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will Billy Corgan EVER be acknowleged as Cobain's superior?

Clearly a better songwriter in every way, and just as good a...
aromatic public bath
  05/01/13
also the whole image corgan cultivated for himself after sia...
cream elastic band private investor
  05/01/13
his songs generally weren't as punchy or immediately affecti...
irate kitchen
  05/01/13
"his songs generally weren't as punchy or immediately a...
aromatic public bath
  05/01/13
Man this is a hilarious millennial wrong turn. It helps if ...
high-end doctorate
  05/02/13
bro the idea that the music video premier of smells like tee...
cream elastic band private investor
  05/02/13
they are co-equals, plain and simple
concupiscible pit
  05/01/13
Corgan: Wrote Siamese Dream, plowed Jessica Simpson Coba...
cream elastic band private investor
  05/01/13
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Yapping Useless Base
  05/01/13
quality, not quantity, bro.
Opaque roast beef
  05/01/13
wtf
cream elastic band private investor
  05/01/13
Billy Corgan was like the guy in Oasis. "Look! I wro...
Opaque roast beef
  05/01/13
the smashing pumpkins have put out 1 double album and 7 sing...
cream elastic band private investor
  05/01/13
I'm curious who the pumo above you is mistaking for the smas...
Puce motley principal's office
  05/01/13
(Doesn't own The Aeroplane Flies High)
Awkward field persian
  05/01/13
(Dude who hasn't heard Oceania)
Erotic Juggernaut
  05/01/13
50% of Nirvana songs are bad and I like Nirvana
cream elastic band private investor
  05/01/13
Dude also played the lead, rhythm, and bass guitar parts on ...
Puce motley principal's office
  05/01/13
(Guy wyo just doesnt realize what a mean fucking drug addict...
Garnet French Chef
  05/01/13
Dude has no influence.
slimy sanctuary really tough guy
  05/01/13
titcr You STILL see Nirvana copycats. That whole Smashing...
Demanding Stead Haunted Graveyard
  05/01/13
what are some current Nirvana copycats?
cream elastic band private investor
  05/01/13
oddly enough, Pink is one of the biggest modern Nirvana ripo...
irate kitchen
  05/01/13
Seems to me that the Smashing Pumpkins have more enduring in...
Embarrassed to the bone vermilion karate
  05/01/13
Cobain made Rolling Stone's 100 greatest guitarists while Bi...
Stimulating Costumed Useless Brakes Stock Car
  05/01/13
THE WORLD IS A VAMPIRE LJL
drab self-centered water buffalo toilet seat
  05/01/13
that song predicted the current boomer menace in 1995
cream elastic band private investor
  05/01/13
...
*star trek enterprise theme song growing louder tp
  10/09/25
imo pumpkins sound better today
violent spruce jew codepig
  05/02/13
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floppy orchestra pit
  07/19/21


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Date: May 1st, 2013 8:15 PM
Author: aromatic public bath

Clearly a better songwriter in every way, and just as good at guitar. Cobain was the better singer but meh, it seems to be his legacy rests on basically

1) looks

2) suicide

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#23116610)



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Date: May 1st, 2013 8:18 PM
Author: cream elastic band private investor

also the whole image corgan cultivated for himself after siamese dream didn't do him any favors. ppl basically remember him as the whiny bald emo dude with the zero t shirt singing about vampires.

but ya he was infinitely more talented than Cobain, without a doubt.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#23116643)



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Date: May 1st, 2013 8:20 PM
Author: irate kitchen

his songs generally weren't as punchy or immediately affecting. "But Nirvana never wrote something like Mayonnaise or Soma!" you shriek, balls swinging so hard they scare your cat. and while true, that's hardly even the point, because Corgan never did an Aneurysm.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#23116653)



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Date: May 1st, 2013 8:26 PM
Author: aromatic public bath

"his songs generally weren't as punchy or immediately affecting."

Sure but they were better overall, indisputably.

Cobain songs: harder-hitting

Billy Corgan songs: better melodies, better arrangement, better instrumentation, more original, better lyrics, etc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#23116689)



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Date: May 2nd, 2013 12:42 AM
Author: high-end doctorate

Man this is a hilarious millennial wrong turn. It helps if you were actually alive and old enough to get what was happening in music in 1991. The whole point of grunge was to make rock ugly again. The Eddy Van Halen/GnR legacy of the late 80s were too formulaic and technical, and it obviously counts greatly that Nirvana put out one single and video and wiped that shit right off the radio and MTV. Billy Corgan could've never done anything remotely like this because he's too much of a nancy boy studio junkie. He wouldn't have been able to make a record with that much balls, and even if he had no one would've taken him seriously because he sang like he was constantly dreaming of chopping his dick off and becoming a woman not that there's anything wrong with that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#23118700)



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Date: May 2nd, 2013 1:25 AM
Author: cream elastic band private investor

bro the idea that the music video premier of smells like teens spirit was some singular event that WIPED HAIR METAL OFF THE MAP is pure unadulterated gen x flame by people who wanted to believe that their favorite band was changing the world. that shit was already on the way out by 1991 and Nirvana wasn't the catalyst.

