Smashing Pumpkins Debut At Number 2 On Billboard

[vansmack]

Originally posted by TheDirector217:
  But you're, as the hipsters say, spot on.  
 
 ....
 
  Do you bill by the post or by the hour?    :p  

First, I don't know when "spot on" became a hipster thing - the English have been saying it for years.  You can't watch a football match without a commentator saying "the ref was spot on with that call"....but I digress.
 
 And that piece of advice is on the house.  I hope others in what someone, I think it was nkotb, called the "Freshman Class" of the board listen as well.  It's great having you all here and I really enjoy a lot of what you have to offer, and in time you'll do a better job of understanding when someone's taking the piss out of you because they're bored (or are simply trolling) and not take them seriously.

[godsshoeshine]

Originally posted by vansmack:
  taking the piss out of you because  

hey! that's british too

[TheDirector217]

Originally posted by vansmack:
   

Originally posted by TheDirector217:
  But you're, as the hipsters say, spot on.  
 
 ....
 
  Do you bill by the post or by the hour?      

[vansmack]

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
   

Originally posted by vansmack:
  taking the piss out of you because  

hey! that's british too [/b]

No.  That one's hipster.

[nkotb]

You have to wait until a new surge of people start posting.  Seems like once a year or so we get a new group on here.  Don't rush it though; you're in good company!
 
 

Originally posted by TheDirector217:
 P.S. I've been here about a year now.  Am I gonna get promoted to sophomore class or what?    

[Sage 703]

Originally posted by Brian Wallace:
   

Originally posted by bnyced0:
     

Originally posted by Brian Wallace:
     http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1565010/20070718/t_i_.jhtml    
 
 144,800 copies sold.  
 
 "in fact, Zeitgeist is the Pumpkins' worst performer, sales-wise, since 1993's Siamese Dream, which opened at #10 with 71,900 copies sold."
 Brian

More important than the figures, are the facts, and he's just wrong.  The only pumpkin album that's done better than Zeitgeist in it's first week is MCIS which debuted No. 1 in 1995, the 145K sold last week ties the previously 2nd best opening week by a SP album which was Adore in 1998.  [/b]

Now why would MTV lie about that?  Either you're wrong or MTV's wrong.
 
 Brian [/b]

Regardless of this fact, compare the overall industry statistics between 2006 and 2000:
 
 
 Best selling record of 2006:
 
 Soundtrack, "High School Musical" - 3,719,071 units sold
 
 Tenth best selling record of 2000:
 
 Destiny's Child, "Writing's On The Wall" - 3,802,165 units sold
 
 So I wouldn't say that comparing sales in the era of the record industry's most significant decline is at all worth doing.
 
 And if you're curious?  The best selling record of 2000 was 'NSYNC with "No Strings Attached," with 9,936,104 units sold.

[miss pretentious]

Originally posted by TheDirector217:
 
 
 P.S. I've been here about a year now.  Am I gonna get promoted to sophomore class or what?    

it's ok... i think i'm like kid sister status.

[walkonby]

"there's a guy yelling 'drum solo' and another yelling 'i love you jimmy.'  where's the guy yelling 'i love you jimmy?'  oh come on, where are you, nothing's bad 'gonna happen to you.  oh, there you are . . . jimmy says if you shut the fuck up, he'll give you twenty dollars."  - a quote from bill onstage at a cd live zwan show in chicago i just got.  nice.

[TheDirector217]

Originally posted by miss pretentious:
   

Originally posted by TheDirector217:
 
 
 P.S. I've been here about a year now.  Am I gonna get promoted to sophomore class or what?      

it's ok... i think i'm like kid sister status. [/b]

From some of the posts I've seen from hot blooded boardies, I would beg to differ.  More like cyber eye candy.  Yeah.  That's it.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by miss pretentious:
  it's ok... i think i'm like kid sister status.

I would consider you an applicant, but head of the applicant pool as you seem to be handling the initiation process in stride...
 
 Of course this happens with a lot of the females on the board, then they simply drop out.

[miss pretentious]

Originally posted by vansmack:
   

Originally posted by miss pretentious:
  it's ok... i think i'm like kid sister status.

I would consider you an applicant, but head of the applicant pool as you seem to be handling the initiation process in stride...
 
 Of course this happens with a lot of the females on the board, then they simply drop out. [/b]

you should have seen the look on everyones face when i showed up at theboard meet-up post pumpkins. you'd think a female had never lasted on the board for more than a week or something.

[xneverwherex]

*ahem* there are more than a few females on the board. i just dont think a bunch of us went to see the pumpkins. hey bags - i hear ill finally get to meet you at lolla. its about time!

[vansmack]

Originally posted by miss pretentious:
  you should have seen the look on everyones face when i showed up at theboard meet-up post pumpkins. you'd think a female had never lasted on the board for more than a week or something.

Sweetie, you have a long way to go before you reach Jaguar status - she's like a faculty member around here.
 
 But yeah, we have a lot of research fellows (people who are really only here for the music) who are females, but rarely a female student who lasts through freshman year or so.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by xneverwherex:
  *ahem* there are more than a few females on the board.  

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you, lily and bags would be it in the last more than 2-3 years.  That's not a good number.

[nkotb]

Bingo.  We had lulu for a bit, but she's since moved on.  And then there's BadSushi...*shudder*.
 
 

Originally posted by vansmack:
   

Originally posted by xneverwherex:
  *ahem* there are more than a few females on the board.  

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you, lily and bags would be it in the last more than 2-3 years.  That's not a good number. [/b]