Why did critics hate STP
Why did critics hate STP
Preferred heroin when the critics liked cocaine
Because the critics are sometimes right
they were too masculine for the hipster dip shits and limp wristed music press.
scott was like david bowie on testosterone
They were the hole in the air mattress that was grunge music. SW's vocal style spawned a whole generation of spikey haired angst ridden tough-goth bands that were the ancestor's of today's whiney soipop groups.
Just not here. They were right about Candlebox.
But Scott was considered to be just be aping Vedder. And he sung his lowest on this album, I could see the argument for later Weiland being a bad influence not not here.
They sounded like every other grunge band even though they were the only ones not actually apart of the Seattle scene
This. STP was an overtly masculine band in an era where masculinity was not seen as an integral component of the rock scene. Personally I think STP were mich more poetic and sonically nuanced then most of their radio-rock contemporaries but journos and hipsters can't bother to see past the machismo. Quite simply, STP is a band for people who fuck.
Because they were from California.
You've obviously never listened to Core or Purple.
They were accused of sounding like Pearl Jam despite the fact that their first album was written in 89-90 and more closely resembled Jane's Addiction. They also weren't from Seattle and were treated like shit by the bands that were.