Special Music Debate: Mega Bracket 2.2

[Reed Rothchild | 9,593]

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[TDIRunner | 2,779]

2212

 

I see that you made "One" choice 1.  

[doner24 | 1,197]

My favorite 80’s song vs my favorite Metallica song. Skid Row it is! 

[RH | 4,980]

I was going to sit this one out, but I couldn’t leave Smashing Pumpkins hanging like that.

[mbd39 | 2,030]

1112

Schism vs Africa was a tough one. I'm not a big Tool fan, but Schism is good. I went with Toto.

I'll take Crue over Pumpkins because of Corgan's voice. He sucks. Tonight Tonight is supposed to be beautiful and Corgan's ugly voice ruins it.

 

 

 

 

[Bearcat-Doug | 5,105]

1112. I completely agree with @mbd39 on Billy Corgan. I can't stand his voice either.

[JamesRobot | 5,839]

Same.  Billy is a whiny little &!*@#.

[JamesRobot | 5,839]

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[RH | 4,980]

11 hours ago, Bearcat-Doug said:

1112. I completely agree with @mbd39 on Billy Corgan. I can't stand his voice either.

 

11 hours ago, JamesRobot said:

Same.  Billy is a whiny little &!*@#.

Bah! His voice was more fitting in their earlier albums but as the ambition of the instrumentation of albums like Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness increased, his vocals fit less and less.

I will concede though, people tend to generally be in two camps--those that hate Billy's voice and those that generally can tolerate it.

Corgan is a musical genius and I think that with the vocals he was a born with, he did a really good job making them work with the music he was creating.  However, yes, it is quite often a very whiney voice.  It's no secret I'm a big fan and I'd certainly put Smashing Pumpkins in my top 5 list of bands of all time. 

Criticisms of his voice aside, I also can't imagine much of their music without his voice and replaced with a stronger vocalist.  It's kind of like a really good song that makes use of an out of tune piano.  It shouldn't work, but it does.  It's not that bad pianos sound great, but rather in some mixes with some performances the imperfections add to the overall quality, rather than take away. 

In albums like Gish and Siamese Dream, I both hear the issue with the vocals but I also can't imagine the music without Billy at the lead "whining" away.

[mbd39 | 2,030]

43 minutes ago, RH said:

 

Bah! His voice was more fitting in their earlier albums but as the ambition of the instrumentation of albums like Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness increased, his vocals fit less and less.

His voice is best when it takes a back seat to the music. When it's front and center like in Tonight Tonight the ugliness stands out. It's not even a good kind of ugly like Bob Dylan, it's a "I don't want to listen to this" kind of ugly.

 

Edited December 6, 2022 by mbd39

[Reed Rothchild | 9,593]

2 hours ago, RH said:

 

Bah! His voice was more fitting in their earlier albums but as the ambition of the instrumentation of albums like Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness increased, his vocals fit less and less.

And yet 1979 made it all the way to the finals last time.

[RH | 4,980]

1 hour ago, Reed Rothchild said:

And yet 1979 made it all the way to the finals last time.

It was funny then, and it's funny now.