Jethro Tull and The Smashing Pumpkins

Yes, I am not seeing the similarities at all...

One thing for sure is that The Smashing Pumpkins could not carry Jethro Tull's shoelaces.

 

Confusing to compare, but it is Tull. Just got to be Tull!

 

I just happen to be listening to Tull live at Carnegie Hall, 1970. It's absolutley amazing. Good, good shit.

 

I adore both bands but I've never heard any similarities at all

 

I don't hear any similarities (and am beginning to wonder if this thread was made to evoke an arguments, if so, well done!) but you'd be surprised the different bands that were influenced by Tull like The Ramones, Iron Maiden, and Pearl Jam

Tull hauls major ass. Great band.

 

I hate to disagree with you, but Jethro Tull will be remembered long after the Smashing Pumpkins have been disbanded and fall into obscurity.

Lame? Well, substance is boring, isn't it?Do you have any idea how complex their music is? Are you intimidated by music with more than two chords? You have noticed that most bar bands don't play their music, haven't you? Cheesy? That would be a lounge act.Do you seriously think that Tull would play in Las Vegas?

Disguising themselves as a metal band to win academy awards? First of all, they won a grammy(not academy) award. Secondly, they were nominated by a bunch of people who couldn't distinguish between alternative music and polka. Thirdly, I think the guys in Metallica were wearing the same clothes that Ian Anderson sold 30 years ago.

Don't get me wrong, I like the Smashing Pumpkins. They sound to me like they were influened by 60s psychedlic bands(you remember the 90's hippies, kind of like their predecessors but they had credit cards.)


I hope that you weren't offended by my comments. I merely like to engage in good-humored banter.

Take care!

 

here is a billy corgan side project doing a WICKID cover of jethro tull's "a new day yesterday" from their second album 'Stand Up'.... and yes, there's a flute player... and a conga player and a violinist, and an organ, and mark tulin from strawberry alarm clock on bass... It was a pretty psychedelic side project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyPbqMgxxw4

ALSO, as a serious student of music (i am earning a masters degree in classical performance), i actually appreciate the finest music. I can listen to brahms, tarrega, and mozart and enjoy them as much as coltrane, roland kirk, ornette coleman, or miles davis. That being said, im also a psychonaut and love psychedelics, so i also dig pink floyd, the power of zeus, the doors, the united states of america, cream, dylan, young, black sabbath, the grateful dead, JETHRO TULL, radiohead, THE SMASHING PUMPKINS, 13th floor elevators, country joe and the fish, jefferson airplane, donovan, led zeppelin, captain beyond, king crimson, and the jimi hendrix experience. So take it from me, the smashing pumpkins are awesome. And so are jethro tull. End of discussion. Those of you accusing the pumpkins of being "malternative" probably never listened to Gish (which is an incredibly 60s-influenced, LSD-drenched album that stands miles apart from the nirvanas, pearl james, soundgardens, and chili peppers who also released albums in 1991).... Clive bunker is an INCREDIBLE drummer, but punch for punch, jimmy chamberlin is a more interesting drummer to listen to.

OH WAIT, the whole point: the pumpkins were definitely influenced by all amazing bands, tull, queen, boston, and sabbath included.