Jan
06Rob Thomas covered the Pumpkins?! WTF!
Filed Under (Cover, MP3, Stereo) by Joe Chung on 06-01-2006
Tagged Under : act.iv, evanescene, ghost.children, matchbox.20, pavement, pig, rob.thomas, rspaa, smashing.pumpkins, stabbing.westward
This is bad, really bad. I wouldn’t even want to imagine how it would sound like. Why on earth would Rob Thomas want to cover the Smashing Pumpkins’ 1979 is beyond me. Not that I despise Rob, I’m just not a fan after Yourself or Someone Like You, and especially after he went solo and did that ‘dance’ thing of his.
Few artists/bands manage to cover the Pumpkins successfully. Apart from the Ghost Children project (and the upcoming Ghost Children 2), only Pavement and Evanescene covered the Pumpkins lived (according to here) and Stabbing Westward too. And there’s this whole bunch of goth/industrial bands’ tribute compilation, simply titled A Gothic-Industrial Tribute To Smashing Pumpkins. Here’s a track of gothic-ized version of 1979 from the compilation.
I’ll leave to your thoughts on how Rob Thomas will fair on his version. I have plenty of Pumpkins stuff to keep me glued.
Download: Pig - 1979 (MP3 format)
Wow, that 1979 by Pig is weird…I honestly couldn’t get through the whole thing. I remember seeing that Gothic-Industrial tribute to SP at the music shops often enough…and I was always interested. However, I never picked it up, and likely won’t. Hey, have you been following this “big news” Billy Corgan is supposed to unveil on his myspace website? I’ve heard everything from Final Show Metro DVD, another Zwan album, and of course - the Pumpkins reunion. I would love to get that final show on DVD.
hwahahahaha… i’m curious to hear how the rob thomas version sounds like….
Robot: Sorry I haven’t been catching up on Corgan’s MySpace site. I remember I read something about the Metro DVD though. If it’s indeed true, I’m really looking forward for it. All I’ve seen from the final Metro show are pictures.
sweelin: You’re not a fan of Rob, are you?
There is also the performance of An Ode to No One from the Metro show on the Videos DVD.
not a hater not a fan either
but i collect covers hehehe
ooo oo … finally heard a little bit of it on the latest iTunes New Music Tuesday podcast episode.
doubt you’ll like it la
Question is, do YOU like it?
judging from the 77 secs that i heard
kinda weird to hear backup vocals on that song
def cannot beat the original sp version