The other tunes on the album are mostly straight-up rock and roll. Great Western Valkyrie (2014) It seems like sometimes a band’s first album is their best and then personnel changes, lack of creativity and other issues make all that follows goes straight downhill. I didn’t care particularly for “All the Way,” which sounds partly like a soul ballad from the 60s but also delves into storytelling–it was an interesting Idea, but I’m not sure it worked. This album also features “Jordan,” a soothing, slower tune with a spiritual focus, “You Want To,” another rockin’ tune, and the unusual “True,” in which Buchanan adopts a style that is not contemporary at all and resembles a lullaby from 100 years ago–I liked it, but it might not be to everyone’s taste. My favorite tunes on this album are “Keep on Swinging,” a rockin’ tune with a great melody, “Nava,” a beautiful, Bron-yr-Aur-ish acoustic instrumental, and “Manifest Destiny Parts 1 and 2,” which is mostly a guitar opus but also has Buchanan singing lyrics which seem to vaguely reference the Native American plight. Stone Temple Pilots (abreviado STP) es un grupo estadounidense de rock, aunque una de sus principales características es la variedad de estilos musicales empleados en sus canciones, fluctuando dentro de la ambigüedad del rock alternativo de la década de 1990, siendo una de las más exitosas bandas vendiendo más de 17.5 millones de álbumes en EE. The quartet of Scott Weiland, Dean and Robert DeLeo, and Eric Kretz had a foot. Stone Temple Pilots complicated this narrative considerably.
They experiment with a variety of styles, which is unusual these days. 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 more I listen to this band the more I like them. “After I listened to their recent album, I decided to check out this one. Stone Temple Pilots (often abbreviated as STP) is an American rock band from San Diego, California, that originally consisted of Scott Weiland (lead vocals), brothers Dean (guitar) and Robert DeLeo (bass, backing vocals), and Eric Kretz (drums).