that super nasally "where do we go from heeeerrrreeeeee" on rock on

- The "Oh"s in Starz.
- The z in Starz.

wound on record- i had such high hopes for this song after the arising! tour... close but....no, not close at all

http://forums.netphoria.org/showthread.php?t=154147

we all want to hold in the everlasting gaze
enchanted in the rapture of his sentimental sway
but underneath the wheels lie the skulls of every cog
the fickle fascination of an everlasting god

every second of pox.

the middle of GATGC.

the lyrics to bodies

actually, the lyrics to alot of songs off mcis.

The intro to Crying Tree of Mercury.

It's the musical equivalent of barf.

that one moment in tonite reprise where his voice is way off.

Rambo III

that one moment in tonite reprise where his voice is way off.

no way. this is crucial

i don't like it at all.

most of zeitgeist.

the lyrics to bodies

what! thought they were excellent

wound on record- i had such high hopes for this song after the arising! tour... close but....no, not close at all

http://www.rspaa.org/rspaa/Live/1999-04-23%20San%20Diego%20CA/05%20-%20Wound.mp3

Yum yum.

it doesn't so much make me cringe as crease up with laughter: "givin' back the DRAAAYMMM!!!!" - pox :rofl:

The super nasally opening line: "all...things...change". I would have liked the album better without that song.

Whateva I can do, I will... cuz Im good like that. YEAH...

the intro to the Rose March. christ.

Despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a wah wah wah wah wah.

radio radio radio raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadiiiiiiiiiooooooooooo

that half step note in the middle of the pretty pretty star chorus.

Pretty much all of "TheFutureEmbrace" is a cringefest

The super nasally opening line: "all...things...change". I would have liked the album better without that song.

i think its an excellent song but billy's voice isn't fit for it (his voice wasn't fit for a lot of tfe) .

- The "Oh"s in Starz.
- The z in Starz.


the metallica solo in Starz



the z in Strayz

the harmonics in 99 floors

shiny blue satin short pant jumpsuits

Lubed up naked foetus Billy

http://www.geocities.com/sshumsuper7fan78/cringer1lg.jpg

the harmonicas in peace + love

he's no adam stephens, let's leave it at that!

Despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a wah wah wah wah wah.

Are you talking about the wah outro, because no

harmonics should be burned. metallica should be keelhauled.

It has to be the Stand Inside Your Love video.... Such a beautiful song with such a bullshit video. I don't even want to recommend that song to my friends in fear of them doing a YouTube search.

I WIN.

i don't think it's a contest DougieZero

I actually love the SIYL video, it ties in perfectly with the song. Is it because of that nipple guy or the foot kissing?

the end of luna. I guess I just prefer subtle love songs rather than hearing "i'm in love with you" a million times.

any james song, with the exception of blew away and go

I actually love the SIYL video, it ties in perfectly with the song. Is it because of that nipple guy or the foot kissing?

I like some of those earlier Regina Spektor videos... like Us and Samson. They have a vintage feel and are just as avant garde. I think I remember Billy and Virgin spending something like 200k on that video. He could of done something better.

the end of luna.

yeah, i really dislike luna. it's weird to think one of my favorite albums of all time has a really shitty closer

good gawd i can't believe no one has said Landslide!!

i dislike the song no matter who tries to reincarnate it, but billy's vocals are embarrassingly bad.

we all want to hold in the everlasting gaze
enchanted in the rapture of his sentimental sway
but underneath the wheels lie the skulls of every cog
the fickle fascination of an everlasting god

ooh i agree. esp. in the video where he's like doing the robot :think:

It has to be the Stand Inside Your Love video.... Such a beautiful song with such a bullshit video. I don't even want to recommend that song to my friends in fear of them doing a YouTube search.

I WIN.

did you see the fat dude in "Meet The Spartans"
That makes me cringe.

the fat dude is gross, i'll give you that. But otherwise that was an incredibly beautiful video.

Landslide!!

billy's vocals are embarrassingly bad.

you're nuts.

---

Perfect. The whole fucking thing.

Are you talking about the wah outro, because no

No, thats the bit i like. the "i still believe that i cannot be saved" is the good bit.

I prefer billy singing landslide over stevie nicks anyday. And I say this as a pretty big fan of fleetwood mac.
Though I tend to agree with most of the other cringing moments in this thread. Except TFE; I thought it was only half cringeworthy.

yeah, i really dislike luna. it's weird to think one of my favorite albums of all time has a really shitty closer

that's just a completely outrageous opinion

Paris Hilton in Zeitgeist

We should be glad they never did Silver Springs. I'd have to kill him.

