Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
I always wondered if they actually do read any of the stuff on the Pumpkin sites. They’re probably too busy.
Probably just as well in some cases. There can be some wierd crap.
It is in my hallway to creep the shits out of me every day.[/quote:1417g17w]
If its so creepy move it.
I hate posters that look at you when you walk by. It freaks me out and makes me feel like I’m being watched.We could move it to another location or better yet we could start a Pumpkin commune where we could all live together and share in the music. It could be the new Pumpkinland.
(just kidding)
All right then, glad to hear the funds will be raised through legitimate means. There was just so much talk about charity scams and the like.
I’m sure the Pumpkins will love us all so much they will want to stay forever. After all we are the best Pumpkin fan group on the web
. It will be great. Sounds great. We’ll hold them hostage for three days in Arthur’s house and make them spill their secrets.
I’m in.
Now you need to get started on the money scam.Yeah, I saw it had a different ending so I know some thought went into it. I just don’t think it had the same attention put towards it as previous videos.
That video was pretty shocking. I always wonder how much thought was actually put into it or if it was rushed because of the band ending. It seem to me like the use of the short film was just a quick fix. I think he lost some fans there too.
I do like the songs themselves. I just can’t listen to the album start to finish. Its just gets to be too much that way. I think if Machina II was put with it, the album would have been better. I think more people could have appreciated it, with the material broken up a little better like on MCIS. As is, I think a lot of people just find listening to the whole thing a bit torturous, even if you love the Pumpkins. It does have cool album art though (videos not so much).
Yeah, I heard that too. I think between the subject matter and the songwriting it was just a failure in general. To far reaching.
I agree to an extent. There are songs on Machina that I do think are beautiful songs. I only listen to them individually though. Last time I listened to the album start to finish I felt like I was on the rack. Itâs just too oppressive. I think the reason itâs so unapproachable has to do with Billyâs song writing for the record. From Adore into Machina a lot of his songs, from a poetic standpoint, were written in the High Modernist style. He switched more to stream of consciousness and lyrics that were overly metaphor laden. For me, Iâm reminded of all the times Iâve been forced to trudge through Ezra Pound and T.S. Elliot. It just kills the brain. I think Billy was just trying to show that he can wax poetic with the best of them. Iâm not calling him pompous or intellectually elitist, but I think he did little to disprove that criticism here. Machina just doesnât cut it as light listening. The acoustic demos are better though.
Oh, and by the way Iâm a literature minor, so thatâs where the semi- uppity lyric analysis comes from. Sorry.
