Originality and influencing the music of other bands are key ingredients to ensuring that you’re one of the most important bands in history. RADIOHEAD are to modern alternate what Queen was to rock ‘n roll. Their underground godhood is easy to understand but that they touched a mainstream heartbeat to live high on the charts [...]

The STONE TEMPLE PILOT’s greatest hits CD finally arrives with the classy touch of being named Thank You. Very appropriate for a band that’s “one of the people” and understandable as an eager public has bought 20 million of their units in the past 12 years. Along with PEARL JAM, SONIC YOUTH and NIRVANA, STP did much to shape the grunge movement but were unafraid to experiment with shades of metal and pop.