Stone Temple Pilots: They're actually good! (Really!)

STP’s B-level status in ’90s rock history has practically nothing to do with the music and almost everything to do with the misfortune of coming out during one of the most annoyingly cred-conscious periods in the history of mainstream rock. Back in the early ’90s, natural born arena rock band Pearl Jam was praised for making its music less melodic and more boring, because this meant they cared more about the fans than being famous or something. STP, on the other hand, made no apologies for swinging the hammer of the gods for shirtless men and dirty girls at the Enormodome in your town, and were condemned as lame ass poseurs because of it.

STP’s bad luck was being a polished, immediately accessible, larger-than-life cock rock band at one of the few times in rock history when cock rock bands weren’t automatically cool. Instead, STP lived in a time when snarky, willfully amateurish bands reigned supreme.