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Spinning Like a Top
In a former life (about 3 years ago), I was just about the biggest Smashing Pumpkins fan there is. I had many many shows on CD and cassette (from back in the day when the brand of cassettes you bought determined whether people would trade shows with you), and I had just about every available song they'd ever performed or recorded.
Then the band broke up, and I kind of lost interest. Zwan was ok, and I even have a few of their shows, but the best Zwan stuff wasn't even as good as the middle-of-the-road Pumpkins material. It's hard to explain, since the same guy wrote the songs, sung the songs, and there was even the same drummer, but it just didn't catch my fancy the way the Pumpkins did.
Lately I've been digging out my old discs, though, and it's like rediscovering it all over again. I keep waiting for some new band to rise up and take the reins as far as becoming my favorite band, but I don't think it's going to happen. I guess I'll have to wait until "late 80's/early 90's" comes back into style the way that "60's garage rock" has.
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I can identify, Chris. When music from that era becomes trendy again, I hope we'll be in the same old age home so we can trade tapes.
Posted by: ab9 at January 24, 2004 8:39 PM
I feel the same way about Paul McCartney that you do about Zwan. What the hell was up with that Wings crap? Could it really have been from the same guy who wrote all of those wonderful songs with the Beatles? Was John Lennon really that important to the process?
BTW, I know that we often disagree on music, but Meloncholy and the Infinite Sadness was the second album I ever owned, and I still think that it has a lot of great songs on it.
Posted by: Nathan at January 25, 2004 12:07 PM
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