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Originally Posted by terminal pharmacy
gish and siamese are good albums, i just find billy corgan and incredibly whiny and posturing band member, no they should not do anything else ever
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Finally someone who isn't a whiny suburban indie snob. You know I actually agree with you 80%. The only difference of opinion I have is that if they had James and were willing to tour and actually explore some of their early roots again, I would definately see them. You're right, Gish and Siamese Dream were very good but after they did Melon Collie, Billy Corgan just sort of ruined the band and turned it into this annoying gothic mess. Even when they brought back all 4 members and did that last album they did, you'd think it would have been good but it wasn't, just basically another Billy Corgan solo album, which sort makes you wonder if they should even bother regrouping. When I hear Gish and Siamese dream and Pisces Iscariot, I wonder how someone with that much creativity in his guitar playing and song writing could just be like " Nope, now I'm just gonna play boring techno folk from now on and try to be some shakesperian figure ". But yeah, if they actually got back together with James and really tried to bring back some of their early sounds, I'd totally see them, whether Billy Corgan is whiny or not. I mean come on dude, J Mascis is whiny as hell and when Lou Barlow left it sort of became his solo project rather than Dinosaur Jr., and they started doing lots of acoustic stuff, but you didn't hear anyone complain about that because they didn't sell a million albums or whatever. Sheesh. But yeah, I never cared about Corgan's voice because I never listen to lyrics, I listen to bands for their music, never really for the singers with a few exceptions.
But yeah, now they're back together with just Billy and the Drummer. It's gonna be freaking Zwan all over again. So glad I didn't waste my money on that piece of shit.