Smashing Pumpkins.

I'm compensating for the fact that I didn't write in here yesterday.

BE AMAAAAZED! I also love blogging. And music. Oooh.

I also love the Pumpkins. I must say though, the fact that they've come back minus D'arcy and James is a slight disappointment. I mean sure, most people will say "Oh, but Billy IS the band!" But you know what? You're all ignorant. A lead singer who is fairly well known does not constitute 'the band'. Sure, Billy Corgan is probably the core member due to his famousness and whatnot, but the other members are just as important, if not more. You can have an instrumental band or a band with a vocalist, but who wants to listen to just singing, with no music in the background whatsoever? I know I don't. I had to put up with it for two nights when I was on holiday considering the boring woman next to us did that for hours on end. But I digress.
The Smashing Pumpkins, I figure, are rather influential. I know for a fact that they have inspired me to get interested in music. Siamese Dream and Adore are such good albums. If you do not have those two cds somewhere in your collection, you seriously fail at life. I may forgive you at some point, but you know, probably not. God!
Unfortunately, I don't remember much about the music I listened to as a child. Actually, that may be kind of fortunate considering my spastic obsessions with the Spice Girls and ABBA. But those two aside, I'm pretty certain my taste wasn't terrible. There was the Pumpkins, Nirvana, The Offspring and Iron Maiden amongst the myriad of bands I liked.
I don't remember owning anything by the Smashing Pumpkins. I think it was probably because my mother bought cds for me back then, and would protest against the covers or song titles or whatever dorky reason she could conjure up for not buying them for me. I still obtained them thought, I'm canny like that.
Despite how the hell I got my grubby little under 12 hands on their music back then, I've always loved them. How can you not?

Take the opening song on Adore for example; To Sheila. It's a perfect slice of alternative rock balladry, and a great opener to a cd. It's so gentle and calm in comparison to something like The Everlasting Gaze, for example. Then for it to lead onto something like Ava Adore, which is quite different in comparison.. Gosh. I'm sorry, I need to collect myself for a moment.

Collected. Right, where was I? Everyone remembers Ava Adore right? I do, and I was.. Er. Young when it came out. Yes, I forget how old I was when it was released and I'm so terrible at maths I cannot count back from 19 to figure it out. Not really, I'm actually just lazy.
Adore is just so depressing. Who doesn't just love an album that can sound so bleak and beautiful without being cursed the damning tag of 'emo'? [dare call SP emo and I know a fair few people who will break through your bedroom door at night and stuff coconuts down your throat and rape your pillows. Yeah. Threatening isn't it?]
Compared to Siamese Dream, oh yeah, that opens with the relatively upbeat Cherub Rock. It also has the brilliant Today. That song is my theme for when my non-medicinal handling of my illness fails and I just regress back to bleak me. Don't be fooled by the pretty guitar work and rougher choruses, it's not all daises and buttercups. Open your eyes and look into it people. You might learn a thing or two.

Man, I could go on for years about the awesomeness of every song they've recorded, but I won't.
I'll leave it at the following;

The Smashing Pumpkins will always be one of the greatest grunge bands from the 90's. As a diehard fan, I will listen to Zeitgeist, but whether or not I will enjoy it as much as I do the stuff from their heyday, I have no idea.
Long live the Pumpkins.