Hi, my name is Danny Elfman and I don't suck like Billy Corgan

[Symarip]

Unlike Billy Corgan, when I used to play live gigs I didn't go off on 20 minute guitar solo's boring the shit out of my audience. I also managed to stay on stage for more than hour and never berated my fans when I was doing a gig like I was some sort of demi-god no one understood. I wrote coherent lyrics for the people and I'm not a pompous asshole. I stopped playing rock and roll with a career I am proud of instead of droning on and on for no goddamned reason except to milk my fans for money.

I also married a hot piece of ass. She was in Singles.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. Danny Elfman...wait, wasn't he in Devo?

It was either Devo or Flock of Seagulls. One of those two.

Oh wait! Now I know, it was Men without Hats!

I love "Safety Dance!"

"S(s,s,s,s,s) A(a,a,a,a,a) F(f,f,f,f,f)...."

[Symarip]

2. He was the guy that ruined that Fleetwood Mac song.

Just kidding. Only a fucking idiot would cover Landslide.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. Well, I just gotta say. His "West End Girls" is a true classic. nt

[Bake]

30. Uhhhh ... Do the Dixie Chicks ring a bell?

:hi:

Bake

[Symarip]

31. Dammit

I was hoping nobody brought that up. That was a great version, wasn't it?

Then, there's that shit that one guy pulled in the 90s and it sucked so bad the low pressure system kept California from floating off the edge of the continent.

[DinahMoeHum]

23. It was Oingo Boingo.

and he went on to score movie and TV themes, including The Simpsons

[Rhythm]

4. I love his film scores... a god of a composer

Edited because i was thinking of someone else... :blush:
:hi:

[Symarip]

5. Politics?

[Rhythm]

9. er.. forgive me... train-of-thought derailment

Confusion with someone else, and i have duly edited my other post...
:blush:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

11. Yeah, he belongs to the "Shitty 1980s New Wave Hipster Party".

I think Sarah Palin's husband used to belong to it.

[Symarip]

14. Oh?

Has Billy Corgan done anything about Sarah Palin lately?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/danny-elfman/battling-our-greatest-fea_b_139246.html

[redqueen]

6. Elfman - musical genius.

Corgan - flash in the pan.

[no name no slogan]

19. Elfman == David Bowie. Corgan == Kevin Cronin.

:thumbsup:

[Symarip]

20. Wow.

Even I'm floored at that one. Good call.

[no name no slogan]

22. TYVM

I guess the cold medicine really is working today

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. Wasn't Corgan lead singer of Oasis or Creed or Dave Matthews or one those kind of stupid shit bands?

[Symarip]

8. Three words

Shiny Happy People.

[Runcible Spoon]

24. errr...that was Michael Stipe of REM featuring Kate Pierson of the B-52's

Unless I'm missing some kind of joke? :evilfrown:

[jobycom]

10. But then there's that creepy pedaphilia song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0sG5lDqcKg

And how can anyone take seriously a band called Oingo Boingo?

[Rhythm]

12. I think that's what makes the dichotomy between his pop and his film scores so brilliant

It took me a while to get it into my head that this was the same guy responsible for both "Weird Science" and the soundtrack for "Nightbreed."

[jobycom]

16. He has had some career, hasn't he?

Even Oingo Boingo was interesting, but he has never rested on past achievements. Fascinating man.

[Symarip]

13. It comes from Amos and Andy

It can't be any worse than mashing together 'smashing' and 'pumpkin'.

[jobycom]

15. Oh, now there's a brilliant source to emulate...

That makes it all better--it was based on a show that has come to epitomize white supremacy and the paternalistic fantasies of racists. :o

I'm just picking, I like Danny Elfman. I just don't understand all these weird competitions and judgements of entertainers like there's some objective way to judge them. Smashing Pumpkins have a lot of fans, they've done their job. Any attempt to objectively claim that one act is better than the other completely misunderstands the concept of art. One may be more technically skilled or more educated in the intricacies of the craft or better versed in the history and development of music, but those are just guideposts. The only real judgement of art is how many people it appeals to.

[Arugula Latte]

17. I think it's possible to sing a song as a character.

You can sing a point of view that is not really you "speaking."

And the band's name is funny, but they were a talented bunch. "Not My Slave" is a fabulous song, for example.

[jobycom]

25. Well, yeah... I mean, if you want to

give an actual serious answer... :rofl:

I can't take any of these entertainer-bashing arguments seriously, though.

[Juche]

18. The smashing pumpkins have had some stupid lyrics

But the music was always good. Cherub Rock, Today, Disarm, Mayonnaise, Porcelina, Ruby, Farewell & goodnight, etc. The list goes on.

I've heard Corgan is a huge asshole in person.

[no name no slogan]

21. Corgan is a giant douche

with an overly inflated ego and delusions of his own grandeur. His biggest problem is that he read his own press in the 1990s and believes his some sort of rock god. But he's not.

[Runcible Spoon]

26. I was reading some recent interview where he was crying about audiences

treating them like a "reunion band" and demanding they play their hits from the past. Boohoo. They had ONE great album...guess what that makes you when you get back together and tour after many years, Billy? A REUNION BAND. Guess what good reunion bands do? They play the music that made them famous in the first place; they DON'T dither about experimenting on the audience with new "eclectic" material from their "more mature and evolved place in life".

[no name no slogan]

27. Bullseye

Here is a truly awesome article about what a little dickcheese Billy Corgan is (long, but funny):

http://thecarhole.blogspot.com/2009/01/my-favourite-article.html

Billy: "You hurt me. You hurt me deeply."

What a putz.

[Runcible Spoon]

28. "What sign are you?" Corgan asks.

:rofl:

Thanks for that! :cheers:

[Symarip]

29. THAT

Was fucking classic.

The Billy Corgan Experience, indeed.