Smashing Pumpkins

 

Anyone?

 

I've been listening to my old Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness album for the past 2 days and i got the old sp feeling back

Tell me im the only one

tell me there's no other one

Jesus was the only son

 

And i still believe that i cannot be saved..

 

 

 

Luv that tune

I love the smashing pumpkins!

 

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage :cool:

I used to love the Pumpkins, then Billy turned into an asshole.

 

I still love their music however, one of their songs has my name in it.

yo, Here Is No Why is such a good fucking song man! It's the best song on the cd. That and Poercelina Of THe Ocean Sea or whatever. Such an epic song.

wow, i really appreciate them!

:D

 

bullet with the butterfly wings rocks!

Smashing Pumpkins are a classic!! :D

Ren, you have so greeeeeat taste!

of course.

landslide anyone, anyone? ...

It's hard to believe that the same band that put out the cd MACHINA put out Mellon Collie. man..

of course.

landslide anyone, anyone? ...

 

That's actually a Fleetwood Mac song.. that they covered.

ava adore is like one of my all time favs

Never listened to alot of there stuff...ment to.

 

A friend once sent me Eye Live. I listen to it every other day :love:

ohh... smashing pumpkins are my favorite band...

 

i'm eagerly waiting for Billy's new solo album... though i'm scared it won't be good. i just hope it won't sound anything like zwan. heh

^ Are you on the interpol board as well? I recognize the avatar (and the SP thread).

^ Are you on the interpol board as well? I recognize the avatar (and the SP thread).

busted.. :cool:

oh well... see ya on both boards then. nice to meet you.

Hi.

Cool someone brought me old thread back..

i like 'tonight tonight' its so pretty :blush: :P and the video is gorgeous :D

^me too..but 1979 is pretty cool as well. :)

pumpkins are pretty much what brought me into rock, up until then i was listening to garbage, mostly kiis fm, for any of you LA listeners who know how horrible that is. granted i was only in the 6th grade, under the shelter of a christian school, but mellon collie and thie infinite sadness really got me going to good music. and "disarm" still strikes a chord with me every time i hear it

Pumpkins seem to bring a LOT of people into rock (especially people in their late teens and early 20s) because their music can be so soft yet so hard on the same album. Their versatile like that.

 

And I think theyre kinda un-conventional for their time. Theyre still and image was kinda all over the place, un-organised, and thats what was kind of appealing. 99% of bands have a theme and style that is distinct, and its understandable because you need to pick up on a target audience (Bands of the time like Soundgarden, Nirvana and Alice in Chains, and now would be Radiohead and Coldplay) but for some reason the pumpkins never needed to do this.

 

An audience just found this strange band that captured an interest. They were like Sonic Youth or Fleetwood Mac for Grunge.

Fleetwood Mac

 

i like fleetwood mac :D i know that was off-topic!

Me too charl!

 

Mirror in the sky, what is love

Can a child duh duh rise above

And if you see my reflection, in the snow, covered there

The landslide brought it down..

 

(Also relevant to the topic as Pumpkins covered it :smug: )

Smashing Pumpkins to Reform

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050621/us_nm/people_corgan_dc

 

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Singer Billy Corgan said on Tuesday he plans to revive The Smashing Pumpkins, his Grammy-winning band which broke up in 2000 after more than a decade of blending alternative rock with the avant-garde.

 

In full-page advertisements in Chicago newspapers, the bald-headed Corgan said, "I want my band back, and my songs, and my dreams."

 

He did not say which if any of the band's former members would be involved in the revived group, which broke through with albums such as "Gish" and "Siamese Dream."

 

The Pumpkins' top selling album was "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" which came out in 1995, but as the 1990s progressed their work became increasingly obscure as tensions arose in the group.

 

They broke up over differences among its four members and Corgan has since jumped from project to project but failed to match his early success.

 

Corgan, based in Chicago, has just released a solo album, "TheFutureEmbrace" on Reprise Records.

 

He did not say when he would try to reform the Pumpkins but the new album "represents a new beginning, not an ending. It picks up the thread of the as-yet-unfinished work and charter of The Smashing Pumpkins," he said.

 

And something more official here:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/acrobat/2005-06/18118271.pdf

Corgan's solo album has been out for what, a day?

 

I'd be surprised if any of the Pumpkins actually wanted to come back.