I tried to write a lot of things here and when I thought it was good enough I had a problem with internet and everything got lost :/ Maybe lucky yours, but the point is that I'm here and want to have a good start and find people who love smashing pumpkins and is open to talk about it and music in general. that's all ._.
Web posted on: Tuesday, August 11, 1998 5:04:26 PM From Correspondent Mark Scheerer NEW YORK (CNN) — The Smashing Pumpkins don’t really have a persecution complex. They’re just fighting back after finding themselves in an awkward give-and-take situation this summer. “We’re a cantankerous group,” explains lead singer Billy Corgan. “We don’t take shit from anybody. (But) the minute we go one step down, the knives come out and that’s it.&rd... (2930 more letters)
I would like to include a friend named Jay’s recollection of a Smashing Pumpkins show. Pumpkin Love ok, without further adieu, here’s my story. I dated a girl that was from Chicago for 3 years, and we went to the big city to visit her family at least once a year. we ordered our plane tickets about 6 months in advance so we knew that we were going to be there in july of 1998. Around April or May, I heard a report that the pumpkins were going to play a free concert at soldier fiel... (4025 more letters)
Memory(title of drawing) Lady Shallot into the icy winds shadow's vale aloft on the currents of time and fate the time had come and gone to just contemplate and with a last desperate gasp she set sail the tapestry that held her muse hours of her lonliness entwined hung over the ships side, never more to be used maybe even in her coffin lined camelot never knew, never sensed her coming the candles were hushed by the gale fortelling her end in silent ache but at last her heart would pr... (392 more letters)
While I like coppermine, for images, I grew tired of it. So I created a whole new SP Image Gallery, with special music for each album I created and uploaded it on my site. And not with coppermine, or any of those kind of galleries. I also wanted to add some new pics too. So it's a done deal now. Dam, I have a shitload of pics! It was rainy here yet again, it seems to just wait for the weekend, all week it is sunny and them boom here comes the weekend and you can hear the thunder and the s... (61 more letters)
Thursday I had to have some major and painful dental work done. The night before I picked out some very special songs to soothe and relax me during the procedure. My dentist gives you a cd player to listen to, that or watch tv, and I chose the cd. It was so comforting, I put on sunglasses, and just closed my eyes, and just got lost in the pumpkiness. Before I knew it, the dentist was finished and it was over. :)
I don't know, maybe it's a topic which doesn't belong in here for 100%, but i just want to know your opinions on that, because you all in here are the nicest people I've ever met online and sometimes this forum feels like second home for me:) . It's a very personal topic (not as personal as the "sleeping with my friend" thread, but nearby8-)) and it's linked to the Pumpkins somehow, so here it is: In the last days, i feel more and more changes coming into my life. It starts with finishing scho... (2123 more letters)
Back in the days when the o-board was alive and kicking. Billy was working on the Gatmog series. We all made showcases thorugh Screenblast. We had so much fun, working with the clips, and the music and all the characters. :)
Hey, guys You may know me as Event Of The Year here at thepumpkins.net, and probably most notably for my cover of "Zeitgeist" in the recent contest. Over the course of the contest, I received many requests from some of the members of this site for original music, and I just wanted to say, yes, I do... I'd like to disclaim that my intention here is not to use this site as a platform for blatant self-promotion, but I do appreciate the overwhelming response and encouragement from many of yo... (632 more letters)
Guitar Center met up with Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin at a hole-in-the-wall Chinese food joint in North Hollywood to talk about Smashing Pumpkins, Fresh Cuts Vol. 2, studio chops and how to make it big as a fresh, young band. GC : You guys have seen some pretty dramatic shifts in the music business. What’s good and what’s bad about Smashing Pumpkins and the music business today? Corgan : Well, I’d say the best thing is that we’re out of ... (8920 more letters)
...for all you kiddies. lol. In olden days, before the coming of the saints to Eire, that island knew an Age of Heroes. The Celtic peoples made their heroes into gods and gods into heroes. However, sometimes a very important (and entertaining) part of their culture has oft been overlooked in the ages since then...the women. Poets were renowned on par with the adventurers, their wit and musical ability unsurpassed. So, too, were their ethics raised just as high, along with the morals ... (5318 more letters)
Unfortunately I made a mistake by giving you the wrong adress. If you´re still interrested in my arts, I´d like to invite you to my blog: http://elfen-und-zeitgeist.over-blog.com Macht´s gut, Natascha
As you see, I´m new here. So you can also visit my other blog, where I am blogging my artwork: http:/elfen-und-zeitgeist.over-blog.de I hope you like it. love & peace
This Blog is for any one that wants to share there heart on why we are pumpkin heads. Why I Am a Fan, I have been a fan since 2000 my dad got me into them, All of the SP songs speak to me in a way I can't Explain.
