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bestgrungealbum · 6 months

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Revealing the Album Bracket!

With submissions officially closed and the selection process wrapped up, we present to you: the official album bracket!

The full list of albums (with corresponding artists) can be found underneath the cut.

The first polls will open at 3 PM CST on Thursday, December 7th. Each poll will be open for one week. Good luck to all our entrants!

List of albums, from highest-seeded to lowest-seeded:

Nirvana - Nevermind

Pearl Jam - Ten

Alice In Chains - Dirt

Soundgarden - Superunknown

Stone Temple Pilots - Core

Nirvana - In Utero

Alice In Chains - Facelift

Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

Pearl Jam - Vs.

Nirvana - Bleach

Soundgarden - Down on the Upside

Alice In Chains - Alice In Chains

Pearl Jam - Vitalogy

Soundgarden - Louder Than Love

Alice In Chains - Jar of Flies

Stone Temple Pilots - Purple

Pearl Jam - No Code

Nirvana - Hormoaning

Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop

Hole - Live Through This

Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff

Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog

The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

L7 - Bricks Are Heavy

Melvins - Houdini

Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion

Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters

Mad Season - Above

Bush - Sixteen Stone

Veruca Salt - American Thighs

Soundgarden - Screaming Life

Green River - Come On Down

Mother Love Bone - Apple

Green River - Dry as a Bone

Babes In Toyland - Spanking Machine

Soundgarden - Ultramega OK

The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Tad - Inhaler

Babes In Toyland - Fontanelle

Tad - 8-Way Santa

The Smashing Pumpkins - Gish

7 Year Bitch - ¡Viva Zapata!

Mudhoney - Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

The Toadies - Rubberneck

Skin Yard - Hallowed Ground

Silverchair - Frogstomp

Melvins - Stoner Witch

Silverchair - Freak Show

Malfunkshun - Return to Olympus

Gruntruck - Push

Mudhoney - My Brother the Cow

Skin Yard - 1000 Smiling Knuckles

Melvins - Bullhead

Bush - Razorblade Suitcase

Hole - Pretty On the Inside

L7 - Hungry for Stink

Mudhoney - Mudhoney

L7 - Smell the Magic

Screaming Trees - Something About Today

Babes In Toyland - Nemesisters

Candlebox - Candlebox

Mark Lanegan - The Winding Sheet

Skin Yard - Fist Sized Chunks

The U-Men - Step On a Bug

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emotionalsupportjedi · 2 years

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I'm Gonna Let It Slide (Wilbur Soot x Reader)

(The grunge/punk Wilbur and academic reader you never asked for)

There were many things you associated with Wilbur, the falling apart at the seams jeans, the leather jacket that somehow always ended up in your room, the leather notebook with an Alice in Chains quote design that you ordered for him. There were feelings too: the warm feeling when he let you wear his flannel, the safety of his hugs, the soft feeling that makes you smile when you see him sing along to the mp3 player he absolutely refuses to get rid of.

Your record player usually had classical or instrumental vinyls in it, after the multiple studies that you read about music and studying for tests or writing papers, but recently you've been finding yourself playing the albums Wil gave you. Anything from Badmotorfinger by Soundgarden to Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop by Stone Temple Pilots.

To anyone outside of your circles, you two looked like an odd couple. You had thought so too at first, even when you were sure you liked him only in a platonic way. You had bonded with Wilbur over music, even though it seemed to clash. You talked for hours about how to make a perfect song, or why a song gets stuck in your head. As you grew closer, he made a list of songs he said reminded him of you. He would add little comments like how after you two talked about the keys of popular songs, he added Use Somebody by Kings of Leon because it's in C Major. It was those little comments that let him into your heart.

Outside of your school schedule, you would help him write his own music, adding in references to classical songs in the lead guitar for example, or letting him try and hum the song to you. He didn't tell you about how he wrote his lyrics for you. About how sometimes he wrote in and erased parts that would have been too obvious. You didn't tell him about a study in rock music and stardom after he wanted to know about how to make a megaband, or how sleep came easier after listening to his demos.

You realised your feelings while helping send in some demos to a record label, Cubically Contained Records. You were listening to the Goo Goo Dolls, Wilbur had mentioned the song was called Slide. You listened to the lyrics as you waited for files to upload, taking note of some of the words Wilbur sang.

