STP doesn't have anything up their sleeves here, it's just the band doing what they do best: giving the listener a straight forward hard rock song, and pulling it off with extravagant skill. The band actually produced their own song quite well and wrote a very decent song with relevancy that shames songs like Down and No Way Out from No.4. Since I've made it my thoughts about Plush clear, I'm going to express my thoughts of All In The Suit That You Wear. The two new songs on Thank You, All In The Suit That You Wear, and an acoustic version of Plush from MTV's Headbangers Ball, are actually quite good. Days of the Week would have been better off at the first half of the album, and Big Empty would have been perfect for the closing half of Thank You. However, songs like the catchy, Southern-rock like Big Empty and the only song from Shangri, the song that gives pop rock bands a run for their money while talking about only four days of the week, simply titled as Days of the Week should have traded places. The masterful and catchy Vasoline is first on list, and it was indeed the perfect opener for Thank You, especially with the quiet intro to the song before finally exploding with energy. The track listing was somewhat relevant, but could have been reworked.
Saddening that while the track production on Thank You sounds louder than ever, nothing is done to fix the sludgy producing of Brendan O' Brien, and yet somehow, Brendan CAN actually supply some wonderful production once in a while, like in the display of Scott's fading marriage with heartfelt lyrics and a refreshing yet unexpected pulsing bassline from Rob, or Sour Girl, and the song that's perfect for a lounge while playing some pool or just sitting back having a brew or smoke, the band's most well known song amongst STP fans, excluding Sex Type Thing, otherwise known as Plush. Not only that, the lyric choice from Scott is unbearable, as Down sounds more like Dead & Bloated part two.Īll tracks on this compilation are louder, and it's saddening. While Scott delivers some of the creepiest, low, grungy vocals I've heard from him, along with the production on Eric's drums providing a squeaky clean and refreshing tone, Rob's bass is virtually non-existant, while Dean rarely changes his tabbing patterns and gives a half-hearted guitar solo in drop D. The band wrote and produced their final song, as a special DVD containing all STP music videos with some live performances, bootleg videos, and a slideshow of the band playing a weak song from Shangri that set the mood for the DVD, Bi-Polar Bear.Īfter close examination of the tracks, I decided that everything except for one thing checked out: and that would be the creepy, nostalgiac, cacophonial, song released as a supposed "hit" from the band's worst album, Down. But before the band would technically split, the tracklist to their greatest hits album, appropriately titled Thank You, would be selected, and a new song would be recorded, otherwise known as All In The Suit That You Wear. In 2002, Scott Weiland would join Velvet Revolver as the band split after their farewell tour after Shangri-La Dee Da. Review Summary: STP provides a well deserved farewell and the title of the greatest hits album says what they were basically saying to their loyal fans: Thank You.
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