Stone Temple Pilots roared on to the scene 25 years ago with their raucous debut CORE. A breakout success, the album peaked at #3 on the Billboard charts, dominated radio waves with hits like ‘Sex Type Thing’ and ‘Wicked Garden’. The band also took home the 1994 Grammy Award for ‘Best Hard Rock Performance’ for their smash single ‘Plush.’
To mark the album’s silver anniversary, two versions will be released nearly 25 years to the day of the album’s original debut.
The first is the Core: Super Deluxe Condition, which includes four CDs
featuring a newly remastered version of the original album, plus more than two
hours of unreleased demos and live performances, including the
band’s performance on MTV Unplugged. Also included is the
original album on vinyl and a DVD that contains a 5.1 Surround Sound Mix of the
album along with videos for the album’s four singles. The set, limited to
15,000 copies worldwide, comes packaged in a richly detailed hardcover book
with rare and unseen photographs.
Also available is the 2CD Core: Deluxe Version containing a newly remastered version of the original album expanded with rare B-sides and previously unreleased demos.