Stone Temple Pilots-Core (1992)


 

Artist: Stone Temple Pilots

Title: Core

Label: Atlantic

Format: CD 

Cat #: 7 82418-2

Year of Release: 1992

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1992 SRC 

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 6/19/25

Sell Price: $4.85

iscogs Last Sold: 6/20/25 VG+/VG+ $2.79

Low: $0.25 G/no cover 4/8/25

Median: $2.95

Average: $3.41

High: $12.00 M/M 5/26/25

Current low price: $0.99 VG+/VG+

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 71

Have/Want: 4785/575

Where Sold: Northport, AL

Time it took to sell: 2 years

Where and When Bought: facebook cd lot

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B

Sad To See It Go: No

When Core came out, I thought the band was somewhat fraudulent.  I hated the first hit I heard,  "Sex Type Thing" and was disgusted that the Butthole Surfers were opening for them already on seemingly their first tour.  MTV product, I sniffed with 22-year-old certitude.

33 years later, I've finally got around to hearing the actual album start to finish.  It does have all the signposts of commercial grunge of the era.  Emotive Eddie Vedder-type vocals in "Wicked Garden."  A Metallica Black Album era-type opener in "Dead & Bloated." Alice In Chains don't rear their head until the closer "Where The River Goes."  Maybe the band were thinking it was their "When The Levee Breaks."    

Of course there are the inescapable sports bar hits.  I might've mistaken the am I feelin' "Plush" for Pearl Jam goin' for tomorrow.    You couldn't imagine "Creep" without Nirvana being popular until the half the man I used to be chorus kicks in.   But, as far as a rock production goes, Core ain't that bad.  I have to admit, maybe even pretty good stripped away from corporate image and cult of personality.

At some point when this record plays, my brain starts to drift off.  It's happened a couple times the way it might happen when they are on the jukebox in a bar or when a rock station is playing them.  I'll refocus and hear a good guitar part and inoffensive vocals.

Then I'll think about something else.

FOR FURTHER REVIEW:

Purple (1994)

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