"I honestly think he may have a brain tumor. He’s always been insufferable." - D'arcy Wretzsky's first interview in 20 years

yes they do m8

Pearl Jam still consistently does arena tours iirc

They're still alive iirc

look can we get this thread back on track and start laughing at billy corgan again pls

yes they do m8

― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 February 2018 12:49 (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

We will not fall out over it

The Pumpkins were a lot gothier than Pearl Jam and that pretty much guarantees you'll continue to appeal to enough teenagers in decades to come. I guess the whole earnestness of Pearl Jam would probably appeal more to Generation Snowflake if it wasn't for Vedder's voice and his array of terrible imitators.

have we done a poll on whether corgan or vedder has the more horrible voice

ah cmon thats not evena real contest

or is it

eddie vedder at least sounds like a human male while corgan sounds like a sentient nose

https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/sites/thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/files/Veale-nose2.jpg

DESPITE ALL MY RAGE I AM STILL JUST A RAT INNA CAGE

ahah, speaking of BC's voice, playing the "I Am One" 93 video, I actually laughed when he started to "sing".
It sounds more like a an angry crow !

Billy Corgan sounds like Jon Lovitz as Annoying Man.

Vedder's voice and his array of terrible imitators.

Oh god yes why did that happen? An infinite array.

Just imagine if there were an array of Corgan imitators.

Oh god yes why did that happen?

you can only seem like you really mean it if you sing like a bull trying to force its way through a fence iirc

Like a lowing cow.

a phased array of billy corgans looking for MiGs

For band that has like 2.5 good songs there sure have an awful lot of drama.

2.5 being the aggregated total of goodness in all their songs combined

― sarahell, Saturday, 17 February 2018 19:47 (two days ago) Permalink

Oh yeah for real they certainly don't have a single song that's good from front to back.

Further break down:
4 neat ideas, two good riffs, a solid chorus, drums are "cool" a few times=2.5 songs.

I saw them in 1991 just pre-fame opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers and Corgan was hugely insufferable at the show so they could like...cure cancer and I'd still be like "2.5 good songs"

where did you see them in 1991? just curious, there might be a recording of that show and i'd be interested in hearing... the gish shows were pretty wild

They have at least 50 great songs.

people who think they're just the worst band are so weird to me, it's like y'all don't even have ears

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Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St Paul, MN which is notoriously an impossibly bad sounding concrete box/ex-hockey venue.

Someone threw an ice cube at Billy at one point and he stopped the show to yell at the crowd and threaten to walk off "You want to throw something? Throw it at my face" so obviously the instant he turned around a rain of ice pelted the stage. No walk off but they were like super-turgid, doing these jams on every song which I don't think was winning everyone over.

Pearl Jam also played.

I don't think they are the worst band. The worst band would be far more interesting.

Number of Good Songs Had By the Smashing Pumkings

time to resolve this dispute with science

lol @ those poll options

They have the 70 songs from 2-71 on the list of the greatest songs ever

xxpost

Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St Paul, MN which is notoriously an impossibly bad sounding concrete box/ex-hockey venue.

Someone threw an ice cube at Billy at one point and he stopped the show to yell at the crowd and threaten to walk off "You want to throw something? Throw it at my face" so obviously the instant he turned around a rain of ice pelted the stage. No walk off but they were like super-turgid, doing these jams on every song which I don't think was winning everyone over.

Pearl Jam also played.

I don't think they are the worst band. The worst band would be far more interesting.

― chr1sb3singer

dang, no extant recording or known setlist. it was November 30, 1991 fwiw

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I saw them in ’91, Detroit show, opening (w/Pearl Jam) for RHCP. Pumpkins were great. The other two, not so much. PJ were goofy (I thought “These guys are going nowhere”) and RHCP were in “bored professionals” mode.