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Anyone here have the album? Reviews?

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Zeitgeist review continued...

08 Neverlost

This is a neat little shift of pace from United States. It's a very sparse song coming on the heels of the wall of utter bombast that the song before it was. It would've been better if the rest of the album after it could've followed the lead of this song, but alas... it was not to be.

09 Bring The Light

The song starts out cool... and then quickly devolves into this drudge of lyrical cliche' and non-sense. The music also follows the same pattern, as do the vocals. The second half of the song has more interesting music, and the lead parts are pretty awesome. But the song, as a whole sounds like a Zwan outtake.

10 (Come On) Let's Go!

Speaking of Zwan outtakes... this song flat out sucks, and it sucks from the start. It's just a three minute and nineteen second piece of wanna-be-rockin' crap.

11 For God and Country

This song sounds like it was a reject from Corgan's solo album.... and that is NOT a good thing at all. And that's all I will say about that.

12 Pomp and Circumstance

I know that it wouldn't be a Pumpkins record without some kind of off-the-wall, out of left field tune, and this is apparently supposed to fill that void. But it's no "We Only Come Out At Night" or "By Starlight". The guitar work near the end is cool, but the song is disappointing overall.

As a first album for a band just breaking out of the unknown, this album would be pretty freaking awesome. But this is Billy Corgan, and this was supposed to be the resurrection of the Smashing Pumpkins. In the massive shadow cast by Siamese Dream, and more importantly Mellon Collie, this album is just pitifully weak. There are some pretty good moments in the album, such as tracks 3 through 8, but tracks 1, 2, and 9 through 12 could've been replaced by much better songs. And I know Corgan has better songs. Half a decent album is not what you want to reintroduce yourself to the world with, especially considering your prior discography. I have to rate this album as a 2 out of 5.

Side note: Corgan would've done much better by himself and SP fans to never have released Machina II to the public via the internet, re-recorded those tracks with better production, and then released THAT (albeit under a different title) as the new album. Because, in spite of the good moments on this album, it's just way below standards.

HOWEVER.... having said all that, I'd still rather buy ten copies of this than to download a single pirated copy of a Fall Out Boy album for free.

This post has been edited by pho3nixtar: Jul 16 2007, 7:34 pm