Release date early December.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
Remastered vinyl features the original record spread out over 8 sides (4 LPS) for the first time to ensure the optimum sound
hahahaha holy fuck, no way would i ever listen to this behemoth but that still sounds kinda awesome
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
that is some enticing looking bonus material. I don't know why they keep plopping b-sides in these, they should just compile them all in the same package and be done with it.but man, discs 3-5....just... damn. Full length "zoom"! And what on earth is "Pastichio Medley (Reversed extras)"?!
― blank, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 00:16 (eleven years ago) link
Musically, Mellon Collie solidifies Corgan's position as one of his generation's most ambitious songwriters--no one else in alternative rock's superstar stratum has attempted an album of such length, let alone scope, and it may even match The Wall in its sonic accomplishments. But his lyrics don't fare nearly as well in comparison. It may be too much to ask that Corgan be as poetic as Kurt Cobain or as earnest as Eddie Vedder, though his therapeutic self-examinations could at lest probe as deeply as Trent Reznor's. But while Waters's tale of the rock star Pink only reached the literary level of a comic book, "We don't need no education / We don't need no thought control" seems deeper, more universal, more entertaining--and heck, a lot more inspiring--than, "Living makes me sick / So sick I wish I'd die."
― set the controls for the heart of the congos (thomp), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know why they keep plopping b-sides in these, they should just compile them all in the same package and be done with it.
well, they already compiled all the Mellon Collie singles once on the Aeroplane Flies High, plus there was Pisces Iscariot, so in a way i think it makes more sense to put the era appropriate b-sides in with the album reissues instead of collecting the b-sides in yet another distinct package.
― jaz a make wardance (some dude), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 00:37 (eleven years ago) link
Sure but why include any of them at all, so many full length pastichio medley numbers still missing ;_; Just feels weird to cherry pick em is all
― blank, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
i just want a Pistachio Medley box set, really
― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― blank, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 05:32 (eleven years ago) link
It would be nice if they put the iTunes "rarities and bsides" thing out on cd. I think it took care of every bside and compilation track.
― blank, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 05:35 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.crestfallen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/MCIS_bundel1-300x300.jpg
so the reissue comes out next week
http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/store/mcis-reissue/#!/1753074LP is $75 ,uag
― black redhead (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
Mellon Collie? More like Smellin' Collie.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
a tote bag! nobody has ever wanted a tote bag! carry around your trader joe's produce in this fashionable tote.
― Mozzarella i Fieri (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
Come now, remember Billy's other big venture lately. Clearly that bag is for...
*drum roll*
Tea-Tote-ellers
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wNJtF1XNe8Y/S13sdXNJipI/AAAAAAAABys/TaEgm_mHkYg/s400/rim-shot-.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
disarm me with a pun
― Mozzarella i Fieri (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
body face and soul of you is gone down that deep black steepaa
― black redhead (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
despite all my rage, I am still gonna print on that tote
― Mozzarella i Fieri (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
This is by far my favourite Pumpkins album, definitely. I've always been into the excess and sprawl of it.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
I bought the Gish and Siamese Dream reissues. I will buy the Pisces Iscariot reissue when I find it for a good price. '1979' is all time, but I've never liked this album. I should revisit it, though.
― Mozzarella i Fieri (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
Weirdly, I've never been as into '1979' as others seem to be, and tend to overlook it a lot of the time in favour of other tracks. This isn't necessarily down to overplay either, because if there was any track off this album that got the hell played out of it here, it was 'Tonight, Tonight' and I still really really love that song. But I guess that's the beauty of this album, there's so much stuff on it that everybody seems to have different favourites.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
Smashing Pumpkins are good at the melancholy and quiet stuff. When they rawk, it sucks horribly. Whittle this album down to the quiet stuff and you have a pretty good album. Crap like Jellybelly or whatever needs to die.
― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
you guys have interesting opinions
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
Polio, do you hate 'Cherub Rock'?
― Mozzarella i Fieri (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
1979 was the only track i ever liked, and i never liked it that much. The cover convinced me I had bought some embarrassing prog, so it was filed away in a box where its stayed.
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
i seriously can't imagine the life of the person who only likes the quiet smashing pumpkins songs. they probably put salt in their coffee and live in a tent in a tree
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
Tristessa, Cherub Rock, Frail & Bedazzled > 1979 >>>> all other quiet pumpkins
― Mozzarella i Fieri (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
I have more than a lot of time for the quieter Smashing Pumpkins songs - 'Thirty-Three' is one in particular I find to be absolutely gorgeous, but I could never just have the Pumpkins in quiet mode and nothing else. I fucking love 'Jellybelly', fwiw!
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
I like 1979, but I actually like Zero better. /shameface
― super perv powder (Phil D.), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 23:49 (eleven years ago) link
Every song on this album is Classic for me (OK, except Take Me Down). Can't wait to hear all the studio ephemera on the deluxe edition. This reissue is ridiculously expensive though.
― black redhead (spazzmatazz), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
rank the singles?
1979ZeroTonight, TonightThirty-ThreeBWBW
― black redhead (spazzmatazz), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
Muzzle should've been and almost was a single. Canned when Jimmy got kicked out, 33 happened instead.
http://991.com/newGallery/Smashing-Pumpkins-Muzzle-74899.jpg
― black redhead (spazzmatazz), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
yeah "Muzzle" was a moderate radio hit, definitely wish it had been given a full radio push, some days it is my fav SP song
― some dude, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 00:28 (eleven years ago) link
full single push
Bullet With Butterfly Wings is great imo. The whinier the better.
― crüt, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 00:34 (eleven years ago) link
I even like 'Take Me Down'. Sorry, folks!
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
33 > tonight > zero > 1979 > bullet
this is also probably my ranking of the individual discs in the aeroplane flies high
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 00:53 (eleven years ago) link
'Muzzle' definitely deserved to be a single, in my humble opinion.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
If the world is a vampire, the narrator in Neil Young's "Vampire Blues" must be its maker. Unless the world already was a vampire in Neil Young's song. I do not know the True Blood rules for that scenario.
― Sufjan Grafton, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
tonight > 1979 > bullet > zero > 33
― some dude, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
zero > 1979 > bullet > tonight > 33 (which is still great obv)
― crüt, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 01:14 (eleven years ago) link
1979 > 33 > zero. My preferences are mathematically accurate
― that's the way to choke a jiving spirit (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 06:25 (eleven years ago) link
I can think of a handful of songs that should've been kicked off of the Mellon Collie tracklist to make room for some of the b-sides instead like Pennies or Set the Ray to Jerry.
― Moka, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 08:03 (eleven years ago) link
muzzle on conan early 97 is oen of my favorite band on tv performances of all time
― dylannn, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 08:25 (eleven years ago) link
http://vimeo.com/45282876
AND IN THE EYES OF THE JACKAL I SAY KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-BOOM!
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 13:15 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ andy richter, melissa joan hart and james iha chillin on the couch together
― some dude, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 13:31 (eleven years ago) link
compared to other horse races like "is it gonna be Mitt/The Artist? is it? it might not be! ...yep, it is" this stuff is an unpredictable thrill ride
― some dude, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 13:32 (eleven years ago) link
ugh wrong thread sorry
― some dude, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
― crüt, Tuesday, November 27, 2012 8:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^ gets it
― super perv powder (Phil D.), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 13:42 (eleven years ago) link
"zero" feels so rigid and restrained compared to their other heavy songs
― some dude, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 13:44 (eleven years ago) link
bullet is so much fun. i remember lovin that when i was about 14.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 14:47 (eleven years ago) link