things Billy Corgan said to Kim Thayil in Australia in 1994 poll

"Songwriting for me is in the proximity of the possibilities," Cornell says later.

kinda wish this was an option tbh

I remember that year when Soundgarden and the Pumpkins were here, saw both twice iirc. Corgan was always a hippy twat, I'm suprised some people think that came later.

They were pretty damn good on that tour, that said. Cannot fucking believe that was 20 years ago, jesus fuck.

great poll, great interview. love that web.stargate.net still resolves. i think i musta read everything on there by now. and pulled a lot of tabs.

anyhoo honorable mention to "back to the core, the heart music. Echo and the Bunnymen." but i use "you hurt me deeply in my heart" way too often in real life to vote for anything else.

the corgan/thayil standoff has been etched in my brain for nearly 20 years as well

i bought this issue off the newsstand when it came out & instantly remembered the 'you hurt me deeply in my heart' comment when i saw this thread! kim thayil is the best. i'm sad that i probably recycled this issue just last year. the remnants of my mid-90s collection are still on my bookshelf & all i found were three different mid-90s SPIN, and one each of Alt Press and Raygun

Thanking you, OP some dude.

:)

i slept on this and i think i will go with "But I hate it, it means they don't think I'm the cute one."

so glad i didn't know corgan was such an annoying ninny when siamese dreams came out: for me that must be one of the very few "blessings" of not having access to the internet back then.

So this is where "You hurt me deeply in my heart" came from. What a total doink.

Thanking you, OP some dude.

Yes, this thread is a treat.

"Aha!" Corgan says. "A Virgo. You're argumentative."

"Damn right, I'm argumentative," Thayil says, and takes a long, angry pulll at his beer, "which you should know because I've been arguing with you for half an hour, not because of any sign."

"I'm a Pisces," Corgan replies. "We pick up on those things."

This is so perfect. In my head, when I visualize this, it's like a joke from Futurama, where Corgan is Fry, and Thayil is Prof. Farnsworth.

hmmm I'm thinking more Zap Brannigan & Leela.

^^^ OTM

haha yes

Damn it, you're right! I'll be in the Angry Dome!

woah just realized who wrote this, crazy how many names you can find lurking in the bylines of old spin magazines

After Soundgarden's set, the guys pile into the van, and a local radio station crackles into life. "Was Chris Cornell's voice as magnificent as it is on rec-awwd?" asks a DJ to a woman presumably calling from one of the dog track's pay phones.

"Oh yes," says the woman. She sighs. "It was incrediboo."

There should be a sub-poll forthis exchange.

I'm completely ignorant of Kim Thayil's side of this exchange, please enlighten me.

No, no, no. Just "rec-awwd" vs "incrediboo".

Leaning towards voting for one of the astrological ones.

By which I am really voting for what Kim Thayil said to him.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

powerful white energy itt

lol

I'm a Pisces etc.

The only issue with this interview that I have had since I first read it was that I am not sure whether Kim looks even cooler than he is or whether Billy looks even douchier than he is. I usually go with Kim because Billy was already pretty douchy to start and didn't have very far to go.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

lol 89 people

Just heard Chris Cornell track off Simgles Soundtrack and thought fondly of this thread.

THE CORE

THE HEART MUSIC

ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN

― luaka boppa flame (some dude), Sunday, February 24, 2013 5:25 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Maybe they're better bros or whatever, but I've never listened to a Soundgarden song without being like "hey, what's that over there?"

THE CORE

THE HEART MUSIC

ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN

Sounds likea Cocteau Twins lyric.

Billy Corgan is basically Greenberg

lol otm

Haha I was thinking of that pollwinning quote just last week when my little niece asked me "Do you dream, in your head?" when I go to sleep sometimes

the core, the heart music.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/THEFUTUREEMBRACE.jpg

Punchable album covers.

I realize that the focus on the interview is Corgan and it should be, but let's not lose sight of the fact that Thayil comes off amazing, and not just as contrast.

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--E55vJtJZ--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/pud91spb8xtzshktrjji.jpg

Photographers still sticking him in the back. :(

hahahahahahahaha

Loooool

hes finally happy:)

twins, a real rockstar

The next day at the Big Day Out festival, Thayil is talking to Kim and Kelley Deal in the Breeders' dressing room when Corgan walks past wearing a long-sleeved Superman T-shirt like the one your four-year-old nephew probably owns.

"You hurt me deeply," Corgan says, touching the giant S on his chest and pouting. "You hurt me deeply in my heart."

Killing me that I'll never know what Kim Deal said right after this exchange

i imagine these quotes in andy warhol's voice

Cracking up so hard at this

after billy says "i'm a pisces", i picture him patronizingly leaning in closer and smiling before he drops "we know these things"

it's killing me that those aren't Siamese cats

back when billy's solo album was announced someone on a smashing pumpkins board i used to frequent mocked up a "billy and the cats" album cover in ms paint, let me tell you it bears uncanny resemblance to that paws cover