10 Rock Bands That Destroyed Their Own Legacies

Stone Temple Pilots always seemed to be dealt a bad hand from the moment they got popular. Though their first few records were great, many just saw the band as copycats of other alternative artists like Pearl Jam, who had just emerged out of the rainy city of Seattle.

With time though, the band seemed to have proven their detractors wrong by making records that stand on their own despite the rip-off connotations. Albums like Purple show the band distancing themselves from their influences and creating something fresh and exciting for the alternative scene.

As time progressed further though, the band were more often than not kneecapped by frontman Scott Weiland's drug problems, which led to some subpar albums in the 2000's. After Weiland's devastating death, the band decided to continue on with a new singer in Jeff Gut.

What could have been a return to form ended up being the sound of a band milking their legacy, with songs that sounded like pale imitations of their earlier work. Instead of sounding like lost relics from the past, these new tunes just sound like a band desperately trying to make lightning strike twice. There have always been drops in quality between albums, but the STP going these days feels more like a tribute act rather than their own creative entity.