I do love me some Smashing Pumpkins. Billy is flat out insane, but Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness are two of my all time favorite albums. A true genius.

I do love me some Smashing Pumpkins. Billy is flat out insane, but Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness are two of my all time favorite albums. A true genius.

 

This.

I've only heard 1979. I really ought to check out more

^ I highly recommend any song I said in the post I made here

I also put forward Rocket

Smashing Pumpkins have a plethora of amazing songs that don't just make-up the greatest hits/singles cd.

 

Gish: Crush, Snail, Window Paine.

 

Siamese Dream: Geek USA, Spaceboy, Silverfuck.

 

Mellon Collie: Jellybelly, Here Is No Why, To Forgive, Where The Boys Fear To Tread, We Only Come Out At Night, Beautiful.

 

Adore: To Sheila

 

Machina: Raindrops and Sunshowers, Heavy Metal Machine, The Crying Tree of Mercury.

 

Their cover of 'Dancing in the Moonlight' is also great.

I would like to put forward Thru The Eyes Of Ruby and Ava Adore

And mayonaise, quiet, and thirty-three are great, too. But probably my favorite smashing pumpkins song is "Drown". Its just a great band. I could go on and on...

I also thought Zeitgeist was genius. There was an EP called American Gothic, and a bunch of singles, from 2007 that I thought were just as good (if not even better) than the album. I put them together and made a full-length album out of them. :)

 

Favorite albums (in order from greatest to least):

 

1. Siamese Dream

2. Adore

3. Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness

4. Machina 2

5. Machina 1

6. Zeitgeist

7. Gish

 

I can't wait to hear the new tracks. I've heard the first three, the fourth is supposed to come out in less than 2 weeks. And then there's supposed to be more.

 

I hope he releases them faster than this, though. If he's going to put out 44 songs, he needs to release them quicker than 4 songs every 2 months.

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Damn, check it out, Billy looks happy and is sounding good. In fact, I don't know if I've ever heard him sound better.

I am liking each Teargarden song as it comes out. I wish it was a little bit faster though!

Who are Billys minions this time around?.

I think at this point, Billy will play with anyone who is willing.

 

More importantly, he seems to be playing well. I saw the Pumpkins 3 or 4 years ago, and they played all kinds of obscure crap. I am a pretty big pumpkins fan, and I had no clue what they were playing half the time.

 

Also, a lot of Billy's live performances suck. He sometimes mails in the vocals. In this session, he seems to be into it. He can really sing good when he wants to (not in the classical sense, of course). My favorite part of the Today performance is when he raises his hand encouraging the fans to join in. He just looks like he's having fun, which is something I like to see for a guy who has lived a rather cynical, depressed life.

Oh I think he's a great musician and a good vocalist in terms of the Pumpkins sound not classically, just he's the intergral part of the Pumpkins although I think it was sad to see Jimmy Chamberlin go, I actually liked Zeitgiest as an album quite alot, Bleeding The Orchid was my favourite track from it overall.

Did you see any of the stuff he did under the name Spirits in the Sky with Dave Navarro plus a few others?.

No, Billy Boy kind of lost me after Adore. For some reason, I don't feel compelled to listen to his newer stuff. It's weird to feel that way about someone I liked so much in the 90s.

Where we watching the same performance there? He looked like he didn't give a shit. When he raised his hand for others to join in it looked like he actually couldn't be bothered singing that part hahaha.

Where we watching the same performance there? He looked like he didn't give a shit. When he raised his hand for others to join in it looked like he actually couldn't be bothered singing that part hahaha.

 

Go watch the Live Earth performance of the same song and then tell me if you still think this wasn't a good performance. Actually, find me one of his performances in the last 5-10 years better than this one.

^I was actually at that show... I got free tickets.

 

 

I haven't really listened to them much though. But honestly not really a fan from what I've heard. Kind of can't stand his voice (which is one big thing that can make or break and artist for me). One of my friends sent me a video to them covering U2's Stay, and they butchered it :lol:

Yeah Billy's whiney voice can get irritating after awhile. I saw them live too and didn't think it was anything special. I'm a fan of a lot of their work but I do realise they have their negative points, so thankfully i'm not one of those idiotic-blind-tard-type fans.

I actually like his voice. It's unique, like Geddy Lee and Ozzy Osbourne's voices.

 

But musically, I can't be bothered with this band anymore. Zeitgeist was a Smashing Pumpkins record, as in the two original members were playing all the instruments and writing all the songs on the album. However...the new stuff is NOT the original band, it's a Billy Corgan solo act.

 

I wish they'd stop marketing themselves as The Smashing Pumpkins, and call themselves Billy's band. But I guess they make more money as TSP. :rolleyes:

Go watch the Live Earth performance of the same song and then tell me if you still think this wasn't a good performance. Actually, find me one of his performances in the last 5-10 years better than this one.

 

I don't really care, at all, and I don't know what you're getting at. Are you saying that normally he's even worse?

 

To be fair he wasn't THAT bad, it was just utterly passionless. Maybe he's sick of that damn song, haha, wouldn't anyone be? I'm sure it was fun to write at the time and it's still a nice catchy song, but performing it a decade and a half later must be kindof revolting.

I don't really care, at all, and I don't know what you're getting at. Are you saying that normally he's even worse?

 

To be fair he wasn't THAT bad, it was just utterly passionless. Maybe he's sick of that damn song, haha, wouldn't anyone be? I'm sure it was fun to write at the time and it's still a nice catchy song, but performing it a decade and a half later must be kindof revolting.

 

Yes, I'm saying he's normally worse (or at least has been lately). I'm saying I don't like a lot of his live performances. I'm saying that this happened to be a damn good one. I'm saying he's one of the best musicians of the 90s, but he doesn't always come across well live. Clear enough?

Musically the Pumpkins are very good both James Iha and in fact Billy himself are under rated guitar players in my opinion, Jimmy Chamberlain is a good drummer too, and I think Billys voice suits the band but I fully acknowledge that his voice isn't "good" in the traditional sense.

Yes, I'm saying he's normally worse (or at least has been lately). I'm saying I don't like a lot of his live performances. I'm saying that this happened to be a damn good one. I'm saying he's one of the best musicians of the 90s, but he doesn't always come across well live. Clear enough?

 

You forgot "I'm saying 'I'm saying' a lot to be an asshole for no reason", but yeah the rest was pretty clear.

You forgot "I'm saying 'I'm saying' a lot to be an asshole for no reason", but yeah the rest was pretty clear.

 

Good, so long as we're clear.