Monuments To An Elegy

I absolutely love this album. It may be short but I think it's perfect. Nothing I don't like on it and it's a real grower.

I really don't know what some smashing pumpkins fans want, siamese dreams, gish, Mellon collie etc are gone, fantastic as they were, here we have a new set of songs, and I for one am delighted to still have BC and the smashing pumpkins around. We can all yearn for years gone by, but would you rather BC called it a day and all you had was their back catalogue, brilliant as it is, I for one would rather they kept producing sublime albums like this, and I get the feeling there's plenty of life left in the old dog yet, songs like being beige and one and all prove that point, I hope Billy and Co are round for a long time yet, there still nobody quite like them, so let's enjoy it while it lasts!

The Pumpkins are one of my favourite bands, but I am not going to ramble on about Mellon Collie, Siamese Dream, etc. Those were great, but in the past. Monuments is short, very short. Only nine tracks, and only one is longer than four minutes. Still, what is here is good. It is largely a guitar focused album, but there are plenty of keyboards, just not at the expense of the guitars. The vocals are good, and the general feel of the album is not as mellow as Oceania, but more varied and dare I say it interesting than Zeitgeist. There are some good thumping tracks on here (Tiberius, One and All) and the slightly less so (Being Beige, Run2me). An early standout for me though is Anise! (the exclamation mark is part of the title). Oh, and it has Tommy Lee on drums. Perhaps it is a compliment, but he doesn't dominate the music, and this doesn't sound like a Motley Crue cross over. It just fits together. I guess the weakest point is the lyrics, but then those have been lazy for years in comparison with the glory years. But this is a different era and different album. A solid album, and I am looking forward to giving it plenty of ear-time.

Recommended for any smashing pumpkins fan!

Their best effort since Billy brought the Pumpkins back.

Once again this could have been a pretty good album but Mr Corgan has ruined it once more by burying it with awfully badly judged synthesiser parts. With the synths removed and the album remixed so the guitars dominate this would have made a pretty good EP as its only 30 minutes long.

Love this band.

Excellent CD, although I'd bought it for somebody else!

No se si será el sonido de batería que el Señor Tommy Lee (batería de Mötley Crüe) le ha imprimido a todo el disco, o si serán los arreglos del bueno de Billy Corgan, pero lo cierto es que el sonido de este disco es mucho más contundente que en obras anteriores de los Smashing Pumpkins, sin que ello desmerezca su contenido, más bien todo lo contrario. Nos encontramos ante un álbum de ROCK, con mayúsculas, que no da tregua ni un solo segundo, y con una banda inspirada y en muy buena forma. Recomendable de todas a todas...

Ottima produzione di Billy & soci..Tutte le tracce sono molto belle Molto bella la seconda traccia, being bedge e la penultima, dorian. A parer mio, uno degli album più belli della produzione Smashing Pumpkins dove l'elettronica da quel tocco in più, tale da completare l'opera musicale. Monuments To An Elegy di nome e di fatto.. L'edizione in vinile rende giustizia a questo capolavoro peccato per l'edizione in CD, il packaging è molto scarno, potevano arricchirlo con qualcosa di più interessante.

Un cambio radical en el sonido de la banda. Como buen fan de los pumpkins puedo constatar que es un muy buen álbum y lo recomiendo ampliamente el sonido es fantástico en un buen equipo hi-fi amazon cumpliendo como siempre muy rápida entrega y en óptimas condiciones

Gefällt wirklich gut nach mehrmaligem hören und für mich das beste Album der Band nach 2000. Der Gesang ist hier eine Steigerung für mich - irgendwie wieder gefühlvoller, auch besser gemixt. Ich finde auch, man sollte endlich überwinden, jedes neue Album mit den 90er Alben zu vergleichen und zu messen, sondern sich einfach mal mit dem neuen Werk an sich befassen. Es richtig, dass Mr. Corgen seinen Weg geht und seine Musik weiterentwickeln will. Dies ist, was die Pumpkins schon immer ausgemacht hat. Wer Musik will, die seit 20 Jahren gleich klingt soll sich bei AC/DC, den Foo Fighters oder auch Peral Jam bedienen. Ich finde es schade, dass diese Band heute so wenig Relevanz bzw. Resonanz erfährt.

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