today i feel like recommending people about 21st century Smashing Pumpkins which is obviously far from their prime but i've wade through enough of their recent bullshits that there are some rough diamonds inside it
>>130419113He stopped making good music in 1995
starting from Zeitgeistthe whole album is still pretty good, my favourite tracks are Tarantula, Starz, United States, Bring the Light, Stellar, That's the Way (My Love Is)then there's American Gothic which i'm not very keen because it's mostly acousticI think Teargarden is the nadir period of Billy's songwriting here. Jimmy left (again). you can pretty skip this shit because it contains some of the worst stuff Billy ever wrote right Widow Wake My Mind and Owata (the live version is passable i think). even a better song in this like A Song for a Son is so unpolished like a demo. Billy kinda lost his mind in this period, he thought album era was over so he thought 'alright i'm just gonna release my individual songs for free' but of course it didn't take a while before he backtracked and making Oceania.luckily Oceania was his return to form, the whole album is pretty good. some strong riffs here and there. i think it kinda petered out by the end but it's a solid 7-8/10 record.
this is the best SP2 songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfUVM1_mc_Y
>>130419137Oceania saw what Billy thought as a proper SP 2.0 with a new addition of a new female bassist and a new young drummer but in the most billy-fashioned way, dude just fired them on the spot through some random interview where he didn't need them anymore so he's back being with just him and Jeff the Shredder.came Monuments to an Elegy, Billy invited the Tommy Lee to do drumming in this album. a pretty short album which I still enjoyed even until now, but it was the start of Billy fucking around with godawful-sounding synths that became the trend in the following albums after that. Tracks I'd recommend here are Tiberius, Being Beige, Anti-Hero, One and All (We Are). well moving on.good news, Jimmy is now back and James surprisingly made peace with Billy so now they're back with a new album called uuhhhShiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun.yeah that's the name.another pretty short album which was pretty alright, i think it's better than Monuments. Silvery Sometimes, Solara, Alienation, Marchin' On and Seek and You Shall Destroy are pretty nice.and then Billy went in too deep in his synth obsession, he produced fucktons, and by i mean fucktons, the band released 4 hours materials of synth-oriented albums in Cyr and Atum. you've got to be a very hardcore SP fans if you can sit through these because i struggle to even come up with a 1-hour setlist of what I think as good songs from these albums. then Jeff left.then came Aghori Mhori Mei which probably is their best album in 21st century which is odd when you think about it. Billy finally (mostly) ditched the synth, back rocking with so many awesome guitar riffs but sadly you'll probably be filtered with Corgan's aging voice and his mostly nonsensical lyrics which have been the trend for the last decade.oh also check Ogilala it's a pretty cool Corgan's solo album. if you have any question feel free to ask.
>>130419190https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mtrqhWj82Rve8Edev45ZWoPSH3xLTSp78 oh and I almost forgot this is Billy and co attempting to sound like the Beatles and other 60s act. worth to check with some SP fans think Magdalena as the best track Billy wrote in years.
i got banned from Netphoria for being transphobic, but Bill Corgan himself is transphobic.
>>130419209i like reading Netphoria, it's slow nowadays but it's cool seeing an old internet forum still being kept alive for today even though they've been mostly negative about current day Billy
yes this album is longer than 2 hours and it's just mostly synth.and yes this album has a plot (which i don't follow at all) and i still have no idea how Billy said this is the followup of MCIS and Machina story-wise because i don't remember any kind of storytelling from those 2 albums. and yeah the lyrics don't actually tell the actual story so Billy made a weekly podcast telling the story behind each song because god knows why couldn't he just tell the story through the lyrics like most other concept albums out there.yes old man billy and co made something this ambitious to a rapidly decreasing enjoyer of modern SP's materialso is there something commendable from this album? not exactly but i remember finally trying to listen to the whole thing in one sitting as i was riding an interstate bus and maybe I did enjoy some tunes but god knows what even the title of those songs because most of them don't even get mentioned inside the lyrics
https://youtu.be/b2cNAvKoXp4?si=MfIQU9ew32auvhVzi remember this song was one of the first 2 songs to be introduced for atum project aside Atum the opening track and i thought, oh Billy might've learned how to make the synth sound less annoying and this has some hook tooand then with each new tracks my optimism got thrown out of the window
I always liked Gossamer from the Zeitgeist erahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVn-_nWUkbY&list=RDJVn-_nWUkbY&start_radio=1
>>130419301i remember this tour billy was just doing whatever like refusing to play hits despite just coming back to play as SP again and instead playing a 20 minute rendition of set the controls for the heart of the sunsure enough it didn't take long before jimmy left and the female members who played bass and the keys on that tour also disappeared. idk how jeff schroeder managed to put up with him for so long to the point jimmy and james were convinced to come back and then he left after that.
