The Smashing Pumpkins, Zeitgeist - Hear the new album here!!

[A True Canadian]

For those Smashing Pumpkins fans lingering on these forums, you can hear the entire new album online here:

http://www.muchmusic.com/music/firstspin/smashingpumpkins/

There's definately some awesome tunes on this CD. A very respectable come-back album.

This is exactly the type of music I'm in the mood for right now. Doomsday Clock, Bleeding the Orchid, United States, Starz, and Tarantula are my early favorites so far.

It's due out July 10th.

 

[ThomasToad]

I'm a pretty big Smashing Pumpkins fan myself and I really didn't expect much from this album, and I feel like I was right to feel that way.

I mean I suppose you can get excited about a new hard rock Smashing Pumpkins record, but this album is very bland to me. The guitar riffs are the typical uninspired modern rock sort that are loud and fast just to be loud and fast. I wonder if this could be attributed to their new rhythm guitarist, his guitar parts are not good, although i'm sure he didn't write them.

The only song im enjoying is Neverlost.

I'm not trying to be condescending but I really don't like any of the heavier songs that you mentioned.

Bring the Light is decent but it really sounds like a song from The Killers. At what point did Billy implement pop-punk palm muting of his guitar(Also hear this in Come on Let's Go)

The last song sounds like Enya with Billy singing over the top.

I'm not sure how I feel about Billy going for a political theme either, but that's beside the point.

 

[Lucid]

Holy f*cksplosion.

I've never heard Smashing Pumpkins that heavy before, this owns... Doomsday Clock is pretty awesome, I love how constant it is... tiny gripe, I hate how the lead singer sounds like he's singing into a fan.

Man, I haven't listened to these guys in years, I think the last songs I heard were 1979 and Rat in a Cage, anybody happen to know what album(s) those songs are on?

 

[lePobz]

It's got nothing on 1979.

 

[ThomasToad]

Holy f*cksplosion.

I've never heard Smashing Pumpkins that heavy before, this owns... Doomsday Clock is pretty awesome, I love how constant it is... tiny gripe, I hate how the lead singer sounds like he's singing into a fan.

Man, I haven't listened to these guys in years, I think the last songs I heard were 1979 and Rat in a Cage, anybody happen to know what album(s) those songs are on?

If you like it for being heavy that's fine, but I don't think it's good at all. "Rat in a Cage" isn't the name of the song, it's "Bullet with Butterfly Wings". The album with those two songs is Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Siamese Dream is their best album though

 

[Lucid]

If you like it for being heavy that's fine, but I don't think it's good at all. "Rat in a Cage" isn't the name of the song, it's "Bullet with Butterfly Wings". The album with those two songs is Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Siamese Dream is their best album though

Thanks for the correction and recommendations.

And yeah, after listening to the album a little more... alot of the songs sound the same, sounds like they were trying too hard to be heavy.

Doomsday Clock is still a good song though.

 

[soulslicer]

heard it after i saw transformers in the credits. awesome song. the rock is GODLIKE

bleeding the orchid is one of the most nicest songs ive heard from them..

 

[Zephos]

The album with those two songs is Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Siamese Dream is their best album though

I full heartedly agree and to be honest I find Bullet with Butterfly Wings to be a bit generic :/

Three songs into Zeitgeist and I know it won't live up to the standards of the old Pumpkins.

 

[Raxxman]

Muzzle is the best song they've ever done

 

[Bad^Hat]

Nope, still can't stand Billy's voice.