"Wicked Garden" is a terrific hazy acid-rocker and the other major hit, "Plush," glides by on majesty and arena-ready drumming, worthy of the Grammy it received. "Sex Type Thing" is a lumbering beast with a hypnotic chunky riff and smarmy anti-rape lyrics, written by Weiland about some football players he knew that took advantage of a girl. The band - Eric Kretz and the DeLeo brothers - mix their arena rock love with the dynamics of grunge, and often it works wonders. Weiland welcomes the spotlight but rarely mugs for the camera, projecting a bit of irony and fun into the words, the way the best arena rockers do (STP tries for mainstream all the way). They preferred Mott The Hoople over Zeppelin, and they meant for this record to be the essence of what they were about, hence the name.Ĭore is a bracing hard rock listen that has aged very well. That is rather ignorant - while the Jam's music at the time was based in classic rock meets punk, STP got their inspiration from glam artists, psychedelia and Kiss. STP had been accused of being copycats of Pearl Jam, and some actually thought lead throat Scott Weiland was Eddie Vedder in disguise. Then, I heard "Sex Type Thing" and "Plush" on radio and was hooked. I'd grown up listening to good music courtesy of my dad, but I never heard a lot of 90s music until I got to college in 2001, meaning I missed the boat completely other than a few friends here and there who owned Pearl Jam and Nirvana discs.
This may sound laughable to fellow music snobs, but the reason I got into the whole alternative scene is because of this record.
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