I hate making friends and I find it very frustrating. I try to be who I am and most of the time dont succeed. I am very sarcastic and have a weird sense of humor. I dont really like talking unless I'm comfortable with you and have a difficult time making sense. I love drawing though and hope to be a artest some day... well thats pretty much all for now.
I don't know how many of you know about Johnny winter, but I learned something really interesting about my guitar teacher today. So, during lessons, he asked me whats songs I've been working on. I was kind of messing around with Tribute to Johnny today so I told him, "Tribute to Johnny... Johnny Winter." And I never expected his response. He said, "Oh, Johnny Winter, I used to play with him all the time, we were friends." I was speachless. I couldn't believe my guitar teacher used to be fri... (498 more letters)
Well, on my holidays in Tunis (Northern Africa), I found this strange Smashing Pumpkins Greatest Hits Release, called "Gold 2000" in a small musicshop nearby my hotel. It was new and untouched (with plastic foil around the case), I bought it for about 6 Euro (=about 8 Dollars). First of all, here's the tracklist: 1. Stand inside your love 2.1979 3.Geek USA 4.Ava adore 5.BWBW 6.Whir 7.I'm one (=I am one written like this ) 8.The crying tree of mercury 9.The end is the beginnig is ... (754 more letters)
Well, I've been listening to Zeitgeist AND the Bounustracks that often, that I finally found a way to describe the album. The first thing which comes up to your mind while listening to Zeitgeist is that the Pumpkins became very hard. I mean there have been several "breakouts" like XYU or Tales of a scorched earth but here, one heavy song follows the next. The first silent moment is neverlost which would MAYBE have been a B-Side on Aeroplane or so in their best times, it's definitly a weak so... (1519 more letters)
I hope Jimmy's ok and it's nothing some rest won't fix, but I can't help being extremely upset. the way the whole thing was handled was shitty for us. I took 3 days off work, put in for it back in Aug because I work for shitty fucking wal mart and you can never get fucking time off. I was so happy, that's what I'd been looking forward to for months, it's all I talked about. I'd been a die hard fan since 1991 and I'd never had a chance to see them. I bought a cute skirt outfit that looked like Bi... (2634 more letters)
A Cinderella pumpkin story A Cinderella pumpkin story with no glass slippers. A sky with a million stars and no big dipper. A moon that lights the sky and no first star to wish on. A pumpkin carriage ride and no girl to kiss on. Wreckless as it seems streaking across the sky. Smashing all my dreams on a pumpkin carriage ride. Wish on me while I burn in your face. Kiss on me and try to learn to swallow and not taste. More like a commet than a ... (70 more letters)
i've actually been thinking about this for a while.... what i think is that around '95/'96 billy noticed that he was starting to show sings of aging. and he knew that just couldn't happen as long as he was in the public eye. so he went down to hell to make a deal with the devil (aka courtney love). he said he'd give her his beautiful perfect hair in exchange for eternal youth. and so far it's working out pretty well
so i've LOVED the pumpkins for as long as i can remeber,since i was about 2(siriusly, the lyrics to Bullet were somewhere in with my first words). And in my opinion the mellow songs (i.e Annie-dog, disarm, thirty three) were always my favs. while listening to the new album I HEARD NONE OF THAT. just hearing zeitgeist made me EXTREMELY happy, u kno, just cuz the fact the pumpkins were back. But where is the beautiful song writting i've come to know and love from billy?
I preordered Zeitgeist on iTunes and I'm pretty pumped. But I noticed a few people who dont want to preorder. So, out of curiousity, how many of you guys are preordering the album? I preordered it because I deffinatly think it's a way better deal. The good thing about preordering it... - It comes with extra tracks (and covers, but they usually suck) - You don't need to make a trip out to the store to buy it. - You dont need to worry about going to a store and finding out they dont ... (408 more letters)
The more I think about it the more I realize that the new sing;e "Tarantula" sound like a Queens on the Stone Age song. I wonder... was Billy meaning to overdo hos sound? Was it his intention to make the music so dramatic? In my humble opinion, I think he might have tried too hard on making a bang and totally over shot the mark. But alas. It is SP and I still love the song.
in the liner notes to PI, for the song "Spaced," billy writes, "kinda hard to explain so i won't, but if you listen really close you can hear the 7 secrets of the 7 veils of apollo." i've been trying for YEARS to figure out what he's talking about. If anyone knows PLEASE SHARE!
