Talk Show [IMPORT]

Talk Show

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 2, 1997)
• Original Release Date: September 2, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Wea International
• ASIN: B000002JDX
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #65,559 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
The first post-Stone Temple Pilots record from the De Leo brothers plays like old fashioned 70s rock. While STP's sound bore more than a passing resemblance to Zeppelin, their forays into other areas of musical expression weren't always that successful. With Talk Show, the boys get down to business, complete with a new singer, and the results are, well, promising. "Hello Hello" has a monster of a riff that would make even Jimmy Page proud and "Ring Twice" courts the moody minors rather successfully. "Morning Girl," for all its roughness, is a great pop song, and "John" shows the band has some sonic tricks up its sleeve. "End of the World" and "So Long" are also worthy of merit. --Steve Gdula

Product Description
1997 album featuring 3/4 of Stone Temple Pilots + Ten Inch Man's vocalist, Dave Goutts. 12 tracks. Atlantic.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific CD, February 22, 2006

By	Peter Olafson (La Jolla, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you're a fan of the Stone Temple Pilots' pop side, you may well find Talk Show the great album that band never quite made. Here the Beatlesque hard-pop that increasingly distinguished STP's work from Tiny Music onward is in the ascendant--most notably on Everybody Loves My Car and Hide. At the same time, there's a lot of variety. Leadoff track Ring Twice gets your attention straight away; along with So Long, it has all the hallmarks of a great STP rocker, and singer Dave Coutts sounds most like Weiland here. (He's a fine vocalist; listen to Hello Hello and Behind to get a good sense of his range.) Everybody's the would-be single. Peeling an Orange, Wash Me Down, Filling the Fields and especially Behind show off the band's softer side to excellent effect.


Granted, Talk Show doesn't have STP's sense of presence. It's just a rock 'n' roll CD. But there's not a bad track here.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Takes 2 listens, March 25, 2005

By	C. Contor "internet_boy" (Oz) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

1st impression i got was that this was an average album. But after subsequent listens, it has turned out to be quite good. In fact as good as, if not better then tiny shop by STP. A friend can't get enough of it and he's not really an STP fan. Almost a 5 starer.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Quite a departure for Kretz and the brothers DeLeo, April 3, 2002

By	Bookbound "BB" (United States) - See all my reviews

I recently bought this CD, and while Dave Coutts is no Scott Weiland, he holds his own quite well. The best songs are "Fill the Fields," "Wash Me Down" and "Hide." The album seems much more mellow than most of STP's work. Overall, a worthwhile effort.