Holy shit!
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 14:49 (ten years ago) link
Oh my! Yes!
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 21:15 (ten years ago) link
You know, with all their vast, intricate, wandering, lofty, melancholy fantasias, I always found them to be weirdly analogous to c. 1900 children's book illustrations (most obviously those big, deluxe editions of Poe's Tales Of Mystery & Imagination).
Which is to say, regressive and stationary, stuck in a space bounded in by bourgeois domesticity and bourgeoise adolescence, and spoiled (I think) by the singer's voice.
― cardamon, Friday, 7 June 2013 01:07 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, Poe's country ballads were AWFUL.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 June 2013 01:09 (ten years ago) link
As is most of my input when I really ought to be asleep, I'll admit
― cardamon, Friday, 7 June 2013 01:23 (ten years ago) link
stoked for "the groover", "rings" etc. would kill for a full length "knuckles".
― brimstead, Friday, 7 June 2013 01:51 (ten years ago) link
bah forgot those are both on the gravity sessions stuff already in circlations.
― brimstead, Friday, 7 June 2013 01:55 (ten years ago) link
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I was drinking-the-kool-aid when i preached the oncoming release of Siamese Dream as a follow-up to the hopeful promise of Gish, and re-coursed my allegiance to Billy every album there-after; he sucked as soon he shaved his head (yet, still wimpish in comparison to Sampson).
― bodacious ignoramus, Friday, 7 June 2013 07:17 (ten years ago) link
Isolated guitar track for "Zero." Pretty awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn0NiiAfAjc
― This amigurumi Jamaican octopus is ready to chill with you (Phil D.), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link
was jus thinkin i love the outro to bullet a lot
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/4146/p52n.jpg
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
I got the Mellon Collie Vinyl remaster set recently and it is very, very nice. It sounds great, but unfortunately, Billy Corgan's voice is pitched at a frequency that really highlights the fact that my speakers are somewhat broken and in bad need of repair.
― Moodles, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 18:56 (ten years ago) link
So he's announced two new albums and debuted a new site and whatever okay
http://www.smashingpumpkinsnexus.com/
Oh...did I mention the photo and font?
http://static.wixstatic.com/media/e56f8f_17e8789345fe49abad7c766c6ceb116d.jpg_srz_p_955_305_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srz
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 20:38 (ten years ago) link
Lol & smh
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 20:47 (ten years ago) link
all i have to say re everything
baaaha, that's awesome. Someone should make a history of alarming things Billy Corgan has put forth over the World Wide Web. Remember when he was going to make a tech-noir sci fi animated cyber-series?
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 21:40 (ten years ago) link
grumble….yes….. ugh
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 22:13 (ten years ago) link
why billy
WHY
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 22:14 (ten years ago) link
LOL amazing. Takes me back to Livejournal in the year 2k.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 16:29 (ten years ago) link
Billy Corgan in "dresses like a gothic kite" shocker.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Thursday, 27 March 2014 16:21 (ten years ago) link
Is that font Papyrus?
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 27 March 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
Thank God this guy is finally releasing some new music.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 March 2014 17:14 (ten years ago) link
oh billypaws, from that same new site:
Smashing Pumpkins lead singer Billy Corgan pulls back the curtains on the pro-wrestling world as he takes over creative direction for the independent wrestling company Resistance Pro. Produced by Left/Right, LLC; Executive Producers: Banks Tarver, Ken Druckerman, Billy Corgan and Ghen Maynard.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 27 March 2014 22:06 (ten years ago) link
He needs to just stop messing about and do a collab album w ICP already.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 27 March 2014 22:09 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttD9DAmCCeI
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 17 April 2014 04:56 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3nO33J_3lY
― smhphony orchestra (crüt), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link
banner week for billy
http://gawker.com/behold-billy-corgan-on-the-cover-of-paws-chicago-1580238738
http://www.smashingpumpkinsnexus.com/#!LYRIC-BIRDS-ON-THE-HORIZON-SP-ALBUM-UPDATE/c7ba/EC613E98-6DB4-45A7-A55F-2C2201BC7E16
― ςὖτ ιτ Οὖτ (some dude), Friday, 23 May 2014 01:50 (nine years ago) link
So does anyone apart from me think that Oceania is actually a very good record? I was all prepared to hate it after being incredibly disappointed with Zeitgeist, so it's been quite a surprise to me that not only am I still listening to it, but I'm enjoying it a lot.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Friday, 23 May 2014 02:00 (nine years ago) link
Love that Paws cover. He looks so happy!