I like Nirvana dude but you don't have to resort to this historical hyperbole bullshit when evaluating them.

btw billy corgan is a chill cubs fan who was fucking jessica simpson xoxohth.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#23118962)



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Date: May 1st, 2013 8:22 PM
Author: concupiscible pit

they are co-equals, plain and simple

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#23116665)



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Date: May 1st, 2013 8:24 PM
Author: cream elastic band private investor

Corgan: Wrote Siamese Dream, plowed Jessica Simpson

Cobain: Wrote "Rape Me", merked by Courtney Love

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#23116672)



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Date: May 1st, 2013 10:09 PM
Author: Yapping Useless Base



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#23117416)



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Date: May 1st, 2013 8:24 PM
Author: Opaque roast beef

quality, not quantity, bro.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#23116677)



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Date: May 1st, 2013 8:25 PM
Author: cream elastic band private investor

wtf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#23116683)



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Date: May 1st, 2013 8:31 PM
Author: Opaque roast beef

Billy Corgan was like the guy in Oasis.

"Look! I wrote 6,000 songs for our new album! It's a double-album, with an accompanying double-album of outtakes and b-sides! Me write many, many songs. Ergo, I am a brilliant songwriter."

truth be told, all but like 2 or 3 of their songs were unlistenable/mediocre. his songwriting was compulsive/autistic.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#23116730)



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Date: May 1st, 2013 8:34 PM
Author: cream elastic band private investor

the smashing pumpkins have put out 1 double album and 7 single albums get out you're done here

they've fallen off lately but that's true of basically every rock band in history.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#23116749)



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Date: May 1st, 2013 9:07 PM
Author: Puce motley principal's office

I'm curious who the pumo above you is mistaking for the smashing pumpkins.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#23117002)



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Date: May 1st, 2013 10:10 PM
Author: Awkward field persian

(Doesn't own The Aeroplane Flies High)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#23117422)



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Date: May 1st, 2013 8:26 PM
Author: Erotic Juggernaut

(Dude who hasn't heard Oceania)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#23116690)



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Date: May 1st, 2013 8:29 PM
Author: cream elastic band private investor

50% of Nirvana songs are bad and I like Nirvana

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#23116713)



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Date: May 1st, 2013 9:06 PM
Author: Puce motley principal's office

Dude also played the lead, rhythm, and bass guitar parts on a lot of the studio recordings.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#23116992)



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Date: May 1st, 2013 9:24 PM
Author: Garnet French Chef

(Guy wyo just doesnt realize what a mean fucking drug addict d'arcy was)!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#23117115)



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Date: May 1st, 2013 9:37 PM
Author: slimy sanctuary really tough guy

Dude has no influence.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#23117201)



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Date: May 1st, 2013 10:06 PM
Author: Demanding Stead Haunted Graveyard

titcr

You STILL see Nirvana copycats. That whole Smashing Pumpkins goth thing has been dead for over a decade.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#23117396)



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Date: May 1st, 2013 10:43 PM
Author: cream elastic band private investor

what are some current Nirvana copycats?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#23117655)



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Date: May 1st, 2013 10:47 PM
Author: irate kitchen

oddly enough, Pink is one of the biggest modern Nirvana ripoffs. avril lavigne, too.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#23117695)



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Date: May 1st, 2013 10:58 PM
Author: Embarrassed to the bone vermilion karate

Seems to me that the Smashing Pumpkins have more enduring influence than Nirvana, actually.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#23117784)



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Date: May 1st, 2013 10:14 PM
Author: Stimulating Costumed Useless Brakes Stock Car

Cobain made Rolling Stone's 100 greatest guitarists while Billy Corgan missed the cut. Guitarists seem to appreciate Cobain's voicings more than they do Corgan's, although I believe that Corgan was better at composing (if not playing) and that by a wide margin.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#23117438)



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Date: May 1st, 2013 11:30 PM
Author: drab self-centered water buffalo toilet seat

THE WORLD IS A VAMPIRE

LJL

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#23118085)



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Date: May 1st, 2013 11:34 PM
Author: cream elastic band private investor

that song predicted the current boomer menace in 1995

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#23118125)



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Date: October 9th, 2025 3:53 PM
Author: *star trek enterprise theme song growing louder tp



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#49337447)



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Date: May 2nd, 2013 1:24 AM
Author: violent spruce jew codepig

imo pumpkins sound better today

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#23118956)



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Date: July 19th, 2021 12:00 AM
Author: floppy orchestra pit



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2244999&forum_id=2Reputation#42803965)