Yeah! Music bloggin' time! I figured July is passing the halfway point for the year and now's a better time than any to come up with my top five projects for the 2012 year so far. I say projects because album implies I'm excluding mixtapes in hip-hop and that's not the case since mixtapes have recently been more populous than actual albums. This is gonna be divided into five parts, this one showing #5 on my list, counting down to #1 and then an honorable mentions list in the last entry.
And to anyone who may actually read this, all two of three of you that is...no I haven't heard every piece of musically listenable material for the 2012 nor did I intend to. This is my list of the projects I've heard and here it goooooeeeessss!
*The following list is very proudly void of any Tyga
5. Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania
Hey look! It's my favorite band of all-time the Pumpkins with their latest release, oh you cry bias? I say shut-up and stop crying this is my list. Oceania was the last album I gave a good run through before I made this list, since it was the Smashing Pumpkins' release I played this album nonstop to make sure I was hearing it correctly...and I was. Yeah I listened to it late, but I loved what I heard. Some songs sound very "Zeitgeist-y" which was strange because I wasn't a fan of Zeitgeist.
Before the release of Oceania the Smashing Pumpkins had another line-up change replacing bassist Ginger Reyes with Nicole Fiorentino and the biggest heartbreak to me drumming legend Jimmy Chamberlain with Mike Byrne via open tryout.
The thing about the change to the rotation that blows me away is the fact that this may be the Pumpkins' best release in a very long time. From what I'm hearing Fiorentino actually recorded her bass parts of the album, something no Pumpkins bassist could consistently do, and the drums sound great so...much praise to Corgan for selecting the perfect replacements to be in the band.
Oceania shows that Corgan still has it, a lot of it. He is still one of the best songwriters of the 90s and nothing has been lost. From very simplistic yet lovable acoustic tracks like The Celestials to the very energetic intro track Quasar, Corgan's musical talents can now be complimented by very talented band members that are of his sole selection and do the old Smashing Pumpkin sound very proud.
#4 Tomorrow
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