no way anyone could ever be expected to listen to 3 of these painfully boring albums. stop now while you're ahead.

I've tried one and I'm outta here

at what point did this band think they'd had enough material for three albums

Can we combine all three and list it as the album proper

i think it makes sense to have 3 seperate albums, as it was released separately over the course of a year. i think we should add a compilation of all 3 albums combined

He was better when he was bangin jessica simspon

yes make a comp to get reacts from people who sit through the full ATUM experience

Album Rating: 2.5

Out of the 33 songs across the three albums I'd say about 6 are decent, terrible ratio. The rockers are bland but listenable, whereas 95 percent of the synth stuff is awful.

the real smashing is the pumpkins we make along the way

"yes make a comp to get reacts from people who sit through the full ATUM experience"

Billy Corgan and the hacker entered the chat

Album Rating: 2.5

This one is easily the 'best' of the three albums tbf, still pales in comparison to the glory days

"at what point did this band think they'd had enough material for three albums"
Thinking this was a band effort is a hell of an assumption lol, I'm fairly certain Billy only sees them on tour and even Jimmy and James are basically hired guns who just happen to be OG members. This album sucks because Billy has been incessantly attempting to cater to modern pop audiences with everything from Shiny onwards and it's painful. Like, do what you're fucking good at lol

I listened to the podcast week after week, then listened to the full 3-part album in one sitting and agree that this is a low point in the discography, all criticism is valid. However, I made a playlist with the songs that stood out to me and after waiting a few days I listened to the abridged 11 song version and I was honestly pleasantly surprised, I really enjoyed all 49 minutes of it lol. It's nowhere near the early work obviously but this could have definitely been trimmed down to a pretty decent to good (great by current SP standards?) release, mixing issues aside. Billy should hook up with Butch Vig for his follow up, but he won't. Oh well.

Album Rating: 1.0

Imagine holding the title for worst album of the year, three times, while only being halfway through 2023?

Album Rating: 2.5

New music video is unintentionally hilarious - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz_0q6CAlP8

Is this one of those things where there's one album's worth of decent material across 3 albums?

Album Rating: 2.0

oof

Album Rating: 2.5

Yeah, I like about 12-13 songs on the whole project although I wouldn't say I love any of them. If I made an album of those songs it'd probably be a 3, maybe light 3.5 overall.

Album Rating: 1.5

I only "liked" one song from this entire s**t show of a trilogy, and that was Avalanche (and even that sounds like bootleg Death Cab).

This isn't music, this is a test.

Album Rating: 2.0

The problem is here, absolutely nobody is there to tell Billy Corgan to reign anything in - he has no one like Flood, Alan Moulder and Butch Vig to pull the project together and the entire undertaking is quite frankly cheap sounding, completely quantised and sanitised, zero urgency to the vocal delivery which makes every song sound the same. This is just beyond comprehension to me, the same guy that put out Mellon Collie and Machina 1&2, both sonically expansive and ambitious double albums that vary genre by genre (Mellon Collie certainly more so) - this is utterly shocking. I have never been so bored. 90’s Billy Corgan could no way get away with a record like this, especially when being compared to Nirvana and Pearl Jam…he’s too comfortable and safe and while I’m happy that he seems content, the music has suffered greatly in the long run.

Album Rating: 5.0

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