Red Mosquito

Plenty of room for all of them, friend. I'm certainly not trying to compare the two.

durdencommatyler wrote:Plenty of room for all of them, friend. I'm certainly not trying to compare the two.

I know you don't!!!

Is somehow baffling how a lot of people have that need though...like " ey AIC was better than Soundgarden"...i guess for me, those are bands that i need for certain times in my life.

VinylGuy wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Plenty of room for all of them, friend. I'm certainly not trying to compare the two.

I know you don't!!!

Is somehow baffling how a lot of people have that need though...like " ey AIC was better than Soundgarden"...i guess for me, those are bands that i need for certain times in my life.

Absolutely. It's amazing how bands/artists fill a specific need or a specific time. I kinda love that aspect of music. It's true of all art, I think, but it seems to apply to music more often for me.

durdencommatyler wrote:I mean, I think it's silly to post stuff like that without desiring to expand the conversation whether or not a member of the band died. There's an element of "then why are you here reading/posting, especially right now given the circumstances, if all you want to say is, nope?"

Still Remains will always be my favorite STP song

Seven Caged Tigers
Wonderful
Adhesive
Lounge Fly
Silvergun Superman
Crackerman
Ride the Cliche
Black Again
Bi-Polar Bear

and I love the playfulness of First Kiss on Mars from the reunion record

listening to adhesive after seeing it mentioned a lot here...i haven't heard this one in so long, forgot how good it is

I have no memory of a lot of these songs. I should listen to adhesive

stip wrote:I have no memory of a lot of these songs. I should listen to adhesive

You're goddamn right.

Billy Corgan has posted a eulogy for Scott Weiland on the Smashing Pumpkins website. The former Stone Temple Pilots/Velvet Revolver frontman was found dead last night in his tour bus in Minnesota.

In his statement, the Smashing Pumpkins frontman names Weiland as one of "the great voices of our generation," along with Kurt Cobain and Alice in Chains' Layne Staley. He adds, "It goes beyond tragedy to say it is we who lost them, and not the other way round".

Read his statement below, via Stereogum.

IN HONOUR OF SCOTT WEILAND

December 4, 2015

Having just woken to the news of this passing, I feel compelled to put pen to paper and pay my respects to Scott. And in that I will not pretend to know more than I know, or add some sad homily to how he loved his life. At least in that, may I now say he is undoubtably in the arms of grace and eternal love.

May I also offer my humble condolences to his family, friends, and band mates; who have, and are, suffering this great loss. For when anyone as vaunted leaves far too soon, we mourn all that might have been.

As any fan, I find myself reflecting on what I do have in my own treasure chest: in scarce moments where Scott and I spoke as contemporaries or competitors, and got to know each as people other past the footlights and shadows we were so busy casting to the world. It may seem trite in reflection, but I'd try to make him giggle when I saw that the manic whirl of the dumb parties we were at (in Hollywood, no less!) might be causing undue stress.

It was, I'd guess you'd say, my way of apology for having been so critical of STP when they appeared on the scene like some crazy, man-fueled rocket. And not only was the knight up front freshly handsome to a fault, but he could sing too! As any supreme actor gives a real and different voice to each character played.

It was STP's 3rd album that had got me hooked, a wizardly mix of glam and post-punk, and I confessed to Scott, as well as the band many times, how wrong I'd been in assessing their native brilliance. And like Bowie can and does, it was Scott's phrasing that pushed his music into a unique, and hard to pin down, aesthetic sonicsphere.

Lastly, I'd like to share a thought which though clumsy, I hope would please Scott In Hominum. And that is if you asked me who I truly believed were the great voices of our generation, I'd say it were he, Layne [Staley], and Kurt [Cobain].

So it goes beyond tragedy to say it is we who lost them, and not the other way round...

I'm just surprised Billy didn't include himself in the best voices of the generation roundup.

Whatever Billy

evenslow wrote:I'm just surprised Billy didn't include himself in the best voices of the generation roundup.

I had the same thought. Billy isn't threatened by dead singers, it seems

I wonder if Billy has his own eulogy written already

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

RIP

billy>eddie

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:billy>eddie

Billy certainly agrees. Unless Eddie dies, it seems.

stip wrote:I have no memory of a lot of these songs. I should listen to adhesive

Do yourself a favor and listen to Ride the Cliché and Glide too.

What an awkward, needlessly convoluted writing style Billy has.