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    21 minutes ago, Strizzmatik said:

    "A double-LP of basic Goth/electro-pop with barely any guitars or good drumming is exactly what we, The Smashing Pumpkins, should be doing in the twilight years of our relevance. Everyone wanted this."

    - Billy Corgan, probably

     

    There's some good tracks here, like Colour Of Your Love, Anno Satana, Purple Blood, Save Your Tears, etc... but none of them rank even in the band's top 50 songs, imo. Not one. Who wanted this from SP? Trying new musical avenues is commendable and nothing new for SP, but this direction just isn't up to par with their prior work in quality, and definitely didn't justify a 2xLP. It Ishould be a criminal act to go 3 albums under-utilizing a drummer like Jimmy Chamberlin the way they have since the reunion, ffs.

    In the past I would have agreed with you, but I've come to accept the band's material over the last 10 years on its own merits. Have you heard Adore? Barely any guitars and no Jimmy Chamberlain, and it still turned out to be one of their best albums. This side to the band has always been there, going back to their earliest demos when it was just Billy and James calling themselves The Marked, so I don't get why anyone's surprised they had this album in them.

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    13 hours ago, iamryang said:

    oh woah i had no idea. i have literally skipped over this band so many times without realizing this connection, which should have been a connection enough to check out this band each and every time! thank you for the knowledge:pray:

    be sure to check out Tim’s other bands Owls and Make Believe too if you haven’t already!

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    One of sickest, most original, out there bands of all time. Tim defined modern emo with Cap’n Jazz and then smashed it apart and reshaped it over and over again with each new Joan of Arc release, sometimes into something beautiful, other times into something hideous, but always looking forward. Never falling into a predictable formula.

    Joan of Arc is a band that represents real emotional vulnerability and willingness to take creative risks. They were not afraid to experiment and fail. Alienating their fanbase with each new album and continuing to release music for over 20 years mostly to indifference. I will truly miss the surprise that comes with first listening to a new JoA album for the first time and having no idea what to expect. I wish this was just another extended hiatus and not the end. But I’m that much more excited to hear this album knowing that it is the one Tim Kinsella has chosen to punctuate his longest running band’s career with.

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    Give the guy a break. I’ve been a Liturgy fan since 2009 and didn’t know Hunter had transitioned until a couple weeks ago. My first reaction to the cover was I thought it was photoshop. After learning her gender, Dickhead apologized for making the joke. It seems like it was an honest mistake and honestly its kind of an outrageous artwork meant to provoke a reaction.

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    6 hours ago, Angerbanjo said:

     

    they prolly could only have one of them up at a time i guess? idk. i know most bands leave them up for like 48 hours after the event except the wonder years who  has left them up until they do another one.

     

     

    By any chance is there going to be rips of the other two sets they did? 

    They were all up at the same time for almost a full month after they aired. And I don’t think this is a rip, I think its an official release. I hope in the next few weeks they release the other two streams, but this was definitely the best out of the three. It was the first one they did and thus more spontaneous.

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    On 10/11/2020 at 5:45 PM, Summers said:

    They used to put a few minutes of no audio/static before track one or after the last track, there's a reason that artists did it but I can't remember the exact reason

     

    I thought it was like an error margin but there might be another reason for it 

    Lots of CDs used to have hidden tracks. It was just a fun thing and a way to separate the bonus from the rest of the album. The Silent Circus is another more recent example. Here’s what Mike Shinoda had to say about that song on Twitch:

     

    ”Back in the day, before the days of iTunes, you played CDs on a CD player. And so you'd put in your album and you'd listen to it and and at the end of it, it'd basically stop or start over. Normally you wouldn't have the length of songs show up. The number that would show up is how much of the song you've already heard, not how much of the song is coming up until the end, basically. So on Nine Inch Nails "Broken", I think it was like six or seven song thing, and at the end of that there were ninety one empty tracks, basically silent tracks, tiny one second tracks. And then track ninety eight and ninety nine were songs. And they weren't even listed on the back of the CD. So we decided to put like a little surprise/easter egg at the end of ours. And there was all of this static noise for minutes and minutes and then we put that song at the end of it. So that when you're listening to it on CD, you wouldn't know what was coming after... you'd wait and then there was an instrumental.”

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