the smashing pumpkins - slunk - live in japan

[Differindividual]

They just don't want to be bothered.

[reddog4562]

0:12 they started in 88 haha

[bryerTuck]

That whole solo and they didn't show James Iha at all!

[gauchebag]

@bryerTuck

to be fair he was mostly using effects and not really playing anything too technically difficult

just like the zero solo

[magnificentbastard27]

Anyone else recognize this from vieuphoria?

[StraightPunkEdge93]

@magnificentbastard27 YES :) this is my favorite part. The interview is just so fucking awkward!!!!

[SuperMegabar]

1:31 for the beginning of the song :)

[groovey65]

Darcy mmmmmmmmmm....

[HM3Giggles79]

This was my favorite part of Vieuphoria! sooo funny and so corny...but Love the Smashing Pumpkins and Billy's red hair!!! This is one of my absolute favorite Pumpkin songs too!! Love it! The guitar at 2:53 is freakin sick!! Awesome!!

[HM3Giggles79]

This was my favorite part of Vieuphoria! sooo funny and so corny...but Love the Smashing Pumpkins and Billy's red hair!!! This is one of my absolute favorite Pumpkin songs too!! Love it!

[HM3Giggles79]

This was my favorite part of Vieuphoria! sooo funny and so corny...but Love the Smashing Pumpkins and Billy's red hair!!!

[blahblah2018]

lol james doesn't understand a lick of japanese

[gauchebag]

that bend he does at 3:30 before going right back into the riff is killer

[Peteabix]

Awesome!!

[ThePurpleLunacy]

james is shreddin the shit out that guitar and they cant even look at him wtf and hes japanese

[gauchebag]

@ThePurpleLunacy

they thought billy would be playing the solos since hes the frontman

[XarxesB]

I miss the 90s...

[KissofEther]

@NiggerButcher99 What the hell is wrong with you? Quit harassing me and go be a racist prick somewhere else.

[KissofEther]

@NiggerButcher99 Because I can, why do you care so much?

[vampire891208]

Slunk is an amazing song it should have been in Gish

[zolvanter]

Psychedelic 90

[SharpStarProductions]

Amazing song and performance!

[KissofEther]

@vampire891208 "You talk sh*t like a chump"

[vampire891208]

@KissofEther ok thanks

[vampire891208]

what is he singing at the beginning?? ride on motherfucker after he says something like ShiT

[LesterLovelace]

@vampire891208 Child.

[DDDDQQQQ]

billy is an asshole! :D yet so cute

[greenpumpkin96]

billy is obviously trying to hold his laughter

[KissofEther]

yeah so, Billy looks really hot in this video. love his shirt too :)

[vampire891208]

ride on,,MOTHERFUCKER

[vtsnowboarder79]

I love how awkward the interview is and how the Japanese tv people basically make fun of them... then comes the kick ass performance and it's like "who's laughing now mother f*ckers" LOL

[urikasebastian]

thank god this is on japanese tv otherwise the swears would be censored.

[birdy47]

1:31 to start of video peepz

[LetsGetHighOnMorris]

I love how they aren't taking this interview seriousley.

[wrecktem]

Why didn't James talk to them in Japanese? He knew what they were saying, but he wouldn't even speak a word to them...奇怪.

[krs7070]

@wrecktem No he didn't...? They had a translator sitting there.

[CornerOfTheUniverse]

This is psychedelic punk

Noisy paint

I love it

[AngryEwok666]

2 Words... FENDER BLENDER :D

[CornerOfTheUniverse]

There's a descending phychedelic cacophony here you can experience no where else... And to control raw energy so swell!

[DRUMMERLORD95]

what paintjob does billy corgan have on his guitar? please tell me

[urikasebastian]

@DRUMMERLORD95 i have no idea but its totally customed to him only.

[chrisnoaro1]

i feel the same way about darcy's hair!

[Reno9824]

The lyrics are different to the original song..?

[hollyannalove]

and the man on the flaming pie said, you shall be the beetles with A. haha

[watchutubeful]

Adore, James.

Totally adorable !

