What a great vocalist and a great songwriting team. A really special combination in STP. My top 10, even though there are so many:
1. Big Empty
2. Plush
3. Interstate Love Song
4. Atlanta
5. Vasoline
6. Days of the Week
7. Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart
8. Adhesive
9. Still Remains
10. Sour Girl
This guy is right. ^ He was talking about kindness, not music. Sad how so many people grasp at any reason to be hurtful. What are you all gaining from it?
..."the kinds of songs that grab you by the face and make you feel like you’re spreading your arms skyward atop earth’s most treacherous peak and all your pleasure and pain receptors are giving each other high-fives."
Finally, sweet relevance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGfsRHHkY04
True, I'm just saying the influence of his bandmates changes his music. So when he handpicks the bandmates, his writing is more self-absorbed, but when he started the band with James, he was younger and more impressionable, possibly. Opinions...
I really like your analysis of the influence of Billy's bandmates on Billy's songwriting. I think this theory might be spot on. Even though Billy can and has been able to "play all the instruments" except the drums, his songwriting REALLY SUFFERS when it appears he is only in it to please himself. Knowing some of the band's history, back in the early days of the Pumpkins I felt like Billy definitely respected James in a way that he WANTED James to like his songs! If you think this didn't make Billy second guess some of his songwriting choices then I think you're crazy...which is why i think all the "Billy IS the smashing pumpkins" nonsense is just flat out wrong.
Well, you can't just pluck out certain stanzas. The entire song stands as a great piece of romantic poetry, IMO. After those lyrics you referred to:
Cause all things will surely have to end
the great loves will one day have to part
i know that I am meant for this world
and in my dreams as i was floating far above the clouds
some children laughed we'd fall for certain
for thinking that we'd last forever.
I don't know about you but I really enjoy that particular style of poetry from the school of romanticism. To be fair, his current lyrical output does not match this. :)
Agreed. I think Adore is vastly underrated, and Pisces Iscariot is almost on par with Siamese Dream for me. I was always amazed at how many songs were left off the main albums that could actually comprise an entirely new album which was almost as good as the A-sides.
The first track blew me away...but I wait in the reeds for a band to pull off this sound in such a melodic, interesting way. Lots of boring bands in this genre, unfortunately.
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