Thank You : Stone Temple Pilots : Review : Rolling Stone

Initially dismissed by critics as grunge latecomers, California's Stone Temple Pilots proved adept at twisting the catalogs of their old heroes into bright new shapes. The career-sampling Thank You lays bare the debts as well as the delights. "Plush" is the worst of the faux-Seattle offenders, thanks to Scott Weiland's canny Vedderisms. "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart" veers close to Led Zep's "Dancing Days." "Lady Picture Show" arrives dressed as "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds." The constants: Weiland's brawny shape-shifting vocals, Dean DeLeo's flashy guitar heroics, Eric Kretz's mastodon stomp and the band's collective pop smarts. Unlike other greatest-hits packages, most of these songs actually dominated rock radio in their day, and many still do. STP: What a great bunch of bands they turned out to be.