Pavement vs. The Smashing Pumpkins: Clash of ‘Range Life’ and ‘Bullet With Butterfly Wings’

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29th Jun 2024

Which of these two bands are your favourite? Take a listen to the below two tracks. Want to shout out your favourite of the two , or share experiences etc then please leave it in the comments , id love the comments section to be alive and kicking for these posts. Stand up for your favourite!

These two really did not like each other either! Pavement called out the Smashing Pumpkins on their song Range Life , for not having a place on the scene. The Smashing Pumpkins then threatened to pull out of several festival performances if Pavement were added to the bill!

Pavement – Range Life (All Rights Are Retained By Pavement)

The Smashing Pumpkins – Bullet With Butterfly Wings (All Rights Are Retained By The Smashing Pumpkins)

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29 responses to “Pavement vs. The Smashing Pumpkins: Clash of ‘Range Life’ and ‘Bullet With Butterfly Wings’”

RasmaSandra

29th Jun 2024

Never really was a fan of either band and have not heard much from them, However, if I were to base it just on your post and the music videos I would then say I favor Smashing Pumpkins,

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1. Jason
  
  29th Jun 2024
  
  pavement is awesome…Shoot the Singer is one of their finest songs…so casual, so ironic, and indifferent. Slanted and Enchanted is a classic album too…
  
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  1. Fox Reviews Rock
    
    29th Jun 2024
    
    Tbh I’ve never really got into them I am going to have to listen to their backcatalogue to be fair
    
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2. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  29th Jun 2024
  
  I think of the 2 that would be my vote too tbh
  
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cookie

29th Jun 2024

pumpkins had something special for a while

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  29th Jun 2024
  
  What stopped their momentum?
  
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cookie

29th Jun 2024

o, probably the usual, egos and creative dissonance

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  1st Jul 2024
  
  Nice! 🙂
  
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Lesley Aeschliman

29th Jun 2024

Between the two bands, I have to say Smashing Pumpkins hands down. Both Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness were part of the soundtrack of my college years.

When it comes to Pavement, they’ve just never done much for me, personally.

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  30th Jun 2024
  
  And I think that’s fair enough there is plenty of bands that have never personally resonanated with me
  
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EclecticMusicLover

29th Jun 2024

I’m not very familiar with Pavement’s music, whereas I’ve heard many of Smashing Pumpkin’s songs. While I sometimes find Billy Corgan’s quirky and shrill vocals grating, I have to concede Smashing Pumpkins are the better band.

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  30th Jun 2024
  
  Yeah I think thats fair enough , would you be tempted now to give pavement more of a go ?
  
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  1. EclecticMusicLover
    
    30th Jun 2024
    
    Sure, I’ll check out more of their music.
    
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    1. Fox Reviews Rock
      
      30th Jun 2024
      
      Fantastic
      
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Ezekiel Fish

29th Jun 2024

Smashing pumpkins any day.

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  30th Jun 2024
  
  Fair shout :),
  
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Nicole

30th Jun 2024

TLDR: it’s a draw for me.

I was a huge Smashing Pumpkins fan in jr high/high school, but didn’t follow any releases past the late 90s. Meanwhile, I discovered Pavement later- like in the past 5 years. While there are some SP songs making the rounds in my playlists, Pavement is also there. There are some SP songs that don’t hold the same allure as they did for me back in the 90s and meanwhile I’ve gained a more recent appreciation for Pavement.

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  30th Jun 2024
  
  That’s actually really interesting! Is there any smashing pumpkins song that you now no longer like ? And is there any pavement songs you originally didn’t like and now like ?
  
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  1. Nicole
    
    30th Jun 2024
    
    For Smashing Pumpkins, I remember owning every EP and LP they released from Gish through Machina. I could listen to any of those straight through without skipping a track. Now, if I pull up SP on Spotify I find that outside of Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie, I’m not into songs from those other releases. I’ve not checked out their newer stuff.
    
    I never listened to Pavement in the 90s. I was aware of them just never checked them out until like 2019. So far I’m liking most everything from Slanted and Enchanted and Crooked Rain. I need to delve into more of Pavement.
    
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    1. Nicole
      
      30th Jun 2024
      
      FYI after reading this post, I added a Pavement song to my latest Instagram post.
      
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      1. Fox Reviews Rock
        
        30th Jun 2024
        
        Fantastic! Can you tag me in the comments so I can find it ? 🙂
        
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        Nicole
        
        30th Jun 2024
        
        Done.
        
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        Fox Reviews Rock
        
        30th Jun 2024
        
        Thanks!
        
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odell01

30th Jun 2024

I seem to remember that when Pavement bandleader Stephen Malkmus stopped in at his record label’s offices to observe the twenty-fifth anniversary of Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, Mr. Malkmus said for a video promo that he wrote Range Life trying to include a rock ballad in the tradition of The Eagles. The only thing similar I saw from the Pumpkins’ frontman in the years to follow the 90s was Billy Corgan interviewing a Chicago-area magazine whose niche was cat psychology.

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  30th Jun 2024
  
  I did not know this story , thanks so much for highlighting it, I’m going to look into this as its pretty out there and interesting 🙂
  
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nomadicgingerman

30th Jun 2024

Pumpkins. I will forever remember the auditorium going white/black in the light show in time with “despite of my rage I’m still just a rat in a cage” when I saw them. Cool memories.

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  30th Jun 2024
  
  And thats what’s beautiful about live music isn’t it , that song is great anyways but that moment when you saw it live is something you won’t forget 🙂
  
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justrojie

18th Jul 2024

It’s smashing pumpkins for me

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  18th Jul 2024
  
  Good choice!
  
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