Stone Temple Pilots or Pearl Jam

Who? :crazy: The people who hate Pearl Jam aren't moved in the least by their hardly dynamic music and excruciating vocals, not because we're too "soft" to appreciate them, as it seems you were stating. But I've seriously never heard of that lady.
 
Okay, after I saw how much traffic this was getting, I listened to a pirated Pearl Jam album and....my opinion of them didn't change. Then I went and read the lyrics to all the songs they have that make people cry and I still like Stone Temple Pilots better, even though the subject matter is much more serious.
I see the similarities and I know Pearl Jam was around first, but Pearl Jam is mediocre. It feels like they are the heroin to the Stone Temple Pilot's acid. The lyrics are simple, but not mindblowingly profound. The tunes are fairly catchy, but they seem to go on too long. And I would not pay money for a Pearl Jam album. Sorry, I've stated my case. Bite each other's heaRAB off.
 
I was pretty obsessed with Core in the mid 90's and still rate it as one of the best albums ever (I can't really be objective at this point, I've heard it too many times), but I haven't heard any of their other albums...:laughing: I remeraber being really unpleasantly surprised with "Sour girl" (I totally skipped Purple and judging by Interstate love song, which I've just heard for the first time, I guess I'm not missing much). I think Sour girl pretty much put me off from exploring their other output...I just didn't want anything to ruin the brilliance of Core...:\

Edit: I'm just listening to Plush and I can't believe how much they sound like Pearl Jam. Why didn't I notice this before?

Crackerman is still a kick ass song...(:
 
I voted for Stone Temple Pilots, the main reason - their drummer, Eric Kretz, I love the way he plays (I'm not saying he's better then David Krusen or other PJ drummers) I also like the drummer Matt Cameron (my favorite Seatle Grunge band was Soundgarden - to quote Eddie Veder "can't find a better band")

I love Ten by Pearl Jam, but not into them as one of my favorite banRAB but still I am amazed by their talent. I saw a something on VH1classics (Ten revisited) and Jeff Ament was dressed like Richard Simmons with corabat boots and a rastafarian hat, I just thouhgt it was strange he wasn't wearing flannel - I thought it was a prerequisite for a Seatle band.



The band broke up a few years ago and Scott Weiland formed a super group, Velvet Revolver, with Slash, etc. They got together again and are putting an album together to be released next year.
 
pearl jam may have spawned fully formed from the flowing neck wound in the dying dinosaur of classic rock but at least they never presented themselves as anything but that, they never had to try, they just were.

STP on the other hand tried, a lot. 'core' was alright... if you found 'badmotorfinger' to be too aggressive. 'purple' was good too if you needed a change from 'in utero'. 'tiny music...' was the first disc they did that sounded like its own thing and it was good. 'no. 4' went back to 'core' only this time around it was for anyone who still wanted to listen to 'superunknown' 5 years later. 'shangri la-di-da' is an appropriately horrible name for a horrible album.

hell i even own a copy of 'talk show' :shycouch:

either way PJ wins for me by a ridiculous margin.
 
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