Everlasting Gaze's a capella is the only thing that stands out at the moment.

harmonics should be burned. metallica should be keelhauled.

Keelhaul shouldn't be Metallica'd, on the other hand.

the blue peterpan outfit corgan was wearing at the end of Zeitgeist '07 tour.

>_<

- "I'm Ready"
- "I don't want to fight every single night" Way to come back to music with a gay vengeance, SP
- Lyrics to "Zero"
- James' vocals on "A Night Like This"
- Being associated with the worst Batman movie
- The a cappella part in "The Everlasting Gaze"
- Ending things with Z
- (Really Embarassing) Punctuation!

Perfect. The whole fucking thing.

Yup. TEG rap is bad too.

Hmm...Machina: I of the Mourning is such a good song besides the "radio to the nth power", can't stand Wound, Crying Tree, or With Every Light.

Sunkissed has some lyric that drives me crazy but I can't think of it right now.

machina

sp2

funny how people bitch about a cappella TEG, but no one's got a problem with frail and bedazzled

the only cringe for me is the screech in tonite reprise.... and the bad bass note on "infinite sadness" (@ 2:59 that "F" really hurts me, like it should be an "F#")
http://www.rspaa.org/rspaa/Miscellaneous/Mashed%20Potatoes/MP05%20-%2014%20-%20Infinite%20Sadness%20%28Outtake%2093%29.mp3




ps
he says "radio" 33 times in I of the morning
it's a sine!
count 'em!

living makes me sick
so sick i wish i'd die

all time worst lyrics by any band ever. the song kicks ass musically, but damn, that's some serious 9 year old pre-teen angst there.

Other than that, I'd say the album version of God & Country. They should have done it acoustically.

oh yeah TEITBITE vid

i like the a capella part in TEG

Paris Hilton in Zeitgeist

.


All.. things change..

album version of for god and country

superchrist

Glass and the Ghost Children at festival shows.

Billy's stage talk... it's gotten really bad.

That moment in that "Day in the life" video where he shows Jeff a new CD... and has to clarify that it's for him, but Jeff can rip it.

Billy buying that metal lobster.

That poetry book he wrote...

oh yeah TEITBITE vid

definitely one of the worst videos of all time.

That was hilarious with the whole Jeff and Billy thing when it came to the cd. Also something that made me cringe in those videos was when Ginger was telling the camera man that it was a bad time for him to film. I think he was getting jeff in trouble or something along those lines.

basically all the art in the zeitgeist CD booklet/liner notes

basically all the art in the zeitgeist CD booklet/liner notes

who cares, everybody downloaded it off the internet anyways
how many times did you run your mp3's through MP3gain?
mine sound super LOUD now.

American Gothic :noway:

2 listens, I will never again.

American Gothic :noway:

2 listens, I will never again.

How about that American Gothic CD cover?... I know Billy is super proud he designed it himself on MS paint. I want to send him a copy of Photoshop and some fonts. Show him how to blend it better.

One more cringe worthy thing... didn't someone get Billy's brother to paint the Mellon Collie art on something and it looked like shit?

Or that Zeitgeist car.

Or that picture of Billy from Details circa 1997... the one with him looking like a giant fetus.

That's The Way video - I don't think I stopped cringing for even one second

good call /\

That's The Way video - I don't think I stopped cringing for even one second

I have not seen this video yet and I have no problems with that.

Oh, and the live covers of "Rock On" and "Once in a Lifetime" they did were pretty terrible. Pretty much any time I downloaded a show with either of those I did not even bother listening to it.

who cares, everybody downloaded it off the internet anyways
how many times did you run your mp3's through MP3gain?
mine sound super LOUD now.

some people still enjoy the album experience, and album art is integral to that experience. zeitgeists liner notes with its crappy clip art and photography done by an 8th graders concept of media criticism and political rebelliousness made that experience only worse for me.

this thread has the potential to eclipse "Corgan's Biggest Blunder"

that half step note in the middle of the pretty pretty star chorus.
Pretty pretty star is flawless, what is this crap.

lol

I'm going to have to go with that line from Rose March, the mablak'd and sugar shacked one. That song is cringe-topia.

i haven't read all of this; did someone mention dropped consonants? if not, i'm mentioning it now. billy's live voice is much better these days, but his studio singing gets worse with every passing moment.

pomp and circumstances and i'm ready

the only songs that really make me feel embarrassed for billy

pomp and circumstances and i'm ready

the only songs that really make me feel embarrassed for billy

all things change is waaaaaay worse than i'm ready

i haven't read all of this; did someone mention dropped consonants? if not, i'm mentioning it now. billy's live voice is much better these days, but his studio singing gets worse with every passing moment.