― intheblanks, Friday, 23 May 2014 02:04 (nine years ago) link
I liked Oceania quite a bit and it is, by far, the best Pumpkins 2.0 release. Still won't even compare it to anything in the original ruh though.
― djenter the dragon? (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 23 May 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
praise the lord!mike byrne is OUTor,as billy put it,"like Elvis,"HE HAS LEFT THE BUILDING
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Monday, 16 June 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
Asked by MusicRadar if Byrne would be drumming alongside newly-recruited percussionist Tommy Lee on the band's forthcoming Monuments to an Elegy (slated to arrive sometime next year), Corgan responded, "Mike, like Elvis, has left the building." The reason for Byrne's departure remains uncertain; when pressed for more details on the circumstances of the split, Corgan repeated, "Let’s just say that Mike, like Elvis, has left the building.”
lol
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Monday, 16 June 2014 15:56 (nine years ago) link
Sorry folks, I liked his drumming.
― ...and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe and SAW! (Turrican), Monday, 16 June 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
He's left the building... ELVIS
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 16 June 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link
i like picturing Billy taking great satisfaction in preparing that quip and then being completely flummoxed when there was a follow-up question.
― some dude, Monday, 16 June 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
Why do they want to know so much about Mike? Well, I've got this bit I can run by them again...
― how's life, Monday, 16 June 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
is it possible that monuments to an elegy is their best release since mellon collie?
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 5 December 2014 12:29 (nine years ago) link
i've liked all of the new songs to varying degrees of like.
still, no
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 5 December 2014 16:09 (nine years ago) link
it's really good and easily the best of Pumpkins 2.0 but, no, let's not get crazy
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 5 December 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
I had such low low expectations for this, but it turns out that Corgan limiting himself to 3-4 minute pop song format + more synths + Tommy Lee on drums = surprisingly, a good result
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 5 December 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
“Now, he and I didn’t necessarily get along. But I like to sing his praises, because he really was that talented. I like to think the world with him would have been a better place, and I like to think a lot of the crap music that followed wouldn’t have existed if he had been around to criticise it. Because he had the moral standing to slay generations with a strike of the pen.” Although they didn’t get on, did Corgan, then, look up to Cobain?
“No. In the purest sense of the word, we were competitors. He and I were the top two scribes, and everybody else was a distant third.”
― how's life, Friday, 5 December 2014 23:11 (nine years ago) link
Everyone else.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 December 2014 23:12 (nine years ago) link
Everybody.
Kinda pathetic how wedded this guy is to the 90s angst rock dream, for all the big ideas he seems so narrow in focus in other ways
― Master of Treacle, Saturday, 6 December 2014 00:27 (nine years ago) link
It's easy enough to get in physical trouble with tools as it is.
― calstars, Saturday, 6 December 2014 01:39 (nine years ago) link
The problem is the guy is all about big, and not enough about ideas.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 December 2014 01:52 (nine years ago) link
having heard the new record
1) man is it better than oceania (which was SO BORING)2) man is it his best record since thefutureembrace (hi ned)3) this is coming from a dude who felt he could make a pretty decent ep out of the zeitgeist stuff so ymmv
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 7 December 2014 02:20 (nine years ago) link
yeah, p low bars there (tho I do remember liking some of thefutureembrace)
― Simon H., Sunday, 7 December 2014 02:25 (nine years ago) link
part of why i feel so charitable toward the record is 9 songs in 32 minutes is maybe the most concise billy's ever been
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 7 December 2014 02:28 (nine years ago) link