"Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection" (itsalwayssteve)
10/10/2015 at 15:10 • Filed to: musiclopnik
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"Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection" (itsalwayssteve)
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Ye Fans of the Smashing Pumpkins should know that they peaked with their oeuvre “Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.”
If you disagree with me, you’re wrong.
While it was a transitional album, it was the tipping point. There are few guitar-pop songs as good as “1979,” and few double albums that I can listen to from front to back. This is one of them. Every single became a classic, and the rest of the album is more than just crap filler.
Before Melon Collie, they played noisy art-rock (or maybe arty noise-rock) with influences of British shoegaze, fuzzy distortion, and even a pinch of punk and metal.
After this, Billy Corgan dove into the realm of electro-pop weirdness with Adore, alienating fans, and the band broke up. But for a few years from 1995-97, The Pumpkins were easily the best “alternative rock” band in the States.
If I would have had a green 1996 Firebird Formula with T-tops, 6-speed, and a Monsoon stereo pumping this album throughout my senior year of high school, I would have had all the girls in my high school.
Jcarr
> Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
10/10/2015 at 15:15 |
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Here is No Why has always been my favorite track from this album. I never understood why it didn’t get much of any play.
gin-san - shitpost specialist
> Jcarr
10/10/2015 at 15:29 |
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It wasn't single, as far as I know - only singles were Tonight, Tonight, Zero, Bullet with Butterfly Wings, Thirty-three, and (my personal favourite) 1979. For such a large album it's surprising it didn't have more singles.
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gin-san - shitpost specialist
> Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
10/10/2015 at 15:33 |
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I’m a huge Smashing Pumpkins fan, but I never got to see them live, in their prime - I only became a fan in 2000 and that was after they had come through my city while they were touring for Machina.
Mellon Collie is one of those surreal album experiences - I’m glad they stuck to their concept, since the double album really is an amazing experience to listen to.
Siamese Dream is my next favourite album from them, but yeah I have things I love about all their albums, including Adore and Machina/Machina II. Never really got into their new stuff (post-Zwan) but the albums from Gish through to Machina are all ones I love.
JeepJeremy
> Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
10/10/2015 at 15:55 |
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I saw them this summer. Obviously not the line-up that put together the album in showcase here, but Billy’s voice was still incredible and the show was amazing.
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
10/10/2015 at 16:19 |
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I saw them open for pearl Jam in 1993, it was a sight to behold. We were exhausted from the mosh pit before pearl jam even started. Epic night. Pearl Jam was about 200% better than the Pumpkins.
That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms
> Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
10/10/2015 at 16:40 |
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Siamese Dream would be my choice, but you can’t go wrong with Mellon Collie.
Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
10/10/2015 at 19:38 |
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This album is not even excessively dated in some ways. My girlfriend was born in 1991 and she thinks most of it is good (though she does think the music in a number of the songs sounds nearly identical). Not quite as timeless as songs from The Presidents of the United States of America during the same era, but way up there.
Sad that they were kind of a one album wonder. At least it was a good one.