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Re: The Smashing Pumpkins

#21 Post by Tyler Durden » Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:28 pm

hokahey wrote:Been listening to a lot of Siamese Dream lately. What an absolute masterpiece of an album. My favorite song was always Mayonnaise, but for some reason Hummer has been blowing my mind in ways it never did before. I always liked it, but my god. It's just a brilliant, brilliant song. Epic in ways only the classic Jane's epics could exceed. There was something in the air between 89-94. Just so many amazing albums, and so many artists at their creative peaks.

Life's a bummer
When you're a hummer
Life's a drag
Totally agree regarding that era in music.

Mayonaise and Hummer have always been my favourites from that album.

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#22 Post by cabangbangq » Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:26 pm

hokahey wrote:Been listening to a lot of Siamese Dream lately. What an absolute masterpiece of an album. My favorite song was always Mayonnaise, but for some reason Hummer has been blowing my mind in ways it never did before. I always liked it, but my god. It's just a brilliant, brilliant song. Epic in ways only the classic Jane's epics could exceed. There was something in the air between 89-94. Just so many amazing albums, and so many artists at their creative peaks.

Life's a bummer
When you're a hummer
Life's a drag
The end of Hummer totally reminds me of the slow middle section of Big Sur. Hummer is definitely my favorite on Siamese Dream, it just floats and hits and fades and has this incredible epicness.

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Re: The Smashing Pumpkins

#23 Post by Hokahey » Wed Feb 15, 2012 8:17 am

cabangbangq wrote:The end of Hummer totally reminds me of the slow middle section of Big Sur.
:yikes:

Whoa...

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Re: The Smashing Pumpkins

#24 Post by Tyler Durden » Fri Apr 27, 2012 3:19 pm

New album June 19th.

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Oceania

"Quasar"
"Panopticon"
"The Celestials"
"Violet Rays"
"My Love Is Winter"
"One Diamond, One Heart"
"Pinwheels"
"Oceania"
"Pale Horse"
"The Chimera"
"Glissandra"
"Inkless"
"Wildflower"

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... g-20120427

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Re: The Smashing Pumpkins

#25 Post by Pandemonium » Fri Apr 27, 2012 3:57 pm

Please be at least decent this time.

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#26 Post by sinep » Sun Apr 29, 2012 9:52 pm

Pandemonium wrote:Please be at least decent this time.
read the names of those songs again and see if you can decide if its going to be decent or not.

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Re: The Smashing Pumpkins

#27 Post by Matz » Mon Apr 30, 2012 4:49 am

:lol: The song names could sound more promising

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#28 Post by Tyler Durden » Mon Apr 30, 2012 6:25 am

Billy Corgan's track lists have been ridiculous for ages. Adore has many absurd sounding titles ("The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete", "Behold! The Night Mare", etc) and it is arguably the best thing he has ever done.

"Baba O'Riley" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" aren't exactly cool sounding song titles either. :idea:

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#29 Post by Matz » Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:05 am

lets hope it's a sign that we're getting something as cool as Adore then.

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Re: The Smashing Pumpkins

#30 Post by Hokahey » Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:41 pm

Haven't all of these songs already been available for awhile now and the consensus is most of them are subpar?

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#31 Post by Tyler Durden » Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:46 pm

hokahey wrote:Haven't all of these songs already been available for awhile now and the consensus is most of them are subpar?
A bunch of these songs have been performed live...I haven't paid any attention to them though.

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#32 Post by cabangbangq » Mon Apr 30, 2012 3:42 pm

I saw the Pumpkins earlier in 2011 and heard some of the new songs. Overall, they were pretty decent. Quasar and Panopticon were both pretty high energy rockin, kinda like Cherub Rock meets the crazy part of Silverfuck but not as awesome. The one song that actually stood up to the early Pumpkins was Pale Horse. In my opinion, that song could have been in a setlist circa 93/94 and no one would have batted an eye.

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Re: The Smashing Pumpkins

#33 Post by Matz » Mon Apr 30, 2012 3:56 pm

I can dig this one, Jane's could have used some of that energy on TGEA


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Re: The Smashing Pumpkins

#34 Post by sinep » Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:37 pm

Tyler Durden wrote:Billy Corgan's track lists have been ridiculous for ages. Adore has many absurd sounding titles ("The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete", "Behold! The Night Mare", etc) and it is arguably the best thing he has ever done.

"Baba O'Riley" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" aren't exactly cool sounding song titles either. :idea:
oh come on, you can't be defending...

"Quasar"
"Panopticon"
"The Celestials"

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#35 Post by Tyler Durden » Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:52 pm

sinep wrote:
Tyler Durden wrote:Billy Corgan's track lists have been ridiculous for ages. Adore has many absurd sounding titles ("The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete", "Behold! The Night Mare", etc) and it is arguably the best thing he has ever done.

"Baba O'Riley" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" aren't exactly cool sounding song titles either. :idea:
oh come on, you can't be defending...

"Quasar"
"Panopticon"
"The Celestials"
"Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" and "Mayonaise" were silly sounding songs titles at one time too. Either the songs are good or they're not...who cares what they're called.

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Re: The Smashing Pumpkins

#36 Post by Pandemonium » Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:25 pm

sinep wrote: oh come on, you can't be defending...

"Quasar"
"Panopticon"
"The Celestials"
Sounds like tracks off a typical Rush album.

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Re: The Smashing Pumpkins

#37 Post by Tyler Durden » Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:35 am

You can now stream this album on iTunes.

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#38 Post by Matov » Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:43 am

it's good. very.

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Re: The Smashing Pumpkins

#39 Post by feathers mcgraw » Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:13 am

Giving this it's first listen as we speak. Used to be a huge Pumpkins fan, this needs to restore my faith.

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Re: The Smashing Pumpkins

#41 Post by feathers mcgraw » Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:47 pm

Having listened through to this (once) I'd say it's easily better than a lot of Teargarden, and an improvement on Zeitgeist. Not quite on a level with gish-machina but at least getting there now.

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Re: The Smashing Pumpkins

#42 Post by Matov » Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:51 pm

just for argument´s sake: Oceania>TGEA :banana:

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Re: The Smashing Pumpkins

#43 Post by kv » Tue Jun 12, 2012 4:50 pm

it's not even fair to compare the 2 since this is so vastly superior

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Re: The Smashing Pumpkins

#44 Post by Pillar Girl » Tue Jun 12, 2012 4:59 pm

being a huge SP fan since the gish days, and im not hoping for any miracles anymore from BC,
but this last record just feels very disjointed. ~ the first two tracks could have easily been mixed
into one, i dont see the reason to have those songs sound basically the same, same mix ect...

the title track was very disjointed as well, and overall the entire record has a very 70's feel too it,
alot of PInk Floyd keyboard style infulence. the one singular track i did enjoy was "Inkless" but
the more i listen too it, its "hummer" turned into a pop song.

it breaks my heart, because i want to love the new music, i dont compare anything he does to the past,
i do try and be objective, but sadly this is his worst outing from an album stand point. there's no cohesive
message at all with this record, not that it needs one, but what is this record trying to say?

is it a flash back to the 70's?
is it a techno record with some rock/pop thrown in? i thought he did that on his solo effort

yes its alot better than all the emo/brit pop garbage thats out there currently, but its not up to a
Billy Corgan standard of what his fans have expected of him, i just was hoping for something new,
and not re-hashed sounds/riffs. again, i still love the band, always will, but ya i cringed alot when
hearing this last effort.

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Re: The Smashing Pumpkins

#45 Post by kv » Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:03 pm

a lot isn't a word ( saving the world one person at a time)

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