"I wanna wake up where you are. I won't say anything at all."

You brushed it off, surely it was just another song. Maybe Wilbur liked it for its catchy guitar, not the words that you wished could apply to you.

When Wilbur got signed to a record label, you two had a celebration dinner at your place. You got your record player out of your room and put in a Goo Goo Dolls album. As you two cooked together, Slide came on. You only noticed as Wilbur pulled you to clumsily dance as he sang.

"Put your arms around me, what you feel is what you are and what you are is beautiful."

You grinned as you two danced, before noticing how Wilbur sang the next lyric.

"You wanna get married, and runaway?"

There was something about the way he sang it, about how he looked like he was genuinely asking. You couldn't ignore it, entertaining the notion that maybe he wanted you too. There was also the feeling in your chest; your heart pounding and your stomach filling with butterflies.

The music gets lost to you as you pull him in, kissing him gently and surprising both of you. You watch his face go beet red as he gently cups your cheek, happy with the development.

As you broke away from the kiss, you kept swaying with him as the song faded out.

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trashcanalienist · 1 year

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#press play #stone temple pilots #tiny music #tiny music...songs from the vatican gift shop #music #grunge #groove #song #songs #Spotify

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red-weiland · 1 year

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Scott Weiland’s Solo Debut Expanded For 25th Anniversary

’12 Bar Blues’ will re-appear in two different versions this spring

Written By Jonathan Cohen | March 31, 2023 - 10:29 am

Late Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland‘s 1998 solo debut, 12 Bar Blues, will be reissued in expanded form this spring by Rhino in celebration of its 25th anniversary.

First up on April 22 (Record Store Day) is a double-vinyl, newly remastered set marking the first edition of 12 Bar Blues in this format. The limited run of 7,500 copies includes three previously unreleased tracks: an acoustic take on the album’s “Barbarella” and two session outtakes, “Lazy Divey” and “Chateau Mars.” The latter two were considered for inclusion on 12 Bar Blues until very late in the process, and even appeared on promo versions sent to the press by Atlantic Records, but were ultimately cut.

A digital edition of the album follows on May 12, with five additional unreleased tracks. One of them, a demo of “Barbarella,” is out today (March 31) in tandem with a new 4K version of the song’s original music video. The others comprise three unheard Daniel Lanois remixes and a demo of “Desperation #5.”

12 Bar Blues originally appeared while Stone Temple Pilots was on a hiatus following its 1996 album Tiny Music … Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop. It was co-produced by Weiland with Blair Lamb and features guest appearances by Sheryl Crow, pianist Brad Mehldau, and a trio of musicians dubbed the Magnificent Bastards: Victor Indrizzo, Zander Schloss, and Jeff Nolan.

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Here is the double-vinyl track list for 12 Bar Blues:

Side One

1. “Desperation #5”

2. “Barbarella”

3. “About Nothing”

4. “Where’s the Man”

Side Two

1. “Divider”

2. “Cool Kids”

3. “The Date”

4. “Son”

Side Three

1. “Jimmy Was a Stimulator”

2. “Lady, Your Roof Brings Me Down”

3. “Mockingbird Girl”

4. “Opposite Octave Reaction”

Side Four

1. “Barbarella” – Acoustic Version *

2. “Lazy Divey” *

3. “Chateau Mars” *

Here is the digital track list for 12 Bar Blues:

1. “Desperation #5”

2. “Barbarella”

3. “About Nothing”

4. “Where’s the Man”

5. “Divider”

6. “Cool Kids”

7. “The Date”

8. “Son”

9. “Jimmy Was a Stimulator”

10. “Lady, Your Roof Brings Me Down”

11. “Mockingbird Girl”

12. “Opposite Octave Reaction”

13. “Barbarella” – Acoustic Version *

14. “Lazy Divey” *

15. “Chateau Mars” *

16. “Barbarella” – Daniel Lanois Mix *

17. “Cool Kiss” – Daniel Lanois Mix *

18. “Lady, Your Roof Brings Me Down” – Daniel Lanois Mix *

19. “Barbarella” – Demo Version *

20. “Desperation #5” – Demo Version *

* previously unreleased

#stone temple pilots #scott weiland #12 bar blues #solo album #grunge #music #rock #video #alternative rock #90s music #1998 #2023 #Youtube

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boricuacherry-blog · 1 year

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Stone Temple Pilot and Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland discussed in his book, Not Dead & Not for Sale, a particular incident that happened when he was 12, years before he started down the path of music and addiction that would come to define his life.

