Swing low.

[rockmarooned]

So BLENDER magazine did some list of the 50 or 100 worst songs ever. They do a lot of those lists, and as much as I like lists, it’s a little confusing to me, because I’ve been under the impression that the people who write for BLENDER have only ever heard about 200 or 300 songs total. Actually, I guess they’re more like McG or Stephen Sommers-

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Someone make Billy Corgan stop!

[homolinus]

As someone who appreciates the Smashing Pumpkins in that original-fanbase-hate-inducing kinda way (aka bought their Greatest Hits CD, liked it, bought their one allegedly really good album, used, Siamese Dream, liked it, have no urge to plunge deeper into their catalogue) I think The Everlasting Gaze is the point on their best of where you start to think, "Gee, I guess it was really time for them to break up."

Sometimes when I listen to music that is so terrible it's embarrassing (anything involving Prince trying to rap, the Rent soundtrack when nostalgia wears off and you finally realize how terrible the lyrics are, REM's Radio Song when KRS-One starts rapping) I get this really awful uncomfortable chill. It's weird. It's like a physical manifestation of embarrassment that I'm even listening to that song. And I get the worst case of those chills during The Everlasting Gaze when the music stops and Billy Corgan starts shouting goth rhyming couplets. You just imagine him in the recording studio saying, "Hey, this will be so fucking profound" and everyone else looking at the floor and trying not to snicker.