Hey, does anyone know how I can get just Pastichio Medley without buying the whole album. And does anyone know how I can get Judas 0? I can't find either of these things anywhere
this was all taken from http://www.faqs.org/faqs/music/smashing-pumpkins-faq/part2/ Bodies words spoken in background of second "Love is suicide" chorus- destroy / despise / distrust / disobey / destroy / distrust / disloyal / disarm / destroy / despise / dissect / deny / destroy / despise / distrust Bury Me song opens with James saying something (most plausible ideas are "Boys, let's do it" and "Poised like an angel") Cherry studio talk at beginning: "Listen- wanna just start ... (1802 more letters)
Hey, I've noticed a bunch of hidden messages In som Smashing Pumpkins songs. I've always gotten a kick out of hidden messages, meanings, things that are hard to hear unless you turn it up, maybe something backwards???? So, if you guys no of any SP subliminal messages share em hear! I got one to start... This one's pretty obvious..... Listen to the end of Spaceboy on Siamese Dream, pay closer attention if you dont know what i'm talking abouy..... Yes, very interesting....
Here is something that I wrote a while ago and have posted on my Myspace blog. People there enjoyed it so I thought maybe the people here would too. Basically I take "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" and break down the lyrics as if I was analyzing a poem. I then take what I pulled out as the message of the song and compare it to the themes that are in Kurt Cobain's suicide note. By writing this, I am not implying in any way that "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" is a tribute to Kurt Cobain, I'm jus... (3612 more letters)
Not to be a jerk but what is the deal with all these 17 year old Pumpkin fans that think they go way back to the day. Yeah ok I understand bands are always going to get new "followers" but when snot nosed little punks start trying to tell me about a band I have been into since they were slamming gerber and dirtying pampers, I want to burst at the seems.
Finding out they were disbanding. First hearing that D'Arcy was leaving and letting Auf Der Maur take her place in the Machina tour. I told myself I would never stop loving them. Even though there was nothing else to look forward too. There were two things I waited for with more enthusiam than anything else. The Final show at the Metro and the Music Video DVD. Rotten Apples and Judas O were great but actually being able to see the Pumpkins immortalized on DVD was great. Sure Viewphoria had done... (1491 more letters)
I have to say, I was terrified when I first heard that Billy Corgan was planning on resurrecting the Pumpkins. Especially with how awful and terrilby dull Zwan was. His solo album is something I can't even mention because it either makes me physically ill or I want to cry from the heartbreak and disappointment. If you go to The Pumpkins dot Net You get the chance to hear one of the bands new songs. Now I must say I was scared to even click on ... (1060 more letters)
I may perhaps be the youngest Smashing Pumpkins fan. (eh, maybe ;) ) Then again, maybe not. However, i've been listening to the Pumpkins since I was two-years old. At least, I've been able to somewhat comprehend their music since i was two, my parents have been listening to them in the car for much longer XD. I cannot wait until Zeitgeist. (2 MORE MONTHS!!) I hope it's going to be incredible, and i'm sure it will be. That's about it...pointless, eh? -CW8
Yeahhh I'm breakin' it in right. Ok, first blog. What shall I talk about? Well since this is a Smashing Pumpkins site let's talk about my loooooooong-term love of all things Billy. I've been so fucking into SP since ohh...1991 or so. Yeah. Before a lot of you were born, probably lmao. I saw a video on this crappy late night video show that came on TBS cause I lived out in the boondocks in the middle of BFE (that's BumFuck, Egypt, btw) and I couldn't get any MTV or VH1. I had it on recor... (1880 more letters)
Since I'm still new to this forum, I still haven't figured out somthings, such as editing blogs. I just wanted to add that I am NOT a fangirl. I don't ever want to be a little teenie fan girl that screams things such as "OMG, Billy is soooo hot!" If I ever do I pray that someone shoots me in the head. I am straight up all about the music and although I do think that Billy is quite attractive [who doesn't?] I am not a teenie fangirl. Thats all I wanted to add. Mary
Hi! It all started one faithful day on my day off. I was sitting in my cubicle of a room, as usual, and was watching a My Chemical Romance interview. They were showing thier all time favorite music videos. Some I knew, others I didn't. One of the members favorite music video was Bullet with Butterfly Wings. As I was sitting there watching I realized that I knew all the words to the song! Then it dawned on me that I recognized Billy's voice. So I did some research via Youtube and watched ... (1628 more letters)
hello everyone, name is jon..25 years old...been listening to the pumpkins since i heard Rocket in the 6th grade...favorite bands are the cure, belle and sebastian, depeche mode, joy divison, Roy Orbison, The Beatles, Rainer Maria, goldfrapp, camera obscura, death cab for cutie, silversun pickups, Gene Pitney, the knife, jose gonzalez, and rilo kiley to name a few...who's out there?
