I found that the smashing pumkins would sound much better if they got rid of billy corgan and his nasily voice. IT sounds like a kazoo. Who else likes the smashing pumpkins?17 responses total.
I've never been a big fan of the Smashing Pumpkins, partly on account of that lead kazooist of theirs. I do have a lot of respect ofor them, though, since they're one of the few current guitar bands with a really distinctive sound. Just play me a few chords from one of their songs, and I'll know it's them; I can't say that about practically anyone else who's been on the radio these days. U2 and REM are the other two I can think of off the top of my head.
I've liked the Smashing Pumpkins ever since I heard their first single
on the radio ("Rhinoceros", off of 'Gish')
They certainly do have a distinctive sound. My major complaint is with
their occasionally extra-cheezey lyrics. F'rinstance, could you get
any more trite than "Despite all my rage / I am still just a rat in a cage"
If you *tried*?? I mean, come *on*..
I liked "Gish" and "Siamese Dream" a lot, never got around to later releases. Someone once pointed out that all of those one-word song titles would make good Calvin Klein perfume names - e.g. "Soma, a fragrance by Calvin Klein."
(isn't Soma a tranq?)
(just pointing out the irony.) :^)
Soma is the drug that the government distributes in.....oh, jeez, I _think_ it's Brave New World, but it might be 1984. I always get those two switched.
It's Brave New World.
Definitely in "Brave New World". Gotta have something to keep those gammas in line.. IIRC it's supposed to be a mild euphoric and also a contraceptive, but it's been a while since I've read the book...
...plus it makes sex much more enjoyable. "A gram saves a damn".
soma is also a "real" drug...a friend had to take it once and I laughed when I saw the percription bottle.
Really? Do you know what the "real" version does?
verbal laxative.
I was prescribed Soma Compound when I had a herniated disc (disk?). It is a painkiller. Unfortunately, no pharmacy has it "in stock." I don't know what the ER Dr was thinking when she prescribed it. I went to several places looking for it, and was treated shabbily by all the pharmacists. They seemed to think I was a drug dealer or something because I was looking for such an esoteric drug. Finally one pharmacist made some from scratch, or something.
Yup, Billy Corgan has an awful voice. On the other hand, they'd never have written any songs without him.
i like the song mellonchollie and infanite saddness. no one believes me when i tell them who it is. i didnt liek the band, until i listened to their stuff thats not on the radio.
I used to love them, I wore out cassettes of gish and lull <but> then I saw them live. Hell, Corgan even treats his bandmates with little respect. He called some guy in the front row a faggot and dumped evian on his head.
Really?... I've always gtten the impression that Corgan was pretty cool... He is, at least, intelligent, by the articals/interviews I've been him in.
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