Monday, February 13, 2006

The Smashing Pumpkins - The Everlasting Gaze

ORIGINATION Machina
LAST LISTENED TO recently
CHANCE OF WAKING TO IT don't care
RATING

I don't care too much for the Smashing Pumpkins. I've found most of their music to be a bit too whiney and self-indulgent. Read any biography or the band and you're bound to find the phrase "angst-ridden" and occasionally 'prog'. Around this point you can count me out.

However, there have been the odd moments when they cast aside this shadow of misery and made songs that had a bit more fire. This track is one them. It's got a large slab of guitar and some excellently ridiculous rock lyrics (You know i'm not dead) repeated throughout. It's got a defiant anger that is the rarely seen flip-side of the Smashing Pumpkins angst.

Good as it may be though, it's not really what i want in my head this early on a sunday.

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