Smashing Pumpkins Try Try Try/ Here's To The Atom Bomb (Virgin, 2000)
Smashing Pumpkins Untitled/ Try/ Age Of Innocence (Virgin, 2001)
These three show the band trying to hold on...and failing.
Compared to the songs on the last posting these are nondescript, flaccid, hollow versions of a band I love.
I'm sure there is someone out there right now reacting with apoplexy but I struggle with these three songs. I really do.
Billy Corgan's gift for melodic alternative prog metal deserted him for a time (he got his mojo back I'm happy to report) and so these chunes are NOT his finest hour.
Hidden gems - Ar - no!
The videos are as dire as the songs - Try Try Try is such a depressing couple of minutes that I refuse to support it further, so with some reluctance here's the best of a bad bunch:
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