Marsupialized wrote:

matthias beebe wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:I will never for the life of me understand a male who likes the Smashing Pumpkins.
It's fucking girl music. Seriously. It's music for girls having a rough time with their period.
If you like them, do it in private. Don't make everyone else sick. It's fucked up and creepy.
You wanna put things in your butt when you get home from work? That's totally fine, just don't talk about it at the dinner table, you know?
Nobody wants to hear about it.

I don't mean to be rude, but you're coming across like you have a really tiny dick.

I didn't know one's ability to take pleasure in the fucking hideous overwrought paper thin horseshit plopped out by the little bald douchebag and his drones was the measure of a man's girth. That's fine, though.
If I can make just one person sit and go 'you know what, he's right. This 'music' is fucking stupid...what am I doing? What, am I a 15 year old suburban white girl with self esteem issues?' it is well worth it.

I am sorry but some things are just not for grown ups or males. The Smashing Pumkins are one of those things. Listening to the Smashing Pumpkins is the musical equivalent of playing with barbie dolls or walking around the house dressed like a baby with a diaper and rattle.

Fine if you wanna do it, just don't expect those of us not interested in such things to understand or just be cool about it when you start trying to sell us on it. It's fucking weird and creepy for a grown man to be doing these things. Everyone knows it, YOU must know it.

This is music for children. Little self centered stupid suburban children.

Have some fucking self respect. Seriously.

matthias beebe wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:

matthias beebe wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:I will never for the life of me understand a male who likes the Smashing Pumpkins.
It's fucking girl music. Seriously. It's music for girls having a rough time with their period.
If you like them, do it in private. Don't make everyone else sick. It's fucked up and creepy.
You wanna put things in your butt when you get home from work? That's totally fine, just don't talk about it at the dinner table, you know?
Nobody wants to hear about it.

I don't mean to be rude, but you're coming across like you have a really tiny dick.

I didn't know one's ability to take pleasure in the fucking hideous overwrought paper thin horseshit plopped out by the little bald douchebag and his drones was the measure of a man's girth. That's fine, though.
If I can make just one person sit and go 'you know what, he's right. This 'music' is fucking stupid...what am I doing? What, am I a 15 year old suburban white girl with self esteem issues?' it is well worth it.

I am sorry but some things are just not for grown ups or males. The Smashing Pumkins are one of those things. Listening to the Smashing Pumpkins is the musical equivalent of playing with barbie dolls or walking around the house dressed like a baby with a diaper and rattle.

Fine if you wanna do it, just don't expect those of us not interested in such things to understand or just be cool about it when you start trying to sell us on it. It's fucking weird and creepy for a grown man to be doing these things. Everyone knows it, YOU must know it.

This is music for children. Little self centered stupid suburban children.

Have some fucking self respect. Seriously.

OK I'm actually not posting here to defend a band. I couldn't give a shit less what you like. No, I just wanted to point out that you sound like an idiot. YOU must know it.

I'm sorry man, but judging by the amount of passion you seem to have about what other people listen to, one can only conclude that it is you who is in dire need of some self respect.

kerble wrote:

sparky wrote:Remembering the Smashing Pumpkins makes me realise that, you know, Soundgarden were not so bad.

don't make me cut you.

fathoms wrote:With all due respect to Soundgarden who were a talented band that released some solid records in their day, the simple fact of the matter is that the Smashing Pumpkins charted a more diverse, provocative, and ultimately rewarding musical assembly throughout their career. It's not a simple matter of hearing three or four songs by them and knowing all you need to know, because in truth they have countless hundreds of songs that span the ranges from psychedelic, folk, metal, prog, electronic, pop, shoegazer, new wave, acid rock, goth and the list goes on...Corgans's early nineties spoiled brat temperament combined with his raspy, grating vocals will prevent his band from ever achieving the widespread acceptance of peers like Nirvana or Pearl Jam, who are usually only really reviled for the simple fact of their popularity. But if the goal of art is to be provocative, then its easy to see how a band like the Pumpkins evokes such intense reaction from people (good or bad). I think if you have an appreciation for the musical chemistry in the band, cheifly the backbone of which is provided by Corgan/Chamberlin dynamic its fascinating to remark on how the Pumpkins can play epic guitar freakout jams like Silver**** one minute, and the next minute, they display their emotional and musical diversity by pulling out something very gentle and Beatles' esque like Farewell and Goodnight.

In fairness, Soundgarden are not exactly without their strengths, Cornell in his day was arguably the best pure rock vocalist alive., and Matt Cameron plays alt.rock like a beast. They were a good metal band and even better rock band, but they never took major artistic leaps, and often repeated themselves too many times for comfort over the course of an album. For that reason I wouldn't personally put them in the same class of band as the Pumpkins.