Confessions of a Fanboy

More news from the world of my iPod!
We already covered where I started this morning: Deftones, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Zwan. The day got a little more varied as things went along: Radiohead, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, and then I set one of my ’90s playlists on random and a lot [...]

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I wish I got into all that psychobabble and analysis and shit because I’d be curious what it says when you begin your day with Deftones.
I woke up this morning in the mood for some big guitars, yet I don’t feel all that angst-y. Still, for some reason I needed to hear “Digital Bath” [...]

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I don’t have a good transition from Petty to the Pumpkins, but Garbage did open for the Pumpkins on the Mellon Collie tour and Butch Vig produced Siamese Dream. At least I have that going for me.
Zeitgeist seems to be a quintessential Smashing Pumpkins record. There are moments of frustrating self-indulgence and moments [...]

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I’ve now listened to Zeitgeist from beginning to end. Here are my initial reactions:

I suppose it is about what I expected. It’s good. Billy Corgan is too talented and calculating to put out a complete piece of crap, but he’s not infallible and Zeitgeist is not a perfect piece of music.
“Doomsday Clock,” [...]

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I got something else in the mail along with the new Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist record. It’s a new album from Against Me! called New Wave. I’m real curious to hear it, mostly because it is produced by Butch Vig. Vig is on hiatus from Garbage and of course produced Nirvana’s Nevermind, Smashing [...]

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MAIL CALL!
I just got an advance copy of the new Smashing Pumpkins record, Zeitgeist in the mail! Rock the world on high! I pre-ordered my own, proper copy but I can hear the album today. I rule.
I read a rather scathing review of this new album from AMG, so I am approaching [...]

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I’m going to have to work a second job or this site is going to have to start producing some actual royalty checks. With my mouth I curse the music industry while I simultaneously hand them huge wads of my cash. I admit the absence of any semblance of logic in this. [...]

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Let’s get something straight right out front: this is not intended to be any sort of definitive “Greatest Guitarists of All Time.” It’s not even intended as a “Greatest Guitarist of This Era.” Here endeth the disclaimer.
I love the guitar. I love guitar-heavy music. I have heaps of admiration for those [...]

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Sir Saleski has, for three years and counting now, written the excellent Friday Morning Listen column on his own site and Blogcritics. Beginning this year, he brought that column to TheMondoProject. The idea behind the column, according to him, really is as simple as the title. The columns are rarely pre-ordained. They are about whatever [...]

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