TS: Billy Corgan vs. Stephen Malkmus

i've got a bald head / my name is yul brynner / and i am a famous movie star

would rather hear Corgan sing "Embassy Row" these days

picturing corgan singing "fight this generation"

Hey people, sisters and brothers, brothers and sisters, come on now. That means everybody just cool out.

the Range Life lyric is pretty mild, but then again he does lump the pumpkins in with stone temple pilots, which really is a shot in the back. either way, it had real consequences because Corgan forced Pavement off of Lollapalooza in 1994 by threatening not to play, after they had replaced Nirvana as the headliners.

Malkmus was always so mean to Spiral Stairs.

malkmus was not at all mean to spiral stairs during the reunion shows, but i felt kinda bad because the former was basically a rock god and the latter basically looked like paul simon

run them both through a wood chipper and use them as chum.

voted Corgan.

Spiral Stairs basically sucks

I just want to remind everyone that this happened:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3tV8n-CVnA#t=22263

...and then again, this also happened:

https://scontent-a-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t31.0-8/s960x960/10537192_10102666232156215_742803194163461979_o.jpg

what -- those jeans?

Can't see the image, is he wearing Bob Weir Daisy Duke jorts?

malkmus but i'm having a hard time coming up with strong feelings about this. i guess my main argument would be that most of the stuff corgan has done is completely embarassing but i'll always have time for cherub rock and rhinoceros.

is Weir Daisy Duke Jorts the follow-up to Wigwam Jagoff At Jackie Jormp-Jomp's?

smashing pumpkins are that rare band where I really can't understand why anyone likes their music at all, it's just so horrible

there isn't a band on the planet I wouldn't vote for ahead of smashing pumpkins

Afraid I'm not familiar with that particular opus.
(Xp)

tbh i think it's kind of cool when someone with a piercingly unpleasant voice, ridiculous pretensions and a toxic personality muscles their way to multi-million sales with a good ear for hooks. Malkmus got pretty much exactly where he was likely to land with his influences and skill set, Corgan's ascent was so unlikely as to be almost illogical.

Take both these guys over Grohl's nice guy ubiquituous torchbearer of rock bullshit

^this actually

is grohl a secret asshole? hadn't heard

well obviously. courntey love's "He’s just a sub-mediocre kind of guy who does this ‘nice guy’ nonsense” is just searing, but otm.

xp

malkmus was not at all mean to spiral stairs during the reunion shows, but i felt kinda bad because the former was basically a rock god and the latter basically looked like paul simon.

Man, imagine being the Garfunkel, but looking like the Simon.

I was always on SS' side until I finally heard the full version of Nothing Ever Happens.

I mean, more like Wounded Cat, amirite?

kannberg looked completely miserable by the end of the pavement reunion show i saw but oh well

Corgan. Pavement are/were fucking wank.

I just feel it's easier to tell Malkmus to shut up.

There is something really nasty and insecure about Corgan's extroverts ways and I can't stand that, despite the fact that I've always enjoyed his desire to create a broad landscape as music and many other ideas behind the Smashing Pumpkins. So yeah sure Pavement didn't shoot for the moon the same way, but they hit the right notes with me.

Malkmus was always so mean to Spiral Stairs.

malkmus was not at all mean to spiral stairs during the reunion shows, but i felt kinda bad because the former was basically a rock god and the latter basically looked like paul simon

― mookieproof, Monday, 13 October 2014 23:41 (Yesterday) Permalink

thought at the reunion show I caught malkmus played half-heartedly whenever a SS number was up

these reunion shows sound pretty much like exactly the ones I saw in the 90s.

Well, minus the

http://i.imgur.com/3lZIgTF.jpg

feel uncomfortable even having to cast a vote for one of these straight white male pieces of human trash, but malkmus

well obviously. courntey love's "He’s just a sub-mediocre kind of guy who does this ‘nice guy’ nonsense” is just searing

I'm far more pro-Courtney than most but I wouldn't take her opinions on people in Kurt's inner circle as gospel. I think people are just loath to admit that people who are famous at least partially for being "nice" might genuinely be nice because they don't like their output.

i think we can all agree that kurt would've hated the foo fighters (as they were after he wasn't, at least)

A few of Grohl's ideas about rock purism are dumb as shit, but I have a friend who knows him and I believe her when she says he's genuinely nice and a pretty dope friend.

always thought he was a good guy, never dug his music and sort of resent him for being as popular as he is, but hey. great guy

http://www.nme.com/news/courtney-love/80347

i believe every word

paul simon is cute!

feel like this is comparing neil young and don henley

malkmus is definitely a henley, spot on

TS: Malkmus vs. Madona

corgy vs. malky

could corgy pull off 'ege bamyasi' with such swag though?

prob not - but the cars?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqJG-FEnzMY

Rhinoceros, Mayonnaise, Soma, and Drown vs. sideman on American Water and Tanglewood Numbers.

Don't know which way I'll lean, honestly.

ugh you had me goin there for a second dude

i think we can all agree that kurt would've hated the foo fighters (as they were after he wasn't, at least)

This is the Kurt Cobain who can be heard covering Led Zeppelin in the early Nirvana tapes, right? Just checking!

A few of Grohl's ideas about rock purism are dumb as shit, but I have a friend who knows him and I believe her when she says he's genuinely nice and a pretty dope friend.

I have a friend in Alexandria, VA who has a professional relationship with Grohl and says the same.

Dave Grohl is rich and satisfied.

i think we can all agree that kurt would've hated the foo fighters (as they were after he wasn't, at least)

This is the Kurt Cobain who can be heard covering Led Zeppelin in the early Nirvana tapes, right? Just checking!

the foo fighters do not sound like zeppelin, they're alt MOR crap

At this stage Dave Grohl's phonebook is more interesting than Dave Grohl