http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41uHQg6uPWL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
it's pretty good imo
― flappy bird, Thursday, 24 December 2015 18:33 (eight years ago) link
2004 promo interview for BWF, really good: https://vimeo.com/58320287
― flappy bird, Thursday, 24 December 2015 18:35 (eight years ago) link
i did not know that.
― mark e, Thursday, 24 December 2015 18:43 (eight years ago) link
his poetry is awful
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 24 December 2015 19:39 (eight years ago) link
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, December 24, 2015 2:39 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Do you like his lyrics? I think a lot of Blinking with Fists is as good or better than his lyrics on the first five records.
"A Twixt the Twine"
A twixt the twine and flowers divineDevise the design in this copper wineAghast the mask of ripping changeA loft amongst the highest paid
blend in the softer huesBespeak of melon and her honey fuseLight my ire's with playful trustFor devour you insatiable I musSo mixed the mire the many did soarSour the supirn on slippery floorGreen the grievous poured wound into saltSalacious and sated the savory sport
Don't get certain play trickw with mine pullGather your colours and ever your sulkNo manners in me matter the most Than playing valor to your consummate hostPillow the phenom on purring divanMellow the missing on vanilla white toastLaboured among the living lull lastRepay the repast in revolting rake
Never come give it up, whatever you may squanderThe figs in the pockets and the coursings down underBy blood are the passions passing us upBy pill the poison feelingThe heat it kills me everydayBy graveyard vigil and candles I bakeAnd kitchens are aching for archangel fallsOf soft baby bottoms and polished skulls, amen.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 27 December 2015 18:00 (eight years ago) link
:\
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Sunday, 27 December 2015 18:01 (eight years ago) link
do u like his lyrics though? jw
― flappy bird, Sunday, 27 December 2015 18:03 (eight years ago) link
i mean i still love many of the lyrics on sd, mellon collie, adore, and machina, but who knows how much of that is just growing up with them
guy went for a more direct style around zwan/the poetry book and it's negatively affected his songwriting ever since imo. give me "in the slipstream of thoughtless thoughts" over that shit any day
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Sunday, 27 December 2015 18:03 (eight years ago) link
he was also a formative influence on my own writing, let me tell you i loved the incoherent garbage "excerpt" from "glass and the machines of god" in the machina booklet. i also still sorta like it bc billy obv just liked the lamb lies down on broadway way too much, which same
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Sunday, 27 December 2015 18:05 (eight years ago) link
I should say that "billy corgan was a formative influence on my writing" really just applies to me writing bad poetry at ages 12-14 but i'm probably compromised forever in ways i don't even recognize
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Sunday, 27 December 2015 18:07 (eight years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/18/Vogon_jelzt_reading_poetry.png
― Less surprised by the total lack of surprises (stevie), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 11:17 (eight years ago) link
I was not expecting this at all
http://pitchfork.com/news/64406-smashing-pumpkins-reunited-with-james-iha-for-first-concert-in-16-years/?mbid=social_facebook
― Nourry, Sunday, 27 March 2016 13:51 (eight years ago) link
Cripes!
― Todd Palin in snowmobile crash (I know it's serious) (stevie), Sunday, 27 March 2016 14:11 (eight years ago) link
anything is possible in this world
― flappy bird, Sunday, 27 March 2016 15:10 (eight years ago) link
crying
― flappy bird, Sunday, 27 March 2016 15:11 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I got choked up. Great to see...and a really nice version of "Mayonaise." Always loved James the best.
― Sam Weller, Sunday, 27 March 2016 19:26 (eight years ago) link
i watched the status quo documentary last night on bbc4 (never been a fan, but got sucked into the story), there is something special about bands who go through court cases, media based slanging matches and then .. after a few years (a very long time in the case of quo) grow the fuck up and realise that its time to acknowledge the good times and just get on with getting on.hopefully this is the start of the same kind of process for billy and the others, as i would suggest that this is a band that could still make good music together ...
― mark e, Sunday, 27 March 2016 19:33 (eight years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/v4RbFj9.gif?5952
― flappy bird, Sunday, 27 March 2016 21:23 (eight years ago) link
That was great - the "Mayonaise" video
― van smack, Sunday, 27 March 2016 23:07 (eight years ago) link
literally anything is possible
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 28 March 2016 05:02 (eight years ago) link
oh lol i see i echoed flappy bird there
It's good to see this happen, but I'd be far more impressed if I saw Billy and D'Arcy share a stage again.
― WHERE'S JIM!? (Turrican), Monday, 28 March 2016 15:00 (eight years ago) link
Sadly I think that's out of Bill's control...D'arcy hasn't played music since she left SP in 1999. Toward the end, she couldn't even remember the songs. She was totally fried on hard drugs and judging by recent pictures and that radio phone call in 2009, she's still drinking and using and basically out of commission...somehow, I'm friends with her on Facebook, and she's totally unrecognizable. The damage with James was entirely interpersonal, I don't think D'arcy could play with SP again even if she wanted to. Billy said a lot of awful shit about James since 2000, but he's never talked shit about D'arcy behind stating the obvious, "she has a lot of problems..."
― flappy bird, Monday, 28 March 2016 17:24 (eight years ago) link
Yes. Hence why I would be impressed.
― WHERE'S JIM!? (Turrican), Monday, 28 March 2016 17:39 (eight years ago) link
Having 3/4 of the original lineup on good terms bodes well for a Hall of Fame nomination in the next few years.
― flappy bird, Monday, 28 March 2016 23:53 (eight years ago) link
Billy's new solo album is called The Land of Maybe. Recording finished, only needs to be mixed & mastered.
https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14680700_10154271739673005_2497008279490373018_n.jpg
https://www.facebook.com/Swan5/photos/a.312898373004.150334.116888938004/10154271739673005/?type=3&theater
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 17:50 (seven years ago) link
are you not entertained?
http://soundcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/billycorgan.jpg
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
Boy, these Corgan appearances on the Alex Jones show are, uh, something else. (Available for your viewing "pleasure" on YouTube.) I had a tough enough time defending my love for BC's music after I found out he was a run-of-the-mill prick; now I can see he's also a total wackjob hateful conspiracy crank.
― Sam Weller, Tuesday, 3 January 2017 13:29 (seven years ago) link
http://consequenceofsound.net/2017/01/billy-corgan-defends-trump-blasts-fake-news-in-new-interview/
I hate to make the most obvious point: If you’ve got 10 billion dollars, you’re not hiring hookers.
??????
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Monday, 16 January 2017 03:58 (seven years ago) link
right, he never defends Trump in there, he's wrong about the hookers thing, it's the same tip he's been on for years: spiritual with a dash of conspiracy theory/new world order crank, disdain for the major media organs that made him a star and now no longer have any use for him. also he only ripped on anderson cooper because anderson cooper dedicated a 5-minute segment to mocking bill's cat magazine cover unprovoked. look, he was on mancow and mancow asked him if he understood why the pictures of him at disneyworld were funny. "no, i don't get it. we seem to live in a culture that thrives on misery..." and then wouldn't let it go for 10-15 minutes. it was great
― flappy bird, Monday, 16 January 2017 04:09 (seven years ago) link
"Allow me to explain Bitcoin."
"It's crashing."
"Well, someone will say what is lost can never be saved, sure, but."
Caged Rat, 2017 pic.twitter.com/vGseaAIjKv— Bruce Tennant (@BruceTennant) December 22, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 December 2017 19:23 (six years ago) link
Looking more and more like Walter Becker every day
I liked his comment about people hung up on the name change- "it's my real name, it's not like i named myself Quasar 47."
― flappy bird, Friday, 22 December 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link