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06-22-2012, 02:31 PM | #1 |
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Billy Is Annoying Me With His "I Decided Not To Write Hits For 15 Years" BS
No, you didn't. To say you did is just silly and blatantly false. I still love his music, but he hasn't written a hit since 1998 (if we are really generous and call 'Ava Adore' a "hit"). I can't stand dishonestly from artists.
In fairness, Thom Yorke said something equally ridiculous about how "writing hits got boring" and that "he could write 100 'Just's' or 'High and Dry's" if he wanted to". What a bunch of bullshit. |
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06-22-2012, 02:33 PM | #2 |
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06-22-2012, 02:35 PM | #3 |
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do you think a pop song is defined only by being popular
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06-22-2012, 02:43 PM | #5 |
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In part, absolutely. Most classic "pop songs" have been wildly popular and culturally relevant to one degree or another. There's something to be said about being "the biggest rock band in the world" and selling millions of albums. And I don't believe for a second that he would pass that up if he really could still write hit songs. Oceania is a pretty blatant attempt at pleasing rock fans. Hey, it pleased most Pumpkins fans, so mission accomplished. It's still not nearly as good as SD or MCIS and it won't be nearly as culturally relevant.
Saying nonsense like "I could easily write another Siamese Dream if I really wanted to" just makes me shake my head. I love his music and have all the albums, but he absolutely could not write a mainstream hit no matter how hard he tried. He just couldn't. It's not a choice, he's just past his artistic prime and no longer in touch with pop culture. |
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06-22-2012, 03:11 PM | #6 |
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so stairway to heaven is a pop song to you?
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06-22-2012, 03:34 PM | #7 |
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Obviously.
Written and recorded when Page/Plant were in their 20s. Same age as Corgan when he wrote all his hits. |
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06-22-2012, 03:39 PM | #8 |
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lol ok guy
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06-22-2012, 04:24 PM | #9 |
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What do you call Stairway to Heaven, guy? Indie? Fucking nuts.
And are you denying that Corgan is completely full of shit for saying he could write another Siamese Dream but simply chooses not to. He tried to write hits for Zeitgeist, but flopped hard. |
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06-22-2012, 04:26 PM | #10 |
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And we're talking about his claim that he can still write hits. This conversation has nothing to do with pop vs. rock vs. prog rock vs. indie vs. metal vs. whateverthefuckelse.
Way to derail the thread, brah. |
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06-22-2012, 04:26 PM | #11 |
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no "writing another siamese dream" is absolutely fucking impossible
writing another pop song, which he could do and hasn't, isn't. same with radiohead, they haven't written a pop song since OKC but i'll let someone else explain to you what pop is and how stairway to heaven is not a pop song and how this has nothing to do with 'indie' which is chock full of bands writing pop songs. |
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06-22-2012, 04:39 PM | #12 | |
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And what on earth is your point about Stairway To Heaven? What does that have to do with anything? That song was a massive hit. One of the biggest hits ever. Whether you want to classify it as pop or pop-rock is completely irrelevant. What was your point? Did you have one? By the way, Corgan has written shitloads of pop songs since the Pumpkins popularity went south (Zwan was an entire album of pop-rock). Radiohead has written shitloads of pop-rock too. So you are wrong there. |
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06-22-2012, 04:44 PM | #13 |
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i mean i know you think you're entitled to your opinion since you can form sentences and type them on the computer but it's pretty obvious that you're 1) convinced you're right already, 2) angry at anyone who disagrees with you, 3) have no fucking idea what you're talking about
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06-22-2012, 04:47 PM | #14 |
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i think billy has tried to write pop songs
and i think in rainbows has some pop songs but maybe we should have a better definition of "pop song" |
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06-22-2012, 04:51 PM | #15 | |
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i can see that tarantula could be considered pop but honestly the metal machine epic of machina doesn't have any pop on it but i haven't listened to it in a while
which songs on radiohead's albums post okc do you think are pop? i mean my definition is
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06-22-2012, 04:53 PM | #16 |
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I have a bone to pick, and I'm gonna break some!!
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06-22-2012, 04:55 PM | #17 | |
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I think it's blatantly obvious that he has tried to write "hits" ('Honestly', 'That's The Way My Love Is', even 'My Love Is Winter'). None of them caught on with the mainstream or became "hits", so he fell back on the excuse that he really wasn't trying to write hit songs. I think it's an ego thing for him. Sort of like the guy who gets turned down by a girl then tells himself that he didn't really want her anyway. And a hit song doesn't have to be pop. I consider 'Zero' to be a pretty big hit and it certainly wasn't a pop song. |
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06-22-2012, 04:56 PM | #18 |
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Btw I don't think billy even said he purposely didnt write a hit song in the past 10 years. I think he meant something more in the lines of 'i haven't tried as hard' and 'didn't go for my absolute best'.. Implying he needed to get some of the ok stuff out first to get to where he is now.. Which yeah does come across as bs, and I can see how that would irritate someone.
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06-22-2012, 04:57 PM | #19 |
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But if you've got a direct quote, prove me wrong.
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06-22-2012, 04:59 PM | #20 |
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i think that's why i asked you to clarify, because this seemed cross referenced with another thread where you said something about how "nobody" could tell 1979 would be a "hit" even though i pointed out that it's deliberate crossover pop.
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06-22-2012, 05:03 PM | #21 | |
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i really don't think radiohead has been writing stuff to appeal to mainstream audiences lately though, so. i think if thom wrote some song that was in the vein of High and Dry or Creep the Radiocult would just absolutely soil themselves in unison and it'd be a huge hit |
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06-22-2012, 05:11 PM | #22 | |
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I'll have to listen to the O&A interview again for the direct quote. |
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06-22-2012, 05:18 PM | #23 |
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Tarantula was a hit. It got shit tons of radio play in 2007.
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06-22-2012, 05:22 PM | #24 |
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is that how low the bar is for you killtrocity
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06-22-2012, 06:26 PM | #25 |
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now, see, trots is trolling again. i just don't know.
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06-23-2012, 12:14 AM | #26 |
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"This Time" is pretty poppy as far as machina goes
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06-23-2012, 09:01 AM | #27 |
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i figured SIYL, seeing as how it was a single and all, but that wiki definition Trots posted has me mightily confused so i dunno.
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06-23-2012, 09:03 AM | #28 | |
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06-23-2012, 06:35 PM | #29 |
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that's unfortunate because the bends is great
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06-23-2012, 11:33 PM | #30 |
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The bends is amazing
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