Tag Archive for 'smashing pumpkins'

odontophobia is the fear of teeth

Published
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gregor
on August 26, 2008
in bootleg and compilation
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i seriously dont know how i got knee deep in pumpkins stuff? i will say that they are a good go to when i am feeling lazy, which is more often than not, but yet i keep on pushing forth.

here is disc one of their much ballyhooed mashed potatoes bootleg. btw, zip/rar’s will return tomorrow.

1. happy fucking valentines

2. tritessa (live ‘92)

3. there it goes (demo ‘88)

4. with you (demo ‘89)

5. jesus loves his babies (outtake ‘91)

6. stray cat blues (outtake ‘91)

7. snail

8. bob speaks

9. window paine (live ‘90)

10. wave song (demo ‘91)

11. blue (acoustic ‘91)

12. lie i lie (live ‘89)

13. my eternity

14. jesus is the sun (demo ‘90)

15. sookie sookie

and the embers never fade in your city by the lake

Published
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gregor
on July 22, 2008
in demos
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sup playas? honestly the first few times i listened to the pumpkins mellon collie i thought it was a bloated/overproduced mess. interestingly enough, i still think its a bloated mess but i have come to appreciate it in all its jon favreau-ness. sure there’s a few clunkers but as far as overdramatic rock albums go, its pretty tits.

here are the billy corgan home demos to afore mentioned record. i have 3 discs of mellon collie demos, btw. if you all are interested in the other two, speak up. more to come later today.

1. stumbleine

2. jupiter’s lament

3. lily

4. to forgive

5. bullet with butterfly wings

6. here is no why

7. galapagos

8. franatic ab groove

9. autumn nocturne

10. blank

11. rotten apples

12. ugly

13. wishing you were

14. mellon collie and the infinite sadness

15. meladori magpie

16. thirty three

17. beautiful

18. marquis in spades

mama don’t like tattle-tales

Published
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gregor
on March 31, 2008
in new stuff and sessions
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hey there. whatcha wearin? word!? hope everyone had a splendid weeks end. mine was very short lived, but i gots 4 days off coming up starting on tuesday, but then work 10 days straight. oy! i would almost work 22 days in a row and get my 8 days of time off all in a row, but thats just me.

i get a lot of emails asking where shit is, not like “where are my keys” or “where are those johansson nudes you keep talkin bout,” but shit like “where is the rest of the replacements show, i cant find it.” ok, here’s how this works. at the bottom of every post are these things called “tags” and they are your friends. say you want to find more posts about bob dylan. all you do is click the bob dylan tag and it will take you to everything found here that is tagged “bob dylan.” for example, click here. that should take you to all said posts regarding bob dylan. pretty simple. got it? i should sticky this right next to the safari warning that nobody reads. fuckers….

nashvillian, josh preston is a dude that if given the opportunity could win over a lot of hearts, or so me thinks. he reminds me quite a bit of ron sexsmith, you know nothing flashy, just talented guy with great vocals and the songwriting to match. which sadly, doesnt go very far nowadays. still peeps, like myself, that dig the unreleased adams stuff like “memphis” aka “drunk and fucked up,” “gimme sunshine,” “idiots rule the world,” etc should definitely find something to dig in mr preston.

in anticipation of his upcoming lp, exit sounds, he is offering up a 4 track ep, for free, for your downloading pleasure which is entitled the complex wooden heart. exit sounds is out on 5.13 and available via me an the machine.

safety feels the exit

temptation

download the complex wooden heart

josh preston site / myspace

i cant vouch for anything other than this track mix thingy, but considering the company that alaska in winter is keeping i have a good feeling about em. alaska in winter is art student and apparently musician, brandon bethancourt, who spent a semester in alaska recording the songs that would eventually make it on dance party in the balkans. upon returning home to new mexico he teamed up with wunderkind zach condon of beirut, heather trost of a hawk and a hacksaw, and a host of others, or so the press release states to put the finishing touches on dance party in the balkans. the mix sounds almost exactly as what the title of the record implies.

dance party in the balkans was released last year in the uk, but was finally released in the u.s. on 3.25.

balkans mix

alaska in winter myspace / milan records

do you guys/gals dig saul williams? i still really cant decide. i kinda want to, but on the other hand i’m just kinda, meh. i downloaded and actually paid for the reznor produced niggy tardust, but never find a good time or i guess the right mood to listen to it. for the unitiated here be a track from said niggy tardust.

he is in atlanta at the loft on the 4th of april, btw.

sunday bloody sunday

saul williams site

here is an interesting pumpkins boot which goes by the name of reel time sessions. this is circa 1989 and i have very little information on it other than what is found here. this is a whopping 35 tracks as opposed to the 12 tracks i usually have found circulating under this title.

Continue reading ‘mama don’t like tattle-tales’

there’s an animal in trouble

Published
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gregor
on March 12, 2008
in shows
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you ever feel like you are getting screwed around every corner? yeah, thats where i’m at right now and it aint an awesome feeling.

sorry about the new layout. i had reports that vista users were having issues and thought maybe it was the theme. anyone experiencing any issues? also, can someone who is using safari, for the love of god, let me know if you can now download stuff? gracias!

here are the pumpkins live at the gm place in vancouver on 1.8.97.

