I'm a new listener - James Barber recommended the podcast (or at least mentioned he participated in the most recent one ("Singles of 1995 roundtable) - so I thought I would give a few episodes of the podcast a spin. I gotta say I was pretty disappointed with this one. It's clear none of you guys have listened to the Smashing Pumpkins since the 1990s. Some of the podcast was factually incorrect (e.g., Teargarden by Kaleidyscope was never completed. It was scrapped after Monuments to an Elegy). That's just one example among many.
But what was probably the worst was how this turned into a Pumpkins-bashing podcast when you admitted that you really hadn't listed to anything post-MACHINA and MACHINA II. You didn't even both to mention that James Iha was out of the band after MACHINA until Shiny and Oh So Bright. And most unforgivable, you hadn't even listed to Aghori Mori Mei. It's easily the best album since MACHINA and probably since Mellon Collie. Very disappointing. I hope your other podcasts do better research than this.
Hey, thanks for listening. Sorry you didn’t enjoy the episode. The format is to be honest but fair about the album we’re focused on. We include some historical context and additional personal knowledge of the catalogue but the main emphasis of the episode is to revisit Gish and discuss what works and what doesn’t work for us now. Many of the albums we feature we never heard of. Sometimes we love them and sometimes we don’t but we always try to be fair and explain to the best of our ability where the disconnect is. Hopefully others like to go on the ride with us. ✌️
OK, I just listened to the Tesla/Mechanical Resonance and Rush/Permanent Waves podcasts. I thoroughly enjoyed those, particularly Tesla. I felt like you guys nailed where the band fit in the scheme of 80s metal/rock and what differentiated them, particularly in the early years.
I'm a new listener - James Barber recommended the podcast (or at least mentioned he participated in the most recent one ("Singles of 1995 roundtable) - so I thought I would give a few episodes of the podcast a spin. I gotta say I was pretty disappointed with this one. It's clear none of you guys have listened to the Smashing Pumpkins since the 1990s. Some of the podcast was factually incorrect (e.g., Teargarden by Kaleidyscope was never completed. It was scrapped after Monuments to an Elegy). That's just one example among many.
But what was probably the worst was how this turned into a Pumpkins-bashing podcast when you admitted that you really hadn't listed to anything post-MACHINA and MACHINA II. You didn't even both to mention that James Iha was out of the band after MACHINA until Shiny and Oh So Bright. And most unforgivable, you hadn't even listed to Aghori Mori Mei. It's easily the best album since MACHINA and probably since Mellon Collie. Very disappointing. I hope your other podcasts do better research than this.
Hey, thanks for listening. Sorry you didn’t enjoy the episode. The format is to be honest but fair about the album we’re focused on. We include some historical context and additional personal knowledge of the catalogue but the main emphasis of the episode is to revisit Gish and discuss what works and what doesn’t work for us now. Many of the albums we feature we never heard of. Sometimes we love them and sometimes we don’t but we always try to be fair and explain to the best of our ability where the disconnect is. Hopefully others like to go on the ride with us. ✌️
OK, I just listened to the Tesla/Mechanical Resonance and Rush/Permanent Waves podcasts. I thoroughly enjoyed those, particularly Tesla. I felt like you guys nailed where the band fit in the scheme of 80s metal/rock and what differentiated them, particularly in the early years.
I appreciate the response. Looking forward to the Tesla/Mechanical Resonance and Rush/Permanent Waves episodes.