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Originally Posted by Rickenbacker
Silver**** is even better still. Siamese Dream... what an album.
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Incredible album, throughout. I recently downloaded a live performance from his Melon Colie tour '97 and was instantly transported back to the early 90's when I got into Siamese Dream and the memories flooded my head.
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Originally Posted by Conan
I think it's slow at points but it contains some of their best work. It pisses over Siemese Dream, to be honest.
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Not sure about this, but it is a matter of opinion-- I enjoy Melon Colie equally as well as I enjoy Siamese Dream, but couldn't say one "pisses" over the other.
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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger
The first 2 albums were pretty good , can`t take anything he`s done since seriously.
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Originally Posted by Engine
This is like the 40th time I have run across one of your posts that I agree with 100% - tone and all. Weird.
Anyway, yeah, Billy Corgan is a supreme pissant and almost all of his music is unlistenable. Yet the early Smashing Pumpkins albums are special to me. Whatever bullshit he has made since then is just that - but I forgive him (and forever love the guy) because of Gish and Siamese Dream.
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If you truly enjoyed Siamese Dream and Melon Colie, you should, without much second thought, enjoy very much the Zwan album, "Mary Star of the Sea," with Chamberlin back on the drums. He and Chamberlin were the core of the band throughout the 90's until the overdose incident and the subsequent Melon Colie tour winding up without Chamberlin. The drums and guitars in both Siamese Dream and Melon Colie were basically all recorded by those two. That's the main reason they ended up breaking up.
Seriously, not to say you're wrong, but the Zwan album is incredible. It is as Smashing Pumpkins as it could possibly be without D'arcy and Iha.