I've been digging it a lot lately and am annoyed at all the recent hate for it. I prefer the Mashed Potatoes version to SD version however. Who else likes Spaceboy?

I think it's great.

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Im tired.

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fixed.

It's still a nice gesture.

I do like spaceboy, although I rarely listen to sd anymore. One of my mates has an anagram of spaceboy as his password for everything.

I like it, Siamese Dream version with the mellotron is way better than the Mashed Potatoes Slide guitar shit. The Mashed Potatoes one reminds me of Radiohead the band Smashing Pumpkins used to be

Radiohead the band Smashing Pumpkins used to be

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freddy im back up a week on friday btw

Spaceboy brings back such awesome memories. It was such an cool time in my life.

The Mashed Potatoes one reminds me of Radiohead the band Smashing Pumpkins used to be

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fred respond to me and jackbox or imma get my tattoo of your face laser removed from my back

Spaceboy brings back such awesome memories. It was such an cool time in my life.

Just me talking shit but i remember from an interview Billy did in Select magazine from 98 where he stated that They (The Pumpkins) where Radiohead before Radiohead.

Cool Paulie, I shall see your arse then! Will you be around on the sunday? I have a gig in the barfly that night

ack fucking cowslut bitchnames

i wanted to get the friday/monday/tuesday off but they won't let me have it off cause the other webdesigner is leaving and i have to be in to cover for him till they get a new guy :/ so ill just be there friday night-sunday afternoon

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Spaceboy is a good tune. I don't quite understand why people dislike it, other than that they don't enjoy strings added to songs to make them better. These are the same people who love Tonight Tonight, oddly enough...

i listened to spaceboy constantly after me and an ex split up. hahah, good times!

i listened to spaceboy constantly after me and an ex split up. hahah, good times!

The slide guitar version, right?

I do like spaceboy, although I rarely listen to sd anymore. One of my mates has an anagram of spaceboy as his password for everything.
a yob's pec?

I do like spaceboy, although I rarely listen to sd anymore. One of my mates has an anagram of spaceboy as his password for everything.

I think 'boyspace' might be a reference to something else

anagram?
lets ask the people at myspace and lets see what happens.

The slide guitar version, right?

obviously. why isnt there a rollseyes smiley.. oh well. :noway:

Just me talking shit but i remember from an interview Billy did in Select magazine from 98 where he stated that They (The Pumpkins) where Radiohead before Radiohead.

then radiohead released kid A.

spaceboy is a good song, siamese dream is really a great CD. but it's always been behind mellon collie and adore for me.

Agreed. Spaceboy is a great fucking tune. It was my original username on Listessa, IRC undernet, and even here (with either a number or a character change).

I liked the song, and it always had a special meaning to me associated with a time I had just broken up with a vampire-bitch of an ex-girlfriend, and was on the coach bus home from Madison to Chicago, where I was really connecting with the lyrics, especially the obvious "i wanna go home" refrain.

what moonsongs?

obviously. why isnt there a rollseyes smiley.. oh well. :noway:

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darn! :mrpimp:

darn! :mrpimp:

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I was going to do that whole screenshot/response thing. I thought LDS would get there first though

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it was a decision that followed considerable deliberation.

you chose wisely.

Spaceboy brings back such awesome memories. It was such an cool time in my life.

You read my mind... I miss so much the year when I first listened to sp..
:dammit:

Spaceboy is good.

Spaceboy is good.

Yes... same as every other song of SD!

If MP version had better production, it could have been even better.

Spaceboy is good.
close call between the MP version and the SD version. I guess i hafta to go with the MP version this time.

i think it was one of the first songs I learned on guitar. I found it fitting that it was retardedly easy to play.

i think it was one of the first songs I learned on guitar. I found it fitting that it was retardedly easy to play.

Very easy to play, but a great song doesn't make a hard to play song.

Very easy to play, but a great song doesn't make a hard to play song.

