Bands that sound like Smashing Pumpkins/influenced by
 

Another fan/friend (in that order, lol) asked me about this, curious about how far the Pumpkins' influence goes. Here's what I came up with, not counting bands like My Bloody Valentine and the Cure who were first and who SP molded themselves after:
On a scale of one to ten, how much they sound like SP, to ME, and remember, these are just bands that I've heard people compare to SP, valid or not, stupid or not, so don't chew me out:

Placebo-7
*early* Jimmy Eat World-8
Deftones-7
*some* Thursday-6
A Perfect Circle-8 (prolly more with James now in band, ha)
Zwan-9 (obviously)
Abandoned Pools-10, the closest-sounding to SP out there...
Loudermilk-8
Superdrag-7
Earlimart-8 (9 on "We Drink on the Job")
Saves the Day-6

If there are any other extremely Pumpkins like bands out there that I'm missing, let me know. I'm curious. Thanks.

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Re: Bands that sound like Smashing Pumpkins/influenced by
 

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Yes i agree - no way are Zwan a 9

Teh Smashing Pumpinsz are the strokes of the '90s

The Deftones don't sound like the Smashing Pumpkins.

white pony has some pumpkin influence in it. chino even said so.

they don't sound like them because deftones are actually good and just don't rip people off, but there are definately hints. again in white pony.

Feeder, listen to shade, w.i.t. (women in towels) and you'll get a geek usa/quiet taste in your mouth.

Our Lady Peace – 7 (mostly their older stuff)

I Am One > Naveed.

According to All Music Guide:

Collective Soul
Sunny Day Real Estate
Teeth
Tinfed
Hum
Garbage
Spacehog
Our Lady Peace
Fulflej
Stiltskin
Los Lagartos
Mogwai
Volumen Cero
Suede Chain
Remember August
Muse
Goudie
Garijo Mambrú
Jack's Broken Heart
Viciana

here's my 2 cents...

HUM/Centaur

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Re: Bands that sound like Smashing Pumpkins/influenced by
 

it makes me wonder when the pumpkins' influence will become prevalent in new music.

i mean, hendrix had a definitive style. so did zeppelin. so did the doors. so did the pixies. that why they had the kind of influence that they did. the pumpkins, however, have music the reaches to all ends of the musical spectrum that it's nearly impossible to determine what kind of a definitive style that they had, besides having a frontman with a whiny voice and two big muffed guitars.

who knows. anything that could be considered pumpkins influenced will either be a very cheap knockoff, or end up not sounding like the pumpkins at all.

oh yeah and fred durst said he was influenced by the pumpkins... that didn't really work out though.

Lol wtf.

:think:

It says a lot about how diverse and unique they were since they aren’t easily ripped off. There were ripoff Peal Jams and Nirvana’s but you can’t rip off the Pumpkins because they never stayed nailed down to one thing and Corgan’s vocals were so distinct.

That’s why they struck a chord with a lot of the alienated out there – they were unique. Empitiness is lonliness, just like me, etc. etc.

Ok, I tried not to sound too o-boarder there, but hey...

Yeah, I know, it's like everyone who has taken influence from the pumpkins so far has focused on the wussy, emotive side. It'll be interesting to see if anyone picks up influence from the finer points of their more classic-rock driven side. I don't even know what that would sound like, though. Probably not much like the pumpkins. So there you have it.

Chino sings the same style as Corgan. Not that it's an influence in the real sense, but if he listed to the pumpkins it could be a sub-conscious thing. So yes, there are hints.. But the deftones definitely have crafted their own thing.

But then again, most major influenced bands have hints of other bands within them.

What the fuck

i definitely hear sp in the placebo guitar solos - at least in the first 3 albums definitely.

Where? I'm really curious. 'Cause I've never really noticed anything.

What was that band that pretty much directly copied SP? They even had a song called Silverfunk or something like that. I remember reading about them on Luna, like 5 years ago.

Anyone know?

Abandoned Pools
Hum

I think that there are more bands than we realize that are influenced by the Pumpkins...it's just that they have such an original sound, it's really obvious most of the time when people are trying to sound like them, so most bands do their own thing.

That actually makes a lot of sense, in my mind.


Download "Circles" and I think you'll see what they're talking about.

I think Mogwai took a few layered-guitar tricks from the Corgan Bag O' Stuff.

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a lot of mogwai reminds me of the pumpkins

i hear it ... especially when chino elongates certain words... there seems to be a lot of similarity there... not in the sound, but in the presentation.

Chino's vocals tend to flow with the melody, acting more as a ********** instrument than anything else (especially on many songs on the new CD). Billy is more upfront with is delivery. If that makes any sense.