Zeitgeist Has Actually Aged Pretty Well
I dunno
it sounds "relevant" all of a sudden thoughts? does anyone even care? |
check out JImmy on back up guitar |
lol
no. no, it does not |
it sounded dated in 2007
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Ur mom has actually aged pretty well.
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I would not call anything about this album "relevant." There are still at least two to four songs on the album I would call "good" Smashing Pumpkins songs. The rest ranges from tolerable to completely forgettable. It sounds like what it was, Billy and Jimmy jamming together and trying to get back into Smashing Pumpkins mode. As Billy has said before, the mere power that comes from Billy and Jimmy playing together will always make an album stand out, but this really was about forgettable as Billy Corgan projects come. Even the Teargarden songs seem more memorable, if only for how misguided and ridiculous some of them were.
The most positive thing I can think to say is that I have seen the band play "United States" three times live, and it really rocked each time; even with Mike playing drums. |
Hey look, it's the annual "looking back Zeitgeist isn't actually that bad" thread.
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i believe this thread is about zeitgeist the song, not about zeitgeist the album.
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True true
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So what do you think Bills comments at the end were all about?
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yet another boring review....
CONS: Songs sound like rough sketches, are all over the place thematically, and have a very raw sound, they could have put a little more thought into each section of the compositions. The Billy choruses. While not a bad idea on paper, and something that Billy has done before, the multi vocal tracks just sound WRONG and awkward. The super metallic sounding and overly LOUD production. Worst guitar sound of any Pumpkins album, but..... PROS: Billy shreds on this. The last time we have heard any quality solos on an SP album. Jimmy shreds. He's in top form, but again marred by bizzare production choices. I feel like this album was pretty experimental, as far as guitar tones/effects used/weird shit in the background. Ultimately, this is an SP record. It has all the obvious quirks and earmarks of every other release, it's just seems like they gave more of a shit about the idea of the song than the actual nuts and bolts composition. |
I'm also in the "Zeitgeist isn't totally awful" camp. It has some good tunes.
It's just that, there is so much better music out there to listen to, there's no real point spinning it. And even if I feel like listening to Pumpkins, there is so much better Pumpkins music to listen to. Like, why listen to Zeitgeist when I could listen to Machina? I know nothing of production, so I don't know how to critique that, but something about the album sounds a little "off." Like, some of the songs that feel like they should be high-energy bangers don't sound high-energy and feel like they are missing something that is keeping it from hitting that sweet spot. Like, I wanna really like "Doomsday Clock" and "United States," but there's something not quite there about them. I actually had no problem with the "Corgan Chorus" and thought "Bleeding the Orchid" was pretty good. |
I guess my point is there are a few sleepers in there, i.e songs that I wrote off before as being stupid, but now enjoy.
Examples: Bring the Light, and (Come On) Let's Go! (still a horrible song title however). It almost seems like this album is a hard nut to crack, but rewarding if you can move beyond any lingering feelings of loathing or disappointment you had on the first few listens. But is that always worth your time? I agree, Disco King, there are far more better choices if you wanna listen to SP. When I was listening to ZG recently, I found myself pausing it to listen to Pisces Iscariot instead, because I wanted to hear some rocking tunes. That album ROCKS. and PI is a compilation, not even a proper release |
lol how many times we have this thread. oh let's analyze song by song, is it terrrible album, is it ok album? look here's novelty guy who thinks it was swell.
this board can't let it go. it's like watching political scientists talk about vietnam |
it rocks my socks off!
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I'm sorry, JESUSNEEDSASHIT
I was bored, and admittedly, this a lame idea for a thread. In the future, I will try to come up with better content for the community. |
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i was honestly open to a real answer/discussion on Zeitgeist
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Crabshack
crabshack licks and loves my asscrack ! |
Zeitgeist remains unlistenable to my delicate earholes. No offense if u like it, I won't call u a moran or anybody, it's just my earholes r rather delicate
There's a swishiness in the compressed-to-hell hi-hats that evokes the unpleasant, goose-pimpling sensation of walking too far in too-new corduroys And the vocal doesn't sit in the track. Bored, lackluster performance on bills part, riding high in this weird empty space, several dbs wholly above the compressed-to-hell track. Just makes me wanna fart, man |
United States and Gossamer are the only good songs out of the Z era (not counting residency songs) and one was ruined on record and one was never recorded so
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Hey burt u ever read samson agonistes? Its no paradise lost but its aight.
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The songs are fine. The production and vocals are just ear bleeding
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Dear Weasle
have you ever pleasured yourself rectally to thoughts of a glabrous vin diesel ? |
Back then the album really stunned me (positively), but I was in another mindset, and besides, listening to new pumpkins (whatever formation) material after that break might have added extra positve emotions, but the songs are quite underwhelming, but still not totally bad. The production with all the multibollys makes me cringe nowadays, but that's RTB's fault, I would say. Some songs though still move me nowadays, like Bleeding the Orchid and United States, maybe because the "old" SP shines thru them. Well, overall that album still stands out positively today, after all that crap that followed afterwards with teargarden (except some acoustic live variations of those songs, maybe..but billy's voice was somehow shitty).
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A resounding return to form
The form that is good for me to poop on |
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