TS: Pavement / Smashing Pumpkins

the obvious best song of the decade "gold soundz"

oh my

"go back to those gold sounds/and keep your ice cream to yourself/cause it's central/not essential/and we're comin to the chorus now"

I wonder if the same people who like Pavement also like Kesha too

I like all three.

85% of ppl who vote Pavement here think that In Rainbows is Radiohead's best album...

the obvious best song of the decade "gold soundz"

oh my

― van smack, Sunday, February 20, 2011 6:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

85% of ppl who vote Pavement here think that In Rainbows is Radiohead's best album...

― kingkongvsbasedgodzilla (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, February 20, 2011 12:44 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

not getting thoust joke? pavement appeals to me on the basis's of it's occasional brutality, it's sawing guitars, it's peculiar riffs/melodies and of all, malkmus's mere existence. i think "my bloody valentine >" every time i listen to a smashing pumpkins... it's overkill of the simplicity mbv achieved with that crushing guitar sound. but anyways, what i'm getting to is that the bends is my favvie radiohead album. i tried making all the aforementioned relevant... i tried :(

Don't stress it kelp; just tryin to gather all my pet peeves into one post. I spent an hour working out how I could shoehorn a mention of the governor of WI in there, but to no avail...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

the obvious best song of the decade "gold soundz"

oh my

― van smack, Sunday, February 20, 2011 6:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

think ilxor was tryna be meta-snarky here [via sarcastic pitchfork ref]

― on some outer space shit (bernard snowy), Sunday, February 20, 2011 11:46 AM (4 hours ago)

I had no idea that p4k named that the best song of the decade. I just looked that up. Oh my *massive facepalm*

yeah

best music poll result of the 2010s imo

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Almost exactly 2:1! Pretty much how I figured.

http://img.search.com/thumb/9/93/ElectoralCollege1936-Large.png/400px-ElectoralCollege1936-Large.png

I quit

Whole bunch of wankers.

oh no this is not what i expected at all :(

lol duh

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/files/2010/10/reagan-mondale-1984-electoral-college-map.jpg

it was supposed to be a tie. you were all supposed to vote for a tie.

I dl'd Wowee Zowee last week in hopes of bettering my knowledge of Pavement. I guess they kind of sound like The Band if the Band didn't care much for tunes.

wrong result, #s should be reversed :(

I agree with this poll.

I always had this pet hypothesis that SP fans were just big romantics in one sense of the word or another. For ppl with heavy feelings! For ppl who like dragons, you know?

― Peter Pepsi (Abbbottt), Saturday, February 12, 2011 5:55 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

definitely

I voted SP btw! "Adore" sounds way better than anything Pavement ever did.

SP has about 50 songs that fit that description imo

sounding good was never Pavement's strong suit, admittedly

I meant the whole album, rly, never was sure what style one followed for song titles v albums.

oh yeah i was thinking of "Ava Adore"

Nachos: Yes No
TS: Pavement / Smashing Pumpkins

haha cant believe yall like smashing pumpkins

pavement will win this and I will never understand what awful lurks inside a nerd's mind

― homeless romantic (CaptainLorax)

i don't even like smashing pumpkins all that much, i just like them tons more than pavement

smashing pumpkins are a passable singles band that never even understood what they were good at

Corgan definitely has very little idea of what music of his is good and why it's good, but he's made enough of it that there's plenty worth hearing

Corgan, among others, taught me how important vocals are. I can't get past how gross and ugly his voice sounds.

confession: looked for the 'like' button on ice cr?m's post. can we get a like button already?

ugh too much time on facebook son

i don't even like smashing pumpkins all that much, i just like them tons more than pavement
― some dude, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 03:07 (1 hour ago)

^this

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Corgan, among others, taught me how important vocals are. I can't get past how gross and ugly his voice sounds.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, February 22, 2011 3:15 AM (1 hour ago)

I never thought of his voice as gross and ugly. Pavement's singer, on the other hand, sounds like a very poor man's Jeff Tweedy. After looking at some pics of Pavement's singer just now, I'm led to believe that he's an anal retentive jerk.

haha i can't even

visual appearances are more telling than one might imagine. plus he lives in portland

Not that there are a whole lot of you on this particular thread, but I really wish Corgan would stop furthering diluting the brand so that we can reach that point where the Pumpkins become more like, I don't know, Rush (to pull an answer out of my back pocket), and they can be judged solely on the music instead of some weird projection of what their "fans" must be like. Rush may not be the best example, but its the first band that came to mind when I was trying to think of a band that spend times packing arenas and being really popular before becoming a somewhat dismissed, "uncool" band with a dedicated fanbase. Of course the big difference is Rush kept on moving forward and made more good records than bad one during the thin years and were better able to come through it with a fairly strong legacy intact. At this point Corgan seems intent on destroying any and all goodwill. But, for my money, the run from Gish to Adore was pretty fucking amazing, especially when you consider all the great non-album material.

But, for my money, the run from Gish to Adore MACHINA was pretty fucking amazing, especially when you consider all the great non-album material.

Nah, Machina had way too much bloat. Combine the best of it with the best of Machina II and then maybe we can talk.

smashing pumpkins are a passable singles band

...with a shitload of awesome b-sides and album tracks

haha cant believe yall like smashing pumpkins

a strong argument

the run from Gish to Adore was pretty fucking amazing, especially when you consider all the great non-album material.

OTM

visual appearances are more telling than one might imagine. plus he lives in portland

― dead flies on a chain (CaptainLorax)

haha great post!

After looking at some pics of Pavement's singer just now, I'm led to believe that he's an anal retentive jerk.

Haha as opposed to the easygoing and generous Billy Corgan?