Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist
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Artist: Smashing PumpkinsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-07-10
Music Label: Martha's Music / Reprise
Soundtracks:
- Doomsday Clock
- 7 Shades of Black
- Bleeding the Orchid
- That??s the Way (my Love is)
- Tarantula
- Starz
- United States
- Neverlost
- Bring the Light
- (Come on) Let??s Go!
- For God and Country
- Pomp and Circumstances
Music reviews of Zeitgeist
Music Review: Not mellon collie but still good
Rating: 4 Stars
I would rank this their 3rd best behind Mellon Collie and Siamese Dream. Is it a close 3rd? Probably not. However, those albums are classics so to expect Zeitgeist to match up is just pointless.
What I like about this is its back to basics approach. This is a refreshing change from Adore (boring) and Machina (some good songs but overall bloated). It was nice to Corgan & Co. just go out and rock.
Some negative points: The last 2 songs were throw aways. Also, a few of the songs (ex. 7 shades of grey) sound like 1st drafts.
Overall, a rocking album that sounds like the Pumpkins are back on track.
PS To those who say this is not the real pumpkins, I would offer this: If you base the real band solely on having all of the original members, then most, if not all bands would not be the real bands. Example, Metallica and Tool. Besides, Corgan wrote most if not all of the music and Chamberlain wrote the drum parts.
Description of Zeitgeist
The Smashing Pumpkins are back! After seven years, the acclaimed Pumpkins have returned with Zeitgeist. Featuring the single "Tarantula," this new sound is not to be missed.Inside the buzzing hive of Smashing Pumpkins' guitars is clearly where bandleader Billy Corgan feels most comfortable. So, after a seven-year hiatus for the short-lived group Zwan and his surprisingly sunny 2005 solo album, Corgan has revived the Pumpkins in all the six-string-spattered shades of emotional gray that made them one of the greatest bands of the alt-rock era. Longtime drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, along with famed boardsmiths Roy Thomas Baker and Terry Date as well as Corgan himself coproduced. Chamberlin also supports mountainous layers of guitar with his fiercest playing. This is a version of the band dedicated to early bare-knuckled form, with a few exceptions: Corgan's grown into a more powerful wordsmith and his lengthy guitar solo explorations of yore are replaced with a trim, barbed textural approach that's ultimately more vicious. That is, until the centerpiece "United States" stretches into an epic punk-metal-informed sibling of Jimi Hendrix's "Machine Gun," with Corgan's strings singing like explosions and twisting metal as he warbles about revolution. Much of this album conjures literal and sonic visions of apocalypse, but there's grace, too, in the blithe grind of the hopeful "That's the Way (My Love Is)" and the melodic "Neverlost." Overall, Corgan's captivating effort to mine both the spirit of these turbulent times and the soul of his defining band is a smashing success. --Ted Drozdowski
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