The Smashing Pumpkins — Zeitgeist (2007) | culture. ish. http://culture-ish.com/the-smashing-pumpkins-zeitgeist-2007 read. listen. watch. respond. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:51:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 The Smashing Pumpkins — Zeitgeist (2007) | culture. ish. http://culture-ish.com/the-smashing-pumpkins-zeitgeist-2007#comment-93 Jason Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:29:36 +0000 http://culture-ish.com/the-smashing-pumpkins-zeitgeist-2007#comment-93 Thankfully I've not had my mind warped by the stuff you've mentioned, since I've used Green Day and My Chemical Romance as the butt of countless jokes for years (or a decade, in Green Day's case). I will say, though, that using "Tarantula" to prove your point is funny, ironic even--<i>almost every track on the album does the loud verse-loud chorus-soft psychedelic bridge thing</i>. And please don't misread and assume I dislike the album because of who is or isn't in the band. (I don't even dislike the album, for that matter; it's just lacking, but not terrible.) Corgan just didn't write amazing songs this time around, and the name-change thing (and hiring of Iha/Wretzky lookalikes) is just dishonest. If I want a dose of the '90s, I'll listen to the '90s. Thankfully I’ve not had my mind warped by the stuff you’ve mentioned, since I’ve used Green Day and My Chemical Romance as the butt of countless jokes for years (or a decade, in Green Day’s case).

I will say, though, that using “Tarantula” to prove your point is funny, ironic even–almost every track on the album does the loud verse-loud chorus-soft psychedelic bridge thing.

And please don’t misread and assume I dislike the album because of who is or isn’t in the band. (I don’t even dislike the album, for that matter; it’s just lacking, but not terrible.) Corgan just didn’t write amazing songs this time around, and the name-change thing (and hiring of Iha/Wretzky lookalikes) is just dishonest.

If I want a dose of the ’90s, I’ll listen to the ’90s.

]]> The Smashing Pumpkins — Zeitgeist (2007) | culture. ish. http://culture-ish.com/the-smashing-pumpkins-zeitgeist-2007#comment-91 Saberjohn Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:46:10 +0000 http://culture-ish.com/the-smashing-pumpkins-zeitgeist-2007#comment-91 Ya, I have to kinda disagree there, I do agree that Mr. Corrigan has revived the band soley for money and such, even though the keyboardist did kill himself, and the bassist and the other rhythm guitarist did not join up with him, that is no real reason to dislike the album. The band is not the Smashing Pumpkins anymore, but the music is reminiscient of what I grew up listening to and reminds me of a happer time, that fact aside, I will still go to the concert in Pittsburgh this October. I do agree that this album does pale to such albums as Pices Iscariot, Siamese Dream, and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, but as the saying goes, you cant beat a dead horse, and Mr. Corrigan did realize that, and revived the band. But to say that this is a one dimensional allbum, you are sorely mistake, evidenced in the track, Tarantula. Right as you are riding a high wave, it suddenly goes all soft core and easy listening and then back up to a fever pitch. Although some of the lyrics arer less ambigious as previous songs, like Bullet with Butterfly Wings and Disarm, but none the less, The album is a potent dose of the 90's, and which you can not handle after listening to such horrible albums as American Idiot and The Black Parade, and having your minds warped by such artists if I could even acknoledge them as such as Fall Out Boy, MCR, and the New Green Day. Ya, I have to kinda disagree there, I do agree that Mr. Corrigan has revived the band soley for money and such, even though the keyboardist did kill himself, and the bassist and the other rhythm guitarist did not join up with him, that is no real reason to dislike the album. The band is not the Smashing Pumpkins anymore, but the music is reminiscient of what I grew up listening to and reminds me of a happer time, that fact aside, I will still go to the concert in Pittsburgh this October. I do agree that this album does pale to such albums as Pices Iscariot, Siamese Dream, and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, but as the saying goes, you cant beat a dead horse, and Mr. Corrigan did realize that, and revived the band. But to say that this is a one dimensional allbum, you are sorely mistake, evidenced in the track, Tarantula. Right as you are riding a high wave, it suddenly goes all soft core and easy listening and then back up to a fever pitch. Although some of the lyrics arer less ambigious as previous songs, like Bullet with Butterfly Wings and Disarm, but none the less, The album is a potent dose of the 90’s, and which you can not handle after listening to such horrible albums as American Idiot and The Black Parade, and having your minds warped by such artists if I could even acknoledge them as such as Fall Out Boy, MCR, and the New Green Day.

]]> The Smashing Pumpkins — Zeitgeist (2007) | culture. ish. http://culture-ish.com/the-smashing-pumpkins-zeitgeist-2007#comment-87 dave Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:06:04 +0000 http://culture-ish.com/the-smashing-pumpkins-zeitgeist-2007#comment-87 pretty much sums up my reaction to it as well: milquetoast. pretty much sums up my reaction to it as well: milquetoast.

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