He recalled a "big muscular guy, a high school senior...[who] rode the bus with me everyday to school...invited me to his house." There, Weiland says he was sexually assaulted in this person's home and then threatened into silence.

"The dude raped me," he said. "It was quick, not pleasant."

Weiland went on to say that not only was he indeed too scared to tell anyone at the time, but that the memory was repressed, only being unearthed during therapy sessions much later in life during one of his many stints in rehab. "Therapy will do that to you," he said.

He also revealed that after an argument with his first wife, Jannina Castaneda, which resulted in Weiland leaping from a moving car to score heroin, he ended up at the Chateau Marmont hotel in Los Angeles with none other than Courtney Love, saying, "She was one of my dealer's best customers."

His marriage to Castaneda would fall apart by the late 90s. Before the divorce was finalized, he began dating former model Mary Forsberg, who he married after a stint in jail. They would have two kids together, Noah and Lucy. But after several domestic-violence incidents involving police - both were arrested at different times; Forsberg once torched $80,000 of his clothes in their driveway, which she documented later in a memoir - the couple divorced in 2007.

That same year, Weiland's younger brother Michael died of cardiomyopathy, a heart issue from drug abuse. After this, Weiland started smoking crack.

"Scott loved his brother," Michael's widow said. "It devastated him. I don't think he ever truly recovered from it." She also says his ex-wife made it hard for him to see his kids.

Speaking of his first time trying heroin, Weiland wrote, "The opiate took me to a place I'd always dreamed of going. I can't name the place, but I can say that I was undisturbed and unafraid, a free-floating man finally free of demons."

The tragedies of his adolescence in the book are laid bare, though he rarely elaborates. While he expresses guilt over his part in failed relationships, he rarely reflects on the lasting damage done to ex-wives, former bandmates, family members, friends, and ultimately, his two children.

But that could possibly be attributed to his addiction, as there is a different tone, a higher level of care and an acute sense of self awareness in his adolescence that is noticeably absent in the rest of the book.

His brother Michael's death seemed to have a foreshadowing effect on Weiland's life, even when he doesn't say so explicitly. Any desire heard in his words to stay off drugs was gone after that. His attempts at meaningful connections are eclipsed by his need to withdraw, as is often the tragedy of the pinnacle of addiction. When he was diagnosed with bipolar, it was much later in life.

On album Shangri La Dee Da, Stone Temple Pilot's last album before their initial breakup, Weiland sings songs about addiction and manic depression, and the songs themselves seem to deliberately embody the fluctuation of addiction. Listening to Bi-Polar Bear or Transmissions from a Lonely Room can feel like hovering near a black hole. Weiland was reportedly sober for the album's recording, describing the process as a kind of restoration of "innocence" which he associated with the band's debut album, 1992's Core.

Right before he died, Weiland was on tour promoting his 2015 album Blaster with his new band, the Wildabouts, after releasing two solo albums, 12 Bar Blues, and its follow up, "Happy" in Galoshes, years earlier.

12 Bar Blues in particular seemed at the time an expansion of Stone Temple Pilots' 1996 album Tiny Music...Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop. It's an odd, cracked looking glass of a rock record. It doesn't particularly resemble grunge in rhythm or composition. They deliberately absorbed the Beatles and glam rock into the design of their songs. The guitar tone is skeletal - narrow and fluorescent, like bone - and Weiland suddenly sings in a higher, more fragile register. His delivery - reptilian yet conversational - was heavily informed by David Bowie.

In 2011, two years before he was kicked out of the Stone Temple Pilots, he was at a small show promoting his Christmas album, The Most Wonderful Time of the Year. Wrote one critic, he "danced in his old way, a sort of boneless shimmying, but it was muted and weary." He was surrounded by jazz musicians and small constellations of Christmas lights. They gently crept through a strange jazz arrangement of the Stone Temple Pilots song Vasoline.

