Where music is concerned, I seldom get bouts of nostaliga and long for the music of my past. I've heard the music of my past, and I know for a fact that most of it sucks. (Except, of course, U2) I'd always rather find something new to wear out and then discard like an old sock. "What did I do with that Air cd? Do I really care?"
For some reason this morning, while blearily filling my teeny mp3 player with music I came across a song I haven't listened to in AGES.
Smashing Pumpkins - The Boy
What a great song this is! And maybe it's because it's James Iha singing instead of Billy Corgan, but that slammed me right back to 1998, when to me, you couldn't get any better than the Smashing Freaking Pumpkins. I'll be the first to admit that Billy Corgan really can't sing. He made it work on Gish & Siamese Dream, but I remember wincing through most of Pisces Iscariot. However! I believed then (and always will) that he IS one of the Greatest songwriters of all time. That's why he started going all weird, thinking he was David Gilmore. He started trying to look like Uncle Fester on purpose. I'm convinced he's somehow related to Michael Stipe, the only other musician I can say whose Ego could rival Corgan's. And maybe that's why I love them both (or did), because they're both extra extra crazy.
So without any furter adieu...
My Sugguested Smashing Pumpkins Playlist. You're welcome.
Cherub Rock (You ALWAYS start a S.P. Mix with this song)
The Boy
33
Transformer
Perfect
Siva
Eye
Mayonaise
Whir
Crush
Zero
The Last Song
Frail and Bedazzled
Adore
Geek U.S.A.
To Sheila
Cherry
The Aeroplane Flies High
Blank Page (always end on this song.)
You can't listen to 'Mayonaise' (I KNOW, stupid name for a song, Ego, remember?) or or 'Cherub Rock' without being soundly impressed with Corgan's songwriting skills. He's always kind of Wistful and Daydreamy, just like me.
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
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5 comments:
Aw man! Take me back! I wore those albums out! I still have a place in my heart for weirdo Billy and Mr. Stipe.
I love when that happens and you hear something you haven't heard in ages, then it all comes back. Good playlist Bethies. Hurah!(in the cheerleader way not Al Pacino way)
Good Call, Dane!
I'll add just about every Zwan song to that list...*sniffle* I miss Melissa Auf der Mar. She's not been there for me at ALL, post-Hole.
i am a total pop culture retard. i have nothing to add.
i like pumpkin flan & pumpkin seeds!
Tolbs...Disarm was the only song of theirs I got really, really sick of. Maybe It's been long enough to where now I can listen to it without going nuts.
As for their reunion, I'm going to remain skeptical. Remember when Guns n' Roses reunited, and it was just some freakish version of Axl Rose and a bunch of wierdos?
Duff McKeagan or Die!!!
It must have worked, Tolbs. Because he swears he finally unwrapped it.
Boys are so easy.
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