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will Billy Corgan EVER be acknowleged as Cobain's superior?
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Date: May 1st, 2013 8:15 PM Author: ultramarine embarrassed to the bone marketing idea Clearly a better songwriter in every way, and just as good at guitar. Cobain was the better singer but meh, it seems to be his legacy rests on basically
1) looks
2) suicide |
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Date: May 1st, 2013 8:18 PM Author: milky locus also the whole image corgan cultivated for himself after siamese dream didn't do him any favors. ppl basically remember him as the whiny bald emo dude with the zero t shirt singing about vampires.
but ya he was infinitely more talented than Cobain, without a doubt. |
Date: May 1st, 2013 8:20 PM Author: Electric Home his songs generally weren't as punchy or immediately affecting. "But Nirvana never wrote something like Mayonnaise or Soma!" you shriek, balls swinging so hard they scare your cat. and while true, that's hardly even the point, because Corgan never did an Aneurysm. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2...id.#23116653) |
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Date: May 1st, 2013 8:26 PM Author: ultramarine embarrassed to the bone marketing idea "his songs generally weren't as punchy or immediately affecting."
Sure but they were better overall, indisputably.
Cobain songs: harder-hitting
Billy Corgan songs: better melodies, better arrangement, better instrumentation, more original, better lyrics, etc |
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Date: May 2nd, 2013 12:42 AM Author: Fragrant background story hell Man this is a hilarious millennial wrong turn. It helps if you were actually alive and old enough to get what was happening in music in 1991. The whole point of grunge was to make rock ugly again. The Eddy Van Halen/GnR legacy of the late 80s were too formulaic and technical, and it obviously counts greatly that Nirvana put out one single and video and wiped that shit right off the radio and MTV. Billy Corgan could've never done anything remotely like this because he's too much of a nancy boy studio junkie. He wouldn't have been able to make a record with that much balls, and even if he had no one would've taken him seriously because he sang like he was constantly dreaming of chopping his dick off and becoming a woman not that there's anything wrong with that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2...id.#23118700) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2013 1:25 AM Author: milky locus bro the idea that the music video premier of smells like teens spirit was some singular event that WIPED HAIR METAL OFF THE MAP is pure unadulterated gen x flame by people who wanted to believe that their favorite band was changing the world. that shit was already on the way out by 1991 and Nirvana wasn't the catalyst.
I like Nirvana dude but you don't have to resort to this historical hyperbole bullshit when evaluating them.
btw billy corgan is a chill cubs fan who was fucking jessica simpson xoxohth. |
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Date: May 1st, 2013 8:22 PM Author: Razzle coral indian lodge they are co-equals, plain and simple (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2...id.#23116665) |
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Date: May 1st, 2013 8:24 PM Author: milky locus Corgan: Wrote Siamese Dream, plowed Jessica Simpson
Cobain: Wrote "Rape Me", merked by Courtney Love |
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Date: May 1st, 2013 10:09 PM Author: Bossy self-centered round eye (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2...id.#23117416) |
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Date: May 1st, 2013 8:24 PM Author: Bright chapel laser beams quality, not quantity, bro. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2...id.#23116677) |
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Date: May 1st, 2013 8:25 PM Author: milky locus wtf (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2...id.#23116683) |
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Date: May 1st, 2013 8:31 PM Author: Bright chapel laser beams Billy Corgan was like the guy in Oasis.
"Look! I wrote 6,000 songs for our new album! It's a double-album, with an accompanying double-album of outtakes and b-sides! Me write many, many songs. Ergo, I am a brilliant songwriter."
truth be told, all but like 2 or 3 of their songs were unlistenable/mediocre. his songwriting was compulsive/autistic. |
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Date: May 1st, 2013 8:34 PM Author: milky locus the smashing pumpkins have put out 1 double album and 7 single albums get out you're done here
they've fallen off lately but that's true of basically every rock band in history. |
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Date: May 1st, 2013 9:07 PM Author: 180 corn cake water buffalo I'm curious who the pumo above you is mistaking for the smashing pumpkins. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2...id.#23117002) |
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Date: May 1st, 2013 10:10 PM Author: sable learning disabled gaping depressive (Doesn't own The Aeroplane Flies High) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2...id.#23117422) |
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Date: May 1st, 2013 8:26 PM Author: big casino foreskin (Dude who hasn't heard Oceania) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2...id.#23116690) |
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Date: May 1st, 2013 8:29 PM Author: milky locus 50% of Nirvana songs are bad and I like Nirvana (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2...id.#23116713) |
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Date: May 1st, 2013 9:06 PM Author: 180 corn cake water buffalo Dude also played the lead, rhythm, and bass guitar parts on a lot of the studio recordings. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2...id.#23116992) |
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Date: May 1st, 2013 9:24 PM Author: Concupiscible swollen filthpig factory reset button (Guy wyo just doesnt realize what a mean fucking drug addict d'arcy was)! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2...id.#23117115) |
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Date: May 1st, 2013 9:37 PM Author: maroon ceo Dude has no influence. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2...id.#23117201) |
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Date: May 1st, 2013 10:06 PM Author: Laughsome flirting parlour partner titcr
You STILL see Nirvana copycats. That whole Smashing Pumpkins goth thing has been dead for over a decade. |
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Date: May 1st, 2013 10:43 PM Author: milky locus what are some current Nirvana copycats? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2...id.#23117655) |
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Date: May 1st, 2013 10:47 PM Author: Electric Home oddly enough, Pink is one of the biggest modern Nirvana ripoffs. avril lavigne, too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2...id.#23117695) |
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Date: May 1st, 2013 10:58 PM Author: Excitant den Seems to me that the Smashing Pumpkins have more enduring influence than Nirvana, actually. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2...id.#23117784) |
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Date: May 1st, 2013 10:14 PM Author: swashbuckling range nowag Cobain made Rolling Stone's 100 greatest guitarists while Billy Corgan missed the cut. Guitarists seem to appreciate Cobain's voicings more than they do Corgan's, although I believe that Corgan was better at composing (if not playing) and that by a wide margin. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2...id.#23117438) |
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Date: May 1st, 2013 11:30 PM Author: Hairraiser flatulent spot sandwich THE WORLD IS A VAMPIRE
LJL |
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Date: May 1st, 2013 11:34 PM Author: milky locus that song predicted the current boomer menace in 1995 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2...id.#23118125) |
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Date: October 9th, 2025 3:53 PM Author: *star trek enterprise theme song growing louder tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2...id.#49337447) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2013 1:24 AM Author: Citrine deranged new version imo pumpkins sound better today (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2...id.#23118956) |
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