Can anyone tell me what the Hell happened to the Smashing Pumpkins?
Published July 25th, 2008 in .No Plugs
Sorry about that, but I had a ton of website work to do. I did a ton of work on this today, and spent about 4 hours putting this together for CSS. That’s right they wanted the whole 33 page Abuse Prevention and Procedures Guideline Document into a web page. I dare you to read it in under 4 hours, the whole this and not get bored.
You are listening too . . .
Siva off of Smashing Pumpkins first independent release, Gish. Malach at one time was a big Pumpkin’s fan. I saw them opening up at the Rocky Point Paladium (in front of a crowd on 1500) for Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1990. A lot of people don’t believe this, but also opening up: Nirvana, and Pearl Jam. I saw it again about 6 months later, same venue, but Nirvana had just hit big, and they were replaced by Soundgarden. At that time, Pearl Jam had yet to release 10, it was on the way, the Pumpkins has just release Gish and by the end of the tour signed to a major label, Nirvana had just released Nevermind, and the Chili Pepper just released Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic. As for Soundgarden, they had just released Badmotorfinger. So, no one had any clue who Pearl Jam was, they opened up the entire show, and boy they were impressive, Smashing Pumpkins were next, I had their album through word of mouth. Nirvana was one of the bands I was there to see, loved Bleach, and even loved Nevermind better, of course it hadn’t hit yet. Now the Chili Peppers, this was about the 6th time I had scene them. Big fans of their since the mid 80’s. Mother’s Milk is still an amazing album.
So, back to the pumpkins, this of course was back when Billy Corgan had hair. They put on a pretty amazing show, some of the best guitar work I have ever scene. This song is pretty much indicative of their style, feedback, eastern style, tribal drums, and dreamy lyrics. What happened to all that? The sign to a major label, and release Drown (off the Singles soundtrack), a song they closed with which had about a 10 minute feedback after they left the stage. Cool song, still in that style, and then they released Siamese Dream, and something happened. Now, that album is pretty good but like the Chili Peppers (Under the Bridge) this cheesy ballad became a hit, Today, very unlike any of the slower songs they had done it the past. And from there on out, they became much different musically.
Is it the fame and fortune? Music Industry pressure? Maybe it was me?
Dear Malach
- Malicious Intent writes: Dear Malach, What is with this implication that folks should pitty Drafting with No Direction just because he is married to me??? Huh? And what secrets do you know? I kid cause I love, and secrets? MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
- Toyi writes: Dear Malach, sooo 10 million years old? what are we supposed to do? have a funeral???? Is that an attempt at sarcasm? I have a question for you. I went by one of these store front Christian churches that seem to pop up all over the city of New Bedford, and on their sign it said: “It is a sin for Church to be boring”. What the heck does that mean? If one find Church boring it’s a sin? Or those that make Church boring, they are sinning?
This is an great idea.
Not only will it save us money, it will get some of the rest of the world involved, and we won’t be the bad guys.
Take that!
You stupid lawnmower!
Hey Mike?
A relative of yours?
Explain to me why.
So yesterday, I went up to Boston to bring a client to an appointment for Section 8 at the Boston Housing Authority. Parked the Jeep in a parking garage across the street. Now, I know parking in downtown Boston is expensive, but $14 for an hour? To top it off, parking for the entire day was only $32. Parking for the first half hour was $6, so double that to an hour and pay $14? Man, ancestors should of bought a parking garage in Boston! Oh yeah, Boston a lot of fun to drive around in, your should try it some time.
This could be fun
Punisher: War Zone. Much better actor to play Frank Castle, and there is Jigsaw! Should be much better than the one in 2004. And if you like violence and gore in your Punisher trailers, here you go!
Malach’s Friday Sheik Yerbouti Video of the Day
I am Malach and that was dedicated to John McCain
That’s one way to get out of mowing the damned lawn! x
Dude, why didn’t you just PDF the document that CSS wanted up there and just link to it? Would have taken 5 min. That was torture (on your part.)
“I kid cause I love” sounds like a throw off from Chris Myers “I kid cause I care.”
You do know who Chris Myers is, right?
“He told police: “I can do that, it’s my lawn mower and my yard so I can shoot it if I want.” Walendowski could face up to an $11,000 fine and six years and three months in prison if convicted.
What has this country come to when you can not even shoot your lawn mower in peace withtout getting arrested. This country is going to shit!
WE all know the kid was going to Hooters for the wings. Come on…that is the only reason anyone goes there.
Happy Saturday!
Steve Albini has the answer for what happened to the Pumpkins.
Oh no AngryMan is going on his love Steve Albini again. I thought the restraining order had ended that phase in his life.
Kitty; True
MI: I should of explained that better, it is part of the requirement of the United State Catholic Confernce of Bishops to have a live webpage with a lot of that stuff in the Office of Child Protection part of the site and not just link to a .pdf. It is about being readiley searchable and accessible. They made a ton of deals with proseuters when they put these departments together, and the FBI sits on the board of the main US Office of Child Protection.
Angryman: I can agree with Albini, Urge Overkill never really caught on, the Pumpkins became very pop, and LIz Phair was really good until her album after Whipsmart, and she too went Pop.
Rag: Maybe they will make a YouPorn vid together.
That whole lawnmower thing.
I can’t tell you how close I came to doing the exact same thing.
When we first moved into this house, there was a shitty little lawn-tractor already here that came with the house. It was the worst thing I had ever seen in my life. The belts that ran the mowing deck were always slipping off. I got so mad at the mower one day that I jumped off it and flipped it over on its side and just left it there for a day or two.
I really wanted to blow the son of a bitch up.
Haha you really got some funny stories here.
Damn now I have to think twice about shooting my lawnmower!
And I wonder if any of the Hooters girls breastfed that kid?!
Smashing pumpkins went boom, silly.
Mike: You got guns too, do it!
Mother Hen: Glad you like my stuff
Nibbles: Thanks
Corgan is one of my personal favorite singers. I first heard him in Smashing Pumpkins. I liked the name because when I was a kid, my friends and I always smashed all the unattended pumpkins we could find. Did anybody else do that when they were young?