[jsandstorm94]

You can find it on rarities and b-sides on iTunes it's just the live version cos it wasn't on Gish I don't think

[colorbarsat4am]

there's a studio version too. easy to find...

[uglybob808]

love billys guitar

[Gamagachee]

Lmao James

[PHALANX100BC]

KICK ASS.............!

[Davidovskys]

haha the pre-interview is really crazy )) poor James Iha )

[dukeunicorn]

OMG that is my name IM SLUNK!!!

[tomtom55tomtom]

miyake

moriguchi...

masuzoe???

[afroguy10]

That fuzz on Billys guitar is unreal. Sounds totally awesome, so distorted. I love this song, especially this performance.

[dudeperson324]

the fuzz is called a fender blender if you wana look it up but i think he has some drive behind it to ha

[afroguy10]

yeah, looked up pumpkins gear and bought myself a reissue of the fender blender, it's a hard pedal to get used to but when you find the sounds that work it's a total godsend and yeah, he's probably fired some drive or crunch behind the fuzz of the pedal aswell.

[lucastrinkler]

billy was still a human in that time

[TravuhsWree]

And D'arcy was still hot....

[eatrocksah]

billy is def on acid

[JenniferOcious79]

I remember the first time I saw Billy with his bald head.I was up late watching David Letterman while my Grandma slept nearby.I almost screamed.I was16 at the time and I said,"Holy crap! What did you do, Billy??" Then i got used to it. Hairy or hairless, I could care a less, the guy is beyond adorable. Though I always wondered what his hair with those curls he had would feel like,hoping that one day I'd get to find out, meet him, say you changed my life then stick my hands in his hair.

[vmrazek]

mhm....its a great fantasy!!! I am right on your planet! :)

[vmrazek]

thank god he shaved his head.

he is SO hot when he performs.

maybe its just me...but he is so sexy!

[Tfr3sh17]

hoping your a chik

[vmrazek]

hahaha

yea i am! dont worry!

[Tfr3sh17]

You had me scared for a moment :)

[Kohlraky]

I love Billy's strat.

[beyondtheclouds]

Oh man I love this. Billy is trying so hard to stifle laughter in the beginning. Cute. And James doesn't seem to speak a word of Japanese.

[OwrKeeng]

I think he's the kind of Japanese who can understand it but not speak it.

[gorgeousgab]

oh billy!

[TravuhsWree]

Cool sweater Billy.

[JustMyNipples]

THE BEST

[modernlifechews]

that was funny. gotta love billy's hair too. classic clip from vieuphoria video.

[Tfr3sh17]

I LOVE Billys hair here but it seems like there stoned.

[Watch4]

...my god....

[Tfr3sh17]

I like them like this i like them all the time.

[Rambo29]

I love Corgan's guitar

[Vampiregrunge99]

o yea and wat does D'arcy look like recently can anyone show me? just curious

[Vampiregrunge99]

when did D'arcy start using concain?

[manical101]

Five minutes before the beginning of this video?

[bigstereo]

What the hell is wrong with Billy at the beginning of this? He really is out of his fucking mind.

[Watch4]

bigstereo, this is Gish area stuff, so they were probably high, thats when they were the most addicted.

[Tfr3sh17]

Of course, Thats why I like this era the best.

[Watch4]

Having fun at your cousins?

[Tfr3sh17]

ROFL yea couldnt send me a message? here let me let you in two spicy boneless wings two bbq boneless a two liter of mountain dew and a large peporoni pizza. you just came.

[OwrKeeng]

you got that deal from dominos right?

[Tfr3sh17]

No bro larosas*sorry for the inside convo outside, me and watch4 are friends in real life*

[nate247420]

to what? i heard they dropped acid a lot tho lol

[anadentone]

poor James XD he looks like in the beginning to be shy or really nervous XD I miss these guys! ^^

[slirrick]

I love the fender blender effect and especially billys psychedelic custom guitar! Does anyone know where to get such guitars?

[youbester]

poor james!!! pretty hilarious though. and when the TV presenters are laughing and the band, especicially billy, looks really bewildered, like, whats so funny??...LOL!

