The Official Smashing Pumpkins/Billy Corgan Thread

[Marie-Lise]

its one album.

[PeachD]

Adore is my 2nd favourite Pumpkins album. I can understand why a lot of people dislike it, they just want some rock music, but Adore isn't a rock album it's something else. It has Billy's most beautiful, personal and heartfelt songs and his songwriting was streets ahead of what was on Mellon Collie, maybe this was the real Billy Corgan?

The only Pumpkins songs i can't really bear to listen to are 'Spiteface' and 'Nothing and Everything' off their self-titled demo. They sound really directionless, misjudged and just don't work at all no matter how much you listen to them. And maybe some Mellon Collie tracks like 'We Only Come Out At Night' and 'Farewell and Goodnight'.

[Leon_cloud8]

I love the simplisity, and the mood of this song, one of my favorites by the Pumpkins.

YouTube - Smashing Pumpkins 1979 video

[140208.x]

I love Zeitgeist too - solid album! At first I kinda though, yeah, um this sounRAB like the Pumpkins trying too hard to be the Pumpkins, but ya know, the more I have listened to it the more I hear different directions and ideas... I think the back to basics nature of the production kinda obscures it a bit, and there is a generally conservative notion about the album, like Corgan and Charaberlain were both kinda feeling their way back into it - kinda like getting used to driving that old sports car you drive as a kid - you're not as bold on the gas pedal, you tend not to throw it into the corners the way you remeraber being able to as a kid...

But spend a little time at the wheel and you can chuck it around even more than before...

This is how i see the Pumpkins in the future - after warming themselves up and getting back into it with Zeitgeist, mr. Corgan should be all set to boldly strike out...

And as much as people criticise Mellon Collie..... god it'd be great to hear Corgan experimenting on that wildly diverse level again, carelessly swinging from genre to genre, from hard driven riRAB to crazy little electronic sounRAB...

I think with time the newly reformed Pumpkins will rediscover some of this wild abandon.

[Victoria :) :)]

This is like the 40th time I have run across one of your posts that I agree with 100% - tone and all. Weird.
Anyway, yeah, Billy Corgan is a supreme pissant and almost all of his music is unlistenable. Yet the early Smashing Pumpkins albums are special to me. Whatever bullshit he has made since then is just that - but I forgive him (and forever love the guy) because of Gish and Siamese Dream.

[o no its mo]

Prime example of you trying to start a fight with another forum meraber, troll.

[imported_miley_fan]

nooooo stay away from that album. you want siamese dream or gish. their 2 best albums. or just get the greatest hits.

[SKEET]

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[★☆elyon★☆]

Gish, get their greatest hits to get into more of their style and see how it goes from there. I'm a proud owner of every song now and I can hook you up if you want.

[super_girl28]

Perhaps you mean Billy C.'s essence which is most certainly NOT pleasant.