Stone Temple Pilots - Stone Temple Pilots - VINYL LP

Vinyl LP pressing. When an album peaks at #3 on the Billboard Top 200, amasses a large fanbase worldwide, and quickly becomes certified platinum, it's clear it's something worth plugging into. With their debut album, the socially-charged Core, San Diego's Stone Temple Pilots deliver a hard-hitting grunge record that delves into dark lyrical territory, driven home by Scott Weiland's powerful vocals. With hit singles InchPlushInch and InchS*x Type ThingInch going on to become definitive songs of the 1990s, the band garnered a great deal of media attention - at times incredibly negative - for their whirlwind success. Rolling Stone readers named the group the Best New Band of 1992, whereas it's staff christened them the Worst New Band. Despite their polarizing reception, the Pilots would secure a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance for InchPlushInch and Core would be certified eight times platinum in 2001. Songwriting, you could say, is the band's definite core.

US version includes one exclusive 'hidden' bonus track, 'You Know I'm No Good' (featuring Ghostface Killah). 'Back to Black' is the second album from London-based chanteuse Amy Winehouse. Although her 2003 debut was a success, her rowdy offstage behavior became the focus of tabloids and critics instead of the music. Because of this, Winehouse stepped out of the spotlight and concentrated on putting the focus back on her music. Three years later, her sophomore has surprised critics and excited her fan base. Combining a strong, Jazzy vocal style with often frank lyrical content recounting tales of love and loss, Winehouse is a truly talented songwriter with a good ear for melody, making this album an essential purchase. Includes the single 'Rehab'. Universal. 2007.

Stone Temple Pilots Return to Their Hard-Rock Roots on the Heavy No. 4 Brendan O'Brien-Produced Album Explores Dark Themes, Includes the Hit Single InchSour GirlInchHear the 1999 Record in Audiophile Sound Mobile Fidelity's Numbered-Edition 180g 45RPM 2LP Plays with Stellar Dynamics, Comes Housed in a Stoughton Gatefold JacketDismissed as down-and-out by naysayers due to vocalist Scott Weiland's legal issues, Stone Temple Pilots fired a loud shot across the bow in 1999 in the form of No. 4. Blending the strengths of the quartet's three prior LPs while marking a return to it's hardrock roots, the platinum-certified record stands as the heaviest of the California ensemble's career. That it succeeded while flying in the face of trends underlines it's significance and appeal. Massive riffs drive tracks such as the grinding InchDown,Inch stormy InchHeaven & Hot Rods,Inch and vitriolic InchS*x & Violence.Inch These and other songs bulldoze and plow, their muscular arrangements caked with thick sludge and aluminum tones, their sinister moods draped in distortion.Sourced from the original analog tapes, pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing, and housed in a Stoughton gatefold jacket, Mobile Fidelity's 180g 45RPM 2LP set presents No. 4. in audiophile sound for the first time on vinyl. With exceptional groove definition, quiet surfaces, and black backgrounds, this collectible reissue plays with enhanced liveliness, balance, and solidity that raise the profile of an album that contains a wealth of colors, dynamics, and subtle accents that demand transparent resolution. Rest assured you'll get that here - as well as previously obscured imaging and separation. All the better for an edgy, personal set that remains the group's most uncompromising effort.1/2' / 30 IPS analog master to DSD 256 to analog console to lathe