Solara is out for real

[fuzzyroes]

Solara actually is an unreleased song from the Monuments To An Elegy sessions.

[slunken]

PM me please. I had a tab open all day which let me replay it but once I closed it it was gone (obviously).

[jm9843]

Originally Posted by fuzzyroes

Solara actually is an unreleased song from the Monuments To An Elegy sessions.

Right, that was the point. If he's so lazy as to dredge up unreleased material to record now, why this song when there's demonstratively better shit to use.

[fuzzyroes]

Originally Posted by slunken

PM me please. I had a tab open all day which let me replay it but once I closed it it was gone (obviously).

done

[fuzzyroes]

Originally Posted by jm9843

Right, that was the point. If he's so lazy as to dredge up unreleased material to record now, why this song when there's demonstratively better shit to use.

Yeah, I have no idea actually. I just don't think his hearts in it anymore. I wish he and James could have sat down together and worked something out, but it's clear they were under time restraints and that this is just a cash-grab .

I never thought Corgan would do it, but he's gone full blown sell-out.

[houseofglass11]

Fuzzy let me get a hit of dat link bruh

[DaveKShape]

I'll take a PM too if one would be so kind. Thanks.

[fuzzyroes]

Sent some 320KBPS rips to both of ya, enjoy!

[slunken]

Hell yes Billy is back. The Smashing Pumpkins are back Machines Of God is back suck on that you none believe

[fuzzyroes]

They do that Turbonegro thing where they just ding away on a piano key during the chorus. Never heard SP do that shit before

[enthusaroo]

Originally Posted by fuzzyroes

Sent some 320KBPS rips to both of ya, enjoy!

this is illegal, against the forum rules, and you can be sued by Billy and co

[fuzzyroes]

I believe the song is already hosted on Spotify, so it's technically not unreleased.

Mods can delete those messages though if they don't want it to be known that people are sending around the song.

(I realize you're joking, but I do respect the rules around here, so I wasn't sure)

[slunken]

this rule exists solely because david made a sticky thread specifically pointing to links to leaks.

[fuzzyroes]

The more I listen to this, the more I'm reminded of a worse "Anti-Hero" lol

[artvase]

Im grillin yall

[artvase]

I AINT NUTHIN BUT A BODY

[LaBelle]

rename the thread to "is Solara for real"

[enthusaroo]

Originally Posted by LaBelle

rename the thread to "is Solara for real"

at first when I heard it, I thought it was an April Fools' Joke

[run2pee]

Did anyone else just bust out laughing before the chorus even hits?

This shit is SOOOOOO fucken lame, who do these old farts think they’re FOOLING

[Skradgee]

Jeez you guys and girls...

8+ pages, same day

Bravo

[houseofglass11]

It sounded like an even shittier version of the last song on MTaE. Like damn, legit bad.

[fuzzyroes]

Originally Posted by Run To Me

Did anyone else just bust out laughing before the chorus even hits?

This shit is SOOOOOO fucken lame, who do these old farts think they’re FOOLING

Man, it's mostly the vocal performance that kills the whole thing. Like, you'd picture him to sing the "Bring down the sun" part all intensely and angry like he did in Bodies or something but he sings it all angelically. Not sure what he was going for with that

There is simply no dynamic range in his vocals anymore. He used to be so expressive and have a wide range of vocal styles, but now he's just a 1 trick pony, and the 1 trick sucks.

[houseofglass11]

This is sell your tickets bad

[Corgan's Bluff]

Solara got its own ear sticks to avoid harming:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IWO8SX930E.../PACK+SHOT.jpg

[pavementtune]

Originally Posted by Run To Me

Did anyone else just bust out laughing before the chorus even hits?

This shit is SOOOOOO fucken lame, who do these old farts think they’re FOOLING

joke might be on them. Am I thinking wrong here, or by choosing this song as first release before they tour, they have only 2 options now:

- play no new material on the tour whatsoever, not a single track, own the "nostalgia only, we are irrelevant otherwise" angle

- play this one. live. at Madison Square Garden.

and then have every single blog review mention this dang track in not so kind words.

either option is less than optimal

[fuzzyroes]

Originally Posted by houseofglass11

This is sell your tickets bad

It definitely doesn't give much hope in regards to him having his voice in better shape.

[fuzzyroes]

Originally Posted by pavementtune

joke might be on them. Am I thinking wrong here, or by choosing this song as first release before they tour, they have only 2 options now:

- play no new material on the tour whatsoever, not a single track, own the "nostalgia only, we are irrelevant otherwise" angle

- play this one. live. at Madison Square Garden.
and then have every single blog review mention this dang track in not so kind words

I don't think they will be playing any new music. Live Nation made a big point of emphasizing that the music would be exclusively from the first 5 albums. I almost get the feeling like there's a clause in the contract.

I mean, I suppose if they slid 1 new song in, no one would mind, but if Live Nation advertises something, it's usually pretty set in stone.

[run2pee]

Originally Posted by fuzzyroes

Man, it's mostly the vocal performance that kills the whole thing. Like, you'd picture him to sing the "Bring down the sun" part all intensely and angry like he did in Bodies or something but he sings it all angelically. Not sure what he was going for with that

There is simply no dynamic range in his vocals anymore. He used to be so expressive and have a wide range of vocal styles, but now he's just a 1 trick pony, and the 1 trick sucks.

But it’s also the astonishingly bland, uninspired, lazy riffs, the nonsensically active drumming

Like, and this is supposed to be hard rock, y’know? I don’t think they were going for laffs, here, but that is exactly what it provokes in me

[pavementtune]

I see. what was the reasoining for releasing this thing or any other "new" track now then at all?
I do not get what was going on in band management here to say "hell yea, let's do Solara, now."

granted, I haven't understood the single choices in many, many years with Bully, but this is baffling altogether.

how could have NOT releasing any track now have a worse outcome than releasing this?

[run2pee]

Like, is there even a Fucken riff in this thing??? Can you call palm muting into power chords a riff? Isn’t that like where most bands stop and go, ok we’ve got sort of a skeleton, now we need something to actually sell it?

Like, uh, A FUCKEN RIFF???