https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prI0dKB51Tw
haha whoa this is kinda rad!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 4 December 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link
Well that seemed really good to me, and I haven't vibed with anything Pumpkins since Adore.
― assert (MatthewK), Saturday, 5 December 2020 04:04 (three years ago) link
https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-smashing-pumpkins-machina-ii-rework-is-finished-and-will-have-at-least-80-songs-says-billy-corgan-2867160
Really ready for this one!
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 28 January 2021 18:53 (three years ago) link
Every one of those 80 songs is going to be a 20 minute compilation of the riffs from 80 completely different unreleased songs.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 28 January 2021 18:55 (three years ago) link
i'm wary of what, if any, newly-recorded old ideas are gonna appear on this, mostly bc unless billy brought flood in, it's not gonna sound good lol
still very psyched
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 January 2021 18:59 (three years ago) link
not that machina or machina ii sound good either but they sound better than nu-pumpkins
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 January 2021 19:00 (three years ago) link
yeah in my head his attempts to make all these songs cohere sonically will be....less than optimal
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Thursday, 28 January 2021 19:02 (three years ago) link
i would also like a cd transfer of the og machina ii recordings bc it's been vinyl rips for twenty years now, come on bc. according to this news though i don't think i'm getting that lol
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 January 2021 19:06 (three years ago) link
Machina would have made a great instrumental album.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 28 January 2021 20:30 (three years ago) link
you know what song rules? “slow dawn”.
― brimstead, Thursday, 28 January 2021 20:39 (three years ago) link
yes
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 January 2021 21:48 (three years ago) link
I would actually really like to hear the all SPs albums vocals-free
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Thursday, 28 January 2021 21:49 (three years ago) link
who wants (the) honey(ed vocals of william corgan)
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 January 2021 21:53 (three years ago) link
So apparently “Eye” was Corgan trying to do a Dr. Dre type of beat for Shaquille O Neal to rap on top off in a collab with them.
I don’t know if that was a popular piece of trivia but yeah I can definitely hear the Dre influence and would have loved a SP rap collab in the 90’s.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 21 February 2022 05:52 (two years ago) link
So a new 33-song rock opera, titled Atum that is a sequel to Mellon Collie? There was a time when I would be excited about this, but uh... not now, particularly the "produced by Billy Corgan" part.
https://pitchfork.com/news/the-smashing-pumpkins-announce-new-album-atum-a-sequel-to-mellon-collie-and-machina/
As of now, only available in a $225 vinyl version, or a $499 autographed version, due out April 2023. Billy certainly knows he has diehards willing to drop cash at a moments notice.
I'll hold out for the streaming.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 14:10 (one year ago) link
Gotta squeeze every last drop out of the fresh fruit
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 14:43 (one year ago) link
New single is horrendous, but that’s par for the course with 21st century Pumpkins. Chamberlain’s drumming is so rote and boring on it
― beamish13, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 14:44 (one year ago) link
Yeah, probably the single biggest crime Corgan continues to commit is having Jimmy fucking Chamberlain in his band and refusing to let him off the leash. It's awful.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 14:47 (one year ago) link
For all his hullabaloo with artwork, song titles, huge albums, gaudy videos...the songs since Oceania have been sooo uninteresting. At the very least the guy used to be bursting with ideas.
― Sam Weller, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 14:55 (one year ago) link
the other new song ("butterfly suite") is much better, uncoincidentally it sounds a lot like cyr (see evidence above of me liking cyr)
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 14:56 (one year ago) link
Didn't realize there was a second one out there, I'd only heard "Beguiled".
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 14:58 (one year ago) link
I didn't hate Cyr, but I'm also not interested in another take on that sound.
i dislike "beguiled" and "solara" for the same reason, they are both anchored by very boring riffs
besides which corgan already wrote a late-period pop-metal song that both of those tracks wish they were, it's called "glow" and if it isn't particularly good at least it actually gets stuck in my head
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 14:59 (one year ago) link
The songs themselves will be drip-fed to fans on a weekly basis, however, with frontman Billy Corgan launching a podcast, Thirty-Three (named for the total number of songs on ‘ATUM’) to explore the story behind each track.
oof, come on
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 15:01 (one year ago) link
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, September 20, 2022 7:58 AM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
it leaked, i guess? i thought it would hit streaming with "beguiled" but it didn't https://www.reddit.com/r/SmashingPumpkins/comments/xibg95/butterfly_suite_2022/
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 15:19 (one year ago) link
Thanks!
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 15:21 (one year ago) link
i maintain that shiny & oh so bright vol. 1 was actually decent (even though "solara" sucked) & pretty easily the most worthwhile thing corgan's done since zwan
& lol he is releasing one song a week but not even in tracklist order? "beguiled" is in the middle of act 2, this is completely baffling.
― ufo, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
i was an oceania denier for years but it's easily the strongest post-pumpkins mk 1 record
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link
Maybe he can actually finish this project, unlike Teargarden.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
it's already done so little risk of that
― ufo, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link
haha, yes, that was my point
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
it is billy though so i wouldn't completely put it past him
― ufo, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 18:59 (one year ago) link
I wasn't there, but apparently they were pretty solid last night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Faqxbmj6sIg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 23:46 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMlb3UEA4MI
lol
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 November 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
Disappointed in ilm tbh, feels like there was a time when Corgan eating chips and dip during a show would have at least led to a day or two of riffing. Hoped to get a least one "despite all my rage, I am still eating dip on a stage" joek in.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 November 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
It's 2022, Billy C being a weird dick is no longer news
― bible fumes (stevie), Monday, 7 November 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
idk I think footage of him eating dip on stage mid-concert is objectively funny no matter the year
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 November 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
Maybe if James had done it...
― MaresNest, Monday, 7 November 2022 16:45 (one year ago) link
That's a pretty good bit tbh. And Jimmy Chamberlain is crushing it.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 7 November 2022 16:59 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SLr5UK1WIg
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 14 November 2022 05:46 (one year ago) link
5:05 for a great Corgan vocal take.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 14 November 2022 05:48 (one year ago) link
What are the marks on his arm (1:16 in)? Has he been ill?
― nate woolls, Monday, 14 November 2022 06:16 (one year ago) link
It’s a birthmark
― just1n3, Monday, 14 November 2022 06:50 (one year ago) link
They're birthmarks, he had concealed them for years and then became comfortable with them around the time of his first solo record iirc
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 14 November 2022 06:51 (one year ago) link
sorry just1n3
Birthmarks, he's always had those. It wasn't until TheFutureEmbrace, his solo record from 2005, that he made a conscious effort to stop covering them up.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 14 November 2022 06:53 (one year ago) link
lol oops xpost, what they said
I have always thought of them as a long-sleeved shirt kinda band.
― peace, man, Monday, 14 November 2022 11:42 (one year ago) link
just gonna keep it to myself after this post but i'm kinda enjoying the first third of atum, much as i kinda enjoyed cyr
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 20:57 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFChKps-0AA
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 20:59 (one year ago) link