10 Dumbest Decisions Rock Bands Have Ever Made

Compared to the other alternative bands arriving in the early '90s, Stone Temple Pilots really ended up getting a raw deal. Although not hailing from Seattle, STP's riffs fit like a glove in the era of irony, having just as much punch as the grunge scene but with a little more swagger underneath the surface from Scott Weiland. Then again, it didn't exactly help to have Plush as a first single.

Arriving in 1992, the band's debut record Core boasted the song Plush right out of the gate, which became an albatross that hung over the group's neck for years. While the song is not bad by any stretch, it has to do more with the context of the song at the time than the actual tune. When put up against the rest of the record, this is the most grunge-y song in their catalog, with Weiland's voice getting damn near close to perfecting Eddie Vedder's gutteral howl.

Since Pearl Jam were already AWOL on MTV, STP became the darlings of the channel, which led even more purists to declare them as the industrialization of the grunge sound rather than their own unique entity. Even though abums like Purple and Tiny Music helped set them apart from their contemporaries, this awful first step proved that STP had a lot of work to do before being taken seriously.