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Old 12-19-2016, 04:25 PM   #6
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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.

 
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