I'm still not getting this. Could someone shoot some examples my way?


Have gauteliars(or whatever) been mentioned yet?

I'm still not getting this. Could someone shoot some examples my way?


e-ake own.. ineteen, eeventy iiine...

Off the top of my head...

The MACHINA "Resume the Pose" signing tour
The Rudest Man in Rock Interview
The MACHINA album & Tour
M2: Horrible name, spotty record, Leno show
Untitled: "It sounds like old Pumpkins" comments
Doing the "I Am One" nothing rant at the last show
All promotional materials associated with Zwan (rainbows and stickers!)
All press associated with Zwan (There is no house)
At least half the album (yeah!)
The Zwan Breakup (I detest them!)
A Very Special Dennis DeYoung Christmas Duet, with Billy Corgan
At least half of the Chicago Songs... Black Sox, World's Fair (to meee!)
All of Blinking with Fists
At least half the Confessions of Billy Corgan (james and d'arcy are fuckups!)
Singing Lord's Prayer a capella
All of Billy "reporting" on the Chicago Cubs
Repeatedly singing "Take Me Out" at Cubs games
The horrible staging of TFE (is this a drum kit or a salad bar?)
At least 2/3 of TFE
The TFE post-show rants
The "renew and revive" Pumpkins ads
Burning lies off doubters
Not introducing new pumpkins on stage
At least ALL of the musical notes on zeitgeist (the pauses between songs are pure bliss)
All promotional materials for zeitgeist (especially d'arcy coffin)
Ask a Pumpkin
beard of pubes
American Gothic

If this thread doesn't stretch on into infinity and collapse the whole board then you haven't thought of them all.

Just so ya know

e-ake own.. ineteen, eeventy iiine...

Yeah i do here it live, not enough to be an issue though. Sounds like Skipgo's saying that it it's all over Zeitgeist/AG and no where live.

no no no. I don't think I've heard it on zeitgeist at all. But i did hear in on AG, and I hear it live EVERYWHERE. What I meant by the studio singing being worse than the live singing wasn't completely referring to the dropped consonants. I just meant that in general, aside from the consonant issue, he's singing much better in a live setting than he used to, whereas his vocals on cd are not as good (to me) as they were on previous albums. But that's more to do with the way his vocals are so loud, in front of the mix, so dry. The consonant thing I've mostly only heard live though.

How about that American Gothic CD cover?... I know Billy is super proud he designed it himself on MS paint. I want to send him a copy of Photoshop and some fonts. Show him how to blend it better.

One more cringe worthy thing... didn't someone get Billy's brother to paint the Mellon Collie art on something and it looked like shit?

Or that Zeitgeist car.

Or that picture of Billy from Details circa 1997... the one with him looking like a giant fetus.

The Zeitgeist car was made in a video game...

"Loud at any volume..."

Off the top of my head...


A Very Special Dennis DeYoung Christmas Duet, with Billy Corgan



oh LOL, i forgot about that. that was very awkward wasn't it?

And yeah, Blinking with Fists. Cringefest, yowza!

can someone tell me whats so awful about I'm Ready without mentioning the opening lines

Landslide.

Oh here is one.
Their supposed surprises.
WTF! That's The Way acoustic is not a damn surprise.

Watching the barbershop quartet at the D.C. release show stay on the stage to long. Jimmy starts the drum riff for United States and those guys just start dancing until someone has to pull them off stage.

Ginger telling Bass Player Magazine that she isn’t sure if she is in the band.

The $95 Drifter hoodie.

fans like "< sp3".

I have not seen this video yet and I have no problems with that.

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Zeitgeist

we ah stahz

we ah.

song titles like (CO)LG! (though i like the wierd parentheses)
studio Neverlost & its lack of emotion

Ginger telling Bass Player Magazine that she isn’t sure if she is in the band.



what?!

a lot of the vox on desire

forums dot netphoria dot org.

Oh Snap

It has to be the Stand Inside Your Love video.... Such a beautiful song with such a bullshit video. I don't even want to recommend that song to my friends in fear of them doing a YouTube search.

I WIN.

wrong

we ah stahz

:D

Billy singing Summertime

Zeitgeist
Heavy Metal Machine
Zero lyrics
BWBW lyrics
the Machina concept
TFE
"I feel love, honestly"

(Really Embarassing) Punctuation!

