Red Mosquito

Birds in Hell wrote:What an awkward, needlessly convoluted writing style Billy has.

No fucking kidding. I read that thing last night and all I could think was "what the f".

Kevin Davis wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:billy>eddie

Billy certainly agrees. Unless Eddie dies, it seems.

Birds in Hell wrote:What an awkward, needlessly convoluted writing style Billy has.

Billy Corgan: poet laureate of a billion self-impressed first year English majors who will all amount to nothing.

McParadigm wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:What an awkward, needlessly convoluted writing style Billy has.

Billy Corgan: poet laureate of a billion self-impressed first year English majors who will all amount to nothing.

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Adhesive and ride the cliche are awesome...also, lounge fly....i forgot about those.

Kevin Davis wrote:"Adhesive" has got to be their best song

It's definitely in my top two or three.

VinylGuy wrote:Adhesive and ride the cliche are awesome...also, lounge fly....i forgot about those.

This guy gets it.

I listened to 12 Bar Blues this morning...what a weird, eclectic album it is...

Imagine if someone like Ed or Kurt made this album....It would be consider a masterpiece for sure. If Thom Yorke made it everyone would be saying its his finest work, his return to pop music.

Fuck critics.

Top 10

Seven Caged Tigers
Pruno
Ride the Cliche
Long Way Home
Bi-Polar Bear
Big Empty
Regeneration
I Got You
Tumble In The Rough
Vasoline

VinylGuy wrote:I listened to 12 Bar Blues this morning...what a weird, eclectic album it is...

Imagine if someone like Ed or Kurt made this album....It would be consider a masterpiece for sure. If Thom Yorke made it everyone would be saying its his finest work, his return to pop music.

Fuck critics.

Im pretty sure critics still wouldn't care. Especially present day.

BurtReynolds wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

RIP

You know, I actually consider Billy to be dead. I mean, the physical person is still there but the genius who wrote all that stuff is gone. Long gone.

matt reeder wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

RIP

You know, I actually consider Billy to be dead. I mean, the physical person is still there but the genius who wrote all that stuff is gone. Long gone.

Sounds like EV/PJ

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Favorite STP songs (alphabetical):

Adhesive
All in the Suit That You Wear
Art School Girl
Atlanta
Dead & Bloated
Down
Heaven & Hot Rods
Interstate Love Song
No Way Out
Plush
Sex & Violence
Sex Type Thing
Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart
Vasoline
Wicked Garden

I can't believe I forgot "Big Empty"!

EDIT: Come to think of it, "Where the River Goes" should probably also be on this list. Man, they have so many great songs!

These lyrics seem resonant in hindsight:

"If I was stronger, I could be a mountain range.
If night was longer, could I escape the day?"

Man, "Kitchenware & Candybars" is a really great song too. I never noticed this one before.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Man, "Kitchenware & Candybars" is a really great song too. I never noticed this one before.

Yeah, that's one of my all time favorites. Also Where the River Goes. Both brilliant songs.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Man, "Kitchenware & Candybars" is a really great song too. I never noticed this one before.

Thats one of my favorites.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Man, "Kitchenware & Candybars" is a really great song too. I never noticed this one before.

Awesome song. How did you not notice it before?

PHATJ wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Man, "Kitchenware & Candybars" is a really great song too. I never noticed this one before.

Awesome song. How did you not notice it before?

I don't know, I guess I'm a fucking asshole.

I had moved away from them the past 10 years or so, mostly from 90s grunge fatigue, but there's no denying their talent for making attractive music. It's hard to find a bad song on those first 3 records, but Purple and Riny Music are just crazy good.