Smashing Pumpkins

Ok this was shocking to me. I thought I knew almost every Pumpkin song there was. But I was in a surf shop today and a song comes on over the radio. It's Billy Corgan! Holy crap! But . . . whats this song?! It was really good but I had never heard it! It was acoustic, it had a harmonica (yea an actual harmonica) and the chorus consisted mainly of 'Come with me..." and so on and so on.

The guy at the counter said it was 'an old Pumpkin song' but that was all he knew. He said that the radio station we were listening to plays that song every once in a while and had been for at least a few years.

I feel incredibly ashamed that there's a radio worthy Pumpkin song I havn't heard before (despite my 2 1/2 days (literally) worth of Pumpkin music on Itunes). What is this song? What compilation was it on? On a scale of 1 to 10 how incredibly dumb am I for not having heard this song?
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May 15, 2008 - SP Vs Nirvana

Does anybody else think that Nirvana is completely overrated? Anywhere you read it's always about how great Nirvana is and what a genius Kurt Cobain was, when Billy Corgan is twice the songwriter and guitarist Kurt was. Just wondering if anyone else feels the same way.

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May 14, 2008 - Yelena Yemchuk

curiosity lead me to this woman site, she definitely has talent, and you can see some punpkins "rare" photos over there
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May 14, 2008 - THE HORROR!!! Must Watch Now!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JnmxXLAFXMY

This is too much to be true, i wasn´t sure if i should cry or laugh until i cry. My eyes popped out and i cracked into the most hideous laughter until my mom had to cross the backyard and come see what was happening to me.

Enjoy!

I´m Fabinesss in Youtube, say hello.
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May 13, 2008 - Video Mix Tape

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May 13, 2008 - does anyone listen to unsigned bands?

There are only a few unsigned bands I listen to. I find that my favorite bands are all pretty huge. Why is this?
So many bands out there deserve more recognition then they get. And after watching that Uli and Billy documentary, I'm starting to think rock stars such as Corgan take their status for granted. He's complaining about playing for 60,000 people and not 100,000! give me a friggin break. He seems like the most unhappy, boring guy in that video. And I also feel Billy is out of touch with younger listeners. When the 'Ask a Pumpkin' thing was going on, someone wanted to know what new bands Billy and jimmy listen to, and their response was that they don't listen to new stuff.
Instead they listen to Scorpions. Lame. No wonder they're not gaining any new fans.
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May 13, 2008 - The Rose March

slow-poked and cross-eyed
pigeon-toed to the railroad ties
hump-backed and sugar shacked
shotgun wed to the poison of all that

a little longer, a little longer to go
we've a little longer, a little longer to go
i just can't help say so

can't you see me?
can't you see me at all?

inner spaced and pie-faced
you catch the moon i'll just stand here and run in place
shell-shocked and half-cocked
the universe is full of black holes and anniversary knots

a little longer to go
we've a little longer, a little longer to go
we've a little longer to go

can't you see me at all?
can't you see me?
can't you see me at all?
can't you see me?
can't you see me? can't you see me at all?

i'll lay roses at your feet till you decide there is something great in you
i'll lay roses at your feet till you decide there is something great in you

we've only just begin to grieve the space
we've only just begin to grieve the space
we've only just begin to grieve the space

We may have different ways to analyze lyrics. I’ll try to explain the sight I took.

The choice of this song was conditionned by the time it arrived in my life. I heard it during a relationship and the song fit with I felt in this time, it was corresponding so we can talk of synchronicity. An overall connection of the music with the Music.

With this song (and with all the songs and others piece of arts) we are in relationship with the artist. If we would start with Billy, do we want to know him better? Do we have this possibility?

What was the intent of this song? Billy said himself it had the new Smashing Pumpkins in mind composing it (directly at the crowd). But he also said a lot of times, he is inspired for songs as if they come inside him and as if he is only an intermediary. In the middle. The voice of God (south america’s interview). In Guitar World interview (april 2000) he said: “As a writer, I think it’s important to just open up the water tap and let the stuff come out. And if it’s right, it should have balance- the ying and the yang, the light and dark, or whatever balancing analogy you want to use”

Psychologically speaking, I believe we may know someone by his writings, no matter if it is consciously about himself or not. I know there have technics about that even if it isn’t my speciality. So I speak without speciality just with heart.

What is very moving in this song for me, that is the different rythmns. It is introducing the time in it, the varied expression of one emotion. Billy spoke of the band’s relationship. We could associate it with different relationships. Say fan relationship. A band doesn’t exist without audience. “We are just fan” is a wrong statement in my perception. If we say that being fan we don’t have a special relationship with the band we are reducing all the potential we may have in relationship. For the band and for each one of us.

“Can’t you see me at all?” It is this distance between him and us. Is he able to be himself with us? Are we able to be ourself with him? Are we, all of us, able to accept who we are for eachother?

Definitally, this song has a personal meaning for Billy. But like it is personal, I’m not very inclined to seek it if he doesn’t bring his point of view. That I’m interested to bring it is something larger. Each song has different layers of meanings, particularly Billy’s songs. The words, the expressions add to the understanding. Like I don’t understand all the particular english expressions (I missed a lot of those) I try to let the song melt in me, melt with the emotions that it brings.

This one brings the desire to find our architecture as relationship. Billy is 40, curious about varied subjects, of avant-garde in many ones. The best artists are those. If artists are the leading edge of our world, those introducing the new ways, showing the new roads, I guess that our community as a role also in that. In the past, the fan/artist relationship was one of idolatry. Of an integral point of view, the creation is something shared between artist and his environment. Though we have to trust eachother and to be willing to engage ourself in this way.

Something in this Guitar World interview troubled me cause he expressed in it the need of protection from the audience. For an artist and a human being engaged on the integral road, it doesn’t appear to be the best road it seems.

In an interview with Ken Wilber
http://in.integralinstitute.org go to Free Previews go to Billy Corgan Leading Edge Consciousness
Billy talked of the changing in his relationship with the audience and he seems worry about the way fans look at him, the projection thing.

“Can’t you see me at all” seems to fit very well with that.
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May 13, 2008 - Because we're all Pumpkins fans....

i trust Pumpkins fans more thanjust about any other fans....not just because you love the Pumpkins (same as i do), but because you've stuck by them through all the hardships, personnel changes, and musical changes....no 2 pumpkins album have ever sounded alike!!!! anyway it's in this light that i ask your kind indulgence and give a listen to my band...It's called Nothing Brilliant...i rmember listening to the opening riff of Plume off of Pisces Iscariot and knowing then and there that i wanted to play music...so give us a listen and leave me some comments on what you think...http://www.myspace.com/nothingbrilliant thank you kindly...and i am keeping my fingers crossed for getting tickets to see them in NY this fall...20 years already? keep going another 20 billy and jimmy...please keep going.
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May 13, 2008 - My band The Industry Standard

hey everyone! My band The Industry Standard have one demo song up on their myspace at the moment and I thought that you music loving pumpkins fans would want to hear ne music and tell us what you think! the bands myspace is www.myspace.com/theindustrystandardband so go on and tell us what you think! we'll be recording our e.p. in the summer and we've been together under a different name for around 3 years, we're all only 14 so bare that in mind haha hope everyone is well and enjoys the music! Long live the mighty SP!
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May 10, 2008 - I wrote a song for Ginger

I don't know how to set up one of those quicktime pages with the audio, but you can listen to it at www.myspace.com/thenewpollutionisaband

It wasn't a solo effort and is done out of respect and I hope she hears/likes it but most of all I hope you like it!
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