[levey24]

zoom in on billys neck while james is shredding... nice camera work

[SchwarzMohn]

fucking awesome!

Billy looks so hot!

grrrr*

[danger0ss]

man...i want to have sex with jimmys mullet

[gauchebag]

pumpkins are better than alice in chains and soundgarden. don't ever make that type of comparison again

[pablodmdp]

this is a B-side and sounds more interesting than most AIC songs.

they are a good band, but i can't pay attention to any of their songs besides from Rooster or Bleed the freak.

It's what i call monochrome music.

[chubbycheeks2]

Ha ha, i'm unsure if the fault lies with whoever was in charge of the subtitles or the show hosts. "they have been playing shows in the chicago area since 1980" 89 mabie but not 1980!

[Jarnson]

quit tellin me to shut it. AIC and Soundgarden own them and you know it. They own all grunge every day all day.

[spojmonkey]

Unlike Alice in Chains and Soundgarden, pumpkins expanded and evolved. This ultimately led to them not be incredibly boring to the youth of today like AIC and Soundgarden. Anyways... Grunge is such a retarded genre classification. Pumpkins sounds so much different than AIC and Soundgarden I don't know how you could compare them.

[Jarnson]

I agree Grunge is a BS label. The media didnt know what to call rock besides rock in the early 90s so thats what they thought. I agree every band of that era is completely different. Were stand is you gotta put Smash in the place of AIC and Sg as incredibly boring. See, thats were we differ. I think smash has some good tunes, and are really boring. AIC and Soundgarden, just about every album rocks just about every song. :)

[SmashingPumpkinLover]

Emo = failure to copy The pumpkins. Pumpkins = Peace, Love, and all that is good. Plus a small shard of goth, but thats okay. Go Gothic Hippies! :D

[gishbaby]

best definition of SP ever!

[pablodmdp]

No, it's not.

have you heard Melloncollie?

A song like "fuck you ode to no one" is not about all that is good.

Dont underestimate pain. Ever. Please.

[gishbaby]

ofcourse.

Melloncollie is really very good.

but it can't beat gish or siamese dream.

[pablodmdp]

Siamese dream is one of my favourite records ever.

Te tone is perfect, the solos are great, the songs are both original and have a hook, the drumming, the effects. It holds Cherub Rock which is the Sp tune I like best.

And Gish is one of the best debut albums ever made, really neat to pop in, push play and let it run.

[gishbaby]

mhmm so true.

[Pasta0fMuppets]

What the fuck?

[ladyinblacklace]

"Gothic Hippies"...good one!:D

[TravuhsWree]

They did aim for combining pyschedelic with metal you know....

[bleach6bleach]

this sounds kinda odd to me, what do those terms really mean? they are just expressing themselves and it sounds more like noise which is perfectly cool.

[TravuhsWree]

Are you talking about my post about psychedelic metal or Billy's retro sweater?

[bleach6bleach]

maybe both idk

[Califarnication]

It must be an awkward situation for James, being of Japanese descent and unable to speak Japanese on a Japanese T.V. show in Japan...haha!

[krax12982]

I think 4 of the people in this video might have been rollin... anyone agree?

[CASPRPres]

Jimmy rocked out then...and he rocks out now.

And I'm not talking about crack cocaine....although....

[fleurdupommier]

This is hilarious. So like Lost in Translation.

[Jarnson]

Corgan is such a woman.

[lexpistols]

what...? how?

[Jarnson]

Dude Smashing Pumpkins have a couple good tunes but they are seriously emo before emo came out...And Corgan..look at him.

[lexpistols]

I see a cute boy with a sweet smile and angelic features in a bad sweater. I don't know what kind of women you hang around but the ones I see look more like d'arcy. the pumpkins are not emo, they're what emo tries and fails to be.

[Jarnson]

I like smash ok! But you must admit the whole grunge genre is that. Cherub Rock is fucking sweet. So is Zero n shit.

