I couldn't believe they were no threads on STP, do they not have any fans that belong to this board(besides me) ?

Oh dear God...

Denium are you saying that STP is considered pop music?

Not a fan whatsoever.

Better them on the radio than Pearl Jam.

never really cared for them....

They were OK. But I never got past thinking they were kind of a second tier band.

To me, they took every cliche of grunge,a nd made music out of it. Kinda like the danger Danger of grunge or alt rock. Whatever you want to call it.

That being said, I'd rather hear them than Nirvana or Soundgarden.

STP is much more palatable to me than a lot of the other music of the time.

I like em - and this thread does belong in the ROCK forum

Like all the big five or six grunge bands, I like them more in principle than in practice due to them all gettting beat to death on the radio.
Anyone really into STP might check out the band New Idol Sun from the mid 90's. Similar, and usually available reel cheep.

I put them in these form because description reads "The place for hard rock and heavy metal in general" , being STP are hard rock band that is why placed them here, as for Eyesore's comment they would only be considered heavy metal if you had never heard of heavy metal, that would depend how big of an umbrella does the term heavy metal cover, is it form that is limited to certain sound, certain kinds of bands etc, but that discussion would be for another thread, you'll find that'll you get as many as different opinions as you will find on any subject regarding music , since you will be hard pressed to find any two fans who will agree who should or shouldn't be listed as heavy metal, that being said "I think Shangri La Dee Da is a very underrated album, too." I would have to agree with that statement.

Sex Type Thing is a killer song that could pass for metal but other than that they're Alt Hard Rock.

I love'em. My favorite band of the alternative era (not that I liked many of those bands in the first place...).

STP are a hard rock band....so they can be discussed in the main forum for "Hard Rock and Heavy Metal music". Remember when my Soundgarden thread got moved by an over zealous mod from the main forum to the rock forum....caused quite a ruckus!

Never got how these bands get labelled alternative or alt-rock. STP, Candlebox, Bush etc. were your basic hard rock bands that absorbed the trends and characterstics of the day namely from the surprise success of the Seattle Scene. Their was nothing alternative about them. Just a bunch of phony rock bands who changed stripes to whatever was popular at the time.

That's why you get all these hardcore 80's/Hair/Classic Metal fans who show blind disdain and hatred for the original Seattle bands but say things like...."But STP and Candlebox were alright".

" Just a bunch of phony rock bands who changed stripes to whatever was popular at the time."

I wonder sometimes where your logic comes from. That comment is categorically ridiculous. You act as if these guys were 80s rock bands before "changing stripes."