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1	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Whatever the hell is "Wet My Bed", a 1:37 improv session between Scott Weiland and Robert [=DeLeo=] while they were alone in the studio. Best summed up by its ending, when producer Brendan O'Brien can be heard walking into the room and saying "All right, now what?"
2	* CriticalDissonance: The band's early material was ripped apart by most critics, in the face of a rapidly growing fanbase and multi-platinum albums. In a 1994 issue of ''Rolling Stone'', they were named the "Best New Band" in a reader's poll... while simultaneously being voted the "Worst New Band" in a critic's poll.
3	* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: "Sex Type Thing" was supposed to be an anti-rape song, but its aggressively sexual lyrics found a fanbase that got a thrill from the song's POV.
4	* FanNickname: "Stone Temple Park" and "Linkin Pilots" after it was announced that [[Music/LinkinPark Chester Bennington]] would be replacing Scott Weiland as the band's new vocalist.
5	* FanonDiscontinuity: Crossed with FirstInstallmentWins, radio still plays STP songs from ''Core'', ''Purple'''' and Tiny Music'', but almost nothing from the other three albums. And the last one has not been out very long compared to the rest.
6	* HarsherInHindsight:
7	** Chester moved on from STP to focus on his other bands in 2015, and STP started a search for a new singer. By the time they found one, both Scott and Chester died.
8	** A lot of STP's songs deal with Weiland's struggles with drug addiction, such as "Vasoline" and "Interstate Love Song." Of particular note is a line from "Trippin on a Hole in a Paper Heart" (itself a song about an extremely bad acid trip, likely involving ego death) where he says "One more trip and I'll be gone." Weiland was found dead of an accidental drug overdose.
9	* NightmareFuel: "Sex Type Thing" is a ''very'' creepy song told from the POV of a rapist and gives an unsettling insight into the thought process.
10	** Pretty much the entire ''Core'' album is unsettling and dark. “Wicked Garden” and “Dead And Bloated” also qualify.
11	* PosthumousPopularityPotential: While Stone Temple Pilots were never critical darlings during Scott Weiland's lifetime, the music press was flooded with tributes after he died in December 2015.
12	* RefrainFromAssuming:
13	** "Creep" is ''not'' called "Half the Man I Used to Be" (or "Half the Man He Used to Be" - and Music/{{Nirvana}} did not perform it).
14	** "Interstate Love Song" is ''not'' called "Leaving on a Southern Train".
15	** "Big Empty" is ''not'' called "Time to Take Her Home" or "Conversations Kill".
16	* SignatureSong: A roughly three-way split between "Plush", "Sex Type Thing", and "Interstate Love Song", with "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart", "Big Empty", and "Creep" not far behind.
17	* ValuesResonance: With the growing awareness of the mechanics of rape culture in the 2010s, "Sex Type Thing" stands out as one of the first big songs that tackled the subject.

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