I have to say that i love SP, Zwan and BC Solo. Almost every song that he writes i like. I do have to say that "Baby let's ROck!" by Zwan was pretty bad though and the only low point of a great album....whats your opinion on Billy's worst song??

pumpkins:
Because You Are.

zwan:
el sol (i actully like it, but it's the worst one on MSotS) and some of the more boring djali zwans

solo:
tolovesomebody

and honestly those are the only three songs i really dislike by the man

Billy never wrote "To Love Somebody" I think it was a Bee Gees song.
I think the lyrics to "bubblegum" are pretty bad...I still lke the song though, but I dont really know what he was thinking with that one. He must have been bored. And I really didnt like anything he did with Zwan, but that was more on a music/sound level

I don't think there are really any poorly written songs. Although, Pitchfork said that "Bullet With Buttefly Wings" has crappy lyrics. I don't know what's their problem. I think they have something against the Pumpkins. They were questioning whether or not the Pumpkins are deemed worthy of a Greatest Hits album. I don't know what they're talking about. The Pumpkins will probably be on Classic Rock stations sometime in the future and go down as one of the best bands in history. At least that's my prediction.

Here're the quotes from the Pitchfork articles:
"'Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage.' It's angst at its arena-rocking worst. And it only gets more embarrassing as the tracks roll by. Into the middle of the third track, Billy Corgan's drunk on his angstful glory, barfing up lines like, 'God is empty, just like me.'" http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/21809/Smashing_Pumpkins_Mellon_Collie_and_the_Infinite_Sadness

Those are 2 of my favorite tracks from Mellon Collie, "Zero" and "Bullet With Butterfly Wings".

The reviewer had the nerve to entitle the article: Smashing Pumpkins Cash In on Greatest Hits Craze- They Had Great Ones?

"While Billy Corgan's days of wanging chung with the Smashing Pumpkins have come to an end, his days of making money and feeding his ego off them are not. So it goes that the Smashing Pumpkins are prepped to release their first greatest hits collection this fall on Virgin, composed entierly of tracks from 1993's Siamese Dream. Okay, so the second part isn't entirely true; the band (read "Billy" has yet to figure out which tracks will go in the hits package. But it is this unbiased journalist's opinion that he would do well to avoid anything Corgan recorded with a bald head or while wearing a black smock." http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/2001/8/24/Smashing_Pumpkins_Cash_In_on_Greatest_Hits_Craze#32077

What a jerk. Billy had a shaved head for Adore, but Adore is excellent. What's his problem?

yeah, TLS was by the bee gees

and i dunno, some people just have bad taste in music

Yeah, "Because You Are" is pretty bad...

Stupid (and obviously deaf) reviewers from shitty online magazines have no right to say that the Pumpkins suck. They must adore Fall Out Boy or something...

Aw come on, Fallout Boy rule, so do Avril Lavigne and Good Charlotte. Oh lets not forget My Chemical Ro.... can't... go... on...

I don't like Rhinoceros. Siamese Dream isn't too good either

How can you not like Rhinocerous??!?! It may be a bit long but it's still a great song.

rhinoceros is pretty good, cept for the lyrics, and billy's vocals on quiet kill it... to love somebody is a good song, you guys are just "un-pumpkins"...
................i hate tales of a scorched earth, a horrible attempt at a metal song, that's only song i would take off mellon collie...

un-pumpkins?

billy didn't even write it!!

*the pumpkins way of music, changing, being different* to love somebody is a good song... maybe the lyrics arent to good, but who listens to music for the lyrics? i guess im the only one who likes the same music as billy... :P

I just dont like Rhinoceros, its slow, its boring, it has nothing special about it apart from being a slow song.

For The Future Embrace, I only liked "Mina Loy", I thought the rest of the songs were....well....not so good.

As for the Pumpkins, I really dont like the songs "take me down" or "we only come out at night"


Argh... sorry if this upsets some of you *feels blasphemous*

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Billy never wrote "To Love Somebody" I think it was a Bee Gees song.

duh.

i guess it is better to put it this way, i hate his crappy cover of it.

i hate the fact that he covered a song in the first place.

the only song that i didn't like was "landslide" and that wasn't even written by billy so i guess its not blasphemous for me to say i don't like it

Rhinoceros is a good song mannn...cant be knocked!!! i cant say i diss-like any song to be honest!!

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*the pumpkins way of music, changing, being different* to love somebody is a good song... maybe the lyrics arent to good, but who listens to music for the lyrics? i guess im the only one who likes the same music as billy... :P


i listen to music for lyrics. its not even secondary for me anymore. how do you think kurt cobain got so famous? or bowie? rage against the machine!!!!!half of any great song that wants to reach the populas is the lyrics. i mean dylan!!! cmon people. not everyone can whistle!!!!

i really didnt like "im ready" from tfe. and although i may be crucified, "try try try"