SOME bands take themselves way too seriously. However it’s generally a good idea to not be so up yourselves you don’t realise people are laughing at you. Like these acts.

Smashing Pumpkins

Dressing like Uncle Fester is not the best way to convince people you have something important to say. Billy Corgan’s affected hush-SCREAM-hush vocals are often laugh-out-loud hilarious, although not as funny as his lyrics which supposedly channel the Word of God. The Pumpkins very quickly disappeared up their own grunge backside – and that’s the very worst kind of backside to disappear up.

Mansun

Most of the Britpop crowd realised they were lucky to get their 15 minutes and just had fun with it. Mansun, on the other hand, went into full-on prog-rock mode with only their second album. Awkwardly chann

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