| Fan Art - Finally Together Again! |
Well...at least Billy didn't make him put on a dress this time... |
| Am i the only one a little disappointed? |
I like a some of the songs on the new album, but there is definitely something lacking with this take. The problem is not the style of the music, but the quality of its production. I'm having a hard time connecting with most of these songs like I could with songs in the previous albums. My approach to any song is that they have to provide a personal connection with me to be relevant...I have to feel somthing emotionally. It's weird to explain, but the Smashing Pumpkins always provided that and not just music to listen for entertainment.
I wish Billy would have gone back to Flood and Alan Moulder to produce this album. Butch Vig was good in Siamese Dream, but Flood helped Billy's creative sound take off in the right direction (innovation that sounded awesome). Even though his role in Pumpkin album production was reduced in the last few albums, he still played a key part in helping Billy get the "new" sound he wanted and really helped Billy push the envelope in getting a more emotional feel in his songs. I think I miss that more than anything with this album. |
| News - The Smashing Pumpkins Hit The Stage |
Oh well, we'll see how it goes. :sigh |
| News - Tarantula Hits The Airwaves |
Hendrixesque Billy is back. All hail the King. The King has returned to save Rock N' Roll |
| News - Preview Of The First Single 'Tarantula' |
I really hope "time" will let us see the album for what it is Brancastle. I've always trusted Billy to deliver when he was a Pumpkin. I really miss this band and the personal connection they gives me. No other band can do like they do and that's the reason I listen to them everyday and why they will always be #1 to me.
I'm wondering if Zeitgeist is trying to make a point by playing like this...to open the worlds eyes of the "spirit of our time" not just politically, but musicially? |
| News - Preview Of The First Single 'Tarantula' |
I'm really surprised by the sound of Tarantula, not because it sounds "poppy" or "happy", but because it sounds very ordinary in this sense: Take out the vocals and put in Billie Joe Armstrong and I could easily be convinced it was a Green Day song. Any mainstream band could have composed that clip. “Rocket”, “Drown”, “Hummer”…were all songs the Pumpkins wrote which stood out from the grunge era…you would never hear Alice and Chains writing songs like that…1979?...Forget it…in 1995 no one was doing what the Pumpkins were doing. Many tried, but we knew better. Adore & Machina were masterpieces too good for commercial success. Radio couldn’t play it and mainstream couldn’t comprehend it. The Pumpkins were always miles ahead of the rest of the world. In 2007…we’re hearing My Chemical Romance and Zwan comparisons…why? Probably because the clip sounded more familiar than ground breaking. I’m probably wrong though...Maybe we’ve become desensitized to all the crap that’s been on the radio…maybe we forgot what original sounded like. In other words, the "it" factor which made a pumpkin song "a pumpkin song" is not obvious in that 30 second clip. Maybe it just that part of the song…who knows. I guess we’ll find out next week.
The "it" factor the Pumpkins had from Gish to Machina was a sound no other band had...the Pumpkins were beyond any other band. They were in their own league creatively and they had incredibly powerful live performances. That's why Billy made Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, because he wanted to show the world, there was no other band like them...if you watch the documentary "Gracefull Swans of Never" he says it himself and they ultimately proved it to be right.
I feel like this 30 second clip is missing that…and it scares me a little. I hope the album will surprise me because in this boring world of music we live in…we need a rock hero again…we need rock to live again.
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| News - Preview Of The First Single 'Tarantula' |
I'm sorry, but to me this sound like "the spirit of Zwan" with more distortion. This doesn't feel like the Pumpkins. I don't want a rehash of their older stuff either. I just want them to take their music to the next level like they have from Gish to Machina. They kept getting better and better...this clip sounds like a step back to me. I hope the other tracks are better. |
