Do the Smashing Pumpkins qualify for classic rock status?

[arcadian]

I think they do and then some.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. Wise choice, my friend...

...wise choice.

[arcadian]

2. Ummm... wait, it's not meant to be a compliment.

are you trying to turn this around on me in a game of 3D chess?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. Affirmative.

One could say that Chuggo Week itself rests on the replies to this thread.

[arcadian]

8. I have been out mastered.

I tip my hat to you, good sir,

[mix]

3. Gish and Siamese Dream alone...

They've entered the pantheon.

[Inchworm]

5. The world is a vampire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktff3bZpux8

Classic, to me, is a weird category :P

Dante r00ls!

:hi:

[meeshrox]

6. Sure...

But I'm sure my husband would feel "old" again and disagree...he's turning 33 soon! :eyes:

[kizks9950]

7. no way

[Swede]

9. Why not?

They have some great tunes.

1979 for example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrivjzw0RlI

shakedown 1979,cool kids never have the time
on a live wire right up off the street
you and i should meet

junebug skipping like a stone
with the headlights pointed at the dawn
we were sure we'd never see an endto it all

and i don't even careto shake these zipper blues
and we don't know
just where our bones will rest
to dust i guess
forgotten and absorbedinto the earth below

double cross the vacant and the bored
they're not sure just what we have in the store
morphine city slippin dues down to see
that we don't even care as restless as we are

we feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts
and poured cement, lamented and assured
to the lights and towns below
faster than the speed of sound

faster than we thought we'd go, beneath the sound of hope
justine never knew the rules,
hung down with the freaks and the ghouls
no apologies ever need be made, i know you better than you fake it

to see that we don't care to shake these zipper blues
and we don't know just where our bones will rest
to dust i guess
forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
the street heats the urgency of sound
as you can see there's no one around

[asdjrocky]

10. No for crying out loud.

They wrote a song about 1979 from the perspective of the 90s.

How do you call that classic rock?

[driver8]

11. I hope not...because I don't want to hear them on classic rock radio for years and years!

I cannot stand Billy Corgan's voice -- like nails on a chalkboard to me.

[mitchum]

12. "Like a gnat perched on a cathedral" is how I have always described Corgan's voice

He is a truly terrible vocalist

[cherokeeprogressive]

13. aheh aheh aheh aheh... n/t