Christmas 1996: Received Melloncollie and the Infinite Sadness Double. I will admit, though hesitantly, that I listened to more Bush that Christmas but the steaming pile of shit that Razor Blade Suitcase was became evident and while I have owned MCATIS on four seperate occasions, RBSC became a fire frisbee a few months later. Spring 1997: Bought Gish, Pisces Iscariot & Siamese Dream, the latter of which made my heart implode. I was in love with the lyrics, the guitar heavy sound and the gr... (964 more letters)
Hey everyone at thepumpkins.net, this is my first blog here. im a huge smashing pumpkins fan from new zealand (born in canada). Anyway i have a question and i hope somebody can help me out. I was watching tv a couple of years ago and on came the pumpkins, it was the coolest video clip ever and i have never been able to find it again, ill explain it..... im pretty sure it was a song off melon collie cause billy was wearing his zero top. it was shot in an empty street somewhere and there whe... (213 more letters)
Hey...is there any way to actually download the audio files from this website? I am interesting in some of the live albums, and just streaming them from the internet is not the same as listening to them on my ipod. Someone please help.
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Hello everyone! This is my first blog here at thepumpkins.net. This is a very impressive site so far, I'm lovin' it, lots of downloads and the community seems really cool. I was wondering if anyone could possibly help me out with trying to find someplace to download BC's song "Tilt"? I've looked all over the web and can't find it anyplace.. just old links that don't work anymore. Any help anyone could give would be much appreciated, thanks! Joe (thought I'd put Mel up for the h... (29 more letters)
If I were a minstrel I'd sing you six love songs To tell the whole world of The love that we share. If I were a merchant I'd bring you six diamonds With six blood red roses For my love to wear. But I am a simple man A poor common farmer So take my six ribbons To tie back your hair. (Yellow and brown Blue as the sky Red as my blood Green as your eyes)
Let me see. I have not shown enough appreciation. Thank you. And I wish to God I heard White Spyder as the first song, I like it that much. ï¿ØΛ€ ∩ &†ΓΓε
hi! i discovered the smashing pumpkins 2 years ago, so some of you would call me a newbie. i have found alot of people i know saying that i will only like them for a short amount of time then move onto the next band i discover, though i disagree. im sick of todays music scene eg: emos, goths, sleazy rappers ect. what i dont get is how 90's music eg TSP, nirvana, became some what 'passe' compared to todays music. the vast majority of teenagers these days dont understand how much effort went ... (566 more letters)
i am young( 15) and i dont have any wisdom. but billy corgan is a person, just like all of us. The smashing pumpkins are a band, not some immortal savior. People need to think of music as a way to discover. there is more to things than what can be seen with your own eyes.Sometimes shit happens and people hate eachother. Its life. Billy is not in the pumpkins anymore. It sucks but all good things must eventually come to an end
I suppose if I am lucky enough and walk far enough I will be able to beat the fing mofos before they take THIS AWAY. NOW I'M GOING TO GO LOOK FOR SOME CHAT. great day all. If I were going any more backward, I'd see the well developing crack of my assssssssssssssssssssssss.
