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Astrochicken posted:The Zwan album was good. for a fun time see how many interviews you can track down where David Pajo says "uh yeah I have no idea why he asked me to be in that band"
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Plus James Iha is incredibly talented and shouldn't have trouble finding things to do
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May 26, 2018 01:07
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yeah the production and mixing on everything lately has been terrible "Solara" would be an alright instrumental, Billy just sounds so bad in it. It's a bit fart-rocky too.
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Jun 9, 2018 16:38
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Ratios and Tendency posted:It was lifted from shoegaze. yeah, the first time i heard "Rocket" was in a loud club with the bass boosted and I legit thought it was a Jesus and Mary Chain song (edit: well, I thought it was a JAMC ripoff, to be more accurate)
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Jun 10, 2018 16:49
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Siamese Dream is very much a shoegaze record at least half the time. Gish and Mellon Collie (and everything else), not so much.
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Jun 10, 2018 17:44
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yeah Pisces Iscariot has always been my second-favorite "album" of theirs. "Hello Kitty Kat" owns so hard.
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Jun 12, 2018 10:45
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these guys are from England and who gives a poo poo. it's just a bunch of names that don't mean diddly poo poo! is how i feel about this news
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Jun 13, 2018 18:20
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I just love that Billy is the kind of guy who thinks naming things "Superchrist" is a good idea 
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Jun 15, 2018 03:22
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Seaniqua posted:I mean oh my word. that's. that's real bad. i don't think Billy could make a song that bad if he tried.
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Jun 20, 2018 20:20
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA i seriously can't stop laughing at this billy looks like late 80s genesis p-orridge and i'm not sure it isn't intentional
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Jun 29, 2018 21:58
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I think that's the intent, but to me it seems more like classic "I'm trying super hard to be weird" Billy (basically Mellon Collie/Adore era) But it's charming, part of the band's appeal has always been his whole "I'm TRYING to be a ROCK STAR here, MOM!!!!"
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Jun 30, 2018 01:42
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It is definitely growing on me too. It's a legit good tune.
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Jun 30, 2018 07:35
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Billy "the Silly" Corgan
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Jul 3, 2018 02:50
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Billy Corgan has always been adorably embarrassing and doofy. I mean, that's the good side of him. Better that than him being the rear end in a top hat who won't let half his band play on the record.
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Jul 6, 2018 01:12
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I don't know that I trust modern Billy to fix Machina 2
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Oct 31, 2018 19:13
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William Corgan is so goddamn silly I can't even hate him for it
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Nov 2, 2018 15:55
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Framboise posted:WPC is 100% more likable when you just accept he's a loving weirdo. If you posted a fake interview where he claims to have invented riffs and the concept of men wearing skirts I would 100% think it was real
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Nov 2, 2018 18:32
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Mellon Collie has some of the most inexplicably bad mixing I've ever heard
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Nov 13, 2018 04:13
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Yeah but in the case of MCIS it's following an album with almost perfect production and was produced by someone extremely talented so the fact that "Zero" sounds great and has bite but then "XYU" has that flat muddy guitar tone makes me think that something went wrong somewhere.
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Nov 13, 2018 04:45
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Yeah that's what I meant. A lot of the songs sound... fat. Like "Here Is No Why" which is also just a terrible song in general Edit: I just went looking for the video for Zero and it appears William had it scrubbed from YouTube? What the heck is the story there? That video owns precision fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Nov 13, 2018 |
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Nov 13, 2018 07:47
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:EDIT: Also, you might not have been able to find Zero on youtube if you're on mobile. Bands do that sometimes. I searched after posting that and found a few reddit threads asking where the video went too, with the only theory being that the family of the guy in it who died wanted it removed We're talking about the video where they're all gothy and playing in like an 18th century orgy right Also oh yeah for sure there are way worse Pumpkins songs than here is no why after MCIS. Honestly mentally I just sort of file everything after MCIS as "the worse part of their career". There are also worse songs on the album for sure. Edit: okay weird I just looked for Zero again and it's there but not available in my country (America)
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Nov 13, 2018 23:50
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Yeah exactly. Every single song on Gish and SD is in some way memorable, exciting, loving awesome, or heartbreaking. MCIS was stuffed with b-sides and they're not all on one disc so listening to it is an exercise in frustration.
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Nov 13, 2018 23:58
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Adore is a far better album than MCIS but nothing on it hits the high notes of absurd camp that MCIS has so I'd say it evens out Oceania was dece, Zeitgeist was abysmal, Machina 2 is great
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Nov 14, 2018 03:15
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Mostly it feels like any number of bands could have put out some of these songs, though. Like for example: Silversun Pickups, who can oftentimes straight up sound like a Smashing Pumpkins tribute band, have put out songs like these but more interesting. Listening to this, I found myself wishing I was listening to a new Silversun Pickups album instead. "Lazy Eye" is my favorite Smashing Pumpkins song
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Nov 16, 2018 19:43
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Low is the only band to have ever done a good Christmas album. And it's phenomenal. That Spacemen 3 tinged "Little Drummer Boy" is so good
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Nov 21, 2018 02:26
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Pumpkins opening for Noel Gallagher is like the ending of the setup joke that was "the pixies opening for weezer"
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Inconsistent/bad mixing has definitely been the only real issue with the last few albums.
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