My local alternative station has a feature where they play back the top five requested new songs of the day. I listened to it once back in September, and to my surprise TTW was on the top!

I always thought that the song"Zeitgeist" closed out the album much better than P&C, it left it on a acoustic note that was otherwise missing on the rest of the album.

that is true. but p and c has really grown on me since i first heard it. (probably more than any other zeitgeist song) the electric guitar is very awesome. but if any b-side was to be on the album, it should've been ma belle in for fgac

doomsdayclock wrote:
but if any b-side was to be on the album, it should've been ma belle in for fgac

I agree 100%, Ma Belle is an amazing song and definitely my favourite from the Zeitgeists. Pomp and Circumstances is probably my 2nd or 3rd favourite with Stellar being 2nd or 3rd as well. And honestly, Tarantula's one of my least favourite songs on the album (after For God and Country; love the live acoustic version of FGaC though) so I would've liked Stellar instead of Tarantula, but it was the first single, so that wouldn't have happened obviously

Also, the SP song that plays most on my local rock radio would be BWBW, followed by Today or Tonight, Tonight...have never heard TTW on the radio, but they did play Tarantula a lot when it was released, as well as a lot of SP when the reunion was announced.

lucky bums- hearing the pumpkins on the radio i haven't heard the pumpkins on the radio in almost half a year

I was going to say something sarcastic along the lines of just putting on the cd, but I dunno...

I always get a zing whenever I hear SP on the radio, and I always turn it up loud. It's usually from SD or MCIS, most of the time it's 1979. Only once have I heard Ava Adore on the radio.

Noted one thing while forcing myself thru Zeitgeist yesterday:

In another context (=a better album) and with a slightly more band-like arrangement, 7 shades of black could have been another Smashing Pumpkins hardrock-classic, along with Zero or The everlasting gaze.

DON wrote:
Noted one thing while forcing myself thru Zeitgeist yesterday:

In another context (=a better album) and with a slightly more band-like arrangement, 7 shades of black could have been another Smashing Pumpkins hardrock-classic, along with Zero or The everlasting gaze.

It reminds me of Jellybelly combined with Zero.

It's one of Jimmy's proudest achievements on the album too.

Jimmy kicks ass on Zeitgeist!

Geek N.Z. wrote:
I was going to say something sarcastic along the lines of just putting on the cd, but I dunno...

I always get a zing whenever I hear SP on the radio, and I always turn it up loud. It's usually from SD or MCIS, most of the time it's 1979. Only once have I heard Ava Adore on the radio.

hehe, i hear the pumpkins every day no matter what. its just kind of neat to hear them on the radio, because they're kind of underrated and underappreciated and they aren't that big here.

oh, and nice new avatar superchrist. i love that poster.

blueczarina wrote:
oh, and nice new avatar superchrist. i love that poster.

thanks!

blueczarina wrote:
hehe, i hear the pumpkins every day no matter what. its just kind of neat to hear them on the radio, because they're kind of underrated and underappreciated and they aren't that big here.

Yeah, I always like hearing them on the radio for pretty much that reason as well.

I heard Tarantula and was immediately psyched. But then I was disappointed when it first came out, I've been listening to it a lot lately and it's grown on me.

I think the biggest problem is that it doesn't rock all the way through like SD. Billy did an interview before it came out and he said 'we talked to a lot of people and the overwhelming response we got was that they want teh rock, so we made an album that rocks'. But it doesn't rock, in the same way as SD or Gish, where it's riffs and solos in your face on every song.

hmm... i thought it was sp's hardest rocking album in my book. it was the heaviest by far.

I will remember the Zeitgeist era for Stellar above all things. I was mildly disappointed with the album (not really the songs, just the choice of which ones were on the album, I guess. There's no room for Pomp & Circumstances in anyone's life), but after hearing Stellar, I know Billy's still got it. Stellar is one of my top five pumpkin songs. So that's how I'll remember it. That, and for Bring the Light being awesome. And the solo in Neverlost.

See, it's not a bad album, there's just a few things that put it off, leave a sour taste (the album art, terrible videos, a few clunkers).

The videos for Zeitgeist do suck, they need to quit hiring that director.