I spent the majority of my 20's in the 80's. We had Boy George and Twisted Sister. Looking back, music wise, I wish I was born 10 years earlier or 10 years later. You had the last decade of good music. I envy you!
The last good eta in music was the Grunge era in the 90's. I would classify the Pumpkins as part of that scene. Then Crap, I mean Rap music took over, and that's all it's been ever since.
i'd have to agree. I'm a big gish/SD sympathizer but in this era they were in complete control. just check out the rest of this concert on YT, its incredible (and the guitars actually sound like real guitars). gish and siamese are full of legendary riffs but every track on MCIS is memorable and moving, a real masterpiece. it's so interesting to see these old videos of them playing to enormous crowds when they were unlike any other band that played to big crowds. they were an amazing underground band that just happened to have incredible mass appeal. say what you will about billy corgan being crazy but imho he was the ultimate frontman in his day.
I know this sounds stupid, but for some reason I just NOW realized he was talking about Chicago when he said "the city by the lake". I must've heard this song a hundred thousand times (literally) and for some odd reason it completely passed me by until he changed it to first person. Maybe it was just that it was always such an epic song for me that I didn't quite ever think of it as something that actually touched down here in anything in the dirt.
I think the song is about managing to make it out of an abusive household with his little brother. Not completely sure, but that's what most people speculate.
40thCapeRifles I live about 20 minutes away from the lake. I'm quite close to South Haven, (the place D'arcy was born) so I always thought that it was about South Haven, until I listened to the reprise and it clicked with me that he was talking about Chicago. Odd, right?
@@ddmddmd Unfortunately that’s a bigger problem. Yes; there are fantastic bands out there but the fact that the record labels put the most bland, boring and dumb music upfront makes a huge damage, because they push away the good bands from their target audiences, and many of them eventually stop playing because they only get like 100 followers. Fine, you can look for the good stuff yourself but most people don’t do that or just don’t care, they only consume what’s in front of their eyes, like toddlers. Each crap artist that a record label promotes counts for 10 good artists that they ignore.
This song is noticeably different without Jimmy Chamberlin playing drums. Matt Walker is definitely really good, but he is not able to do the things Jimmy did on this song.
@@Vichedges D'arcy and James may not write the music, but there's no denying that the Pumpkins best material is with them in the band. They are 100% part of the DNA of the real Pumpkins.
We wish a very happy 54th birthday to William Patrick Corgan March 17, 1967 Chicago born.. But known for a kinda west coast sound.. Doesn't matter. We love Billy and wish him well.
That song is a workout on the drums. Especially that verse part with the rimshot and high raise. Matt Walker did it justice but it’s no a Jimmy Chamberlain.
Time is never time at all You can never ever leave Without leaving a piece of youth And our lives are forever changed We will never be the same The more you change the less you feel Believe, believe in me, believe, believe That life can change that you're not stuck in vain We're not the same, we're different Tonight, tonight Tonight, so bright Tonight, tonight And you know you're never sure But you're sure you could be right If you held yourself up to the light And the embers never fade In your city by the lake The place where you were born Believe, believe in me, believe, believe In the resolute urgency of now And if you believe there's not a chance Tonight, tonight Tonight, so bright Tonight, tonight…
Wow. Hai sempre fatto fatica a cantare questa canzone live, gli alti sono troppo alti😂 ma grazie per aver composto questo capolavoro. Vi adoro ragazzi. Vecchia guardia 💂
Crois crois en moi crois .. ... l impossible est possible .... crois en moi comme je crois en toi my old friend ... ce soir et tous les autres jours aussi ..... 💕💕💕
contundente: adjetivo 1. Que produce o puede producir daño. "un golpe contundente", 2. Que encierra tal convicción lógica o se expone con tal energía que no deja lugar a la discusión. "la contundente respuesta del ministro acalló las críticas de la oposición"
I think what's incredible about this song is how good it sounds without the strings. So many songs that use them sound empty without (the contemporary "Glycerine" by Bush comes to mind), but that C-G\B-D progression is equally as hypnotic with or without the strings.
If you can learn that drum part on the verses it will change the way you drum. The rimshot and high hat raise and off beat kick. It will improve drum stamina too.
I remember Alapoulsia 93. Beastie boys played and then Billy and smashing pumpkins took the stage. Yelled this is the last fucking bottle left. Threw it to the crowd. Just layer in a grass field.
Saw them live both on the Mellon Collie (before Melvoin tragically had past) and the Adore tours... this is falling closer to the Adore tour, where they butchered previously great songs. I remember the crowd on the Adore tour chanting for Zero so much that Billy had no other choice but to play it. And then he proceeded to perform a version of it that was a dogs breakfast, pretty much on par with the version of Bullet that they performed on the same show. I like Adore, the songs on it, the older songs that they performed on that tour were stripped of what had made them so great.