I meet Bob on Sat. nite for the first time and he introduced me to the Smashing Pumpkins and I was quite surpised because I always thought, and I thought it without even knowing their sound becuase of my own stupidity that they were just a heavy Trashy-Sounding band. Without ever even wanting to give them a chance I just went on thinking this and would have until Bob showed me differently. I just listened to their version of Landslide & I think it is the best one I have ever heard just li... (752 more letters)
I think Billy's problem is that he's been trying to be "somebody", he's been looking for the perfect Billy, yes, he is a perfetionist and that's what makes him one of the best musicians ever. But I don't think he realizes that rage and love are not so disconnected, I'd say the way to make the new Pumpkins reborn even greater that the original birth is that Billy realizes that he can be Zero and Glass at the same time, and if you think about it, one of the good things of Mellon Collie is the coex... (287 more letters)
Something's wrong (with the Bush Administration) Things aren't always what they seem. What appeared to be leaves blowing....up? And then falling from the sky. Actually was a whole flock of birds becoming unable to fly. But try and tell someone. I wrote this i... (523 more letters)
billy corgan is an amazing man and musician to say is an understatement.We all know how prolofic the lyrics and how underestimted his guitar work is.His work is truly impressive and his voice is truly remarkable.I have never been to a live show like some of us but we all will get another shot after the new cd comes out! im excited and impatient to hear and see if billy can bring us bliss again.d'arcy hmm well once a pumpkin always a pumpkin even though....hmm james iha made his mistake forget ... (208 more letters)
ON April 10, 1999 I opened my front door all ready to go see The Smashing Pumpkins in Detroit. On a blind date set up by friends. I cant say I was "pleasantly surprised" because my immediate thought was=Oh my God, this guy is gorgeous. I could tell he was nervous but we got in the van and away we went. We talked with very few pauses on the at least hour drive. And what was more impressive, when we had to ask where to go to get there--HE DID!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was more than impressed, and... (1392 more letters)
Today I submitted my Zero remix. Young Lainie selected the track after hearing it. I pointed out to her. My four poems on this song were written at a time when I was seeing her 7 years ago.(started with a blind date to a pumpkins show). It's unlike me to be head over heals over someone. I told her that's why she inspired me to write "of true Love". I could see the look in her sparkling blue eyes. She never knew. what do you know now young Lainie? Have I ever mentioned Lainie Sunshine is the fi... (320 more letters)
It's to crazy not to blog. I wasn't sure of the exact date or even year. But it was the Adore Tour at St Andrews hall in the spring. A friend told me he had a friend who loved he pumpkins and would go to the show with me. Lainie Sunshine, thank you Jamie. A two hour drive to Detroit was all pumpkins talk and a plan to rush the stage. Being sunny and spring I couldn't help check out young Lainie's blue eyes. We got lost once but I found the way. Lainie wasn't wearing a coat and as the sun wen... (1405 more letters)
Howdy, folks. I'm new here...but I'm diggin' the site. Heck yes... Billy is just a man doin' what he can. He's got the master plan like Jackie Chan. ....Yeah.
I use to do a morning show on the radio. 102.5 wmxe in hillsdale michigan. We were hot AC format playing best hits and best variety. I'd step out of format and play the pumpkins. "for my own personal consumption I'd tell my listeners. I turned them on to the pumpkins. I think it's what I was trying to do by putting my poems on top of pumpkins music. Some people put their nose up to the smashing pumpkins. Stero typing. Well I have something I think they'll listen to. E-mail them the link to b... (761 more letters)
9/11 trial on the news today. I took bullet with butterfly wings. looped the drums at the beginning and put my 9/11 poem on the front. 9/11 Could hesitation be seriously mistaken, For procrastination. In a Nation where realization, Takes so long to grasp. bobjenkens
I was looking at all the hits my "pray" poem is getting. It's past the poems I have on pumpkins tunes and I don't have it on a song. what's a good pumpkins tune I can put this on top of? I'm listening.
I have a 4 year old girl "Zoe". We hang out tight. Do lunch at wendi's twice a week. I can't get her to school on time.lol. But when I tell Zoe sing me some punkins she sings landslide. calls it the I'm affraid of changing song. She sings the verse dads getting older to. I'm not getting any younger. it's what i'm listening to.
I know for a fact. That a man in India this morning sat and listened to his first 7:o2 minutes of smashing pumpkins. Then he asked my mom for a copy. The other side of the world. right now with 108 hits. I'd be all day trying to share with that many people. I use it to sleep. but i have some grunge. I'm holding out.
Pray My quietness is unsureness, unsure if I should even speak. Am I wrong to believe? that there's hope for me? Lately I've reserved the right to believe.. It's to late for me. Uncertain of any resolution. I Hope God hears me "Pray" Bob Jenkens
A Cinderella pumpkin story, with no glass slippers. A sky with a million stars, and no big dipper. A moon that lights the sky, and no first star to wish on. A pumpkin carriage ride and no girl to kiss on. reckless as it seems streaking across the sky. smashing all my dreams on a pumpkin carriage ride. wish on me while I burn... in your face kiss on me.... and try an learn to swallow and not taste more like a comet... than a shooting star I wonder how long it.....takes to forget who you... (41 more letters)
In the days and ways, Of dreams I ve seen, Questions of me, and what will I be. Where have I been and how did I get here? Can I survive all of this pressure? "Times are changing" so they say. Where running with time everyday. The time and space of who U are. On the race and space of a shooting star. Nirvana bound, enlightment found. The uniqueness of a constant sound, So tell me tell me what your after, Cause I just want to get there faster!!!
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