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Postby j_brooks » Sun Dec 12, 2010 12:31 pm

oh my god what a perfect fucking song
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Postby reversemigraine » Sun Dec 12, 2010 12:37 pm

The weekend after this album came out I spent an entire afternoon jamming out that riff with friends in a garage, and we were so pissed at the kid playing drums for not being able to "do it like Jimmy."
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Postby j_brooks » Sun Dec 12, 2010 12:44 pm

i get so pissed when the only people i know who like the smashing pumpkins only care about gish and siamese dream

when me and some friends drove to NYC to play a show i made one CD of the singles and one CD that was all machina 2 and disc two of mellon collie

except i think muzzle was on it too
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Postby wifebeat » Sun Dec 12, 2010 12:45 pm

yup that riff was one of the first things i wanted to learn on guitar.
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Postby Destroyevsky » Sun Dec 12, 2010 12:47 pm

I always looked forward to this song when I was jamming the album down my ears at 17
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Postby lostinthemall » Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:08 pm

weird ive spent the last two hours listening to mellon collie for the first time in a long time
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Postby windfucker » Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:10 pm

thats the best track on disc 2. i've probably played this song more than any other SP song
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Postby stumblerunfall » Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:18 pm

This is a really good one. Favorite MC tune is Muzzle though.
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Postby hey look » Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:23 pm

someone upload all the smashing pumpkins albums.
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Postby Hutch » Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:26 pm

Great tune but I'm more of a "Where Boys Fear To Tread" guy. So much 14-year-old headbanging.
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Postby j_brooks » Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:28 pm

the best song on mellon collie and the infinite sadness is 1979

the second best song is bodies

after that there are a bunch of other good songs
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Postby windfucker » Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:32 pm

windfucker wrote:thats the best track on disc 2. i've probably played this song more than any other SP song


best track on disc 1 is here is no why
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Postby Hutch » Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:37 pm

You guys current-day Corgan reads threads like this and surmises that people want him to put together a backing band of nobodies and tour as the Smashing Pumpkins. Let's all just agree that they were the best mainstream band of the 90s and let it rest.
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Postby rubicon » Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:44 pm

does anyone else think porcelina sounds a lot like cortez the killer
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Postby j_brooks » Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:57 pm

i'm not really interested in what he's doing now but i think he's earned the right to do what he wants

i think it has less to do with the personnel he's employing and more to do with him just getting old and having musical and personal interests that are not wholly compatible with his legacy

and honestly i think an internet message board called "hipinion" is just about the last thing on earth i can imagine him wanting to read at this point in his life - i get the impression that trying to work with hip people who do coke in zwan was a miserable, trying experience for him and since then he appears to hold just about everything in the pfork sphere of influence in utter contempt

releasing a new song on a compilation sold exclusively through guitar center, forming a sky saxon tribute band with dave navarro to play douchey LA clubs, dating jessica simpson, being outspoken about christianity and shit, releasing sitar-laced classic rock ballads with cover art that's like a mixture of tolkien and ed hardy

current-day corgan could not possibly give less of a shit about what people like us think about him

he's out
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Postby Destroyevsky » Sun Dec 12, 2010 2:01 pm

well he's desperate for someone's attention
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Postby reversemigraine » Sun Dec 12, 2010 2:12 pm

The Doom II sample in WBFTT felt like such a great of-the-moment thing when the song came out and still gives me a chuckle.

With the exception of the James song, every track on there was my favorite at one point or another. Being one of those Gish/SD people that brooks mentioned, I tend to gravitate toward something like Thru the Eyes of Ruby, which feels like the last song of that particular type that the guy ever wrote.

I ride hard for Beautiful and Cupid de Locke, too.
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Postby j_brooks » Sun Dec 12, 2010 2:18 pm

it's weird to contrast corgan and reznor's 00's career arcs

they're both nerds and they've both always made pretty good use of the internet but at some point one dog went one way and one dog went the other way
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Postby cartola » Sun Dec 12, 2010 2:21 pm

i just re listened to some of these songs and i can't go back
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Postby wifebeat » Sun Dec 12, 2010 2:21 pm

yeah man beautiful is my favorite, it could've been a spector record. it's got a great coda the way it goes all blissful and fades out.
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Postby witchfinder » Sun Dec 12, 2010 2:22 pm

1. Muzzle
2. Bodies
3. Galapagos
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Postby ahungbunny » Sun Dec 12, 2010 2:26 pm

sextols bodies >> smashkins bodies
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Postby j_brooks » Sun Dec 12, 2010 2:28 pm

i don't think i've ever listened to the sex pistols on purpose and honestly i dunno if i ever will

while i'm getting stuff off my chest i don't really enjoy the stooges anymore and i don't really have any interest in listening to led zeppelin ever
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Postby ahungbunny » Sun Dec 12, 2010 2:32 pm

i understand, you have to make room for the pumpkins
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Postby reversemigraine » Sun Dec 12, 2010 2:32 pm

Don't fight it, brooks. You're just not a guitar man.
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Postby j_brooks » Sun Dec 12, 2010 2:33 pm

i love the clash and think they are objectively superior to both the sex pistols and led zeppelin
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Postby j_brooks » Sun Dec 12, 2010 2:35 pm

the clash are probably better than the smashing pumpkins but i love both bands a lot and don't really trust myself to make a call about which one is better that i will be able to live with long-term
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Postby j_brooks » Sun Dec 12, 2010 2:39 pm

college dropout vs. gish - kanye
late registration vs. siamese dream - tie
graduation vs. mellon collie - pumpkins
808s & heartbreak vs adore - pumpkins
my beautiful dark twisted fantasy vs. machina - kanye

astonishingly similar career arcs
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Postby FourLegsGood » Sun Dec 12, 2010 2:41 pm

reversemigraine wrote:The Doom II sample in WBFTT felt like such a great of-the-moment thing when the song came out and still gives me a chuckle.

With the exception of the James song, every track on there was my favorite at one point or another. Being one of those Gish/SD people that brooks mentioned, I tend to gravitate toward something like Thru the Eyes of Ruby, which feels like the last song of that particular type that the guy ever wrote.

I ride hard for Beautiful and Cupid de Locke, too.


Agreed. Although "Beautiful" sounds like it could've been on Adore, he never really made anything as off-the-cuff as "Cupid de Locke" after this album. "For Martha" is prolly the closest thing he did to "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" afterward but he consciously holds back the bombast on that one so...
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Postby j_brooks » Sun Dec 12, 2010 2:45 pm

every smashing pumpkins album is better than any the-dream album
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