Audio CD review:
The Smashing Pumpkins - Tarantula

The Smashing Pumpkins - Tarantula

Band: The Smashing Pumpkins Title: Tarantula Rating: Release Date: 09 July, 2007 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Tarantula 2: Death From Above

Customer Reviews so, so, but it doesnt excuse bad music. Hmm, well thats great, i couldnt agree with his views more. it sounds lacking of hmm, well yeah i guess d'arcy and iha. if it was only him all along then it would be obvious in the new sound but you hear something lacking in the music and you cant quite put your finger on it. all these bands of old fart rockers from the nineties, NIN, SP, etc. all could have spoken up years earlier about how america is screwed. Oh, thats right they were all to busy doing drugs. Doing it now is kinda like deciding to be enviromentally aware when you live on a melting ice glacier. your a lil late guys. its pretty sad when green day is on the frontlines of being pollitically aware of how bad america's getting. Lets face the facts most rockstars are less then aware of much of anything besides there own existance. so with that said going straight to just the music itself and this song along with the album is enough to drive a original pumpkins fan to drink. Its not horrible, but from a band such as them your expecting way better. and the cover, your already flogging a dead horse ive seen pumpkins bootlegs with way more clevor covers. the magic is gone and it doesnt sound like its coming back. Maybe its time to be a lil more honest with ourselves and call it the billy corgan band? . Almost worth it Tarantual is a great song, but I only bought this for the B side so I wouldn't have to buy the Best Buy version of Zeitgeist. First of all, I love Zeitgeist. If you are a diehard fan like me and you need to have every song that Billy wrote, buy it. Death from above is a so so song that is definitley a B side. . INTERESTING... If you're a completist of Billy's work, you need this single for "Death From Above". I had no idea about this Billy/Paris connection, but it's both funny and ironic. There are versions at both BestBuy and Target, each with it's own bonus track and different-coloured cover/booklet. BestBuy's version has "Death From Above" as it's bonus track, with a yellow-ish cover/booklet. . . while Target has a purple-ish cover/booklet and the bonus track is the TITLE track, "Zeitgeist". . . interesting that the song was left off the regular and deluxe version. . . BTW, I HATE the packaging on that. . . big, bulky and obtrusive, and there's nothing special about the pics inside that. . . I'd much rather have bonus tracks. Soooo, in the end, buy the Target edition of the album and this single, and marvel at the irony of Paris Hilton, blackberry in hand, standing in front of a mushroom cloud. Oh, the song "Tarantula" is pretty cool, with a nice riff and a melody that grows on you. Billy may seem like a jerk to many, but I think the guy's just misunderstood, that's all. . . and Jimmy C just proves here that he's a kickbutt drummer too. . You can see a complete list of all The Smashing Pumpkins discography, or go back to the The Smashing Pumpkins tabs