ziggywas

welcome!
i also love RTJ.
you sound young. question: can you say some more things about the smashing pumpkins beeing one of your favorite acts?

i m asking because as a teenager or in my early twenties i was a huge fan of them but nowadays i think they re kinda...irrelevant. and also that they havent recorded anything decent for 2 decades or so.....

GeechyDarko

Yeah, I’m pretty young. I’m 17. I listened to a lot of Siamese Dream, Adore and Melloncollie when I was younger. But when I started getting into black flag and TSOL and really just into the hardcore punk scene, it made me appreciate them even more honestly, the heavy metal influence and just how weird and distorted the guitars are - especially on adore are amazing.

I feel like my acts list was a little short, I’m hugely into techno, I like Alan Fitzpatrick, aswell as classic local DJs like binman and x Ray who never really broke out of the local area I like Felt aswell as a local indie bands such as Brand New Friend and Hot Cops which I recommend you all check out. Both awesome. As I’ve said I love hardcore punk, also love the smiths and would listen to a lot of Morrissey, I like your arsenal the most, I know a lot of people hate it but it’s w/e.

Used to be super into Nu Metal, also into Brit Pop and sort of just generally british artists, but haven’t dived much deeper than What’s the Story, Urban Hyms and Stone Roses self titled, I like the kooks and stereophonics and ****.

In terms of hip hop, big into the beast coast movement and previously into OF. Not so much of a fan of Tyler’s new ****, call me edgy but I feel like there’s way better neo soul than what was offered on Igor. Hugely into Flatbush Zombies fell in love with Better Off Dead - great mixtape, same with a lot of the New York psychedelic rap scene - Indigioism, Live.Love.Asap and Better Off Dead did a great job at that honestly.

I can chat about any genre, wether it be a breakdown of Steve Earle’s discography on a country board or why in the aeroplane over the sea is overrated on a another.

I think this maybe should have been my intro, but I was tired. Glad I got a warm welcome

The Batlord

I honestly find Steve Earle's voice hard to listen to but I do love me some country. Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Townes Van Zandt (suck it, OH), The Louvin Brothers, Dolly Parton. I'm not deep into the genre at all but what I've been getting into over the last few years is some of the best stuff I've discovered in that time.

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ziggywas

well he should be mad but mostly at himself i think.
the way i see it the pumpkins had a great path in fron of them after adore, to follow it up further exploring a new (at least for them) sound. there was another path they could take if they wanted to be heavier, realized a year before with the end is the beginning is the end track (and also the first single from adore which was kinda diferrent than anything else in there)

instead BC panicked because the sales were low and/or because many fans didnt want the smasing pumpkins to do anything diferrent, and tried to follow it up with 2 "rock" records, the machinas.
1.he should stay true to the course he already taken and 2.those records were full of songs inferior to mellon collie's b-sides. after that....well there's no after that actually, just him and his vanity and no music worth listening or talkin about.

@GeechyDarko
sorry to fill your welcome page with pumpkins chatter! promise i lll stop it here