10 Perfect Post Grunge Albums In Rock Music History
2. Tiny Music - Stone Temple Pilots
The entire fall of grunge was a lot more pronounced than what they did to hair metal at the start of the decade. Though it was cool for people to look brooding and sad in the first few years, by 1995 the whole thing just felt pointless. It was time for the old guard to grow up a little bit, and Stone Temple Pilots managed to have the last laugh on their haters on Tiny Music.
Since they came in relatively late to the grunge bandwagon, STP was always being accused of selling out from the purists of the grunge era. On this album though, they took a gigantic leap away from grunge altogether, getting a lot more glittery and making songs that sounded like they should have been blaring out of a car speaker around the mid '70s. And as much as things should have collapsed at this point, it really ended up working out.
Reinventing themselves from the ground up, Scott Weiland switched up his vocal style to be more in line with the glam rock frontmen of old, almost like a '90s update of what we would have seen out of David Bowie. This is also one of the first times the rest of the band got to stretch a bit more, with the DeLeo brothers pulling from other styles of rock and even jazz with some of the solo work on here. From being the laughing stock of the original grunge movement, this is the kind of record that most STP fans needed to hear after the first wave of alternative started to fall.