HU Podcast #25: Horns, Best Buy, and Halloween
October 28th, 2008 by christags: podcast, live
The 20th anniversary tour is about to begin, and on the podcast this week we talked about some of the appetizers from last week.
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This week’s topics:
Panelists
-Chris, Jason, and Jill
News
-Billy gives us some spoilers about the new tour in the form of horns, violin, and the song Sunkissed. How will the new instrumentation be integrated into the Pumpkins’ back catalog? Jason reveals his favorite version of Today, and we identify a perfect song for a Halloween concert. (4:53)
Tour and Promotional Appearance Roundup
-The band plays the Spike Scream Awards. Was the Pumpkins’ performance worth sitting through the awards? (1:45)
-The performs a slightly longer set at Jimmy Kimmel live on Friday. Is this setlist a preview of shows to come? (5:28)
-The infamous Best Buy performance, classic Billy. Jason talks more about the politics of Zeitgeist as related to As Rome Burns. Plus, Jill regales us with tales of her childhood. (19:01)
This Week in Pumpkins History
-Some clips of banter from Halloween shows past. Jason breaks down the formula of the Iha joke, and we come up with some Halloween costume ideas for the band. (9:24)
Song of the Week
-Eye, October 31st, 1998
Next week’s show is up in the air, as Jill will be unavailable while Jason and I will be attending one or more shows, but we will try to get you our thoughts on the start of the tour.
October 28th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
No, there are no Pumpkins songs with horns. There’s an oboe part in Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, but that’s a woodwind instrument, not a brass instrument.
And, as the only Pumpkins fan whose favorites include “Pug”, I think there’s probably some correlation between that and the fact that I absolutely love “Christmastime.”
October 28th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
porcelina has something that resmbles synth horns
October 29th, 2008 at 12:24 am
i wanted to say the Star-Spangled Banner on the Cherub Rock single has horns, but it’s impossible to actually tell.
October 29th, 2008 at 5:32 am
oh yeah, christmastime. i really love that song. would be sweet if they play the song at one of the upcoming shows.
October 29th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
http://www.splra.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tsp2000-10-31
Billy as Beckham, James was Alf Inge Haland, Melissa as Posh Spice, Garson and Holmes as the Gallagher brothers and Jimmy as Gorge best [accompanied by two dolly-birds i might add]… come on guys, surely that’s a Halloween show worth mentioning?
oh and not to mention some of the footage for ‘Graceful Swans of Never’ was shot there…
October 29th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
@drevpile:
Good call! I missed that one when pulling the dates from the spfc.
October 29th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
hey, I was never invited after the first one so I forget and I’m never around. You know I can juryrig a microphone.
And yeah, I *so* would’ve gotten Polyphonic Spree right. But you’re behind the times, they’ve moved onto black army uniforms.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:56 pm
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November 1st, 2008 at 4:32 am
i only thought about the Manchester show, because i was there.