[jgxcmonkey]

dude shut the hell up already

[jgxcmonkey]

i meant jarson

[darcyfrusciante]

What a great song!Where is it from?Hm Billy was kind of cute back then...i cant believe i just said that...oh well...i like the fact that D'Arcy cant stop laughing!God her hair is great!Ahhh the good old days...boo hoo hoo

[louisherewego]

lovin tht guitar design

[gishbaby]

ha. D'arcy's loving it.

[UKNOWIT88]

@ 3:36 does Corgan sing "You suck dick like a child!" ?????

[grymxcore]

LMMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[lostsadsoul]

that was funny!

I like :D

[ixlikexbananas]

"i undertand ou have a japanese member in our band"lol i don't know what it is about people speaking japanese that just makes me crack up.

[bigsaki]

I wish it was when this interview was made.... SP FOREVER

[1jourenfrance]

bc loves ugly sweaters :D

[ForgottenSoul700]

This footage can be found of "Vieuphoria."

Billy looks a little annoyed. James looks embarrassed that he doesn't speak Japanese. And the other two are just sitting there.

[Porceleena]

billy's beautiful hair....

[perinho5]

Poor James :D

[joao1988pedro]

Billy in the beggining trying not to laught, it´s actually very funny

[tikat]

Yeah I noticed that too xD This interview is surreal. Billy with red hair and everything o.O

[eatmybrain]

i like the song,and i like billies guitar playing

[fatcatbuzz]

It was the best at this period. He played more bluesy, punky, funky,and in a rock style in 92. That's why Gish was so awesome.

[vwpompamrjfbcbz]

there is a japanese guy in smashing pumpkins? his name is JAMES you wet end.

[Ljandj99]

rock to the max!

[pumkinfan2]

Gotta love Japanese TV!

[japo69]

fuckin james...

[risaiwasaki]

D'arcy is the beauty of pureness. Please come back.

[keioffice]

not any more! she is a ugly crack head, she dashed my dreams of marrying her cause i never would since she is so ugly now

[fatcatbuzz]

I know what you mean. D'acry was pretty hot back in the day. I guess that's what crack will do to you. I saw a recent picture of her and she didn't look so good. But, then again The Pumpkins were a real band between this period (or '88 when they started) to about '95. After that they were not the same band. This was my favorite period in alt/indie rock in general.

[keioffice]

yea, and its not indie as a genre like nowadays. Indie now all sounds so simular its retarded, most of the bands are just stripped down crap rock with no expression or experimintation at all.

[fatcatbuzz]

I agree. Most stuff coming out that is American rock/pop (rock isn't rock anymore because real rock music had the blues in it) sucks today. I can't listen to any of it. I'll be honest, I never even got any of Billy's new stuff and haven't listen to Machina very much. It's too bad because I thought this band and Billy were really good when they first came out.

[keioffice]

i cant aagree with you more.

[PersonalJesus348]

yep. yep. Even Corgan denounced the indie "cred" Zwan was having. He joked because he knew Zwan would never be as big as The Smashing Pumpkins. The "non-pumpkin" members as he refered in an interview, would be resentful and try to gain more popularity.

[ThunderExpress]

Pureness? lol

Which world you live? she got busted with drugs not long time ago xD

[guntforsure]

wait there is a japanese guy in smashing pumpkins..

[fatcatbuzz]

The host was probably like "I couldn't tell, all you Americans look the same."

[guntforsure]

something like that.....i guess

[dailybrother]

yea. James Iha the guitarist. He's a cool dude though sadly he's no longer with Billy's crew. Why can't life be fun. It's so damn sad as to what music has been reduced to with a bunch of copycats and all. does anybody here know some great music which is around?

[easternmind]

Yeah dude, check out a band called Minus The Bear. They're from around where I live, and they are really great!

But yes, I love this video, and always have. I love Smashing Pumpkins!

[ciceru]

Wow!! I loved it!!!

[classact1010]

thanks so much, i've been waiting for this to show up on myspace..probably my favorite segment of Vieuphoria. I still don't exactly know how they get those fucking amazing sounds.

[leviatam]

wow this is so awesome, i love this song! now i finally know what nationality james is

[PumpkinHead8]

Awesome