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 !
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 19 February 2018 14:12 (six years ago) link
Billy Corgan sounds like Jon Lovitz as Annoying Man.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 19 February 2018 14:12 (six years ago) link
Vedder's voice and his array of terrible imitators.Oh god yes why did that happen? An infinite array.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 19 February 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link
Just imagine if there were an array of Corgan imitators.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 19 February 2018 14:24 (six years ago) link
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
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 14:26 (six years ago) link
Like a lowing cow.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 19 February 2018 14:32 (six years ago) link
a phased array of billy corgans looking for MiGs
― Dat Login was the dname u doofus (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 19 February 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link
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"
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 19 February 2018 17:53 (six years ago) link
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
― flappy bird, Monday, 19 February 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link
They have at least 50 great songs.
― crüt, Monday, 19 February 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
people who think they're just the worst band are so weird to me, it's like y'all don't even have ears
― crüt, Monday, 19 February 2018 17:57 (six years ago) link
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, Monday, 19 February 2018 18:00 (six years ago) link
Number of Good Songs Had By the Smashing Pumkings
time to resolve this dispute with science
― Big Ched aka The Cheesedriver (Noodle Vague), Monday, 19 February 2018 18:02 (six years ago) link
lol @ those poll options
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 February 2018 18:02 (six years ago) link
They have the 70 songs from 2-71 on the list of the greatest songs ever
― rum dmc (darraghmac), Monday, 19 February 2018 18:07 (six years ago) link
xxpostRoy 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
― chr1sb3singer
dang, no extant recording or known setlist. it was November 30, 1991 fwiw
― flappy bird, Monday, 19 February 2018 18:18 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 16 March 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 17 March 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
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.
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Saturday, 17 March 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link