You know people it’s my birthday and with that in mind I
think I’m a post a god damn Smashing Pumpkins Song and for the only reason
needed because they’re my favorite band ever!
Now with that in mind I would like to make note of today’s
cut which is the Rick Ruben produced and recently unearthed version of Let Me
Give the World To You and of course I’ve posted it before and my mind was
fucking blown away because it was an almost mythic piece of music that I’ve
read about for years but wasn’t even sure if it’d ever be released and one day
about a year ago or so one William Patrick Corgan decided to finally give this
version a release in the Adore deluxe reissue and the world was blessed with
this gem of a tune and now a year later I’ve had a bit of time to reflect on
it’s significance.
So when I saw the Smashing Pumpkins this most recent time
they were doing a series of songs from Adore and when they said they’d be
playing a couple of songs from Adore I yelled this songs name immedietly to
which Billy Corgan just kind of stopped for a second and gave this kind of
“every Fucking time,” look that was both amusing and obviously aware of the
joke before other people started yelling more amusing track suggestions and
sadly he didn’t play it but that’s the thing listening to this particular
recording in comparison to the one released for MACHINA 2 there’s a different
tone in the song because while that version is very struck in the sound of
later day Pumpkins tracks and a quality one at that this version has an almost
timeless quality to it that’s kind of perplexing because it’s overly acoustic
arrangement along with Corgans more subdued vocals give the track a kind of
magical feeling that’s very immediately present in the more dirty sounding
electronic version on MACHINA but it’s even more real and while I love the song
irregardless it’s kind of crazy that it never got a release upon its initial
recording because it’s a real game changer of a tune that while I’m not sure if
it’d of ever reached the heights of 1979 in terms of chart positions I’m pretty
sure it’d of at least gotten them a bit of a prolonged commercial grace period,
but even saying that I almost could figure that the song would almost of ended
up like the MACHINA version even on Adore but that’s a topic for a different
time.
So Happy birthday to me! Baby Let’s Rock!
