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Ah Billy Corgan. He is so cringe.
I LOVED Smashing Pumpkins. They were my favorite band (pre-2000 albums), but saying that with the way Corgan acts makes me embarrassed.
Still. “Geek USA” (from Siamese Dream) is one of the best songs of all time. Jimmy Chamberlain’s drumming is severely underrated. He deserves much more recognition than he gets.
But he's so smashing...
I mean. I think he's crazy, but for Trump to reach out to a random celebrity that he knows the name of and just start talking about state secrets is completely in line with things that already happened.
The two of them were both big into wrestling around the same time. Probably already buddies or something
Totally plausible trump saw a photo of him, like the one here, and saw his pale skin, shaved head, and just assumed he was a fellow fascist, and called him up to recruit him, and just started blabbing.
Kinda seems more plausible that coorgan just making it up and saying it for what... clout?
Kinda seems more plausible that coorgan just making it up and saying it for what… clout?
I mean that is what would make sense. It's just that this is exactly the kind of stuff the president does
I’ll always love the early albums, but I knew Billy lost the plot the first time he talked about and insisted that different paint colors on the same guitar make it sound different (noticeably different). He hasn’t been reality-based in many years.
Lots of fart-smelling in the guitar world.
Billy Corgan has been crazy for a long time.
I love this
At least he is wearing his seatbelt.
But why is he dressed like chairman mao?
He really does look like a pumpkin... Not that smashing though.
This is Calliou now?
You see, life has been pretty doggone tough for our bro Cal.
that's such a good photo
He really does look a lot like bill burr
Blood Money Bill Burr?
He claims they are brothers
Smashing Psychosis
Corgan then compared the situation to something he’s dealt with before. “It’s similar to when I talked about experiencing a shape shifter on Howard Stern,” he explained. “It became this thing where I was hunted in airports. ‘Please tell me the shapeshifter story!’”
That seems pretty close to the benign end of the scale of potential responses to claims of experiencing a shape-shifter.
This dude is a raging narcissist of the covert or vulnerable type I'm not sure.
Look, Corgan is my favorite musician, Pumpkins my favorite band.
I just look past things like this.
My favorite band too. Corgan just makes me embarrassed to say it out loud.
Caught any of his appearances with Alex Jones?
Again, I don’t pay attention to that stuff.
Maybe death of the author is right for you
Mayonaise is one of the best tracks in rock, IMHO. Billy is obviously quite talented, but seemingly problematic as a person.
If you tune that kind of thing out, I get it. It's just going to ruin the music.
Mayonnaise is fantastic, but for me, the song right before Mayo is better. Geek USA is my favorite song of all time.
But, honestly, that whole album pretty damn good. You really can’t go wrong.
Same. Just Billy things …
Really? They had like 3 good albums 30 years ago. Anything remotely recent has been the worst dogshit I've attempted to listen to.
I agree with this completely. But for me, those 3 albums are better than almost everything else.
Interesting. Which are your three?
Which 3 SP albums do I like? Gish, Siamese Dreams, and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
Siamese Dream is my favorite of the 3 and “Geek USA” is probably my favorite song of all time.
The 4th album Adore has a couple good songs but that’s when their style started to change and they started breaking up. Chamberlain left prior to this album for personal reasons then Wretzky and Iha left bc Corgan is a dick.
Chamberlain and Iha have come back recently, I think but Wretzky HATES Corgan and will never work with him again.
So why do I like those albums so much? Mainly Jimmy Chamberlain. He doesn’t get enough credit for his talent. He’s the reason I fell in love with those albums to begin with.
Those are my three as well. I think Siamese Dream is probably my favorite too. I think I'd go with Today as my favorite song. Interesting about the band drama.. I've never known anything about them other than their music and that Corgan is a crazy infowarrior type.
Iha and Wretzky didn’t get along with Corgan.
Apparently, Corgan wouldn’t let them play their own parts when recording the album. He did all guitar and bass parts himself.
Better than me... I've never made a good album.
Fair enough. I probably came off as an asshole in my comment, I was just genuinely surprised someone could keep them as a favorite band after the last few albums they released. They were just awful.
As you get older, the present begins to leave less and less of an impression... Making the past more vivid in your mind (ie the good old days). So OP is probably 40+....
Bill
Motherfucker we got shit to deal with RN
Today!