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BILLY CORGAN TheFutureEmbrace WHAT TO PEOPLE THINK OF THIS CD?
Saw him perform last night in LA at a small venue... vastly different from Pumpkins or even the ill-fated Zwan... Haven't been here in a while - hope this topic hasn't been hashed out (no search option) VOTE....EARLY | |
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How was the show? How was it different? | |
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Just heard that he is on Leno tonight Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. --Kahlil Gibran | |
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well, It isnt great.. but there are a couple songs on it that I dig
The Camera Eye and To Love Somebody | |
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i'm not into the pumpkins too much but i love the new solo disc. | |
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this album has gotten the worst reviews I've read recently.....never was too impressed with Billy, not as a person nor as a musician! | |
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Well yeah, it did get very bad reviews and I can see where
they're coming from. However, a lot of the things the critics slagged off are the kind of things I like in Corgan's songs. Like the drum machine and the childish electronics with distortion on top of them, or his angst ridden teenage lyrical content coupled to a darker more vampirish side of his which has undertones (or aspirations) of Byron. Having said that, the second part of the album contains some miserable attempts at songwriting. Makes you wonder how a man who was able to write 4 discs worth of material in one year seems to be struggling now to fill a single disc with material (only 11 songs). And mediocre tracks at that. and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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IstenSzek said: Well yeah, it did get very bad reviews and I can see where
they're coming from. However, a lot of the things the critics slagged off are the kind of things I like in Corgan's songs. Like the drum machine and the childish electronics with distortion on top of them, or his angst ridden teenage lyrical content coupled to a darker more vampirish side of his which has undertones (or aspirations) of Byron. Having said that, the second part of the album contains some miserable attempts at songwriting. Makes you wonder how a man who was able to write 4 discs worth of material in one year seems to be struggling now to fill a single disc with material (only 11 songs). And mediocre tracks at that. And you started off liking the album so much! | |
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GangstaFam said: IstenSzek said: Well yeah, it did get very bad reviews and I can see where
they're coming from. However, a lot of the things the critics slagged off are the kind of things I like in Corgan's songs. Like the drum machine and the childish electronics with distortion on top of them, or his angst ridden teenage lyrical content coupled to a darker more vampirish side of his which has undertones (or aspirations) of Byron. Having said that, the second part of the album contains some miserable attempts at songwriting. Makes you wonder how a man who was able to write 4 discs worth of material in one year seems to be struggling now to fill a single disc with material (only 11 songs). And mediocre tracks at that. And you started off liking the album so much! I did! I still do like it, don't get me wrong, it's just that the past week I've been listening to a lot of his Pumpkins songs. And they were so great. It's like comparing new Prince songs to 1987 ones, you just shouldn't do it. But you can't help but notice that something's missing, you know... There's no "Rotten Apples" or "Eye" to be found on this album. Although "Mina Loy" and "Camera Eye" and "Strayz" can compete with his better songs any day. I don't know, I'm just in a bitchy mood today and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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IstenSzek said: I did! I still do like it, don't get me wrong, it's just
that the past week I've been listening to a lot of his Pumpkins songs. And they were so great. It's like comparing new Prince songs to 1987 ones, you just shouldn't do it. But you can't help but notice that something's missing, you know... There's no "Rotten Apples" or "Eye" to be found on this album. Although "Mina Loy" and "Camera Eye" and "Strayz" can compete with his better songs any day. I don't know, I'm just in a bitchy mood today I've been revisiting the Pumpkins lately too. Really trippin' on the Pisces Iscariot stuff especially. | |
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GangstaFam said: I've been revisiting the Pumpkins lately too. Really trippin' on the Pisces Iscariot stuff especially.
I remember a guy at school giving me a tape of it a few days after it had been released. We were talking about music during lunch break and he just took the tape out of his walkman and gave it to me. I loved that album so much! Haven't heard it in ages since I don't have a copy of it anymore though. And I refuse to have it as mp3s from a download, I want the original album. Just have to wait until I stumble onto it again, that's all. and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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I recently found myself so interested in their music..
my favorite songs are: 1979 Landslide (cover of Fleetwood) And I prefer this one Bullets with butterflies wings Waiting Tonight | |
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Sdldawn said: I recently found myself so interested in their music..
my favorite songs are: 1979 Landslide (cover of Fleetwood) And I prefer this one Bullets with butterflies wings Waiting Tonight "waiting" has such a nice walking beat to it I'm thinking of making a compilation of pumpkins tracks that are drummachine driven with those eh kind of electronica effects. Like "eye", "destination unknown", "waiting", "love", and some of the Adore tracks obviously. and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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TheFutureEmbrace sounds like leftovers from Adore, stuff that wasn't good enough to make it on the album. I LOVED Adore, and the album still sounds great today. But the songs on TFE are poorly written and range from blah to downright annoying. He mangled the BeeGees cover too, it sounds unfocused and depressing. | |
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Tom said: TheFutureEmbrace sounds like leftovers from Adore, stuff that wasn't good enough to make it on the album.
