I see whats being said about the more recent albums.....where they as good? But if you look at Core, wasn't that kind of a one dimensional album? With the excpetion of Creep, all the songs were electric guitar-riff-driven hard rock songs. The songs were great, but were they diverse? How much true musical talent did they display? The newer albums show Stone Temple Pilots could master many styles of music. Shangri-LA DEE DA showed that.
Its mostly subjective tho. We're all basing this off of our opinions. So then here's my opinion: No.4, best Stone Temple Pilots album ever. It represents all their styles so well, in one great album. By far the best!
Oh... Spin sucks, anyway. I cancelled my subscribtion about five years ago and haven't missed it one bit.
Same here. I used to get Spin, but after a year's subscription made me realize how much they suck, I didn't renew it. Bad reviews, bad music, bad articles, it just all around sucked ass.