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Billy Corgan Plans #ThirtyDays Journey, Reveals Upcoming Projects

 

definitely an ambitious dude. it's yielded some wacky results but i've always liked that about him

 

It looks like the reunion is getting closer to actually happening. Although fair warning- this article's title is misleading, and Corgan is doing his best job to throw some cold water on it, any progress is good news as far as I'm concerned.

Q107.com- Smashing Pumpkins' Original Lineup to Reunite

 

Anyone else been keeping up with Thirty Days project? It's been kind of neat to follow and get some really raw (albeit casual) versions of SP songs and generally see how many other people are massive SP fans like myself. On the other hand I'm thinking, "Wait, don't you have like a wee infant you should be attending to??"

 

I haven't been following. Even though they're my favorite band I can't really bring myself to care about anything that isn't new music (or rereleases; I need that Machina 2 remaster to happen even though it likely won't now). Glad to hear it's an interesting project though.

 

Billy Corgan opens about feeling suicidal due to Nirvana's success - NME

 

Yep, falling head over heels in love with this group. Siamese Dream is absolutely demolishing my ears right now. Going straight into MC tonight. "Hummer" and "Silverfuck" my god

 

This is your first time diving into their catalog? Oh man, you're in for a treat. Mellon collie and Adore are classics. I bought MC when it first came out over 20 years ago and I still listen to it on the regular.

 

Hummer for the longest time was my favorite SP song. I love the band so much now that I don't have an outright favorite, but it's definitely in the top 5 hierarchy. For the longest time I avoided downloading Silverfuck though in case my parents saw it on my iTunes account, idk why I didn't just rename it haha.

 

Glad your digging the pumpkins Cody.

It's so hard to call a favorite track as they've got so many good ones and they are my favorite band. If I had to narrow it down it'd probably be one of Thirty Three, Porcelina or Age of Innocence.

 

Not sure I could choose a favorite either. I do think they Zeitgeist gets too much hate. I actually thoroughly enjoy that album.

 

Always love seeing someone new discovering my favorite band. 1979 or Stand Inside Your Love swap places for my favorite song. Also really love a b-side called Speed Kills that doesn't get enough recognition.

 

Man, I'm hard pressed to think of someone else who can write beautiful, touching and introspective tracks and pivot on the next one to absolutely shred the guitar like Billy does.

 

Picking my favorite Smashing Pumpkins is nearly impossible. It changes on the daily, but some gems are Let Me Give the World To You, Tonight Tonight, Mayonnaise, For Martha, Stand Inside Your Love, Thirty Three and Jellybelly.

 

Never could make Zeitgeist click, although I do listen to United States almost every day I go to the gym. Such a great song to get you pumped up lol

 

"ma belle," which was on the rerelease of zeitgeist, is i think still the best song of the "reunited" sp era

 

All the b-sides from Zeitgeist are better than anything that actually made the album, save That's The Way

 

Agree 100%, but I'll go to bat for Tarantula too.

 

This may have been the best band to come out of the 90's. Nothing really compares to what they put out that decade.

 

Tarantula is a great song, but the horrible mixing just ruins it for me. The vocals seem off....like they aren't necessarily loud, but just mixed oddly. Also it always bugs me when they go into the quiet bridge but that lead distorted guitar is so loud at first that you cant even hear the clean quiet guitar.

I almost forgot I do love That's The Way, though.

 

Not quite on release date, but I recall buying it sometime in the late 90s and it was the only double CD I owned for the longest time. Yet, I don't think I appreciated its scope until recently (maybe I still don't fully).

I loved the shit out of the Siamese-esque melodic rockers on Disc 1 (plus "Thru the Eyes of Ruby," which is still a near-top SP song for me) as a kid, but revisiting it more seriously a few years ago, I was finally hit with the brilliance of stuff like "To Forgive," "Cupid de Locke," "Stumbleine," etc. Billy is an absolute prodigy, even if I haven't always loved his output and creative decisions in later years.

It's just hard to even conceive of the energy and talent that must've gone into writing that record. I still think Siamese Dream is my favorite to listen to front-to-back, but damn if MC isn't the most impressive thing they ever wrote -- and one of the most impressive rock records of the 90s.

 

Absolutely fantastic choices, Age of Innocence is so underrated.

Probably my favorite SP ripper save for Geek USA.

Hummer, Mayonnaise, Muzzle, Thru the Eyes of Ruby, and Zero are probably my top 5 in no particular order, but the next 25 slots are basically all interchangeable.

 

I almost listed Eyes of Ruby instead of Porcelina in my top 3 but yeah my top pumpkins tracks change quite regularly depending on what mood I'm in.

 

I legit think your first 4 are all in mine, which is crazy. I'll swap out Zero for Geek USA and call it good.

 

my theory about zeitgeist is that it's barely mastered. vocals all sound foregrounded and isolated like almost any record i've heard pre-mastering