Why am I panning an album that’s like 15 years old? Why not, it’s a blog! And I’m not really panning it, I did say it was pretty fucking awesome in it’s awfulness. I just listened to it for the first time since 1993 (or so) in it’s entirety. STP holds the distinction in my heart of being that last band to slip in through the cracks before I was wise & angsty enough (and by wise & angsty, I mean 14 years old) to detect bullshit and the credibility of bands. Man, at 13, this was like if God came down from heaven and formed an alternative band! Equal parts Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden & Jane’s Addiction. 6 bona fide alterna-radio hits… how was my adolescent heart going to resist!?

Go back, re-listen to Core… Like Interpol, the lyrics are just so bad that they’re perfect. I mean no duh I loved this when I was 13, I was probably writing lyrics like this in my notebooks (for my pseudo band Black Widow)! I remember Howard Stern once getting a hold of Scott Weilend’s phone number when the album Plush came out and calling him to ask what the fuck it was about. Scott Weiland was totally doped up, or half asleep (it was probably 5am Los Angeles time) or probably both, and kept muttering something on and on about it being about a serial killer. Fuck yeah d00d, serial killaz & Stern!

I forget exactly when or what caused me to be like “what the fuck is wrong with you?” and totally 180 on poor STP… but whatevs! I get the feeling I’ll probably be doing other Awesomely Awful Albums in the near future.