The Smashing Pumpkins Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1
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oWhoadYo
November 20th 2018


2416 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

I highly, HIGHLY doubt we get a Vol. 2, honestly. As much as I hate to say that, you just know Billy and Co with have yet another fallout after or during this tour. I can just see it happening. Then in like 2021 we'll get another pumpkins record with Billy and another completely new pumpkins lineup, completely ditching the Shiny saga. And you know what? the album will be okay.

Log S.
November 20th 2018


3394 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

i mean, we did get a Teargarden Volume 2

& Oceania was technically Volume 3 so who's to say - surely Bill, Jimmy & James' relationship is stronger than that of him, some 19 yr old kid & a bassist hired to replace a replacement of a replacement

oWhoadYo
November 20th 2018


2416 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

This is true... I suppose I'm just being obtuse and cynical. But, you've gotta be honest, you wouldn't be all that surprised if this whole "reunion" sort of crumbled over a relatively short period of time. I mean Billy says a lot of stuff and doesn't get it all done. He was filming a movie last summer or 2 summers ago in the midwest. I remember it being all over his facebook and snapchat. It was actually really neat and interesting and I hope that does get made at some point. There too was supposed to be a Monuments To An Elegy part 2. He claimed that second half was much darker, which sounded really appealing to me. Oh well, you just really don't know and you're ultimately just along for the ride with ol' Billy.

ArsMoriendi
November 20th 2018


41012 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

Dude should've finished Teargarden



He was less than 10 songs away lol

Log S.
November 21st 2018


3394 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

i think Alienation was actually a leftover from that last set of Teargarden songs. Easy to see from that why he considered it to be a failed set of songs

neekafat
Staff Reviewer
November 21st 2018


26151 Comments

Album Rating: 3.3

I don't think we'll get another Volume, not because I think billy will be so pissy about people not liking this that his ego will get hurt and he'll get bored and move onto a different concept because "we don't deserve a Vol 2"

zakalwe
November 21st 2018


38859 Comments


A message to those who didn’t live it, for those who lived it..


Billy was always on the periphery despite delivering an era defining classic album
that still holds weight.
Billy is beyond the pale nowadays. Billy never got ‘it’.

William it was really nothing.

DoofDoof
November 21st 2018


15032 Comments

Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off

Billy remained the lonesome geek USA

WillieD
November 21st 2018


367 Comments


Why do they have to overproduce it and master it so badly? Not that the music is that great anyway, but it would be better if it wasn't so dull and bland sounding.

ArsMoriendi
November 21st 2018


41012 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

Rick Rubin produced this

ArsMoriendi
November 21st 2018


41012 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

aka the king of the loudness war

cageofman
November 21st 2018


254 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Oceania was awesome - as was Machina!



Much better than this, but i need to give this a few more listens.



I really dont like Knights of Malta, so disappointed with that track



But there are some decent tunes on here for sure.

zakalwe
November 21st 2018


38859 Comments


You fucks ever listened to Led Zeppelin II loud?

Gyromania
November 22nd 2018


37028 Comments


I have no doubts that this is terrible. They haven't had a single worthwhile album since Infinite Sadness

Gyromania
November 22nd 2018


37028 Comments


Only question is: is it Zeitgeist levels of bad?

Marehelm
November 22nd 2018


862 Comments


Perhaps

PatternsInTheIvy
November 22nd 2018


192 Comments


"They haven't had a single worthwhile album since Infinite Sadness"

You gave Oceania a 3.5

ArsMoriendi
November 22nd 2018


41012 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

Also Adore is fantastic

SandwichBubble
November 22nd 2018


13796 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off

Adore is worse than this

ArsMoriendi
November 22nd 2018


41012 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

Legit a ridiculous statement



Adore has a ton of classics on it



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