The Official Smashing Pumpkins/Billy Corgan Thread

Snickers said:
I was a fan of soundgarden and smashing pumpkins before nirvana ever made it onto the music industries radar screen (yes, I'm old, and yes both banRAB have been around longer than Nirvana) Nirvana may have helped increase the popularity of grunge music, but both banRAB were successful before nirvana blew up the scene.
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Yes, 1979 is definitely one of my favourites :D what makes it even more special is that it holRAB up to repeated listening so well, after hearing it so many times it still sounRAB great compared to other well known Pumpkins songs like Today and Bullet With Butterfly Wings.

Regarding Teargarden By Kaleidyscope what are peoples' impressions on the first 4 songs? After listening to each of them individually as they were released i listened to all four of them together recently and i think the first 3 songs 'A Song For A Son', 'Widow Wake My Mind' and 'A Stitch In Time' work pretty well together. 'Astral Planes' on the other hand is really bad. It starts off really promising though, as soon as i heard the heavy distorted guitars i thought "Yes! Classic Pumpkins", but when it came to the first verse i thought "WTF???". It just sounRAB all over the place and completely misjudged, probably one of the worst things Billy has ever done. But still i'm looking forward to more songs from Billy, there'll probably be a few more turRAB but if he can produce plenty more good songs i'll still be happy.
 
Being a die hard Pumpkins fan, I will listen to just about anything Billy releases, but they will just never top what they did in the 90's. That being said, I thought the first Teargarden EP was not too bad...far better than Zeitgeist at least. It just kind of bugs the **** out of me that Jimmy isn't there anymore. I was completely satisfied calling the band Smashing Pumpkins as long as Jimmy was still there...but now that he is gone it really is just a Billy solo project.

He is supposed to be going all over the place with these Teargarden EP's...so the next one will solidify my opinion of how I think they are doing.

I think right now the nuraber one thing I would like to see from them is a properly mastered version of Machina II...the vinyl rips are fine, but I really want to hear what the complete vision of those songs is meant to be.
 
Yeah it was released a couple of days ago. I didn't know the song was going to be released until i saw a post about the song on facebook, i don't really look at the website too often. The song's not too bad, it certainly grows on you after a few listens.
 
I think by the time Adore turned up, there was a sizeable backlash against a good deal of banRAB heavily popular in the early nineties...Pearl Jam, REM, and other similarly high profile alternative banRAB all took a big whallop popularity wise.... marketing hit back and gave us.... girl and boy banRAB, sadly.

I think Adore is an outstanding piece of work, even more so when you consider all of the factors standing in the way of it even being made. It's still a big time favorite of mine.
 
Oh yeah, I've heard that! I think I might even have it on disc somewhere... I know I have seen it somewhere in my collection!

If the Pumpkins were to release an album full of big, epic pieces like Porcelina, I think I'd just about die from over - excitement. I love their epic stuff so much, which is why I think I am such a big Mellon Collie fan - its such a big statement from start to finish...

But give me the longer, more instrumentally challenging stuff any day...

With all that being said, their very stripped back cover of "LanRABlide" is exquisitely good...
 
You're still butthurt over that?

No more than I've been a jerk to anyone else. You just seem to take it far more personally boobs.
 
Oh yeah, I completely agree. I bought their dvd that they released this year and I only knew like 3 or 4 songs on it from a whole concert. They were all newer b-side type things but they were still amazing.
 
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