Billy Corgan/Smashing Pumpkins

AxlUlrich

danny72688 wrote:

I encourage everyone to buy Pisces Iscariot.

good tip
their b-sides are amazing...Pisces Iscariot and TAFH boxset are some of the best non-album work i have heard from any band

libragirl

I favor the earlier stuff

BinFrog

AxlUlrich wrote:

good tip
their b-sides are amazing...Pisces Iscariot and TAFH boxset are some of the best non-album work i have heard from any band

Pisces Iscariot is probably my favorite Pumpkins disc. Starla, Obscured, La Dolly Vita, Frail & Bedazzled, and on and on. I mean, I think it is truly a real solid album on its own.

lalalalaaaaaaaa

SlowFade wrote:

was insane. I don't think any songwriter can match the quality he had in the "mellon collie" period. Even the b-sides on the Airplane flies high are better than most bands a-sides. He must have written about 10 songs a day back then.

I agree, Mellon Collie was brilliant...which makes it all the more vexing how he could screw up the Landslide cover so much.

bharQ

Another gem I recently found was the Reel Sessions.. it's like listening to a sequel of Gish.. amazing stuff.. and some really funny shit aswell with Billy and James fucking around in the studio probably in their early 20s.

Pearl Jam and toast

intodeep wrote:

I agree Billy was writing some very strong stuff at that point, but Neil Young and Bob Dylan both come to mind of having equallly prolific periods of creativity.

but yeah Billy had the juices going during that time

what is that 'but' about? Neil and Bob are still making brilliant music almost 40 years later (for Dylan it's over 40 years).

Amazing man.

BTW, Smashing Pumpkins are back together in some form, so you might as well use the present tense.

enharmonic

Neil and Bob...lol. They should team up and do an album together. They could call it

No, Not Like That

darthvedder88

From what I've heard, the new Pumpkins is supposed to be Siamese Dream/Mellon Collie...in other words...THIS ALBUM IS GONNA KICK US IN THE NUTS!!!!

MCG

darthvedder88 wrote:

From what I've heard, the new Pumpkins is supposed to be Siamese Dream/Mellon Collie...in other words...THIS ALBUM IS GONNA KICK US IN THE NUTS!!!!

So basically, the new Smashing Pumpkins have ironically strived to become the old Smashing Pumpkins. Not that it's a bad thing I guess, I love those albums.

nuffingman

darthvedder88 wrote:

Chances are it's gonna fucking rock because Corgan is gonna come out and make these emo panzies look like shit.

Oh please let it be so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Housing Jim

I just read on punktastic.com that the Pumpkins are going to be playing the European summer festivals.

Sunday night at Reading I would say is a certainty

darthvedder88

Housing Jim wrote:

I just read on punktastic.com that the Pumpkins are going to be playing the European summer festivals.

Sunday night at Reading I would say is a certainty

Yeah I think it was confirmed that they'd be in Europe...however I'm hoping they're in the states here REAL soon.

ScotInAmsterdam

Have you seen the 2007 Message from Billy:

http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/message.html

Clear as mud!!!

Pearl Jam and toast

ScotInAmsterdam wrote:

Have you seen the 2007 Message from Billy:

http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/message.html

Clear as mud!!!

Hahah yeah that's typical Billy.

SoonForgotten2

Even if Corgan manages to pull off a decent album, it'll still suck live.

Without a doubt MCIS was one of the most brilliant creative peaks in rock in the past couple decades, unfortunately the drop off was just as mind blowing in it's steep-ness. I think Corgan is far too self-indulgent to really produce anything memorbale, but we'll see.

As for Cornell, I think his most recent work with Audioslave far exceeds that of the first two albums and much of his solo album. I'm really excited to see what solo material he comes up with.

Pearl Jam and toast

SoonForgotten2 wrote:

Even if Corgan manages to pull off a decent album, it'll still suck live.

... unfortunately the drop off was just as mind blowing in it's steep-ness. I think Corgan is far too self-indulgent to really produce anything memorbale, but we'll see.

I disagree completely.

Binaural

I can't get into them, I just can't.

prytocorduroy

Binaural wrote:

I can't get into them, I just can't.

Try harder damnit!

ScotInAmsterdam

I adore Corgan.... he is a musical genius. I don't through this statement around willy nilly. I reserve it for him and trent. His peak is siamese dream and mellon collie, but that man has an ability to astound with his next project. I wait with baited breath. It is hard, however to believe that anything can sound as good when you are 27 as it did when you were 15...

MeddleDeal

I love Pisces Iscariot. Songs like Whirl, Starla, and their cover of the Fleetwood Mac song, "Landslide" are the highlights for me. It is my 2nd favorite Pumpkins album, next to Siamse Dream of course;)

I can't wait to see what Billy comes up w/next w/the Smashing Pumpkins. At first I was skeptic about the Pumpkins and whether or not D'arcy and James might join them, but ya know, just to have Billy and Jimmy together and knowing that they are going to play their hearts out and give it their all makes me happy I was also touched by Billy's message, in regards to playing to fans that had missed them the first time around, just like me. I never got to see them live b/c I lived practically in the middle of nowhere and the nearest major city was 5 hours away. :( But now that they are going to tour behind this, i'm happy as a clam