I agree, Simplicity is the key to the greatest music ever created.

then radiohead released kid A.

spaceboy is a good song, siamese dream is really a great CD. but it's always been behind mellon collie and adore for me.


I see what you are saying but think of it this way.....

Adore was the pumpkins drastic departure, Mellon Collie(A double album too ) from 95 to Adore which was released in 98.

Kid A was Radioheads drastic departure, Ok Computer which was out in 97 to Kid A which was out in 2000.

Who done it first?

Of course every Radiohead and Pumpkins album sounds different (To me anyway) but you still know what i mean when i say drastic departure from sound.

If i could only pick one of those albums to have for the rest of my life, It would be Adore. J'adore

yet kid a is hailed as the best alternative album of that year, or years before and after, while adore gets shit on. whats with that?

uh oh!
radiohead vs. smashing pumpkins again???

I see what you are saying but think of it this way.....

Adore was the pumpkins drastic departure, Mellon Collie(A double album too ) from 95 to Adore which was released in 98.

Kid A was Radioheads drastic departure, Ok Computer which was out in 97 to Kid A which was out in 2000.

Who done it first?

Of course every Radiohead and Pumpkins album sounds different (To me anyway) but you still know what i mean when i say drastic departure from sound.

If i could only pick one of those albums to have for the rest of my life, It would be Adore. J'adore

yeah adore was a departure, but i think kid A was a bit more than that. it wasn't only a departure, it almost seemed like a complete abandonment. kid A wasn't commercial at all, i believe the first single was pyramid song which is a beautiful song but it's not necessarily going to be a hit single on the radio. adore had deep heartfelt songs, but so did other pumpkins records(granted adore seemed even more personal), and perfect is a pretty catchy song. adore seems a bit more accessible to me.

and i think kid A coming out of radiohead at the time was a bit more of a surprise, while the pumpkins had an album like mellon collie and the infinite sadness which touched every part of rock n roll, showing that they could perform at a screeching uproar or at a quiet pindrop. this isn't saying radiohead's music wasn't versatile pre-kid A, but you didnt know if they could do a kid A after hearing ok computer. ok computer and the bends rarely showed radiohead's experimental side, while certain pumpkins songs showed that they could go dark and mellow with their songs. (albeit not really electronic, but i dont consider adore an electronic album outside of like pug and appels + oranjes) i think with the pumpkins, while adore may have surprised some, i never doubted their capabilities of being able to produce a record like that. kid A really came out of no where for radiohead and showed their greatness as a band and that they werent just another band, they were an important band.

its really hard to say which one i prefer, two of my favorite bands and two of my favorite records, but right now id say kid A because ive been listening to radiohead nonstop recently.

i prefer to compare OK Computer to Siamese Dream and Kid A/Amnesiac to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. i doubt Radiohead will ever make an album comparable to Adore.

i prefer to compare OK Computer to Siamese Dream and Kid A/Amnesiac to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. i doubt Radiohead will ever make an album comparable to Adore.

hm yeah, i think the entire adore/kid A comparison is just to compare stages in both respective bands rather than the albums directly.

the pumpkins and radiohead are two very talented, but different bands. i dont think radiohead will make an adore-esque album, but neither do i think the pumpkins will make something quite like kid A. both bands have their different styles, and are good at what they do.

spaceboy is definitely one of the more underappreciated pumpkins songs, imo.

hm yeah, i think the entire adore/kid A comparison is just to compare stages in both respective bands
that is the comparison i meant, and that's where i think people have gone wrong.

hm yeah, i think the entire adore/kid A comparison is just to compare stages in both respective bands rather than the albums directly.

the pumpkins and radiohead are two very talented, but different bands. i dont think radiohead will make an adore-esque album, but neither do i think the pumpkins will make something quite like kid A. both bands have their different styles, and are good at what they do.
I like your point.

