During our revisit of the one and only Talk Show album featuring the three guys not named Scott Weiland from Stone Temple Pilots during their infamous 1997 hiatus, we remarked how the music remained steady but the vocals and melodies were less interesting. Now we get to examine the other side of that temporary split with Weiland's 1998 solo debut 12 Bar Blues. Would the lack of the DeLeo brothers inventive riffing similarly hamper the lead singers creative output? The simple answer is no, thanks to Weiland's willingness to experiment, filling the record with interesting sounds and surrounding himself with accomplished musicians. It is an admirable, if occasionally messy, attempt to shatter the perceptions of what it meant to be "the lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots," but more often than not, the influences start to show. Sadly, this left us wondering if the lukewarm critical reception, albums sales and radio play pushed Weiland back into the easy embrace of Stone Temple Pilots too quickly, who churned out successive radio friendly if bland riffage that palled to their primer-era output. Weiland never pushed the envelope like he did on this record, and we try to figure out why.
Intro - Barbarella
13:20 - Mockingbird Girl
18:05 - About Nothing
29:28 - Son
Outro - Lady, Your Roof Brings Me Down
#150: Magazine by Jump, Little Children
#149: Grand Slam by Spiderbait
#148: Neverland by Neverland
#147: Bandwagonesque by Teenage Fanclub
#146: Do You Know Who You Are? by Texas Is The Reason
#145: Cream by Holy Barbarians
#144: Emergency & I by Dismemberment Plan
#143: Dopes to Infinity by Monster Magnet
#142: Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby by Girls Against Boys
#141: She Hangs Brightly by Mazzy Star
#140: Interview with Glen Phillips and Dean Dinning of Toad the Wet Sprocket
#139: Without You I'm Nothing by Placebo
#138: Blonder Tongue Audio Baton by Swirlies
#137: Interview with Jeff Robbins of Orbit
#136: Good Feeling by Travis
#135: For The Masses - A Tribute to Depeche Mode
#134: Silver by Moist
#133: Clarity by Jimmy Eat World
#132: Judgement Night Soundtrack
#131: Give Out But Don't Give Up by Primal Scream
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