:banging:
This bothers the hell out of me.

netphoria

i think Im Ready is a good song. very good, even.
nothing mind numbingly good but i enjoy it.


did anyone mention Heavy Metal Machine? and the machina II version?
ugh.
i literally cringe every time i hear the acapella verse on TEG. physical cringe. no joke.

some zwan material and almost every second of zeitgeist also fit that definition.

some of these mentions make me think you guys take all his music a little too seriously.

maybe you're actually supposed to, but i find it's better to chuckle than cringe at "living makes me sick, so sick i wish i'd die."

but i listen to a lot of NIN so that's probably where i learned it.

fwiw eulogy, my little moments of bliss thread has as almost as many posts as this thread does at the moment. For every cringe, there is a moment o' bliss :D

Billy singing Summertime

OMG LMAO that was bad.

in fact, anything billy has done without a guitar is awful. TEITBITE video.

yeah, that's why that christmas thing on wgn was so bad. He's so awkward without a guitar.

Zeitgeist

shutthefuckupbyron.

I will never understand why everyone has such a problem with the everlasting gaze acappella.

I will never understand why everyone has such a problem with the everlasting gaze acappella.

Whenever I listen to it, I can just feel his spit splattering all over my face. When he takes a breath it sounds like grating fingernail files on a chalkboard, and I get that feeling that I get when I stick my finger into the opening of a can of pop.

His voice, during that part, for some reason, sounds like a two year old Billy Corgan with progeria affecting not only his body but his voice, who has a cold, runny nose, and was just punched by the class bully.



Just so you can hear an isolated version of the part in question http://seatonweb.com/downloads/music/killit.mp3

Just put it on repeat over and over again. :banging:

Such a shame because in the old days the pumpkins were perfect to me. I told everyone that they were perfect and everything they did was mind-blowing, it pretty much was and then these little moments started to appear on record. All of a sudden I recommend the Pumpkins/Billy Corgan to someone they check them out and they're just as likely to hear Pox, Starz Le Deux ex Machina, or hmm alt as they are something mind-blowing as their first listen. It's kind of like a centre forward who averages 30 goals a season for their first 10 seasons and then for their last 8 or 9, they only score10 thus severely damaging their seasonal average over a career. Almost makes me think it's better to burn out than fade.

Whenever I listen to it, I can just feel his spit splattering all over my face. When he takes a breath it sounds like grating fingernail files on a chalkboard, and I get that feeling that I get when I stick my finger into the opening of a can of pop.

His voice, during that part, for some reason, sounds like a two year old Billy Corgan with progeria affecting not only his body but his voice, who has a cold, runny nose, and was just punched by the class bully.



Just so you can hear an isolated version of the part in question http://seatonweb.com/downloads/music/killit.mp3

Just put it on repeat over and over again. :banging:

pretty good description there, actually.

its not, who gives a fuck about a perfect record, more songs i say, there are bound to be some good ones even if some suck ass

answer to thegreatvegetable

some of these mentions make me think you guys take all his music a little too seriously.

maybe you're actually supposed to, but i find it's better to chuckle than cringe at "living makes me sick, so sick i wish i'd die."

but i listen to a lot of NIN so that's probably where i learned it.

that line is obviously at least a little tongue in cheek.
problem is, some people are stupid enough to try and take it as poetry.
im sure it does, in some place, reflect a sincere feeling of despising life out of a really inflated bad mood, but it doesnt mean its not also humorous
i think its a great fuckin line

yeah i always thoguht people complaining about that line in jellybelly are just being petty or taking lyrics at a shallow level. within the context of the song it fits in well enough and it comes over one of my favorite guitar riffs on that album

petition for mayfuck to post nudes

signed

"17" at the end of Adore. It's not even debatably a song, it has no effect, and the actual song it came from was nowhere to be found for years. Bullshit, Billy, Billshit.

and all i wanted
was just to hold you close
a little sunshine
just to butter my toast

the vocals on every live version of Geek USA.

Billy wearing lip gloss for his closeup in the Adore booklet.

All 2007 live TV performances.

the "SO FOLLOW ME!!!" in Starz.

AG.

Spaceboy (sorry, but it's true).

any james song, with the exception of blew away and go

SNAP!

I like James's songs, but they don't fit well with Billy's.

Add to that the majority of Gish for me too.

"17" at the end of Adore. It's not even debatably a song, it has no effect, and the actual song it came from was nowhere to be found for years. Bullshit, Billy, Billshit.
it sure seems to have pissed you off

I dont mind 17. It's like a song cut short, and I guess he felt his mum's life was cut short.

Sorry, is that a serious post, McCririck?