Music Appreciation

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts) Mon Jul 5, 2021, 08:53 PM Jul 2021

smashing pumpkins - rhinoceros (studio-1991) before Billy was a whiny egomaniac, his voice was ...

an instrument in the soundscape. And he used it in this way masterfully ...

I owned Gish before Siamese Dream even came out, and this was the song that single-handedly made me a Pumpkins fan. So freaking badass ... I so wish they'd stuck to this formula past Gish and Siamese Dream ...

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smashing pumpkins - rhinoceros (studio-1991) before Billy was a whiny egomaniac, his voice was ... (Original Post) Hugh_Lebowski Jul 2021 OP

Great freaking song Docreed2003 Jul 2021 #1

Yeah! Hugh_Lebowski Jul 2021 #2

Docreed2003

(16,845 posts)

1. Great freaking song

Reply to Hugh_Lebowski (Original post)

Mon Jul 5, 2021, 09:06 PM

Jul 2021

And I agree wholeheartedly about BC....he was so much better before he started believing his own bs

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)

2. Yeah!

Reply to Docreed2003 (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 6, 2021, 10:26 PM

Jul 2021

Billy doesn't have a good enough voice IMHO to make it so dominant like they (he) did in the work after the first two albums.

The way he used it on the first two records, it was like an instrument for the most part ... and it was awesome. He was like Stipe on the first 3 REM albums on Gish and SD.

Stipe OTOH had the pipes to make me want to hear songs where he was the focus on the later work.

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