1. mellon collie and the infinite sadness

2. tonight, tonight

3. cherub rock

4. where boys fear to tread

5. rhinoceros

6. zero

7. fuck you

8. porcelina of the vast oceans

9. rocket

10. 33

11. 1979

12. interlude

13. bullet with butterfly wings

14. muzzle

15. disarm

16. thru the eyes of ruby

17. interlude

18. x.y.u.

19. siva

20. the aeroplane flies high

21. silverfuck

welcome to costco, i love you

Published
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gregor
on September 23, 2007
in demos, phosphorescent and smashing pumpkins
. 11 Comments

in an interesting turn of events, the captains dead compound will soon, in 7 months, have a new member. thats right, my bride is expecting our second child. just when i thought i was just about done wiping ass and making vain attempts at explaing the universe, i get pulled right back in. this is all from a guy and a gal that never expected to have one, let alone two. i blame my wife! i told her that if she wasnt such a slut we wouldnt be having these little happy accidents. she laughed. no, seriously she did.

in other news, i am unfortunately going to have to start deleting a lot of older stuff. this is due to quite a few pains in my ass that refuse to stop the leeching. i am blowing through about 20 gigs a day when i should only do about 5. so, anything older than 4 months old will be going away over the next few days. there will be no way for me to recover this stuff cause i just dont have the time to download everything. its just much easier to delete the stuff.

how awesome would it be to live in a tree house?

half way through listening to former athenian phosphorescent’s pride, i got this weird vision in my head that i was sitting in some church and a through the black couds shown a light directly on me, kinda like what happened to jake in the blues brothers. pride has this really strange, but uplifting, other worldly quality that is hard to deny. there is something very church like about pride. the vocals seem to reach to the heavens, but the music seems to be from the dirt - if that makes any sense. pride is one of those special kinda records that you dont want to share with anyone, but want to preach to the masses about from the top of a mountain. not to sound overly queer, but pride left me kinda stunned. i wasnt expecting this at all and i actually sat there motionless for a few moments once it was finished. that is something that hasnt happened since my first listen to bee thousand - which happens to be my favorite record of all time. if i dont listen to another record this year that would probably be ok with me. as a reference point, i would say that pride is part graceland era paul simon, beach boys’ pet sounds and will oldham’s ease on down the road.

pride is being released on oct 23 - i believe. he’s currently doing a bunch of shows, so check his myspace page for details.

a picture of our torn up praise

daytrotter has an interview with matthhew houck, who is phosphorescent, and in typical daytrotter fashion have a couple of live tracks available.

phosphorescent myspace

i found this pumpkins bootleg the other day and found it to be kinda cool. i dont know much about it but its entitled “may we have a record contract, please.” according to some sources this is a demo collection circa 1989 which is pre gish.

1. honeyspider (alternate)

2. with you

3. egg

4. rhinoceros (alternate)

5. bye june

6. stars fall in

7. daughter

8. daydream

9. psychodelic

10. bury me

11. daydream

12. not worth asking

13. honeyspider

14. rhinoceros

15. snap

16. love (old demo)

17. c’mon

i want johnny walker to go to ucc

Published
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gregor
on May 28, 2007
in shows and smashing pumpkins
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am i the only one addicted to the deadliest catch? just wondering?

here is the remainder of the pumpkins show from 5.22.

16. rocket

17. winterlong

18. to sheila

19. glass and the ghost children

20. cherub rock

21. 1979

22. tonight, tonight

23. neverlost

24. thats the way

25. disarm

26. zero

27. untitled

28. encore break

29. shame

30. silverfuck w/ the end (doors)

31. encore break 2

32. annie dog

33. muzzle

huh?

Published
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gregor
on May 28, 2007
in shows, smashing pumpkins and youtube
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hope all my fellow americans had a most excellent memorial day weekend. all you non americans i guess i hope you had a good weekend too. mine was interesting/good to say the least. imagine camping with a 2.5 year old and you will get the idea. or if you dont have children, imagine camping with a puppy that you cant keep on a leash. sounds like fun, right? sometimes he was great other times yeah not so much. we had fun though. i did get to push the limits of cleanliness, i didnt take a shower for 3 days. parts of me that i didnt know were possible to smell, of course stank pretty rank.

i will not deny that during the years of 1991 - 1994, smashing pumpkins were probably my favorite group on the planet. by the time melon collie rolled out i had kinda stopped caring, which is really no fault of theirs its just that i had grown out of them. i still listen to gish and siamese dream quite often, although gish is showing signs of definte aging while siamese dreams still sounds pretty fresh. this is all given the fact that both are more than 14 years old.

so it was with mild intrigue that i delved into this pumpkins show from paris. i gotta admit the new songs sound pretty good, this is to say much better than the shit on the last few pumpkins records. definitely going back to basics with more of a guitar based sound - which is definitely a good thing.

1. intro

2. united states

3. today

4. stand inside your love

5. bleeding orchid

6. doomsday clock

7. home

8. hummer

9. starz

10. tarantula

11. bullet with butterfly wings

12. gossamer

13. billy talking

14. for god and country

15. 33

the remainder of the show will but up later this evening. if you notice that the track count posted here is different than on the mp3 tag its cause i didnt post two fade in/out tracks.