Radiohead's new stuff sounds a lot like The Bends/OK era work. (I mean NEW stuff, not HTTT)

i mean, i think the comparison usually stems first from the idea that Adore and Kid A are the albums where each band went "electronic", which is equated with weirdness and anti-commercialism. okay, whatever. but where those things were turn-offs for the Pumpkins' audience, they were turn-ons for most of Radiohead's audience because Radiohead were already seen as weird and arty and gloomy. the Pumpkins always had those qualities to some extent too, but the things they were primarily known for - angst, bombast, big rock singles - were the things that they turned against with Adore.

and that's where i look when i consider the arc of each band's lifespan. SD and OKC were widely acclaimed, defining moments. MCIS and Kid A/Amnesiac were where each band took its core qualities and turned them up to 11. with Adore, the Pumpkins did a near 180; superficially, it's a far more commercial sounding album than Kid A, but the effect of such a sharp turn against everything they stood for, at least in the ears of the public, was actual commercial suicide. meanwhile, Radiohead does Here's To The Thief - a great album, but it's still nothing more than what you'd expect from them.

anti-commercialism is plenty marketable, i guess. defying what people expect from you is harder.

or something.

of course i meant Hail To The Atom Bomb.

anti-commercialism is plenty marketable, i guess. defying what people expect from you is harder.

nice one

and that's where i look when i consider the arc of each band's lifespan. SD and OKC were widely acclaimed, defining moments. MCIS and Kid A/Amnesiac were where each band took its core qualities and turned them up to 11. with Adore, the Pumpkins did a near 180; superficially, it's a far more commercial sounding album than Kid A, but the effect of such a sharp turn against everything they stood for, at least in the ears of the public, was actual commercial suicide.

well i see what you're trying to say, but at the same time i can see people doing parallels with the bends/siamese dream, okc/mellon collie, adore/kid A-amnesiac, and machinas/hail to the thief. (im not directly comparing the actual material in the albums, just the stages. while you cant compare MCIS directly to OKC, you cant really compare MCIS directly to any radiohead album or any other modern day album). both bands had some stir with their debuts,(pablo honey/gish, granted the pumpkins had a better album) then fell into critical acclaim with their second album, their third albums were arguably their best and probably most widely accepted by the public,(yes people's opinions do differ, but in general) then both bands went experimental and away from their original sound that got them the acclaim to push the boundaries, and with machina/hail to the thief both bands somewhat try and recapture some of their sound from the records before their experimental albums while still moving forward. yeah, that sounds confusing, but thats why i understand people making the comparisons. two different bands constantly looking to expand their sound.

if you look at pablo honey/the bends/okc, there arent many moments in there where you can see radiohead creating an album like kid A. im not sure where the conception of seeing radiohead as "weird and arty" thus making kid A more acceptable than adore came about, but you're right, it did. kid A was eventually accepted by the media because they just saw it as radiohead's next step. while adore was rejected, even though i think the pumpkins prior work, gish/siamese dream/mellon collie, showed signs to where you could see the pumpkins going into a more dark and artsy realm. yeah, bullet with butterly wings was popular, but songs like to forgive, disarm, tonight tonight, soma, galapagos, and many more hinted that the pumpkins were very capable of making an album like adore. there arent many songs pre kid A that hinted to kid A. im being a little redundant, but that's how i see it.

yet kid A is adored and adore is still being gradually accepted.

kind of annoying. now i gotta crash, my head is killing me. :smoke:

i love it. it was my latin teacher's favorite SP song back in the day. weird

i love it. it was my latin teacher's favorite SP song back in the day. weird
:think: I guess that's pretty cool. All my teachers are Led Zeppelin and ACDC fans :rockon: :rock_on:

Spaceboy is one of my favorite pumpkins songs. Very simple, but very cool. :banging:

a 'nonchalant' song of the early 90s kids back in the day.
oh! that 'sedulcni' me when i was in my highschool years.

Jimmy's done it again!!
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Spaceboy, i love too. :) I think i love the beat the most tho, sounds real relaxing.