Thanks Tom for saying it. I was waiting for someone to make this point. This was the first thing I thought when I heard the album on my Launchcast Player. The album lacked orginality and it discouraged me from buying it. | |
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IstenSzek said: GangstaFam said: And you started off liking the album so much! I did! I still do like it, don't get me wrong, it's just that the past week I've been listening to a lot of his Pumpkins songs. And they were so great. It's like comparing new Prince songs to 1987 ones, you just shouldn't do it. But you can't help but notice that something's missing, you know... There's no "Rotten Apples" or "Eye" to be found on this album. Although "Mina Loy" and "Camera Eye" and "Strayz" can compete with his better songs any day. I don't know, I'm just in a bitchy mood today I agree that it does not live up to his past work, the future embrace is a grey area, it's not bad at all, some pretty good songs like the Camera Eye and A100, but it's no masterpiece either. | |
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IstenSzek said: Sdldawn said: I recently found myself so interested in their music..
my favorite songs are: 1979 Landslide (cover of Fleetwood) And I prefer this one Bullets with butterflies wings Waiting Tonight "waiting" has such a nice walking beat to it I'm thinking of making a compilation of pumpkins tracks that are drummachine driven with those eh kind of electronica effects. Like "eye", "destination unknown", "waiting", "love", and some of the Adore tracks obviously. Yeah.. thats what I did.. a complilation of their electronic stuff.. I loved their subtle electonic work.. Not diving in it like some muscians.. but tinkering with it to give it color and depth [Edited 7/15/05 12:25pm] | |
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IstenSzek said: Sdldawn said: I recently found myself so interested in their music..
my favorite songs are: 1979 Landslide (cover of Fleetwood) And I prefer this one Bullets with butterflies wings Waiting Tonight "waiting" has such a nice walking beat to it I'm thinking of making a compilation of pumpkins tracks that are drummachine driven with those eh kind of electronica effects. Like "eye", "destination unknown", "waiting", "love", and some of the Adore tracks obviously. When u make it.. post a tracklist.. Love to see it | |
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Sdldawn said: IstenSzek said: "waiting" has such a nice walking beat to it I'm thinking of making a compilation of pumpkins tracks that are drummachine driven with those eh kind of electronica effects. Like "eye", "destination unknown", "waiting", "love", and some of the Adore tracks obviously. When u make it.. post a tracklist.. Love to see it you guys should add "Pug" to that set, one of my favorite pumpkin songs | |
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Hotlegs said: Tom said: TheFutureEmbrace sounds like leftovers from Adore, stuff that wasn't good enough to make it on the album.
Thanks Tom for saying it. I was waiting for someone to make this point. This was the first thing I thought when I heard the album on my Launchcast Player. The album lacked orginality and it discouraged me from buying it. In a full page add released in the Chicago Sun Times and Tribune Billy recently said that he has plans to revive the pumpkins, and that he wants his band back, maybe his heart is still with the pumpkins> Did anybody hear the Jimmy Chamberlin Complex album? | |
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Meloh9 said: Sdldawn said: When u make it.. post a tracklist.. Love to see it you guys should add "Pug" to that set, one of my favorite pumpkin songs Good selection.. what else is electonic from them besides on the greatest hits? I'm really interested in those type of songs from them.. he sounds great | |
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Sdldawn said: Meloh9 said: you guys should add "Pug" to that set, one of my favorite pumpkin songs Good selection.. what else is electonic from them besides on the greatest hits? I'm really interested in those type of songs from them.. he sounds great There are kind of a lot from the Mellon Collie era as well. Stuff like Beautiful, We Only Come Out At Night, Thirty Three, By Starlight, etc. And some of the Aeroplane Box songs like Dreaming, Destination Unknown, Cherry, and a bunch more I'm not thinking of right now. His cover of Joy Division's Isolation fits too. | |
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GangstaFam said: Sdldawn said: Good selection.. what else is electonic from them besides on the greatest hits? I'm really interested in those type of songs from them.. he sounds great There are kind of a lot from the Mellon Collie era as well. Stuff like Beautiful, We Only Come Out At Night, Thirty Three, By Starlight, etc. And some of the Aeroplane Box songs like Dreaming, Destination Unknown, Cherry, and a bunch more I'm not thinking of right now. His cover of Joy Division's Isolation fits too. he would also like Machina: The Machines Of God as well as Adore, Soot and Stars would make a good Edition to the Pumpkins electronica album | |
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GangstaFam said: Sdldawn said: Good selection.. what else is electonic from them besides on the greatest hits? I'm really interested in those type of songs from them.. he sounds great There are kind of a lot from the Mellon Collie era as well. Stuff like Beautiful, We Only Come Out At Night, Thirty Three, By Starlight, etc. And some of the Aeroplane Box songs like Dreaming, Destination Unknown, Cherry, and a bunch more I'm not thinking of right now. His cover of Joy Division's Isolation fits too. oh their cover of Destination Unknown is fantastic! | |
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Tom said: oh their cover of Destination Unknown is fantastic!
Better than the original even. | |
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i guess it just pays off for me that i was never into the pumpkins. | |
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SassyBritches said: i guess it just pays off for me that i was never into the pumpkins.
Cuz you didn't like their stuff or you just never made the plunge? | |
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GangstaFam said: Tom said: oh their cover of Destination Unknown is fantastic!
Better than the original even. I love the cover of Clones | |
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Meloh9 said: I love the cover of Clones
That whole single was awesome. 1979 as well. Set the Ray to Jerry and Cherry are 2 of my all-time Pumpkins faves. | |
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GangstaFam said: Meloh9 said: I love the cover of Clones
That whole single was awesome. 1979 as well. Set the Ray to Jerry and Cherry are 2 of my all-time Pumpkins faves. I must have played Set The Ray to Jerry over a million times back in the day, Billy Corgan is well aware of the fact that that song, like Starla , is a favorite among harcore pumpkin fans. | |
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