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Stone Temple Pilots

Stone Temple Pilots 2010 reunion album isnt a song deep before Scott Weiland alludes to his checkered chemical past by singing even when we used to take drugs, which may not be a confession — the singer took great pains to claim he was writing in third person for this, the sixth STP album — but its easy to read between the lines, particularly when the song title invites you to do so. Despite Weilands knack for a fractured phrase, the kind that jams a verse or chorus into the brain, words have never been the reason to listen to Stone Temple Pilots, its always been their candied crunch, the way the filter 70s sleaze through psychedelic swirls. The brothers DeLeo are responsible for the former, and Weiland for the latter and, like it or not — the decade-long absence suggests that they surely dont — they need each other, neither team sounding quite as good in their solo projects as they do working together. S