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 On what's supposed to be the Pumpkins last album it sure doesn't seem like it. Starting with "The Everlasting Gaze" a down-tuned guitar song that explodes with Jimmy Chamberlin's power drumming(welcome back) and Corgan sneering "you know i'm not dead", we know Billy. A good song that was the obvious pick for the first single. The next four songs sound like forced hit singles with "Stand Inside Your Love" being the best and most beautiful. "Raindrops & Sunshowers" is a much better version of Adore's "Apples & Oranges" and sounds rather sweet. "Try, Try, Try" is a good song too but at this point you start to wonder if these songs are any different then the previous ones and that's where "Heavy Metal Machine" kicks in. It is the kind of metal that would exist today if Slayer, Anthrax and of course Metallica didn't. But they do exist and it doesn't sound very metal more fuzzy then anything else. The one song that caught me off guard was "Glass and the Ghost Children". The song goes along nicely and all of the sudden some guy is talking about pondering God. That's what the song is all about, God, this is a song coming from someone who said "God is empty just like me", but being agnostic I couldn't care less, an amazing song though. The album ends nicely with a song entitled "Age of Innocence". This album, while still sounding like the Pumpkins, is fresh and beautiful, filled with lots of love songs, thoughts of God and even the radio. So do the pumpkins bow out gracefully? Yes. At times the songs wobble but they never fall off and Billy Corgan's obvious secret fascination with Trent Reznor by looking and acting goth and having electronic effects in your music(I love you Billy, a lot, but there's only one Trent Reznor) is kinda weird, but they do what they do best... rock. Seeing as how the group is doing a lot of in store promotions, some say desperately but I say there's nothing wrong with wanting a number one album, they should go out on top sales wise as well. This is a depressing time for rock music, Trent Reznor is rumored to be leaving and the Smashing Pumpkins are, who's left? At least I have my cherished Smashing Pumpkins' albums to hold on to. Thanks for the great music guys(and girls).
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Everyone told me to buy this cd. So I went out and bought it. I liked one song only. "Stand inside your love" My money was waisted. I WAS MAD.
