The cover for Billy Corgan's new album...

Okay, so I've actually convinced myself to check out the new album and shit, 'Processional' is a really beautiful song that was totally worth hearing! In fact, I've got no problem with the songwriting or production on this album at all, really... if this record has any flaw, it's that the arrangements expose the flaws in Corgan's voice more than usual (I lost count of the amount of times the autotune kicked in) - I never really got that problem with Adore so much. Anyway, this is a much warmer record than Adore and one I'm glad he made.

So yeah, make that 2 good albums in 17 years.

i told you!!!

hearing reports that the full title was (I Am The Last Person in the World to Find Out About) Hollywood Forever Cemetery

lmao

:D

Processional is beautiful, these lines & their melody hit me hard:

And stake your heart on mine
to places, other times
It's a long way, it's a long way
to get back home

i told you!!!

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Sunday, November 26, 2017 9:30 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes, but you have a tendency to like everything and flappy is a massive superfan Corgan apologist, so it was pretty hard to gauge whether this albun was going to be any good based on the fact that the pair of you liked it, fwiw. I'm glad I could summon up enough enthusiasm to check it out myself.

*album

This will probably lead me to binge listen to the discography again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs9GSGR1XHA

ok then enjoy music on your own shithead!

Processional is beautiful, these lines & their melody hit me hard:

And stake your heart on mine
to places, other times
It's a long way, it's a long way
to get back home

― flappy bird, Sunday, November 26, 2017 10:56 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, I completely agree! After a couple more listens, it's a late-period Corgan classic for me now.

Of course, I'm mow on a Pumpkins B-sides kick, of all things...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiFMosotuPo

only watched a few songs from that, p good so far

not optimistic about the odds of this ever coming out (at least as a double album:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BcqDsVZAk_E/

caption reads:

I just finished a few weeks recording in Nashville for the follow-up to Ogilala. So far (the new album) is more stark and tangled. Also looks like it will be a double (16 songs at least)

lol i really hope he puts it out

me too. i will say i was p sure what became Ogilala was shelved before it was announced in August (he recorded it in the summer of 2016... Linda Strawberry posted a picture of him doing vocals and said the album was called The Land of Maybe). i still have reservations about this new one though mostly because he's working with Howard Willing and presumably self-producing again, so there goes the quality control of Rick Rubin. i don't think Ogilala sounds drastically better than any of the post-2000 records, but Billy needs to have someone listen to all of his demos and pick out the gems that he's been throwing away for years now. i don't know what happened to his quality control compass. if not for Rubin "Aeronaut" not only wouldn't have been on the album it probably never would've been recorded. anyway he's still got some good momentum atm and seems like he's in a good place, hope "Cardinal Rule" is on it.

this is approaching Chrysanthemum levels of post-SP songwriting for me lately

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AAtElcmYic