Occasionally on this blog you find two posts in a row about Billy Corgan or The Smashing Pumpkins; this is one of those times. I have been teased a time or two about just calling it the Billy Blog, but realistically I could never compete with the hilarious people at Hipsters United, so why try?
Like many of you on the night of Jan. 1st we bought The Smashing Pumpkins EP “American Gothic” on itunes. I was not euphorically dancing around the room like I assumed I would be after the first listening. In fact I was so tired I just went to bed without too much comment at all (normally Tac would have had to take part in a complete dissection type play by play of every song before he could lay there and try to sleep). “It’s OK” is about all I said, I had been expecting something else.
After listening to it many more times since then, I am ready to tell you all that I really like it, except Pox; I finally removed it from my ipod because I had no desire to listen to it EVER really.
Here’s why I decided to love American Gothic after all:
Billy’s voice is the main attraction in these songs, it is not drowned out with a lot of other noise and it is exceptionally beautiful.
I am a fan of the “la da da’s” in the beginning of Rose March, and the voice layering is really growing on me.
“Again, again, again” sounds very Zwanish in it’s twang, but its a sweet song and I am a big sucker. Plus I like to picture Billy playing his acoustic guitar and singing his heart out.
My favorite song is “Sunkissed.” The melody has been playing in my head for a couple days now, it gives me that soothing “ahhh, Billy is singing……what your brother just hit you? I’m very sorry but I’m sure your fine…….mmmhmmmm feeling.”
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i have to admit i’ve been disappointed with this one. I was expecting something different, too, I guess. I do like the rose march (it was my favorite residency song), and sunkissed is nice too. The others don’t do anything for me, and like you, I don’t like pox at all. I still have faith that the next thing they put out will be good though. I haven’t given up on billy!