The Smashing Pumpkins

[sinep]

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.

[Matz]

The song names could sound more promising

[Tyler Durden]

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.

[Matz]

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

[Hokahey]

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

[Tyler Durden]

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.

[cabangbangq]

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.

[Matz]

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

[sinep]

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.

oh come on, you can't be defending...

"Quasar"
"Panopticon"
"The Celestials"

[Tyler Durden]

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.

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.

[Pandemonium]

oh come on, you can't be defending...

"Quasar"
"Panopticon"
"The Celestials"

Sounds like tracks off a typical Rush album.

[Tyler Durden]

You can now stream this album on iTunes.

[Matov]

it's good. very.

[feathers mcgraw]

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

[jptm]

screw iTunes:

http://www17.zippyshare.com/v/54599600/file.html

[feathers mcgraw]

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.

[Matov]

just for argument´s sake: Oceania>TGEA

[kv]

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

[Pillar Girl]

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.

[kv]

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

[Pillar Girl]

i guess you havent had ventures into eastern europe on a visa last 10 years, you'd be surprised
at how trashed the american slang has become, i guess im just a sucker for slacker lingo 101.

[kv]

no i hear ya it's just a pet peeve it seems like half the people on the internet think alot is a word and love to cap it.."i hate her ALOT"

[Tyler Durden]

no i hear ya it's just a pet peeve it seems like half the people on the internet think alot is a word and love to cap it.."i hate her ALOT"

But you said "a lot" isn't a word.

[Pillar Girl]

im the first to admit i would make my english teacher cringe, but its just too much adult swim and pot over the years.

but back to the tunes, still love SP, i guess i'll break out some old live boots and crank those, have one from 89' where
they jam out "venus in furs" ~ good stuff

[Tyler Durden]

I find it sad that in the age of the internet, people form an opinion about an album within a couple of hours and never listen to it again.

Anyone remember when albums actually had to grow on you?