After reuniting with Stone Temple Pilots again to release a self-titled LP, then being fired from the band for announcing a solo tour of its greatest hits without their blessing, he was back with a new band, the Wildabouts, when guitarist Jeremy Brown died of an overdose. At the same time, Weiland was experiencing episodes of paranoia and mania caused by his bipolar disorder. After a show at Boston's Brighton Music Hall, Weiland hosted a disastrous VIP meet-and-greet session, heckling one fan with "Let's suck a dick!" and insulting others who had paid $150 for the interaction.

"Some girl hit on Scott and he goes, 'You know what? You can go f**ck yourself. Do you have any idea how much I love sucking my wife's pussy?'" recalls his wife, photographer Jamie Wachtel. Weiland later apologized publicly on Facebook for acting like "a total asshole."

That same month, he threatened to twist the nipple of a reporter. "I've never felt more disrespected in an interview and am honestly shaken by the experience," said the journalist in an email to Weiland's publicist.

Jamie had confronted Weiland's bipolar episodes before. "He would be on the couch with a drink, smoking and watching whatever mindless television," she remembers. "I started to see he had paranoia and some of the bipolar stuff started to come out." He kept his curtains closed all the time. "At one point, it was so bad I had to move out because he was unstable." They found one medication that worked, but he gained 40 pounds, so he stopped taking it. Eventually, they found a medication that leveled him out. "For the last couple of years, he was doing pretty great."

Then, on the Wildabouts spring 2015 tour, his behavior became scarily unrecognizable. A video of him singing one of his songs in a painfully off-key rendition went viral. It turned out that his prescribed dosage of the antipsychotic drug Geodon was too high. "I thought he had some rapid-onset version of Parkinson's or something," Jamie said. After an adjustment, the change, she says, "was like night and day." Weiland was regularly taking six prescription drugs, and had hepatitis C, likely contracted from years of intravenous drug use.

When Weiland learned his mother Sharon had progressive cancer, it took him a step back in his progress. Sharon had divorced his father when he was only 2, and part of it was due to Sharon's previous alcohol problem, which was confirmed by his father Kent. Sharon had been sober for 25 years. When she learned that both of her sons were heroin users, it would prompt a slip.

Weiland was on the road touring when wife Jamie says she got a text from him saying, "I'm so in love with my beautiful wife." She tried to call and text him back but got no response. It wasn't like him not to get back to her, especially on a day off.

By the time tour manager Aaron Mohler had gone to check in on Weiland, he had already been dead. He had overdosed on a combination of cocaine, ethanol and methylenedioxyamphetamine (an analog of MDMA). Other significant conditions noted were atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease, asthma, and multiple-substance dependence. Plus, he was on prescription medications Lunesta, Klonopin, Viagra, Dalmane, Buprenex, and Geodon.

Four days after Weiland's death, his ex-wife Mary Forsberg published a letter in Rolling Stone alleging her ex-husband was an absentee father. She also filed court documents asking to be named executor of his will, alleging that he had $2 million in assets and a trust with an undisclosed amount of funds.

"I don't know under what mattress she thinks she's going to find $2 million, because it sure as shit isn't there," said Jamie. Public records show more than $147,000 in state tax liens on Weiland's property. "He was broke."

A funeral was held at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, a place where Jamie and Scott used to watch movies frequently. Stone Temple Pilots three surviving members were there, but Forsberg and Weiland's two children were not.

"I didn't think it could physically hurt to miss someone, but it does," says Jamie. "I miss him. We all do."

Some interesting genealogy:

Scott was the son of Sharon and Kent Kline. He was adopted by his stepfather, John David Weiland. Scott's paternal grandfather was Paul D. Kline (the son of Peter Kline and Catherine "Katie" Walters). Paul was born in Pennsylvania, of German descent (Kline is a German name). Peter was the son of John Klein and Catherine Hayne. Scott's great-grandmother Catherine "Katie" Walters was the daughter of George Walters and Elizabeth Schneider.

Scott's paternal grandmother was Florence Gilbertson (the daughter of Oskar Vilhelm Aleksander Gulbrandsen, later William Oscar Gilbertson, and of Anna Elise Arnesen). Florence was born in Illinois, to Norweigan parents (it all makes sense now). Oskar was born in Oslo, the son of Ole Martin Gulbrandsen and Gurine Pedersdatter Halvteigen. Anna was also born in Oslo, the daughter of Gulbrand Arnesen and Anna Bergitte/Birgitte Hansen.

Scott's maternal grandfather's surname was Williams.

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