Stone Temple Pilots - Core2020 US 180g With their debut album, the socially charged 'Core', San Diego's Stone Temple Pilots delivered a hard hitting grunge record that delved into dark lyrical territory, driven home by Scott Weiland's powerful vocals. With hit singles "Plush" and "Sex Type Thing" going on to become definitive songs of the 1990s, the band garnered a great deal of media attention for their whirlwind success. Rolling Stone readers named the group the Best New