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Originally Posted by AcGold
I record music, listen to music all the time. He's wrong; reason being the recording quality is very bad in most of their music and has a shrill quality that takes away from the songs replayability. Plus Everlong and Yellow Ledbetter will be good songs in 50 years, what does Smashing Pumpkins have that will survive the test of time? He had talent just never quite materialized to his potential, created some unique sounds here and there but still nothing worth really listening to these days.
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I like Eddie Vedder's voice better than all the bands mentioned, but Corgan is right that Pearl Jame is quite derivative, and Yellow Ledbetter is a pretty glaring example of that. A fun song to end a concert, sure, but hard to not call it anything but a Jimi Hendrix rip off (probably why it never made an album).
David Grohl seems like a great guy, and I'm glad they've had a lot of success, but I wouldn't exactly say his songs are masterpieces that are going to stand the test of time. They really strike me as more throwaway pop songs than any of the bands being talked about.
I think I am probably in Rouge's camp of being a big SP fan at one time, and don't really care to listen to them anymore. But I do think they have some of the better written songs out of the above groups. I guess I was lucky to see some very good concerts of theirs too. The MC&IS stop at the Saddledome was a pretty great show that lasted at least 2-3 hours with multiple encores and some great ad-libbing. They also played a great show headlining Lollapalooza at the Gorge in George. Both featured lots of ad-libbling and extended sets and the band was really engaged with the audience and into what they were doing.