As volume-knob maximalists with tender hearts and thoroughly distorted guitars, the Big Pink are a logical act to be in the Smashing Pumpkins-cover game. Their take Siamese Dream‘s “Mayonaise” dots their setlists, though they tidied up and delivered this rendition on a recent performance for BBC1′s Live Lounge (their next record, Future This, is out via 4AD in January) . It’s fine, though conspicuously missing is Billy Corgan’s indelible Siamese-era X/Y chromosome swagger. The Big Pink’s version is fine for hearing, but it will certainly make you pause to appreciate what a good thing we had when the Pumpkins were dialed-in in the ’90s.
(via CoS)
Miss you, Billy.
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And I miss the way the Smashing Pumpkins used to sound. *sigh* Will someone hold me?
My favorite Pumpkins song! The original is so good it makes it nearly impossible to do a proper cover version. I like Big Pink, but I’m sorry to say that they’ve failed here.
Oh God, this is awful. My ears hurt.
Believe it or not, Billy is always reaching to relive the Siamese era. Back when they broke up in 2000 and they released Untitled, Billy commented on how people were telling him it sounded like Siamese era Pumpkins. His response was something along the lines of…”See…told you we could bust that sound out anytime…we were just, like, holding it back…”
Better than I thought it would be (based on the comments above).
It’s still awful. The singer can’t sing and the arrangement is a noisy mess that reminds me of when my little sister used to play with my synth
Awful rendition. God this band stinks
They totally missed the third note of the verse. And missed other notes throughout the song. I like Big Pink alright, but not a very good cover. If you can’t get the arrangement down properly on a song then you shouldn’t cover it.
It’s their interpretation. It didn’t really do much for me either but I wouldn’t want a band to just attempt a carbon copy of the original. Or, put another way, they may have missed some notes but you probably missed the point.
I didn’t miss the point at all. They tried to cover the song and did a bad job of it. It sounds very half-arsed like they didn’t bother to learn the song properly. If you know the original song at all you’ll clearly hear that they botched all of the chord progressions. Of course when you cover a song you want to put your own spin and style on it, but most bands usually don’t mess it up this bad.
If they could get Billy to sing this with them then it’d be awesome. I love the music, but the vocals aren’t very good.
Huh. Okay. I like the *sound* of this, but not their approach to the song.. I like the spacey, wall-of-sound, swirly guitar noise approach, and if any band could, in theory, do “Mayonnaise” justice, it would be The Big Pink – for that exact reason. Their song “Velvet” is, actually, pretty similar to “Mayonnaise”, or at least evokes a similar mood with a slightly different palate. In fact, as soon as the overdrive kicks in, it feels absolutely right.
However, notice I said “in theory.” In practice, they’ve somehow managed to remove everything that made the *song itself* good. There’s no dynamics. They’ve messed with the chord progression, and made it boring in the process. There’s no room for the song to breathe. And the worst thing is, you know they did it intentionally. Like Jonathan Espeche said, “They totally missed the third note of the verse. ” Yeah. And what makes it worse is that they missed those notes on purpose. Jeez, this cover makes me angry. D-