Smashing Pumpkins used to sound like The Smiths!

[Steely Dave]

Corgan is a fantastic guitar player. Incredible songwriter and unique singer. I love smashing pumpkins.
Here they kinda sound like REM to me

You forgot to add "pretentious prick"

 

[RanaldoNecro]

I've seen TSP 7 times since 1994 and Billy solo once. I think he is also a fantastic songwriter. I also think Ogilala is better than Cotillions.

 

[HAL 9000]

I find The Cranberries...too tart.

I prefer The Blueberries or The Strawberries.

I find The Smiths..too general.

I prefer The Joneses or The Johnsons.

Just Kidding.

I enjoy both The Smiths and The Cranberries.

MEANWHILE, BACK TO THE PUMPKINS:

I hear some Joy Division/early New Order in them as well:

Bleed

 

[RanaldoNecro]

Is Zombie The Stairway of the 90's?

#easilyplayedacousticnumbers

 

[norska]

I wasn’t expecting this. there’s a Smashing Pumpkins show from 1988 in its entirely on YT. no Strats, Marshalls or Big Muffs. just a Mustang / Tele into Roland Jazz Choruses. heavy on The Smiths / The Cure post-punk. very cool stuff!

Always loved this song.

 

[RanaldoNecro]

You hear New Order in the band because New Order blood is in the band!

Jack Bates - Bassist

Bassist Manchester, UK

jackbass.info

 

[RanaldoNecro]

I guess this video is from The Pisces Iscariot Deluxe?

Pisces Iscariot - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Ry@n]

You forgot to add "pretentious prick"

Nah, it’s just not relevant… unless we’re really hell-bent on comparing him to Morrissey.

 

[Ry@n]

Is Zombie The Stairway of the 90's?

#easilyplayedacousticnumbers

No. “Enter Sandman” is.

 

[monkeybrains]

You forgot to add "pretentious prick"

I dont think hes such a bad guy. His interview in the joe rogan show I thought hes actually alright. When I saw them live and he left mid performance and refused to come back, well then yeah I agree with you

 

[RanaldoNecro]

Prickly, but also a genius. If you are a fan, you know Billy by now. His public persona is probably very different than his private one. I will always buy his stuff.

 

[Slo Lerner]

That’s not funny at all, I actually have a disease, that I wouldn’t wish on my worse enemy, but go ahead and laugh, I wish you all the best, meanwhile I fight an uphill battle each and every day, each and every minute I’m awake!

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On something of vastly more importance than which band will be remembered, congratulations on a hard won journey! What you're doing is not easy but it is definitely something you should be proud of. Keep on keepin' on!

 

[A-Bone]

I suppose that is what Morrissey/The Smiths was getting at on the 1988 Live album. "Rank".

It's a riff on the cockney rhyming slang "J. Arthur Rank" which substitutes in that system for "wank." It's what we'd call a contractual obligation release from a dissolved band.

 

[RanaldoNecro]

WOW, I just got slapped hard and for good reason. Now, I do remember that it was a contractual obligation. I didn't know that reference. I suppose only The Smiths/Morrissey really knows what the intention was.

 

[RanaldoNecro]

Best of luck to those who are struggling and we wish you the best in your journey.

 

[RanaldoNecro]

The Lemonheads. Now there is a fruity name for a band.

 

[piazzi]

The Smiths was an early and poorer version of The Cranberries, only without that folk component of and with a tremendously better vocalist (the Irish band)

yes, super vocalist, they had

 

[RanaldoNecro]

The Cranberries were not that original. The Smiths were the biggest thing since The Beatles in the UK from 84-87 but not in the USA.

 

[Nevets]

Billy is a big cat lover so he's okay in my book.

 

[Lode Runner]

Prickly, but also a genius. If you are a fan, you know Billy by now. His public persona is probably very different than his private one. I will always buy his stuff.

I do recommend his episode in the Rockontours podcast with Guy Pratt and Gary Kemp. A proper music chat with musicians who ask the right questions and know what they are talking about.
BC came out rather well from this in my opinion.